Monthly Archives: August 2010

Executive Functioning

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Steven Petrus

Executive function is a term used to describe the many tasks our brains perform that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help us learn new information, remember and retrieve information we’ve learned in [...]

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My Teen is Growing Up

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Steven Petrus

Adolescence is considered to be one of the most important phases in the developmental theory and developmental progress.  It is the time when a child emerges from the latency period, pre-pubescence, where they are trying to figure out who they [...]

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