a novel form of child behavior therapy: playful parental ploys

Play therapy takes months, often with minimal behavior change. Playful Parenting Ploys often produce dramatic improvement in several sessions And teach the child transferable Skills. My approach is to teach parents how to set up Individually Tailored low stress playful conditions that enable your child child to quickly learn more appropriate behaviors.

From time immemorial children, along with other juvenile mammals, have learned from play. Verbal instruction and Behavior Programs certainly have their place, but real Deep Learning that sticks is more likely to occur when parents learn the skills to set up Playful Ploys that enable children and adolescents to learn from Low Stress experiences. Having written up over thousands of Neuropsychological assessments over the years, each with specialized recommendations, Dr. Klein has spent a lot of time developing Playful Ploys to teach, among other things: respectful appropriate self-advocacy skills, losing graciously, delaying gratification, overcoming fears, overcoming perfectionism, turning off video games, transitioning unexpectedly, etc . This is not rocket science. Parents Can learn the principles & skills to enable kids to learn & change.

Adult Psychotherapy

Areas of special interest include college students, anxiety, lifestyle change for mental or physical health, improving executive functioning, parenting difficult children, navigating life stage changes, dating & relationship problems.   

Pdsychological Assessment - only if circumstances allow online eval

Often 80% of the improvement comes from 20% of the effort.  My goal is to identify that 20%. Towards this end I routinely look at factors that traditional psychological assessments often ignore, especially temperament, lifestyle & parent-child interactional factors. Temperament, the more stable & biological component of personality, is often the key to more effective interventions & management or self-management.   Many psychological difficulties stem from a mismatch between temperament and environment.  Lifestyle factors include sleep, exercise & electronic screen addiction.  Improving lifestyle factors can sometimes result in significant improvements in mood, motivation and cognitive functioning. 

Neuropsychological Assessment - currently paused

With nearly 30 years as a neuropsychologist and 18 years years teaching neuropsychology, I look beyond test scores to understand how the mind works, how it might work more effectively and implications of any areas of weakness.  I work with ages 4 through adult. 

FAA aSSESSMENTS - currently paused

Federal Aviation Administration assessments of candidate airmen or Air Traffic Controllers with an ADHD diagnosis.

Competency Evaluations - only if CIRCUMSTANCES allow online eval

Assessment of need for Guardianship or Conservatorship due to Developmental Delay, brain injury or dementia.