Episode 78

#psychedpodcast is pleased to have Sheila Ratsch Lepkin back to chat about selective mutism!

Sheila is the Colorado Coordinator for the Selective Mutism Association and has been an NCSP for over thirty years. She helps run a summer intensive camp for children with Selective Mutism with Anxiety Solutions of Denver called Courageous Kids Camp.

View her initial presentation on selective mutism here: https://youtu.be/1fSjcB7nVpA

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Episode 75

Come and learn about ACT with #psychedpodcast! Join us as we welcome Dr. O’Dell and Dr. Zaheer Powerpoint: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JkmPE1QnD6TXV0QXpUd3NPMXloN0NwYjBkaWlKTlJzcFRn/view?resourcekey=0-l1bgebYyOzoZBxo-btwhxg

Dr. O’Dell is a pediatric school psychologist working as a clinician investigator at Geisinger in Central Pennsylvania. In his role as a clinician, he runs a pediatric integrated behavioral health clinic and provides clinical didactics in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Interviewing for predoctoral interns and postdoctoral fellows in pediatric psychology. In his role as an investigator, he conducts translational research with an emphasis psychological flexibility as a potent and malleable process of change with relevance to youth, families and healthcare. Current research projects related to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy include developing and testing a web-based universal prevention intervention for parents, studying how best to support families through the adjustment of receiving genomic results for their child indicating increased risk for adult-onset medical conditions, and program evaluation of an ACT group therapy intervention delivered in primary care. https://www.geisinger.edu/research/research-and-innovation/find-an-investigator/2018/04/04/13/27/sean-odell

Dr. Imad Zaheer is a pediatric school psychologist working as the director for the Clinic for Evidence-based Practices in Schools (CEPS), as part of the Secondary and Special Education department at Montclair State University (MSU). He is also the associate director for the “Center for Clinical Research” at MSU, which focuses on cross disciplinary research for health related concerns.

Dr. Zaheer has works on numerous projects in clinics, hospitals, and public and alternative school settings that involve direct and indirect (consultation) services across individual, group (classrooms) and systems level. His primary research and clinical focus are on developing assessments (with a focus treatment utility) and interventions for children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), integrating multitiered systems of support initiatives (MTSS; i.e., school mental health (SMH) and school-wide positive behavioral intervention sand supports (SW-PBIS)) to create comprehensive school-based prevention programs.

With all three areas of research (assessment, interventions and comprehensive MTSS programs), Dr. Zaheer focuses on integrating and enhancing existing practices with the inclusion of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Current projects include using ACT to enhance areas such as Check and Connect mentoring programs, increasing school buy-in for evidence-based interventions, and with school professionals to increase fidelity of evidence-based interventions as well as for self-care related needs. https://www.montclair.edu/sse/clinic-for-evidence-based-practices-in-schools/

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Episode 74

Join #psychedpodcast as we hear from Dr. Terry D’Elisa on the topic of DBT!

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Dr. D’Elisa maintains a psychology practice in New Canaan Connecticut focused on assessment and psychotherapy. Dr. D’Elisa provides psychological evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Disabilities, ADHD/Executive Functioning deficits, and other areas of concern. Dr. D’Elisa also provides therapeutic supports for children, adolescents and adults using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and play therapy for younger children. She also provides parent coaching in group and individual settings. Dr. D’Elisa is a long-time resident of Fairfield County, Connecticut and the mother of 5 children.

Powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/0B7JkmPE1QnD6aU9mbHNZb2RPdEJBRTdHZlVzTGhNaklHSDRr/view?resourcekey=0-T4G_pjwGuoEjMjAV-DwKlg

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Episode 73

#psychedpodcast welcomes Dr. David Kilpatrick!

DAVID A. KILPATRICK, PHD is Associate Professor of Psychology for the State University of New York, College at Cortland and teaches courses in learning disabilities and educational psychology. He is also a New York State Certified School Psychologist and has done over a thousand evaluations of students with reading difficulties during his 27 years with the East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District. David currently conducts research on reading difficulties and does professional development workshops for educators. He is also the author of Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley, 2015).

https://dyslexiaida.org/do-you-know-which-indicators-explain-interventional-effectiveness-most-reliably/

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/nrp

https://dyslexiaida.org/annals-of-dyslexia/

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Episode 72

#psychedpodcast will be chatting with Dr. George McCloskey about executive functioning. Please join in the discussion!

About George

Powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/0B7JkmPE1QnD6aG5LSVY1bXNuVUhnYnpITDlndXRsd2FrN3dV/edit?resourcekey=0-J8LIS16wpK8TYgh4iwlgow#slide=id.p1

George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a professor and director of School Psychology Research in the School of Applied and Professional Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey has amassed 35 years of experience in test development, teaching, research and assessment and intervention work with a wide range of clients. Based on the past 20 years of his research and experience working specifically with children, adolescents and adults exhibiting executive function difficulties, Dr. McCloskey has developed a comprehensive model of executive capacities that can be used to assess executive capacity strengths and difficulties and guide efforts to foster growth and intervene with difficulties. He frequently presents at international, national, regional and state conferences on cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics and consults with a number of school districts and private schools nationwide on issues related to improving students’ self-regulation capacities in the classroom, behavior management, and assessment and intervention for executive capacity difficulties related to academic and behavior problems.

Dr. McCloskey is the lead author of the books Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties and Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment and his most recent writing on interventions for executive function and executive skills difficulties appears in Chapter 10 of the book Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners. He also is the author of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales (MEFS) that have been standardized and published with Schoolhouse Educational Services.

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