Psychjourney Audio Book Club

Please Don't Label My Child: Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe, Effective Choices for Your Child's Emotional Health

MP3 File  Length-22 minutes, 31 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast, intrviews Scott M. Shannon, MD, author of Please Don't Label My Child: Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe, Effective Choices for Your Child's Emotional Health published by Rodale Inc.

Scott M. Shannon, MD

Scott M. Shannon, MD, is a pediatric psychiatrist who is board-certified in general psychiatry, child/ adolescent psychiatry, and holistic medicine. A past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, he currently has a private practice in holistic child psychiatry and serves as medical director of four residential treatment centers for children and teens in northern Colorado. Dr. Shannon shares his vision for transforming the care of children with chronic illness of any nature via The Center for the Whole Child (www.forthewholechild.org). He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children.

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website

MP3 File   Length-35 minutes, 56 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lenore Terr, MD, about her book, Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around published by W. W. Norton.

Lenore Terr, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and in private practice is a pioneer in the field of childhood trauma. The winner of numerous honors and awards, including the American Psychiatric Association’s Child Psychiatry Research Award, she is the author of Too Scared To Cry, Unchained Memories, and Beyond Love and Work. Dr. Terr has been a a featured expert on numerous television programs, including Oprah, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline, 48 Hours, Charlie Rose, The Today Show, as well as on CNN, CBS, and NBC National News, BBC News, CBC News, and on radio programs worldwide.  Visit her website www.terrmd.com   

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Length-22 minutes, 46 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mr. Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing published by Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Mr. Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The latest of his eleven books are The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing (2006) and Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes (2005).

Kohn has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores." His criticisms of competition and rewards have helped to shape the thinking of educators -- as well as parents and managers -- across the country and abroad. Kohn has been featured on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including the "Today" show and two appearances on "Oprah"; he has been profiled in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, while his work has been described and debated in many other leading publications.

Kohn lectures widely at universities and to school faculties, parent groups, and corporations. In addition to speaking at staff development seminars and keynoting national education conferences on a regular basis, he conducts workshops for teachers and administrators on various topics. Among them: "Motivation from the Inside Out: Rethinking Rewards, Assessment, and Learning" and "Beyond Bribes and Threats: Realistic Alternatives to Controlling Students' Behavior." The latter corresponds to his book BEYOND DISCIPLINE: From Compliance to Community (ASCD, 1996), which he describes as "a modest attempt to overthrow the entire field of classroom management."   Visit his website.

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website and blog.

Length-22 minutes, 28 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA author of Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep? published by Harper.

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA, is a best-selling author and internationally recognized lecturer and parent educator. Her books Raising Your Spirited Child, Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook; Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles; and Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving or Missing Sleep have been translated into ten languages.

As director of parentchildhelp.com, Mary provides training nationally and internationally for families and professionals, including medical personnel, educators, and social service providers who serve families. Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses. She is as comfortable as a keynote speaker for major professional conferences as she is working one on one with families in their homes or teachers in their classrooms.

Known for her real-life examples, Mary links research-based information with typical challenging behaviors and provides practical solutions that really work. Her presentations have helped hundreds of thousands of parents and professionals to understand children better, and themselves as well.

Mary’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Parenting magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parent Magazine, Working Mother, First for Women, and Speaker Magazine and on Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Good Morning Canada, Fox Nine News Good Day, and many other national and local television, radio, magazine, and newspaper venues.

She has also presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, National Conference.

A former director of one of Minnesota's largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops. She also provides individual parent consultations for families and professionals.

Mary graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in Family Social Science and from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education.

Born on a third-generation dairy farm, Mary lives with her husband in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the proud mother of one son and one daughter — now adults with whom she loves to spend time.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Thomas Ottavi, author of Why Is Johnny So Detached? A School Professional's Guide to Understanding and Helping Students With Attachment Issues published by YouthLight, Inc.

Thomas M. Ottavi, Ph.D. is a practicing licensed psychologist and Director of Clinical Services with Hillcrest Family Services which serves the mental health and social services needs of many communities in eastern Iowa. He earned his bachelors in Psychology from University of St. Thomas, his doctorate from the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Iowa, with a pediatric psychology clinical internship at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

He has over 13 years experiences in psychological evaluation, therapy, school and agency consultation, with hundreds of school cases, professionals, and parents for students having attachment or trauma issues and significant disruptions of their early years that impact school functioning. He has led numerous workshops and training sessions for school professionals, health and mental health professionals, foster-parents and adoptive-parents who help youth with attachment, trauma, and neglect issues at local, regional, national, and international conferences.

