Child & Adolescent Therapy | Educational & Learning | Mental Health
New Webinar Series: Learn About Childhood ADHD, Anxiety and Disruptive Behavior Treatments (Free)
For those who support children and adolescents with ADHD, Anxiety, and Disruptive Behavior, the value of evidence-based information on symptoms and treatments is crucial. Joshua Rosenthal, PsyD, designed his upcoming, free Behavioral…
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Tools to Help Address Minimal to Major Changes in Routines in the Lives of Individuals with ASD.
Written by Elena Dezoraiev, MSEd, BCBA-LP Under the diagnostic criteria of Restricted and repetitive Patterns of Behavior of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a subcategory of insistence of sameness, inflexible adherence…
Adult & Couples Therapy | Mental Health
Ask Our Experts: Ways to Actually Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year, new you? People have been making – and breaking – New Year’s resolutions since the birth of Father Time. So what does it take to make goals you…
ABA | Child & Adolescent Therapy
What is Parent Training and why might I need it?
At Manhattan Psychology Group, we love working with kids. And we think we’re pretty good at it! But to do right by them and be effective in a treatment program,…
Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
The Effects of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Toddlers (PCIT-T) on Child Functioning and Parental Well-Being
Many are often surprised when they hear that I work with children as young as 12-months-old. “Why would a 12-month-old ever need therapy?” they often ask. To this question I…
ABA | Child & Adolescent Therapy
Top Apps for Children with Autism
Written by Sudha Ramaswamy, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA Proloquo2Go – Symbol-based AAC and Proloquo2Text Proloquo2Go is a complete communication solution providing many natural sounding text-to-speech voices, three complete research-based vocabularies, over…
Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
Validation: The Parenting Tool that Helps Kids Learn Emotion Regulation Skills
Validation is one of the most powerful parenting tools, and yet it is often left out of traditional behavioral parent training programs. In general, behavioral parent training programs focus on…
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ABA Case Example with a 12 year old
As you know, choosing the right ABA team can be life-changing for a child with ASD and their family. From our experience, the best results come when the team can…
Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
Treating Children with Anxiety: A Case Presentation using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a 12 year old girl
I look at my schedule and see I have a new patient intake this week. I am going to meet with the parents of a girl in middle school and…
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Understanding ABA Skills, Neuropsychological and Functional Behavior Assessments – How are they similar and different?
Written by Sudha Ramaswamy, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA What is an ABA Skills Assessment? An Applied Behavior Analysis Skills (ABA) Assessment is an extremely useful tool in accurately pinpointing the appropriate…
