Andra Medea is a specialist in conflict management who has taught for Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.  Her model, the Conflict Continuum, forms the basis of her book, Conflict Unraveled: Fixing Problems at Work and in Families. Her work is a valuable tool for administrators, HR professionals, educators, parents, mediators and others who cope with conflict.  Her latest book is Going Home without Going Crazy: How to Get Along With Your Parents & Family (Even When They Push Your Buttons) Visit Andra's website.

Dr. Lawrence H. Diller M.D. is a behavioral/developmental pediatrician in Walnut Creek, CA and on the clinical faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. 

Dr. Diller is the author of many professional articles and the books,  Should I Medicate My Child? Sane Solutions for Troubled Kids with and without Psychiatric Drugs and Running on Ritalian: A Physician Reflects on Children , Society and Performance in a Pill.

He has offered testimony to a House Congressional Subcommittee and was an expert witness to the President's Council on Bioethics.  Dr. Diller has appeared on every major talk show several times and is called reguarly to speak on TV and radio whenever children's psychiatric medication is in the news. Visit his website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb

The Sweet Spot

Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved

Harville Hendrix is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is known internationally as the co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy, a coupleâs therapy which he co-developed with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. With her and other Imago therapists, he co-founded Imago Relationships International, an international non-profit organization that offers training, support and promotion of the work of 2,000 Imago therapists in 28 countries.

Harville is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Keeping the Love You Find: a Personal Guide, both New York Times best sellers. With Helen he co-authored Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents, also a best seller, and Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved plus three meditation books, two study guides and a video for couples seen on more than 300 public television stations. Their books are published in more than 57 languages.

He has appeared on many national television shows including 16 guest appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show. One of his appearances won her an Emmy award for the âmost socially redemptiveâ daytime talk show and was included by Ms. Winfrey in her top twenty shows.

In addition to many radio and television shows, his work has been written about in numerous newspapers and magazines internationally. He is a member of the Redbook Marriage Institute, serving on the magazineâs team of marriage experts. Harville has received an honorary doctorate and two distinguished service awards.

Harville lives with Helen in New Jersey and New Mexico; they have six children and three grandchildren. For more information, visit www.imagorelationships.org or www.harvillehendrix.net

Harville Hendrix is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is known internationally as the co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy, a coupleâs therapy which he co-developed with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. With her and other Imago therapists, he co-founded Imago Relationships International, an international non-profit organization that offers training, support and promotion of the work of 2,000 Imago therapists in 28 countries.

Harville is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Keeping the Love You Find: a Personal Guide, both New York Times best sellers. With Helen he co-authored Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents, also a best seller, and Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved plus three meditation books, two study guides and a video for couples seen on more than 300 public television stations. Their books are published in more than 57 languages.

He has appeared on many national television shows including 16 guest appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show. One of his appearances won her an Emmy award for the âmost socially redemptiveâ daytime talk show and was included by Ms. Winfrey in her top twenty shows.

In addition to many radio and television shows, his work has been written about in numerous newspapers and magazines internationally. He is a member of the Redbook Marriage Institute, serving on the magazineâs team of marriage experts. Harville has received an honorary doctorate and two distinguished service awards.

Harville lives with Helen in New Jersey and New Mexico; they have six children and three grandchildren. For more information, visit www.imagorelationships.org or www.harvillehendrix.net

Tanya Biank is a Fulbright scholar and graduate of Penn State University. She holds a bachelorâs degree in journalism and was a member of the University Scholarâs program.

Tanya comes from a family of combat veterans and active-duty service members. During her fatherâs thirty-year career in the Army, she grew up on military posts throughout the world and considers the Army home. As an Army brat and Army wife,Tanya understands, appreciates and respects military families. She is frequently interviewed about military family life issues and speaks regularly to both military and civilian groups about the military.

  As a journalist specializing in the military, Tanya writes about the military lifestyle and has traveled around the world with troops. She has appeared on several national television and radio shows discussing military issues. Her coverage of the 2002 Fort Bragg Army wife murders led to Congressional inquiries and changes in Army programs and policy,

Her book, Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage (St. Martinâs Griffin, May 2007) is the basis for the Lifetime Television series drama, ARMY WIVES starring Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue) and Catherine Bell (JAGappears Sunday nights at 10 PM on Lifetime and is produced by Touchstone Television and the producers of Greyâs Anatomy, The Mark Gordon Company. Tanya serves as a show consultant.  

