Category Archives: Current Interns

Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Kids and Coping

Coping skills are important not only because they allow children to manage their social emotional challenges, they may also contribute to their feelings of connectedness. Success for Kids (SFK) is a program that provides a curriculum for childrenā€™s social emotional … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been a hot topic for some time now and more and more children are being diagnosed with ADHD than ever before. Lunau (2014) quoted Enrico Gnaulati by writing that an ADHD diagnosis is ā€œas … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: The Multiple Roles of a Psychologist

The role of psychologists is changing as overall mental health service needs and service systems change. Separating medical health from mental health is not always so clear cut. With advances in the medical fields, psychologists must also embrace a new … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Personality

There is plenty of research dedicated to the topics of bilingualism and biculturalism, but they may often be lumped together and defined as one in the same. Grosjean (2015) attempts to describe how a bicultural bilingual can take on different … Continue reading

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Article Review: Bullying, Depression, and Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Primary Care Sample (Kodish, Herres, Shearer, et al, 2016)

Kodish, Herres, and Shearer, et al’s Bullying, Depression, and Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Primary Care Sample seeks to explore what, if any, causal relationship there may be between bullying and the prevalence of suicide among youth aged 14 to … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Memory, the Real McCoy?

Memories develop starting at birth and continue to develop throughout the life cycle as we age. The brain remembers by association, strengthening neural connections through repetition (ā€œuse it or lose it principleā€) (Willingham, 2007).Ā  Research has shown that, although memory … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Heroin and Fentanyl–A Match Made in Hell

  Heroin use has always been a serious issue where drug abuse is concerned, but in the last few years it has become even more deadly due to fentanyl being added to give it more ā€œkickā€. Ā Dealers have begun including … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: New Treatments For Tic Disorders Associated With Touretteā€™s

  Tics,Ā which are characterized by sudden, repetitive, non-rhythmic body movements and/or vocalizations associated with tic disorders and Touretteā€™s syndrome, are involuntary movements that may involve the hands, shoulder shrugging, eye blinking, etc.Ā  In many cases, these tics do not get … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) is a newer diagnosis in childhood that is depicted by extreme irritability, anger, and frequent outbursts (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2016).Ā  Irritability is a clinical symptom of both bipolar disorder and DMDD (Wiggins … Continue reading

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Massive WOOHOOs and CONGRATULATIONS!

WKPIC would like to extend giant happy dances to the following brilliant folks:   First, former intern and current post-doc Crystal Bray successfully defended her dissertation!               Seconnd, current intern Dannie Harris passed the … Continue reading

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