‘Parenting and Children’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 85

Q: My son is 8 years old. Last year he was diagnosed with ADHD. He was having trouble focusing, relaxing, sleeping and social interactions with other kids at school. He even falsely failed a hearing test at school because he couldn’t focus long enough to raise his hand at the beep. He tends to speak [...]

Q: A dear friend of mine is divorced and has a ten-year-old daughter. It was a nasty divorce and the parents are still very hostile to each other. The daughter alternates weeks with each parent, and she has her own room in each home. During the past year she has begun having panic attacks, and [...]

Q: I was surfing the web and came across the counsellingresource.com website. I am a psychology major myself and going into my 3rd year as an undergrad at George Mason University. My family is deciding to move over the summer to Pennsylvania. My question is what kind of an effect will it have on my [...]

Q: I suppose this is a question with multiple facets to it.
Can a 3-year-old child be suicidal? The parent is insisting the child is suicidal due to the child’s father’s illness which included a 6 week coma of the father — doctors not allowing the child to see its father during this time period. Do [...]

Q: Hello. I am trying to figure out whether I am being paranoid or should I be worried. The mother of my son has a friend that I feel is trying to be too much of a parent to my four-year-old son. She recently tried to tell my how much my son loves her; when [...]