Tanyaâs book âArmy Wivesâ was originally published in hardcover as Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives (St. Martinâs Press, Feb. 2006).Tanya is a columnist for Military.com and LifetimeTV.com. She is a regular contributor to several military-related publications including Military Spouse Magazine, Military Officer Magazine, CinCHouse.com and the Better Business Bureauâs Military Line.

She currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband Michael, who is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army assigned to the Pentagon. The couple has an infant son. Visit her website.

R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity. He studies creativity, everyday conversation, children's play and everyday social life. He is particularly interested in group dynamics and collaboration. He is the author of numerous books including Pretend Play as Improvisation (1997), Creating Conversations (2001) and Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (2006). His topics of research include business innovation, organizational dynamics in work teams, children's play and preschool, artistic and scientific creativity and language and conversation research.  Visit his website.

Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now an Emeritus Professor), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, and service to the profession. Recently, he was awarded the Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. Among his more than 300 professional publications and 50 books is the. His current research interests continue in the domain of social psychology, with a broad spread of interests from shyness to time perspective, madness, cults, vandalism, political psychology, torture, terrorism, and evil.

Zimbardo has served also as the Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) representing 63 scientific, math and technical associations (with 1.5 million members), and now is Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation. He heads a philanthropic foundation in his name to promote student education in his ancestral Sicilian towns. Zimbardo adds to his retirement list activities: serving as the new executive director of a Stanford center on terrorism -- the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT). He was an expert witness for one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib Prison abuses, and has studied the interrogation procedures used by the military in that and other prisons as well as by Greek and Brazilian police torturers.

Noted for his personal and professional efforts to actually 'give psychology away to the public', Zimbardo has also been a social-political activist, challenging the U.S. Government's wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American Correctional System.  Visit his websites  Philip Zimbardo.com and  The Lucifer Effect.org

Cora Daniels is an author and award-winning journalist. Her work has appeared in Fortune, the New York Times, Essence, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Heart & Soul, FSB: Fortune Small Business, and Savoy. She has been a staff writer at Fortune and an editor at Working Mother magazine and is currently a contributing writer for Essence. A sought after expert on diversity and business issues she has served as a commentator on ABC News, CNN, CNBC, BET, NPR, and the Charlie Rose Show. In 2002 she spearheaded Fortune's first ever search for the 50 most powerful Black executives in America. In 2005 her much acclaimed Fortune cover story The Bravest Generation, about the original Black corporate pioneers, created national attention for this overlooked part of civil rights history.

As an author Cora has been called "dynamic", and "perceptive" and "a powerful voice from the younger generation." Her first book, Black Power Inc., was dubbed "thought provoking" by the Washington Post and a "must read" by Black Issues Book Review. Her much anticipated second book, Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless (Doubleday) will be released March of 2007.

Cora is a native New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of Yale University with a BA in history and has a masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University.   Visit her website .

David J. Linden, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular substrates of memory storage in the brain. You can see a list of some of his labâs recent scientific papers here.

He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and two children. Visit his website.

Stephen Murdoch has been working as a journalist and writer since 1999. He has written on a wide range of subjectsâfrom legal policy and psychology, to travel and topical commentary. In 2006, Murdoch was a weekly columnist for the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has also contributed to Newsweek, Marketplace (a radio show carried by many NPR stations), The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Lawyer, The Boston Globe and other publications.

In the 1990s, before becoming a writer, Murdoch was a human rights lawyer in Cambodia and practiced civil litigation in Washington. Murdoch currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three daughters. Visit his website.

LARINA KASE, PsyD, MBA, is a psychologist and the President of Performance and Success Coaching LLC, a national career and small business coaching company. She has helped executives from companies such as Verizon, Intel, and Ernst & Young. With expertise in marketing, she has helped dozens of professionals to build their practices or businesses. For more information visit her websites Performance and Success Coaching LLC and The Confident Speaker

Jennifer is the co-founder of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers in 2000. Her work has been featured in The Nation, on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, on Alternet, and other places. PRACTICALLY PERFECT IN EVERY WAY, published by Putnam, is her first book. She lives with her husband, son, and dogs in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit her website.

