Michael Y. Simon's Blog, page 4
May 26, 2012
Unconventional Wisdom about Families
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM: ISSUE 5
Every year, the Council on Contemporary Families prepares a survey of recent family research and clinical findings entitled “Unconventional Wisdom.” This year’s report was prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families’ 15th Anniversary Conference, Crossing Boundaries: Public and Private Roles in Assuring Child Well-Being, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro Hotel, April 27 and 28, 2012.
Unconventional Wisdom is edited by Joshua Coleman, Co-Chair, Council on Contemporary Families, and Stephanie Coontz, Co-Chair and Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families.
The Council on Contemporary Families aims to increase communication among family researchers and practitioners while helping the press and public access accurate information and best-practice findings about how today’s families work. In this issue of “Unconventional Wisdom,” we asked conference participants along with other CCF scholars and clinicians to send in short descriptions of recent research findings, practical experiences, clinical observations, new interventions to help families, and other topics related to contemporary family issues.
I’m honored to have contributed several times to a national report on families that includes some of the country’s top clinicians and researchers.
Visit the Council on Contemporary Families website and read the report here:
http://contemporaryfamilies.org/all/unconventional-wisdom-issue-5.html
You can download the full report at: http://contemporaryfamilies.org/images/stories/CCF_Unconventional_Wisdom_Vol_5_2012.pdf
May 16, 2012
January 26, 2011
Welcome Parents of Teens (and Pre-Teens)!
Welcome to the PHFP Blog. We’re living in an ocean of information about parenting. We aim to help you navigate the waters. Here we’ll overlap some content with the PHFP newsletter and provide ongoing articles, references, musings, good resources, and links to must-read news about adolescents, adolescent development and parenting in the digital age!
Michael Y. Simon, LMFT, is the publisher of the PHFP Newsletter and Blog writer/editor. His specialty is in understanding and making accessible by translating into practical terms, the immensity of information around parenting teens and adolescent development in general. He is the former Director of Counseling & Student Support for Bentley School, an independent high school in Lafayette, California and a psychotherapist in private practice for close to 17 years.
After teaching philosophy and psychology at the university level for many years, he worked as the Director for several organizations, including the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group, the Marina Counseling Center and the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. He is now a highly sought-after local and national speaker on parenting teens, and is the author of The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager.
Enjoy the PHFP Blog and you’re always welcome to right in to suggest new topics to explore!