Length-30 minutes, 45 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue Palmer author of Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It published by Orion.

Ms. Sue Palmer

Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and other journals, and author of more than two hundred books, TV programs and software for 3 to 12 year-olds – including the popular ‘skeleton’ materials, used in over 10,000 schools. She is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world, and acts as an independent adviser to many organizations, including the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. In 2006 she published Toxic Childhood, about the impact of contemporary lifestyles on child development. Visit her website .

Length-42 minutes, 12 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D.

Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her acclaimed work on girls social and psychological development has consistently broken new ground and challenged old perceptions. She is the co-author, with Carol Gilligan, of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that helped spark an international debate about the lives of girls and redefine our understanding of female development. Dr. Brown has written three other acclaimed books on girls social and psychological development: Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls, and most recently Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; 2006 winner of a MS Books For A Better Life Award.

Dr. Brown received her doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology. She is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women She has also consulted for numerous film and television projects, including shows on PBS, and Fox Childrens Network. Dr. Brown lives in Waterville, Maine with her partner Dr. Mark Tappan and their twelve-year-old daughter, Maya. Visit her website.

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Length-41 minutes, 37 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Michael J. Diamond, author of My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives published by Norton.

Michael J. Diamond is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and was recently named Distinguished Psychoanalyst of the Year by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is also an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website.

Length-46 minutes, 40 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz, author of The Brightening Glance, Imagination and Childhood published by Pantheon.

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz is a professor in the Honors College and Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The author of Inside Pictures Books, she has written and lectured extensively on children's aesthetic and psychological development. A visual artist and dancer, she has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and New York University, among other academic institutions. She lives in Baltimore. Visit her webpage.

Length-42 minutes, 29 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Joe Massengale author of Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success. published by Three Rivers Press.

Mr. Joe Messengale

Boxer, preacher and businessman, George Forman says about our guest, Mr. Joe Massengale, The lessons Joe Massengale learned back in the piney woods around Marshall, Texas, and gave to his sons to take into the world are some of the same ones I hope my children, my congregation, the kids in my youth center and my customers get from me. "”

Entrepreneur Joe Massengale is the owner of Joe's Expert Tree Service.

Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around

MP3 File   Length-35 minutes, 56 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lenore Terr, MD, about her book, Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around published by W. W. Norton.

Lenore Terr, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and in private practice is a pioneer in the field of childhood trauma. The winner of numerous honors and awards, including the American Psychiatric Association’s Child Psychiatry Research Award, she is the author of Too Scared To Cry, Unchained Memories, and Beyond Love and Work. Dr. Terr has been a a featured expert on numerous television programs, including Oprah, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline, 48 Hours, Charlie Rose, The Today Show, as well as on CNN, CBS, and NBC National News, BBC News, CBC News, and on radio programs worldwide.  Visit her website www.terrmd.com   

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing

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Length-22 minutes, 46 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mr. Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing published by Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Mr. Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The latest of his eleven books are The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing (2006) and Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes (2005).

Kohn has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores." His criticisms of competition and rewards have helped to shape the thinking of educators -- as well as parents and managers -- across the country and abroad. Kohn has been featured on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including the "Today" show and two appearances on "Oprah"; he has been profiled in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, while his work has been described and debated in many other leading publications.

Kohn lectures widely at universities and to school faculties, parent groups, and corporations. In addition to speaking at staff development seminars and keynoting national education conferences on a regular basis, he conducts workshops for teachers and administrators on various topics. Among them: "Motivation from the Inside Out: Rethinking Rewards, Assessment, and Learning" and "Beyond Bribes and Threats: Realistic Alternatives to Controlling Students' Behavior." The latter corresponds to his book BEYOND DISCIPLINE: From Compliance to Community (ASCD, 1996), which he describes as "a modest attempt to overthrow the entire field of classroom management."   Visit his website.

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website and blog.

Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep?

Length-22 minutes, 28 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA author of Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep? published by Harper.

