Seminars Offered by Dr. Selznick

Dr. Richard Selznick is the Director of the Cooper Learning Center in the Department of Pediatrics of the Cooper University Hospital.  Dr. Selznick is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, and an adjunct professor of Reading and Education in the graduate school of St. Joseph’s University.  Dr. Selznick is the author of The Shut Down Learner:  Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child.   Drawing upon over 20 years as a psychologist, and his experience as the father of two children, Dr. Selznick offers a range of topics that are lively interactive and “down-to-earth.”

The topics include the following:

All Ages

  • Regaining Control of the Ship:  how to stop floundering at “parental sea”
  • “I’m the Parent & It’s OK”:  methods to steel your parental nerves
  • “10 Commandments of Parenting”
  • “Understanding Parenting Styles”
  • Secrets of Parenting Success….feeling frazzled and overwhelmed?  Is the tail wagging the dog?  This workshop will help energize you.
  • Principles of Effective Parenting…helping you to become less reactive and more proactive in parenting
  • “Keeping Your Cool When Your Child Pushes Your Buttons”
  • “The Overscheduled (and Strung Out) Child”
  • Indulged Children:  How did we get in this mess?  How do we get out of it?
  • “How Not to Argue (with your children) and Win”
  • Micromanaging Your Child:  Are you a “helicopter” parent (flying overhead)
  • Self Concept & Self Esteem:  How psychologists sold us a “bill of goods” 
  • Bullying: Is your child a “shark” or “shark meat”"
  • Wriggling on a Pin”:  The over-criticized child
  • “Spousal Wars”:  Chapter V.  The  Children – Why the moms are usually right.
  • Isn’t it Just Too Much:  Homework Overloaded Children

Pre-School/Elementary Age

  • “Hedonistic Pirates”…is your preschooler holding you hostage!
  • “Challenges of Raising Children in the New Millennium”
  • Why Your Kid is Tuning You Out:  How to stop giving ineffective commands that are ignored.
  • Morning Madness:  How to Get Out From Under the Craziness

High School & Beyond

  • Are Boys “Taking it on the Chin” in School
  • “Lost in Cyberspace” Living an active fantasy life on line:  What do you need to know?
  • “The New Generation Gap” (MySpace, Facebook, text messaging)
  • “Getting Beyond the Grunting”:  How to get more information from your incommunicative child
  • “The Choppy Waters of Raising a Teenager”
  • “4027 Text Messages This Month”…Why is my child struggling in school?
  • "Yikes, He’s About to Start Driving?  Things to consider before giving the keys”
  • Coping with College

ADD/ADHD/ODD

  • The “Shut-Down Learner: Helping the Academically Discourage
  • Casualties of College:  ADHD kids go off to University/College
  • “Myths & Realities of ADHD/ADD”
  • Living with ADHD at home:  What is it about ADHD?
  • “Addressing the Challenging Behaviors of ADHD, Oppositional Defiance & Just Plain Ornery Children”
  • “Secrets of Parenting Success With ADHD Children”
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder:   “Making Everyone Look Bad”
  • Approaches With Temperamentally Difficult, Inflexible & (sometimes) Explosive Children
  • “Diffusing the Reactive & Explosive Child”

Reading/Dyslexia/Reading Disabilities

  • The “Shut-Down Learner: Issues to Understand
  • Myths & Realities of Dyslexia and Reading Disabilities – An overview for parents
  • Developing Life-Long Readers:  an overview for parents
  • Myths & Realities of Invisible Disabilities
  • “Making Sense of Psychological & Educational Assessments”
  • Using Science and Common Sense to Assess & Prevent Reading Difficulties
  • Phonemic Awareness & Phonological Decoding:  what parents of preschoolers & kindergarten children should know
  • “Off to College:  What to Understand if Your Child has a Learning Disability"

For more information on his workshops, please contact Dr. Selznick via email at Selznick-r@cooperhealth.edu.