Health and Psychology

Head injuries are classified as mild, moderate, or severe based on length of loss of consciousness.  There is no concussive injury that should not be taken seriously.  So the attorney that asked me in court "Your injury was only mild right?" didn't seem to understand that even a so-called "mild" head injury can produce significant and life-altering symptoms.  

The Center for Disease Control uses this definition:

• A case of mild traumatic...

I do a lot of psychological and neuropsychological testing.  I'm often asked to do screenings instead of psychological evaluation.  In many cases that's adequate.  But in other cases it leads to an inadequate and incorrect diagnosis.  

Schools, psychiatrists, general medical doctors, and pediatricians do a lot of screening measures.  These are often checklists, questionnaires, and other self-report measures that people complete themselves or on behal...

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Ways to find things on Facebook posts:

1. Graph Search
2. Activity Log
3. QSearch
4. Search My Posts
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Apart from the topics of sex, religion, politics, or money, nothing generates more controversy than food.  At this time of year lots of people have food "issues."  I visited in-laws for the annual Christmas party, with the vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, raw, non-dairy, plant only, fruit only, nut free, chocolate heavy, alcohol free, alcohol included, the e-cig and "I can't eat anything post bariatric surgery" group of relatives gathered.  The difference between the success of ...

There are moments in history were you realize that something important is taking place. A woman being knocked unconscious and dragged out of an elevator. A football player beating his 4 year old with a switch. And now with the backdrop of 15 women indicating they had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby in the 1980’s, and the abduction, rape and murder of Hannah Graham, the Rolling Stone article on rape on college campuses Rolling Stone article,

"Can you test me?"  I get this question often.  It comes in a variety of forms.  "Can you test me for _____?"  and "Can you test my child for _____?"

The short answer is yes probably.  The longer answer is "Then what?"  And it's the answer to that question that tells me what to do.

I literally have hundreds of tests, measurements, screening items, and questionnaires.  Literally.  I bought new file cabinets to hold them all and w...

DSM 5 the Psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is out and updates are available online.  The problem is that it's moving away from research based epidemiological discussions about diagnoses and moving more into checklist based diagnoses, based on rating scales and observations of "people who know the individual, or the individual themselves."  

So what's the problem?

Here are case examples from just the last couple of ...

So I was on a social networking site for mental health professionals and a colleague mentioned he just got iPads for testing and wondered what was available.  So here goes.

Let me start with simple things that don't require an iPad and can work on an iPhone.  They may be on Google or Android as well but I don't have those.

1.  PAR Toolkit.  This includes the Normal Curve, a Conversion Chart, an Age Calculator, a Stop Watch, a Compliancy Calculator, ...

All reports written by a psychologist are NOT psychological evaluations.  The vast majority of evaluations are brief, question specific evaluations that are extremely limited in scope.  Many of these reports state in the opening paragaph that they are not to be misunderstood as a psychological evaluation.  These kinds of reports include things like evaluations for employment or appeals of psychological evluations done for employment, specific test result reports, single issue r...

All reports written by a psychologist are NOT psychological evaluations.  The vast majority of evaluations are brief, question specific evaluations that are extremely limited in scope.  Many of these reports state in the opening paragaph that they are not to be misunderstood as a psychological evaluation.  These kinds of reports include things like evaluations for employment or appeals of psychological evluations done for employment, specific test result reports, single issue r...