By: Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School-based Psychologist Is it possible to help your child reject tribalism and tribal groupthink mentality? Tribalism can contribute to poor decision making, increase the probability of closed-mindedness, encourage prejudicial…
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist Is it possible that social unrest can be correlated with declines in academic performance in school? To address this question, let’s dissect a few terms. Children, teens and…
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist Parents of college age students eagerly welcomed them back into our ’empty nest’ households, home school, remote learning environment on the account of COVID-19. We found ourselves, however,…
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist Continued shutdown orders got you down? Me too. But, for highly functioning individuals with decades of experience meeting the challenges of economic downturns, chronic underemployment and high debt;…
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist The adolescent period has been expanded to include the mid-twenties. Yes, that is right. The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine defines adolescence as the onset of…
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist, CHFI, CFE To paraphrase Glenn and Nelson (1988), there are four critical factors involved that help parents to raise children and teens to become self reliant adults. We…
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist, CHFI, CFE The U.S. Department of Education sent to Harvard University and Yale University presidents the notice of investigation and records requests on February 26, 2020. For your…
By: Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist The publications, Inside Higher Education and Education Week report upon studies finding that hope is a strong predictor of student success outside of educational history. How might…
By: Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist The Espionage Act of 1917 made it possible to “punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better…
Did you read about the concerned parent placing a wanted ad in search of a nanny for her college-aged child? I wasn’t sure when I initially scanned the title either. Anyway, after reading the article…