Our Featured Experts
Each month we feature one to several experts in the field of adolescence. Our experts include authors, Judges, psychotherapists, probation officers, doctors, counselors, psychologists, coaches, police officers and other helping professionals who have expertise in working with adolescents and parents. Our experts are not paid and they don't pay for advertising on our site. They are either invited guests or have applied to be of service to you. Please read our disclaimer in regards to our featuring experts on this site.
In May, our featured expert is Dr. Bryan Post, PhD., LCSW, of The POST Institute who will be speaking with the author during our free teleseminar about challenging adolescents. We are honored to have the opportunity to bring you his wisdom and experience.
An adopted and disruptive child himself, Dr. Post has made it his primary work to speak to parents and professionals from a perspective of true-life experience and “in the trenches” therapeutic work. A pioneer of the Stress Model theory of human behavior, and Family-Centered Regulatory Therapy, Dr. Post has lectured and provided expert consultation regarding adoption, trauma, and attachment and bonding, throughout the United States and abroad. The family-centered principles and concepts offered by Dr. Post have been taught to more than 25,000 parents and professionals with a 98% excellent rating.
Author of more than 25 books, audio, and DVD programs Dr. Post along side a dynamic team of passionate professionals has developed the POST Institute array of services specifically for the most hurt, rejected, and challenging children of Virginia.
To learn more about the POST Institute and Dr. Post please visit: www.postinstitute.com
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Our featured expert during April was Dr. Rory Stern, PsyD., who will be speaking with us about ADHD in our free teleseminar. Dr. Stern is a writer, therapist, coach, consultant, and speaker. In managing The Truth Behind ADHD he offers a unique style of providing parents of children with ADHD both information and insight into what their child is experiencing. In addition, he connects with parents on a level that allows them to understand their own struggles along with how their child is struggling. His main goal is to provide parents with the support, encouragement, and resources to take action now so they can start to experience change in their child's life, as well as their own. Parents might want to watch The ADHD Parents Movie to learn more about what Dr. Stern offers.
Rory's unique style combines his rich experience and training as therapist, coach, consultant, mentor, adviser, and parent. He understands that there is more to each child's struggle than just symptoms of ADHD alone. For that matter, he also knows how a child's ADHD not only impacts himself, but also impacts the lives of his parents and siblings. While considering his approach, Dr. Stern takes into account not just the behaviors of the child, but also urges that parents consider all options and events that are impacting everyone's lives in the family.
Dr. Stern holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He also completed a graduate certificate in executive coaching. He lives in the greater-Boston area with his wife Lacie, and his two beautiful young children.
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In March, 2008, we brought our FPOA members a very distinguished featured expert, The Honorable Judge Peter J. Cahill, Presiding Judge and Presiding Juvenile Court Judge in Gila County, Arizona. The author had the opportunity to provide therapeutic treatment services to Gila County juveniles with mental health, delinquency issues, family and trauma issues, and substance abuse and addiction problems for several years and worked closely with Judge Cahill as a part of the Drug Court team. Judge Cahill has graciously offered his wisdom to parents in a videotaped interview with the author. His complete biography is below.
Judge Cahill graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the New England School of Law. He came to Arizona as a VISTA Volunteer with the Pima County Legal Aid Society in 1974. Cahill practiced law in Globe beginning in 1975, first with Pinal & Gila Counties Legal Aid Society, then in private practice until he was elected judge and took the Superior Court bench in January 2003. He is the Presiding Judge and Presiding Juvenile Court Judge in Gila County, Arizona and is President of the Arizona Judges Association for 2007-2008.
Judge Cahill is a former chair of the Supreme Court of Arizona’s Lawyer Disciplinary Commission; past president of the Arizona Bar Foundation; a delegate from the State Bar of Arizona to the American Bar Association House of Delegates; past acting-president Habitat for Humanity Arizona; past president of Globe-Miami Habitat for Humanity; and past chair of the Cobre Valley Community Hospital board of directors. Judge Cahill was a founder and then president of La Questa, an alcohol and drug abuse program founded in Globe in 1975. He was founding president of the William E. Morris Institute, formerly the Arizona Justice Institute, an advocacy and support center for legal services and low-income people.
Judge Cahill is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an elected honor limited to 1/3 of 1% of a state’s lawyers. He is Vice-chair of the 2008 Arizona Supreme Court Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct.
Judge Cahill is married to the Honorable Terry L. Chandler, the Associate Presiding Juvenile Court Judge, Pima County Superior Court in Arizona.
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In February, 2008 we offered a free teleseminar with featured expert Izzy Kalman called Empowering Parents.
Israel (Izzy) C. Kalman, MS, is a nationally renowned expert in teaching people how to deal with anger, bullying, and relationship problems. Izzy has always had a knack for finding simple solutions to problems, in mental health and other areas as well. About two decades ago, he developed a one-session method for teaching people how to stop being victimized, and has been using it with great success with both children and adults.
Izzy is the author and creator of the website, Bullies2Buddies.com, which has free online manuals that have been helping people throughout the world solve their problems with bullying. Mr. Kalman is the author of a book for youth, Bullies to Buddies: How to turn your enemies into friends!, a manual for teachers and parents called A Revolutionary Guide to Reducing Aggression between Children, and a CD program, How to Stop Being Teased and Bullied without Really Trying. His whole school bullying reduction program is called Victim-Proof Your School.
Izzy now has available his entire Victim-Proof Your School Program on DVD. And he also offers additional educational programs in his store.
He has appeared on national television as an expert on bullying, has been a speaker at numerous professional conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and created a Staten Island Community TV series, Help, They’re Driving Me Crazy.
Mr. Kalman earned a B.S. in psychology from CCNY in New York and an M.S. in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. He has been working as a school psychologist and psychotherapist for twenty-eight years, and is currently devoted full time to writing and to teaching his methods to mental health professionals, schools, and other organizations. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, as well as a member of the International School Psychology Association, the New York State Association of School Psychologists, the Richmond County Psychological Association, the International Society for Research on Aggression, and the Academy of Medicine of Richmond, Pediatric Section.
The child of Holocaust survivors, Izzy was born and raised in the Bronx. After earning his graduate degree in 1978, he fulfilled a childhood dream and moved to Israel, where he began work as a school psychologist, married a beautiful dark-skinned woman of Yemenite ancestry and had his first two children. In 1988 he moved back to the U.S. with his young family. Their third child was born in 1992.