A few weeks ago, my 11-year-old daughter asked me the question, "why is Pluto no longer a planet?" I could only vaguely recall the story...

In my first video on motivation, I talked about pushing a ball up hill toward your goal(s). The ball gets heavier. The hill gets steeper....

In the fantastic western biopic "Wyatt Earp," Wyatts best friend Doc Holiday approaches him after his girlfriend Mattie has attempted...

As early as 2008 I was floating balloons with my colleagues in the academic world, wondering if certain research questions might have...

About a year ago, Dr. Shawn T Smith posted this video to his Youtube channel: And as far as I can tell, there have been no takers. In...

In the summer of 2011, I was a brand new licensed psychologist, deployed to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. I had been in the mental...

There are a lot reasons and motivations for lying to your provider about your pain. None of them are good.

The developmental literature informs us that ambivalence is a milestone most children who are on a more or less normative trajectory...

I'd like to see the end of the goofy, sictom, idiot dad in my lifetime.

If you have been in a situation that you are pretty sure changed you significantly, it may be trauma. Everyone's experience with such...

Back in 2014, I was the director of the Behavioral Science Consultation Team (BSCT) for Joint Task Force - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

This week, David Cole uses his personal interaction with a severely mentally ill woman from his past to offer an interesting insight:...

This weekend I had a couple of things that needed work and my oldest boy David was instructed to come outside and help. He's six, and...

Back in 2009. a law student at University of Montana wrote a law review paper entltled "Beyond Duluth: A Broad Spectrum of Treatment for...