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SPP 163: Dr. Stephanie Nelson

#psychedpodcast is excited to chat with Dr. Nelson!

https://www.centerforchilddevelopmentwa.com/the-center-for-child-development/stephanie-nelson.html

Stephanie Nelson, Ph.D., ABPP, ABPdN is a licensed clinical psychologist who is board certified in pediatric neuropsychology and in clinical neuropsychology. She provides comprehensive neuropsychological assessments of children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing a wide range of cognitive, developmental, social, and emotional issues. Examples of issues she can help with include attention or organizational problems, thinking or processing differences, cognitive profiles associated with a medical condition, language or memory difficulties, sensory problems, friendship struggles, and anxiety or depression. Dr. Nelson specializes in assessment of very complex children whose multifaceted challenges have been difficult for families and other professionals to untangle. She also provides autism evaluations using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2). Her research focuses on improving assessment methods for children with neurodevelopmental challenges and their families, and making sure that reports are clear, comprehensive, and useful for the doctors, therapists, and teachers who work with these children. In the community, Dr. Nelson frequently presents to parent and educator groups on topics such as executive functioning, information processing, and learning.

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SPP 162: Hacking Deficit Thinking Book Study (part 1, Introduction – Reframe 3)

#psychedpodcast is jumping into a book study discussion! Pick up a copy of Hacking Deficit Thinking by Drs. McClure and Reed and join in on our conversation. Join us even if you haven’t had a chance to give it a read, you may be inspired to pick it up.

https://www.10publications.com/hacking-deficit-thinking

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SPP 161: CBT in Schools

Join #psychedpodcast as we speak with Dr. Christner on CBT!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psyched-to-practice/id1640575595

https://www.cognitivehealthsolutions.com/care_team.html

Dr. Christner founded Cognitive Health Solutions, LLC in 2009, following years of part-time private practice. He provides a variety of services to patients at Cognitive Health Solutions, LLC, including psychological testing, psychotherapy, and consultation. Dr. Christner is a Licensed Psychologist and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Christner is recognized on a state, national, and international level, as he has published and presented on a number of topics including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), school-based mental health, and neurocognitive-oriented psychological assessment. He has published numerous books in the field of psychology and education, including Anxiety Disorders in the Classroom: An Action Plan for Identification, Evaluation, and Intervention (2011; with Drs. Jessica Bolton and Jacqlyn Zarraba), Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology (2010; with Drs. Timothy Lionetti and Edward Snyder), Guide to Early Psychological Assessment with Children and Adolescents (2010; with Dr. Arthur Freeman, Mr. Corey Nigro, and Mr. Taymoor Sadar), Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Educational Settings: A Handbook for Practice (2006; with Drs. Rosemary Mennuti and Arthur Freeman), Handbook of Cognitive-Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Specific Settings and Presenting Problems ( 2007; with Drs. Jessica L. Stewart and Arthur Freeman), and School-Based Mental Health: A Practitioner’s Guide to Comparative Practices (2009; with Dr. Rosemary Mennuti). Dr. Christner is also the series coeditor School-Based Practice in Action book series, which is published by Routledge Publishing.

Dr. Christner has been acknowledged for his professional and clinical work. In 2003, Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. 12 (LIU) presented him with the “LIU School Psychologist of the Year Award.” In March 2005, the Association of School Psychologists of Pennsylvania (ASPP) acknowledged Dr. Christner for his work in school psychology by naming him “Pennsylvania School Psychologist of the Year.”

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SPP 160: ADHD Supports in the Schools

#psychedpodcast is excited to speak with Dr. Fabiano on ADHD!

https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/profiles/fabiano-gregory.html

Dr. Fabiano is a professor of psychology at Florida International University (FIU). He is a core faculty member in the Clinical Science in Child in Adolescent Psychology Doctoral Program and the Center for Children and Families (CCF).

His program of research has focused on the development, validation and implementation of effective assessments and interventions for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their families. He has expertise in assessment and intervention development and implementation for youth with ADHD. This has included the development a rating scale teachers and parents can use to indicate impairment in daily life functioning, a parenting intervention for fathers of children with ADHD, a school-based behavioral intervention for children with ADHD in special education placements and an intensive psychosocial intervention for novice teen drivers with ADHD. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple clinical trials that investigated psychosocial and/or pharmacological treatments for ADHD, and these studies have included multiple designs (single-subject, cross-over, between group, adaptive treatment).

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SPP 159: Legal Issues in School Crisis

#psychedpodcast is excited to have Dr. Scott Poland on to discuss this topic!

https://psychology.nova.edu/faculty/profile/poland.html

Dr. Scott Poland is a Professor in the College of Psychology and is the Co-Director of the Suicide and Violence Prevention Office at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Dr. Poland is a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized expert on school safety, youth suicide, self-injury, bullying, school crisis prevention/intervention, threat assessment and parenting in challenging times. He has authored or co-authored five books and many chapters and articles on these subjects and has served as a legal expert in a number of lawsuits.

He also recently co-authored the Suicide Safer Schools Plan for the state of Texas and the Crisis Action School Toolkit-Suicide for the state of Montana. He previously directed psychological services for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in Texas for 24 years and is a past President of the National Association of School Psychologists and a past Prevention Division Director of American Association of Suicidology. He is very dedicated to prevention and has testified about the mental health needs of children before the U.S. Congress on four occasions. He is a founding member of the National Emergency Assistance Team and has personally assisted school communities after many tragedies including 16 school shootings. Most recently in 2018, he has been assisting the Jordan School District in Utah, which experienced a suicide cluster, and the Broward School District in Florida after the school shooting in Parkland. He recently provided a presentation in South Florida on parenting in a challenging world that was attended by more than 2,000 parents. He is known for his dynamic and practical presentations. He has received many awards, including being named the most outstanding psychologist in Texas. Dr. Poland also has received the Houston Wage Peace Award and the Parkland Helping the Community Heal Award.

