Learning Challenges In College: Guidelines for Student Success
Parents and students often worry and ask if someone with learning challenges can attend college successfully? Yes! With the right assessment, accommodations, support, and interventions, most students with learning differences can successfully pursue a higher education. In this article, we describe how to increase the chances of success for students with learning challenges in college…. Read more »
Psychological Assessments, Diagnostics and Testing
One of the biggest challenges faced in the world of mental health treatment is misdiagnosis and inaccurate psychological assessments. This occurs due to the fact that many psychological disorders have overlapping and interconnected symptoms, or physicians and clinicians don’t spend sufficient time testing, which makes it harder to pinpoint the root cause of a client’s… Read more »
Types of Therapies for Mental Health: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Mental health treatment has typically focused on medications and therapy as gold standards for interventions. Most of our research is also highly focused on therapy and medications, giving it the stamp of ‘FDA approved’ and ‘evidence-based’. Unfortunately, this rather narrow approach to a myriad of diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, OCD, mood disorders, tics, ADHD, and… Read more »