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA, is a best-selling author and internationally recognized lecturer and parent educator. Her books Raising Your Spirited Child, Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook; Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles; and Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving or Missing Sleep have been translated into ten languages.

As director of parentchildhelp.com, Mary provides training nationally and internationally for families and professionals, including medical personnel, educators, and social service providers who serve families. Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses. She is as comfortable as a keynote speaker for major professional conferences as she is working one on one with families in their homes or teachers in their classrooms.

Known for her real-life examples, Mary links research-based information with typical challenging behaviors and provides practical solutions that really work. Her presentations have helped hundreds of thousands of parents and professionals to understand children better, and themselves as well.

Mary’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Parenting magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parent Magazine, Working Mother, First for Women, and Speaker Magazine and on Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Good Morning Canada, Fox Nine News Good Day, and many other national and local television, radio, magazine, and newspaper venues.

She has also presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, National Conference.

A former director of one of Minnesota's largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops. She also provides individual parent consultations for families and professionals.

Mary graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in Family Social Science and from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education.

Born on a third-generation dairy farm, Mary lives with her husband in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the proud mother of one son and one daughter — now adults with whom she loves to spend time.

Why Is Johnny So Detached? A School Professional's Guide to Understanding and Helping Students With Attachment Issues

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Thomas Ottavi, author of Why Is Johnny So Detached? A School Professional's Guide to Understanding and Helping Students With Attachment Issues published by YouthLight, Inc.

Thomas M. Ottavi, Ph.D. is a practicing licensed psychologist and Director of Clinical Services with Hillcrest Family Services which serves the mental health and social services needs of many communities in eastern Iowa. He earned his bachelors in Psychology from University of St. Thomas, his doctorate from the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Iowa, with a pediatric psychology clinical internship at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

He has over 13 years experiences in psychological evaluation, therapy, school and agency consultation, with hundreds of school cases, professionals, and parents for students having attachment or trauma issues and significant disruptions of their early years that impact school functioning. He has led numerous workshops and training sessions for school professionals, health and mental health professionals, foster-parents and adoptive-parents who help youth with attachment, trauma, and neglect issues at local, regional, national, and international conferences.

Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It

Length-30 minutes, 45 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue Palmer author of Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It published by Orion.

Ms. Sue Palmer

Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and other journals, and author of more than two hundred books, TV programs and software for 3 to 12 year-olds – including the popular ‘skeleton’ materials, used in over 10,000 schools. She is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world, and acts as an independent adviser to many organizations, including the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. In 2006 she published Toxic Childhood, about the impact of contemporary lifestyles on child development. Visit her website .

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

Length-42 minutes, 12 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D.

Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her acclaimed work on girls social and psychological development has consistently broken new ground and challenged old perceptions. She is the co-author, with Carol Gilligan, of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that helped spark an international debate about the lives of girls and redefine our understanding of female development. Dr. Brown has written three other acclaimed books on girls social and psychological development: Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls, and most recently Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; 2006 winner of a MS Books For A Better Life Award.

Dr. Brown received her doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology. She is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women She has also consulted for numerous film and television projects, including shows on PBS, and Fox Childrens Network. Dr. Brown lives in Waterville, Maine with her partner Dr. Mark Tappan and their twelve-year-old daughter, Maya. Visit her website.

My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives

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Length-41 minutes, 37 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Michael J. Diamond, author of My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives published by Norton.

Michael J. Diamond is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and was recently named Distinguished Psychoanalyst of the Year by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is also an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website.

The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood

Length-46 minutes, 40 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz, author of The Brightening Glance, Imagination and Childhood published by Pantheon.

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz is a professor in the Honors College and Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The author of Inside Pictures Books, she has written and lectured extensively on children's aesthetic and psychological development. A visual artist and dancer, she has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and New York University, among other academic institutions. She lives in Baltimore. Visit her webpage.

Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success

Length-42 minutes, 29 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Joe Massengale author of Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success. published by Three Rivers Press.

Mr. Joe Messengale

Boxer, preacher and businessman, George Forman says about our guest, Mr. Joe Massengale, The lessons Joe Massengale learned back in the piney woods around Marshall, Texas, and gave to his sons to take into the world are some of the same ones I hope my children, my congregation, the kids in my youth center and my customers get from me. "”

Entrepreneur Joe Massengale is the owner of Joe's Expert Tree Service.