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SPP 158: Vocabulary Instruction

Join #psychedpodcast as we chat with Dr. Kappus on vocabulary!

https://www.jacksonville.edu/directory/ellen-kappus.php

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ellen-Kappus-2

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekappus

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SPP 157: Harnessing The Science Of Learning For The Design Of Assessment And Instruction

#psychedpodcast is pleased to welcome Dr. Berens!

https://www.drkimberlyberens.com/

Kimberly Nix Berens, Ph.D., is a scientist-educator and Founder of Fit Learning. She co-created a powerful system of instruction based in behavioral science and the Technology of Teaching, which has transformed the learning abilities of thousands of children worldwide, including those who are struggling, average, gifted, or learning disabled. For more than 20 years, her system of instruction has produced one year’s worth of academic growth in only 40 hours of training. Her learning programs effectively target such essential areas as early learning skills, basic classroom readiness, phonemic awareness, reading fluency, comprehension, inferential language, basic and advanced mathematics, logical problem solving, grammar, and expressive writing. From her early beginnings in a broom closet at the University of Nevada – Reno, Dr. Berens has helped grow Fit Learning to an organization with more than 30 locations worldwide. She currently lives in Long Island with her husband and two children, where she oversees Fit Learning locations in Long Island, New York City, and Connecticut. Blind Spots: Why students fail and the science that can save them is her first book.

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SPP 156: Report Writing

Join the #psychedpodcast discussion about report writing! How do we make sure our reports are useful? Relevant? Realistic? Positive? Efficient? Able to be understood?

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SPP 155: Overcoming Barriers and Paradigm Wars: Powerful Evidence-Based Writing Instruction

#psychedpodcast is thrilled to have Dr. Karen Harris on! Join us to learn about SRSD (Self-Regulated Strategy Development).

https://srsdonline.org/srsd-deep-dive/

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1980816

Dr. Karen R. Harris is ASU Regents Professor Emeritus and the former Mary Emily Warner Endowed Professor of Education. Her experiences tutoring inner city children in Chicago during high school significantly impacted her future and contributed to a lifelong commitment to social justice. She has worked in education for more than 40 years, initially as a general education teacher in a coal-mining town in West Virginia, and then as a special education teacher in Nebraska for students ages 13-21 with learning, emotional, behavioral, and/or cognitive challenges. Dr. Harris has chosen throughout her teaching and research career to work in schools in high poverty areas due to her commitment to improving teaching and learning for all students. Achieving equitable and quality education for all students is one important aspect of achieving social justice.

Her research focuses on validating instructional approaches derived from integrating multiple theoretical views and evidence-based practices, as well as effective PD for these approaches. Schools, administrators, and teachers Dr. Harris and her teams collaborate with are partners in studying improvements in teaching and learning. When an approach or set of strategies is proven to work, all teacher and student materials are provided free to all administrators, literacy and curriculum leaders, coaches, and teachers in these schools, as is practice-based PD at no cost.

Dr. Harris developed the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model of strategies instruction, which has been deemed evidence-based in both special and general education. She can be contacted for a list of free and low-cost SRSD resources. She and her colleagues voluntarily support two nonprofit organizations dedicated to scaling up SRSD in schools, thinkSRSD (https://www.thinksrsd.com/) and SRSDonline (https://srsdonline.org/). SRSD has been most extensively researched in the area of writing and close reading for writing, although researchers have also addressed reading, math, and homework. Currently, SRSD instruction results in the largest effect sizes of any approach to writing instruction studied. Over 100 studies in over 12 countries have been reported. Her current research focuses on continued refinement of SRSD; practice-based professional development in SRSD for special and general educators; validating writing strategies in areas not yet addressed; development of new writing and reading strategies to address close reading and writing to learn; technology supported SRSD instruction; and integrating SRSD instruction with evidence-based practices in handwriting, spelling, sentence construction, and vocabulary in 1st and 2nd grade.

Dr. Harris is a former editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology and was lead editor of the APA Educational Psychology Handbook. She has authored 14 books and more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in special education, general education, and educational psychology. She is a Fellow of both the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association and has served in leadership roles for AERA, APA, and CEC. Awards include the Council for Exceptional Children Career Award for Research, the AERA Division C Scribner Award for a program of work that has significantly influenced thinking and research in the field of learning and instruction, the AERA Division K Exemplary Publication Award for research in professional development, and the Kauffman-Hallahan Distinguished Researcher Award from the Division for Research of CEC.

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SPP 154: Dr. Ben Sedley on ACT/ERP for OCD

#psychedpodcast is pleased to welcome Ben Sedley to speak on ACT and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) in relation to OCD!

https://bensedley.com/workshops

Ben Sedley, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) practitioner with over fifteen years of experience working with adolescents and adults facing mental health difficulties. Sedley’s research and practice has focused on examining children and young people’s understanding of mental health, which has helped guide him on the best ways to explain mental health concepts and ACT to young people. He is author of the teen self-help book, Stuff That Sucks.

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