Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D.

Dr. Kathryn Seifert has had over 30 years experience in mental health, addictions, and criminal justice work. She founded Eastern Shore Psychological Services, a multidisciplinary private practice that specializes in working with high-risk youth and their families. She writes and lectures nationally and internationally on the topics of violence, risk assessment, sex offenders, suicide prevention, school based mental health programs, and stress management. She advocates for the highest quality services for all children needing mental health treatment.

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Her first book was How Children Become Violent: Keeping Your Kids Out of Gangs, Terrorist Organizations, and Cults. Her next book, “Youth Violence: Theory, Prevention, and intervention” will be released by Spring in October 2011. Her assessment is the “CARE-2: Child and Adolescent Risk/ Needs Evaluation.” Visit her website at www.PreventBullyingNow.com. Dr. Seifert has appeared on CNN, EBRU TV, FOX news Radio, Man Cow, and WLW Radio.

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Dr. Kathy Seifert's Award-Winning book:

How Children Become Violent:
Keeping Your Kids out of Gangs, Terrorist Organizations, and Cults

– paperback, DVD, download or MP3

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Dr. Kathy Seifert talks on Fox News about mass school shootings and solutions.

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Here are some more websites to help prevent bullying:

Tips on how to prevent bullying at www.preventbullyingnow.info

A look into the criminal mind at www.drkathyseifert.com

Youth violence risk assessment at www.care2systems.com

Video – Preventing Youth Violence

Why Disrupted Attachment Patterns Trigger Pathological Behavior

Those who commit violence today, as Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D. explains in this book, are likely to be adults or adolescents who themselves witnessed violence as children or were abused or neglected in their early years.

Childhood is a time when bonding with caregivers stimulates the formulation of behavioral regulation, interpersonal skills, moral development, brain development, and problem solving, and when it is interrupted Disrupted Attachments Patterns (DAP) can form.

This means that today’s violent, neglected, psychologically unbalanced, and traumatized children are likely to be tomorrow’s dangers to society - that is, unless we can intervene to assess DAP and offer them appropriate therapy.