Pediatric Psychology Center of Chester County

12/10/2025

📚 PARENT LIBRARY BOOK SERIES 📚
#9:
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions by Pat Harvey ACSW LCSW-C

Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions is an effective guide to de-escalating your child's emotions and helping your child express feelings in productive ways. You'll learn strategies drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), including mindfulness and validation skills, and practice them when your child's emotions spin out of control.

Themes: emotional regulation, emotional identification, parenting, children's emotions, DBT, mindfulness

12/03/2025

✏ New On The Blog: "Managing Holiday Stress and Schedules" by Kathryn Cooley, EdS, NCSP

Read it here: https://www.chesterpsychology.com/blog/managing-holiday-stress-and-schedules

11/27/2025

🍂 We are THANKFUL! 🍂

for our team
for our community
for the families we support

🍂 Today and Everyday! 🍂

11/26/2025

📚 PARENT LIBRARY BOOK SERIES 📚
#9:
Middle School Matters by Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC

"Counselor Phyllis Fagell dives into how vital the development between 6th and 8th grade is for preteens and teenagers. Fagell combines her professional and personal expertise to help caregivers better understand this time of rapid physical, intellectual, moral, social, and emotional change and how it is a unique opportunity to proactively build character and confidence."

Themes: middle school, adolescence, development

11/12/2025

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#8:
Brain-Body Parenting by Mona Delahooke, PhD.

"In Brain-Body Parenting, Dr. Delahooke offers a radical new approach to parenting based on her clinical experience as well as the most recent research in neuroscience and child psychology. Instead of a “top-down” approach to behavior that focuses on the thinking brain, she calls for a “bottom-up” approach that considers the essential role of the entire nervous system, which produces children’s feelings and behaviors."

Themes: neuroscience, nervous system, whole body approach, bottom up approach, resilience

10/29/2025

📣 FREE ADHD PARENTING SUMMIT 📣

NOVEMBER 3RD - 7TH, 2025

40+ Leading Experts On Improving Focus, Managing Impulsivity, Handling Outbursts, Screen Management, And Schoolwork

Transform Your ADHD Parenting in 5 Days: 40+ experts on improving focus, managing impulsivity, handling outbursts, screen management, and more.

10/28/2025

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#7:
Declarative Language Handbook by Linda K. Murphy MS, CCC-SLP

"This book was written to teach you how making small shifts in your language and speaking style will produce important results. You will stop telling kids what to do and instead thoughtfully give them information to help them make important discoveries in the moment. These moments build resilience, flexibility, and positive relationships over time."

Themes: communication skills, caregiving, redirection, building relationship

10/27/2025

🧡🖤 Thank you to Everlasting Wellness LLC for hosting a wonderful Trunk or Treat this weekend! 🖤🧡

10/27/2025

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10/22/2025

Have you seen ADDitude's newest article? It features NEW children's book characters with ADHD!

https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/book-characters-adhd-students-love/?ecd=wnl_additude_251022_cons_adhd_school

10/14/2025

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#6:
The Illustrated Happiness Trap by Russ Harris, Bev Alsbett

"The practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is made even more accessible in this fun, easy-to-understand, and illustrated companion to The Happiness Trap"

Themes: acceptance and commitment therapy, coping strategies, acceptance, feelings, habits

10/14/2025

Mental health matters - and so does your voice!

Please take a few minutes to share your perspective with the Chester County Mental Health & Support Initiative. Every response helps spread awareness, reduce stigma, and strengthen connections across our community.

It’s quick, anonymous, and open to all Chester County residents:
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Call or text 9-8-8 for free and confidential support.
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