I recently got into a discussion about gender identity and gender roles with someone who was confused over the apparent increase in young people identifying with issues such as being transgender, gender... Read more »
This is the time of year when most twelfth graders are getting college applications ready and the anxiety can be palpable. In a place like Westchester, many kids are coming from homes of the... Read more »
Over the past couple of years, my colleagues and I have talked about our practices being beyond full. It’s a nice problem to have, but it’s also disconcerting to think that there is an... Read more »
We don’t usually write about events that take place in other states much less other countries. But when Barbara Kapetanakes, a River Journal contributor and PsyD. who practices psychotherapy in Sleepy Hollow,... Read more »
I have been in practice for 20 years, and one of my specialties is working with adolescents and young adults in transition to college. I have seen dozens of twelfth graders and... Read more »
In an unfortunate coincidence since my last article regarding Internet safety (www.riverjournalonline.com/CyberSafety), we had an issue at one of our local high schools of teens being solicited by an unknown person to send... Read more »
Most of us remember being teased or even bullied as children, or we were aware of other kids being bullied. The aggressor generally needed an audience, and the audience was usually limited by the... Read more »
Ahhh,Valentine’s Day. Of all the Hallmark holidays, it’s the Hallmark-iest. Much like Thanksgiving and Christmas, everyone thinks that the rest of the world is having a much better Valentine’s Day, and people... Read more »
In general, life and the world at large are cyclical. Everything old is new again and the cycle continues. We enter 2019 at a time of turmoil politically and economically. Many of... Read more »
Most of us would not want to go back to eighth grade for any reason. It was around then that I was described by a cute boy on my block as “pretty,... Read more »