Notes from a Child Psychologist - Hardcover

by Louis Propp (Author)

Notes from a Child Psychologist features ten composite case studies based on the author's work over three decades as a psychologist for children and adolescents. Dr. Propp takes readers through a patient's treatment intervention in session-by-session sequence to experience what it's like to sit-in on child, adolescent, and family therapy sessions. Readers can see the progression of how a child struggles with a problem and then returns to treatment as an adolescent, dealing with the same issue in a different way. Each chapter focuses on a different case examined within the context of family patterns of behavior, featuring concerns including attention deficit disorder, autism, gender identity, violence, anger, substance abuse, childhood trauma, parental divorce, adoption, parenting, and poverty. Engaging and jargon-free, this resource is beneficial for practicing child psychologists, as well as upper undergraduate and graduate students as a supplementary text.

Author Biography

Louis Propp, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for over 36 years. He conducts weekly online supervision for home-based workers and maintains a small teletherapy practice in Maine. He has also consulted for almost 35 years for a family resource center in Vermont. He has previously taught different graduate-level psychology courses in child psychology at Antioch University New England. He is a member of the Maine, Vermont, and American Psychological Associations, as well as the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.

His first position was in upstate New York, doing play therapy in a school for emotionally disturbed children. In 1984, he became director of a satellite community mental health clinic in Vermont. After three years, he left the clinic and joined a small private practice group. In the 1990s, he helped transition the group into a large, multi-specialty practice to deal with the restrictions of managed care. In 2010, with his wife, Kristin, he formed a private practice focused on children, adolescents, and families. They relocated the practice to the state of Maine in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Propp continues to see patients remotely in Vermont and Maine.