When my telephone rings, the voice on the other end is typically that of a concerned parent. Perhaps their child hasn’t come home for nights at a time. Self-harm is increasing. Drug use escalating. The teenager is becoming more aggressive at home. They aren’t getting out of bed for days and not making it to school. I listen intently. “We tried therapy,” parents will say. “Nothing is working.” I’ve experienced this call over a thousand times. Today, I find myself in a fortunat

*NOTE: Thank you to all you new subscribers. Welcome to the community, and please feel free to comment on posts, engage in ‘outrage-free’ adult dialog, and make suggestions for future posts. It’s all about being the adults in the room! You’ve got to crawl before you can walk A child’s development in the first few years of life can influence their development throughout life, and issues or delays in development should be identified and mitigated early. The title of this sectio

A few years ago, I (Will Dobud) read Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West’s 2021 book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World . Competent enough with research statistics, the book broadened my ability to see where researchers—seemingly with good intentions—can get lost amongst large sums of data. Finding misleading presentations of quantitative data was nothing new to me in my career as a psychotherapy researcher. In early 2024, Nevin and I published a large

Y2K - “The Sky is Falling” Do you remember the near apocalypse called Y2K? We were led to believe modern computing devices were going to fail in the first seconds of the year 2000. Why? Because the IT folks apparently programmed computers and all things internet without consideration for year numbers beyond 99. This is my fractured memory of the issue, so the techies may correct my explanation. Point is, we were told we might see a loss of data and scheduling systems as we en

A sometimes cheeky, sometimes finger-pointing adventure in thoughts about how best to protect our kids, families and communities. Adults in the room. is a knock-on project following the co-authorship of Kids these days: Understanding and supporting youth mental health with Dr. Will Dobud . Will and I agreed we needed to keep the momentum and help ‘move the needle’ in addressing the issue of youth mental health today. Expect some uncomfortable yet shockingly obvious truths t

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