Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps children, teens, young adults, and families struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, mood disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and trauma. Also known as psychotherapy, counseling is a form of treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and an individual or family. Dr. Davenport utilizes research-based psychotherapies…
Author: Monte W. Davenport, Ph.D.
For 25 years, Dr. Davenport's career has been focused on helping improve the lives of children, teens, college students, and families struggling with ADHD, anxiety, OCD, depression, oppositional-defiant behavior, learning disorders, and related executive functioning challenges. Call 817.421.8780 to find out how he can help you.
Child, Teen, & Family Counseling
Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps children, teens, young adults, and families struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, mood disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and trauma. Also known as psychotherapy, counseling is a form of treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and an individual or family. Dr. Davenport utilizes research-based psychotherapies…
Is Your Teen or Young Adult Resistant to Counseling?
Motivational Interviewing is a process Dr. Davenport uses with teens, young adults, and adults who are resistant to counseling and/or ambivalent to make needed changes.
The spirit of motivational interviewing is one of partnership, acceptance, compassion, and strengths-based collaborative questioning in order to identify and act on the client’s own motivations for change.
It is a person-centered counseling style designed to strengthen personal motivation and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.
Structuring Your Notes for Success!
When taking, reviewing, and studying notes, it may be helpful to apply some structure so that you can better learn the information. This can be especially useful if your teacher or professor is not really organized in his or her presentation style. Ask your instructor questions if you missed or don’t understand something: he or…
Notetaking Tools & Tips
Because taking notes in class involves a number of executive functioning skills students with learning and attention problems can benefit from receiving copies of teacher’s lectures so that they have the information needed to prepare for tests. Students are encouraged to continue taking notes using specific tools outlined in this post.
Active Note-Taking is as Easy as 1-2-3!
Because many of the executive functions (sustained attention, working memory, organization, planning, prioritizing, task initiation, persistence, and self-monitoring) can hamper one’s ability to take notes in class, it is helpful for students to use these three active note-taking strategies.
Summer Student Success Group: What Your Student Will Learn
Middle & high school students develop improved organization, time management, reading, writing, memory, & test-taking!
Assessing Your Urge to Procrastinate
Have you noticed that the urge to procrastinate is like that rock in your shoe? The urge to procrastinate is always there, but when you focus on what you want to do it’s less noticeable. When you are completing activities you value, you are less likely to focus on the urge to procrastinate even though it is still there.
Flexibly Structured Discipline Improves Self-Control!
Flexibly structured discipline emphasizes your child or teen’s strengths while calmly and firmly addressing her need for self-control.
To AP or Not to AP? That is the Question!
Students attending advanced placement (AP) courses often say that they enjoy learning more and being challenged in these classes. On the other hand, many students say that they spend hours completing homework, finishing projects, and studying for exams in pre-AP and AP courses.
Many of Dr. Davenport’s teen clients attend advanced placement courses. This article outlines some of the considerations he suggests they think about in order to achieve the right balance between AP course benefits, AP course demands, and their quality of life.
Thoughts about “Labeling” Children
Labels are dangerous when they replace our view of a child as a person, but a diagnosis describing specific symptoms identifies the help she needs to be successful.