Martha Lasley, MBA is a founder of Leadership that Works, a firm that develops dynamic leaders at all levels. She is one of the founding faculty at CoachingthatWorks.com. Martha's passion is training and developing Leadership Coaches using nonviolent communication. She has presented several programs at the annual conference for International Association of Facilitators. She facilitates action learning teams and founded Leader Networks for Executive Directors of Nonprofits. Since 2002 she has been on the faculty for Capella University where she has taught more than 60 MBA courses on coaching and leadership. Visit her website.

]]> Life Planning Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:58:00 GMT http://psychjourneybookclub.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=233947# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:22:59 life coaching, career coaching, life planning, martha lalsey, psychjourney, personal coach Psychjourney Clean http://psychjourneybookclub.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=233819# Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Anatasia Goodstein author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Anatasia Goodstein is an award-winning blogger and often-quoted expert on American tweens, teens and early twentysomthings. Ypulse.com reaches a highly influential audience of agency, brand and media executives as well as social marketers trying to reach youth.  The blog has been featured in several leading publications including USA Today, BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fast Company.

Ms. Goodstein was one of the first graduates of the Medill School of Journalism's new media program at Northwestern University where she earned an MSJ in 1999. Visit her websites YPulse and Totally Wired Book.

Nordine Zouareg is an International Celebrity Fitness Coach who works with clients from around the world. Nordine has come a long way from being born in the back of a truck in the Sahara desert and contracting Rickets to becoming an acclaimed fitness expert worldwide. His unique philosophy, which is based on his personal experience as well as the knowledge he has gathered during his 25 years working in the field, addresses the true reasons why people are constantly failing to reach their health and fitness goals. In Mind Over Body he provides all the information and encouragement that have helped his clients to release stress, increase energy, lose fat, and develop muscle tone quickly, effectively, and forever. Visit his website.

Mathew Boggs and Jason Miller have been best friends since their childhood outside of Portland, Oregon. Mat attended the University of San Diego and earned a Pre-Med degree with cum-laude distinction, while Jason was a football star at the University of Montana, graduating magna-cum-laude with degrees in Business and Communications. After college, Mat earned his Masters Degree in Education from the University of Oregon, and Jason headed to Los Angeles to act in national commercials for companies such as Pepsi, UPS, and Edge Shave Gel. In 2003, they joined forces for Project Everlasting. Both authors live in Portland, Oregon. Visit their website

Visit Jason and Mathew on My Space.

Laurence M. Westreich, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of patients with addictions to alcohol and drugs of abuse, and those dually diagnosed with addictions and mental disorders.

In addition to his private practice and academic responsibilities, Dr. Westreich has served since 1992 on the faculty of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, New York University of Medicine. His responsibilities there include teaching psychiatry residents, fellows in addiction psychiatry, and attending psychiatrists on the Bellevue Wards.

Dr. Westreich is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the treatment of addiction, presents regularly to professional groups, and is board certified by the American Board on Psychiatry and Neurology in general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry, and as an addiction specialist by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).

In addition to his private practice and academic responsibilities, Dr. Westreich is the consultant on drugs of abuse to the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and serves on the Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the drug-testing agency for the American Olympic Athletes. Dr. Westreich lives in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and three children.  Visit his website.

Carlene DeRoo, Ph.D. and Carolyn DeRoo are a mother and daughter writing team. Carlene is a psychologist with over fifteen years of practice specializing in pain management and mind-body connections. She was assistant director of a large metropolitan pain management center and was the director of the Behavioral Medicine Program at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Using positive affirmations and visualization, she helps her patients control pain and gets great results. Carolyn is a writer who spent five years in Silicon Valley providing technical support to stressed-out computer users. She discovered that focusing on the positive was the quickest way to resolve their issues and reduce their anxiety.

