Mainstream Mental Health

How can you disconnect your kid from their screen without a fight? Our featured guest says YES and will offer us some tips and advice. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and child psychiatrist. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he also serves as a co-investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions and communities. His books include "The Yes Brain," “Mindsight,” “The Developing Mind,” “The Mindful Brain,” “The Mindful Therapist,” “Parenting From the Inside Out,” “The Whole-Brain Child,” and the upcoming "Aware" being released in August 2018. He is the Founding Editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes “Healing Trauma