Social Skills Groups: Help for Children Struggling with Peer Relationships

The ability to make and keep friends is vital to a child’s emotional health and well-being. Children who have difficult peer relationships or who are rejected by peers are likely to suffer from a wide range of long-terms problems, including low self-esteem, academic failure, depression, and feelings of isolation and loneliness. “Most of us have […]

Helping Children Manage Frustration

Frustration is inevitable for young children. There are shelves that can’t be reached, shoes that can’t be tied, baseballs that can’t be hit and parents and other adults saying “no” to a child’s most fervent desires. Frustration isn’t necessarily a negative emotion. Dealt with constructively, it can help children learn to overcome obstacles and tolerate […]

Psychological Evaluations Increasingly Help Ensure Job “Fit”

A stagnant economy puts even more pressure on organizations to make good hiring decisions. Hiring and training a new employee are expensive. And the poor performance and unhappiness that follow a mismatch between employee and position are harmful to the employee as well.  A pre-employment psychological evaluation can streamline the hiring process and help organizations […]

Tips for Coping with Panic Disorder

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, six million American adults suffer sudden and repeated panic attacks in any given year, a condition known as panic disorder. Panic attacks generally first occur in late adolescence or early adulthood but not everyone who has a panic attack develops panic disorder. Some have just one attack […]

Keeping the Spark in a Long-term Relationship

All marriages change over time as the excitement and romantic charge of early days mellow into a more companionable and intimate relationship and as the responsibilities and complexities of making a living and raising a family overtake the simplicity of dating. “Early in a relationship a couple is in a cocoon, focused entirely on each […]

Can this Relationship be Saved? Tips on Coping with Unfaithfulness

There is no shortage of strains on a marriage – financial worries, health issues, child-rearing conflicts and more. But nothing undermines the very foundation of a marriage like infidelity.  “A spouse’s unfaithfulness causes devastating pain and disruption that cannot be easily overcome,” says Dr. Daniel Watter, clinical psychologist and relationship specialist with Morris Psychological Group. […]

Internet Safety Tips for Parents

It has been said that the Internet changes everything: how we shop, how we are entertained, how we date, how we manage our finances, our time and our households. The Internet opens whole new worlds for children as well as for adults. They can use it to learn, to play and to communicate. But along […]

When Death Stuns Those Left Behind, How to Cope?

With more than 2.4 million deaths recorded in the United States every year, that translates into many millions of loved ones left in pain and sadness as they grieve – a process that, for some, can seem like a bottomless pit of despair. But Hayley Hirschmann, PhD., a clinical psychologist and bereavement specialist at Morris […]

School Anxiety: Tips for Parents

First-day jitters are as much a part of each new school year as are shiny lunchboxes and new shoes. Over the following days and weeks, most children adapt successfully to their new classrooms. But some will still be clinging, crying or complaining of physical ailments weeks later and some may develop anxiety about going to […]

New Research Shows Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective in Drug-Resistant OCD

For those coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder – better known as OCD – new research shows that a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy improves outcomes for patients for whom antidepressants alone aren’t effective, which is often the case. According to OCD specialist Francine Rosenberg, Psy.D., of Morris Psychological Group, the study offers hope for OCD sufferers who […]