Peter Clark, Ph.D. - Licensed Psychologist

11/23/2023

https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/374250/9789240084278-eng.pdf?sequence=1

07/11/2023

FDA has approved Lexapro for the treatment of anxiety in children as young as 7. Please don't!

12/02/2022

Recess is important!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306452209001171?via%3Dihub

The effect of an acute bout of moderate treadmill walking on behavioral and neuroelectric indices of the cognitive control of attention and applied aspects of cognition involved in school-based academic performance were assessed. A within-subjects design ...

08/15/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/08/11/researchers-doubt-that-certain-mental-disorders-are-disorders-at-all/

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all?

03/28/2020

Under the prevailing circumstances, I am set up for 'remote' meetings and consultations through FaceTime. Skype and Zoom. Drop me a line if you want further details.

08/08/2019

https://news.osu.edu/warning-to-adults-children-notice-everything/

Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to – but children don’t ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests. Researchers surprised adults and 4- and 5-year-old children participa...

08/01/2019

https://childmind.org/article/how-to-help-yourself-get-organized/

Realistic tips for teenagers who struggle with organizational skills, from someone who's been there.

05/21/2019

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-troubled-history-of-psychiatry?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_Daily_052019&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f0393f92a404692d0915&cndid=50514063&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.

01/25/2019

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/01/23/blinded-by-ideology-people-find-it-difficult-to-think-logically-about-arguments-that-contradict-their-politics/

By Jesse Singal. People should dispense themselves of the notion that when they sit down to reason a problem through carefully, the act of doing so automatically shields them from the effects of po…

10/02/2018

Language and communication impairments in adolescents in custody is much higher than in the general population, estimates range from 60-90% compared to 7-12%.

10/31/2017

https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/10/31/teen-depression-in-us-jumps-by-nearly-half-in-10-years/128149.html

A new study finds a startling rise in depression among all Americans, with youth demonstrating the most rapid increase over the last decade. Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy found that from 2005 to 20...

10/16/2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/magazine/why-are-more-american-teenagers-than-ever-suffering-from-severe-anxiety.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine

Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears.