Q: Our 20-year-old son has been involved in many self-defeating activities in the past, but recently the incidents have become so serious that his father and I sought out the assistance of a forensic psychologist hoping to get some answers as to why he behaves the way he does. Our son never showed up at [...]

Q: Hi, I have a problem. My boyfriend and I have a six month old little girl, and we are living with his grandmother. It seems that whenever I say or do anything to better my daughter’s life the grandmother goes off. Either she cries or starts yelling at me. When I was growing up [...]

Q: I am the mother of a 17-year-old girl, the last child left at home. I recognize that I have a problem trying to control her eating patterns. She is a little bit overweight. On the surface I would say “I only have her best interests at heart” but inside I know it’s fear that [...]

Q: I have an 8-year-old son, who has recently started hitting himself in his head when he gets angry. He’s also displaying an inability to focus on a task. I’m wondering what I could do to stop him from hitting himself and to help him focus more on the task at hand? A: The behaviors [...]

Q: Hi there. I am in an interesting situation. I KNOW what my problem is, and I even think I know what I should do about it. I just don’t know how to do it! I was raised by a single, abusive parent, my mother, who married someone who did not want to get involved. [...]

Q: Three months after my youngest child was born, my husband convinced me that it was time for him to have a vasectomy. That was four years ago, and I don’t think that I was really ready for him to do it. How do I get over this overwhelming feeling of sadness and emptiness every [...]

Q: I was wondering what advice you could recommend to a parent of a 9-year-old girl who has rocked since she could sit up. Whenever she is sitting down in the car, at the dinner table, in the classroom and just about anywhere, she rocks her body back and forth. I find that this is [...]