The techniques that Dr. DeRoo and Carolyn DeRoo use in their careers are the basis for What's Right With Me. They have seen the overwhelming advantage of affirming an individual's strengths and successes and want to share these highly efficient tools to help people get the confidence and peace of mind that they deserve. Visit their website.

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, is a consulting associate in the Duke Department of Psychiatry and the founder and director of the Mindfullness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke University's Center for Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Brantley completed his psychiatry residency at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center. He is Board Certified in psychiatry and worked for 14 years in community mental health and private practice. Dating back to medical school, meditation has been a focal point of Dr. Brantley's private life, as well as an integral part of his work with persons seeking healing in their lives. Dr. Brantley has been practicing meditation for over 25 years personally, and has been teaching programs in mindfulness meditation for over 10 years.

 As the founder and Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Brantley teaches intensive courses on mindfulness meditation and conducts extensive experiential programs and group lectures.

Dr. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear and Panic and Five Good Minutes in the Evening: 100 Mindful Practices to Help You Unwind from the Day & Make the Most of Your Night available from New Harbinger Press.

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, is a consulting associate in the Duke Department of Psychiatry and the founder and director of the Mindfullness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke University's Center for Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Brantley completed his psychiatry residency at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center. He is Board Certified in psychiatry and worked for 14 years in community mental health and private practice. Dating back to medical school, meditation has been a focal point of Dr. Brantley's private life, as well as an integral part of his work with persons seeking healing in their lives. Dr. Brantley has been practicing meditation for over 25 years personally, and has been teaching programs in mindfulness meditation for over 10 years.

As the founder and Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the Center for Integrative Medicine Dr. Brantley teaches intensive courses on mindfulness meditation and conducts extensive experiential programs and group lectures. Dr. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You of Anxiety, Fear, and Panic, and Five Good Minutes: 100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm & Focused All Day Long available from New Harbinger Press.

In addition to her professional work, Beverly frequently lends her expertise to national television talk shows. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Starting Over, Sally Jesse Raphael, Donahue, and other programs in the United States and Canada. She has regularly contributed to Psychology Today, and has been featured in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and Shape.

Beverly has also participated in several radio and Internet programs, including Airtalk with Larry Mantle, The Joan Hamburg Show, Psychology Today (answering emails with show host Robert Epstein, Ph.D.), and responding to viewer mail on Channel One. She is also a dynamic speaker, workshop leader, and teacher. Engel lives in San Luis Obispo, CA. Visit her website .

Linda Kohanov is an author, speaker, riding instructor, and horse trainer who specializes in Equine Experiential Learning and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. In 1997, she founded Epona Equestrian Services, a Tucson-based collective of riding instructors and counselors exploring the healing potential of working with horses. In addition to formal equine-facilitated psychotherapy sessions, Epona offers equine experiential learning programs in stress reduction, parenting skills, leadership techniques, consensus-building relationship models, mindfulness, intuition, creativity, sensory awareness, and women's empowerment.

Kohanov has fifteen years experience as a radio producer and announcer and has also worked as a music critic and print journalist, writing for such publications as CD Review, Down Beat, JAZZIZ, Jazz Times, Pulse! and New Age Journal.  Her books include  Riding Between The Worlds: Expanding Our Potential through the Way of the Horse and  Spirit Horses.

She lives with her husband, composer and musician Steve Roach, and their horses outside Tucson, Arizona. Visit her website.

David Richo, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer who draws on Jungian, Buddhist, and poetic perspectives in his work. He leads popular workshops at the Esalen Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. He is the author of How to Be an Adult, How to Be an Adult in Relationships, and Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side . He lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California.  Visit his website.

Julian Sher is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist, TV producer and author of five books including Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs Crime Empire, which has been translated into four languages and sold in seven foreign countries. He wrote and directed the New York Times-CBC TV investigation called Nuclear Jihad which recently won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

His freelance writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN.com, the Toronto Globe and Mail and Walrus, Canada's leading current affairs magazine. His Web page, JournalismNet,is ranked among the top ten journalism sites in the world by Google. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Visit his website.

Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and other journals, and author of more than two hundred books, TV programs and software for 3 to 12 year-olds including the popular skeleton materials, used in over 10,000 schools. She is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world, and acts as an independent adviser to many organizations, including the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. In 2006 she published Toxic Childhood, about the impact of contemporary lifestyles on child development. Visit her website .

Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist, and occasional teacher and public speaker. His work has appeared in the New York Times magazine, GQ, Slate, Harper's Magazine, and Restaurant Business, where he once wrote an informative, exceptionally well-crafted article about pudding. He lives with his wife and son in Minneapolis, MN, and wouldn't have it any other way. Visit his blog.

Allan V. Horwitz earned a doctoral degree in Sociology from Yale University where he was trained in psychiatric epidemiology and in deviance and social control. He came to Rutgers in 1975 as an assistant professor and is currently a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology.

 Professor Horwitz has studied a variety of aspects of mental health and illness, including the social response to mental illness, family caretaking for dependent populations, the impact of social roles and statuses on mental health, and the social construction of mental disorders. His current work integrates biological and sociological perspectives in distinguishing between normal and dysfunctional types of depression.

He has published over 50 articles and chapters in the main journals in his field. In addition, he has published several books including The Social Control of Mental Illness (Academic Press 1982; new edition Percheron Press 2002); The Logic of Social Control (Plenum Press 1990); and Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press 2002). He is also the co-editor, with Teresa Scheid, of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems (Cambridge University Press 1999.  Visit his webpage

The prolific author of numerous articles in addition to his eight books, Herb Goldberg is an ardent mens advocate and explorer of the hidden dynamics of gender and relationships and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. A gifted writer who is passionate that his readers understand the complexity of the deeper, unconscious aspects of human behavior, Dr. Goldberg communicates the excitement of the personal journey.

His titles include The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege,  Money Madness: The Psychology of Saving, Spending, Loving, and Hating Money (with Robert T. Lewis),The New Male: From Macho to Sensitive But Still All Male ,The New Male-Female Relationship , What Men Really Want.

 Dr. Goldberg has appeared on numerous talk shows and has been featured in publications such as Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, USA Today, Mens Health, and Psychology Today. He has been a regular guest on CNN programs, as well as having been interviewed several times in years past by Charlie Rose and Larry King. Radio interviews have numbered in the hundreds. Selections from his books, as well as original articles and interviews have regularly appeared in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Mens Health, Mademoiselle, Psychology Today, Vogue, Womens Day, Ladies Home Journal, New Woman, McCalls, Harpers Bazaar, and Womens Digest, among others.  Visit his website.

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He is a four time recepient of Canada's National Magazine Gold Award. He has presented his scientific research on effective therapies at the White House.

A native of Toronto, he divides his time between Toronto and New York. Visit his website.

Victoria Pitts-Taylor received her PhD at Brandeis University. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, Univ of New York. 

Dr. Taylor is the author of In The Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification as well as a number of articles and book chapters. In 2002-2003 she won a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association. Visit her webpage.

Michael J. Breus, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He was one of the youngest people to have passed the Board at age 31 and, with a specialty in Sleep Disorders and Neuropsychological Testing, is one of only 159 doctors in the world with his credentials and distinction. He is the co-founder of SoundSleep Solutions, a direct-to-consumer, sleep-related information Web site, and currently serves as Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Board for Sleep Holdings, LLC, the only publicly traded sleep diagnostic and therapy company in the world.  Visit his website.

Since 1999, Nancy Wiseman has made a significant contribution to changing policy, improving awareness, and changing pediatric practice in how we screen, refer, and detect young children today. As the founder and president of First Signs, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate professionals and parents about the early warning signs of autism and other developmental disorders, Nancy is dedicating her life to improving the lives of children and families affected by developmental disorders.

Before devoting herself to First Signs, Nancy worked in corporate communications for over 20 years. She has counseled thousands of parents nationwide and she has appeared in interviews with USA Today, Parents, and NBC's Today Show. She is the author of Could It Be Autism? A Parent's Guide to the First Signs and Next Steps. Nancy is the 2006 recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dale Richmond/Justin Coleman Award for her outstanding achievement in the field of child development. Visit her website.

Dr. Les Carter is a psychotherapist in private practice in Southlake, Texas.  He is the best selling author of 20 books including The Anger Workbook