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Helping your kids cope with divorce

Although it is often easier for older kids to handle, divorce is never easy at any age. Nonetheless, there are ways to help your kids cope with the fact that mommy and daddy aren’t going to be together anymore. Tell the truth about it. Often times this is difficult...

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How to help a child with depression

Do you want to hear a saddening statistic? The third leading cause of death among young people ages 10-24 is suicide. Equally frightening is that more kids attempt suicide than those that actually succeed and each year more than 150,000 youths receive emergency...

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The best way to discipline your child

Working with children, one of the subjects we are frequently asked about here at Hammond Psychology & Associates, P.A. is discipline. Parents, counselors, teachers and everyone in between often disagree on this subject. Nonetheless, we thought we would offer up...

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Communicating effectively with your family

When it comes to communicating amongst family members, there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. How we communicate is crucial for the relationships between parent and child, spouses, siblings and so on. Here are a few ways to communicate more effectively with...

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Congratulations to Krista Kovatch, M.A.!

We are excited to announce that Krista Kovatch, M.A. was formally accepted today to attend her doctoral internship year at Mount Sinai St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital in New York City!  We are so proud of you Krista.  Although Hammond Psychology & Associates, P.A....

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