Dr. William Van Ornum
William Van Ornum, Ph.D., has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Loyola University of Chicago. He studied under such luminaries as Frank J. Kobler and Eugene Kennedy. After receiving his degree, Van Ornum worked at Astor Home for Children/Day Treatment Program as psychologist and clinical director. The children of Astor were considered emotionally disturbed as well as learning-disabled. The guiding philosophy of Astor is to provide individual therapy, structured classes with needed behavior modification, family therapy, needed medication, and close supervision of all medication. Van Ornum served on the board of directors for fourteen years, until 2002, and continues to help out as "A Friend of Astor." For two years, he was director of psychology at Craig House Hospital in Beacon, New York. For the past twenty years, Van Ornum has taught at Marist College instructing on such subjects as psychological assessment and abnormal psychology. He has also been in private practice for twenty-five years. Van Ornum's latest book (2008), coauthored with Linda L. Dunlap and Milton F. Shore, is published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, Psychological Testing across the Life Span.
Dr. William Van Ornum can be contacted at wvornum@americanmentalhealthfoundation.org.
Blog posts by Dr. William Van Ornum:
- 08/26/10 Celebrating the Nineteenth Amendment
- 08/23/10 More on the Bullying Epidemic
- 08/17/10 7 Ways to Get Better Sleep
- 08/17/10 Brain Trauma Can Mimic A.L.S.
- 08/17/10 President Obama Proposes Care for Veterans
- 08/05/10 Daphne Merkin's Life in Therapy
- 08/04/10 American Psychological Association Convention
- 08/02/10 Preventing Violence through Church Involvement
- 06/30/10 Dr. Norman Reed Joins Professional Advisory Board
- 06/29/10 Low Income Rural Women and Spirituality
- 06/29/10 Janice E. Johnson joins Professional Advisory Board
- 06/29/10 Bullying Across the Lifespan
- 06/29/10 Jungian Play Therapy
- 06/24/10 A Controversial Approach to Eating Disorders
- 06/23/10 AMHF Announces Beginning of Professional Advisory Board
- 06/18/10 Happy Birthday Jack Fowler!
- 06/07/10 Insurers Balk on Insuring 19-26 group
- 05/25/10 Glenn Close to Address Neuroscience 2010 Convention
- 05/25/10 Mandated Treatment Law Set to Expire
- 05/17/10 Firms Fight Practice of Mental Health Parity
- 05/17/10 Suicide Encouragement via The Internet
- 05/12/10 The Sports Wound and Bullying
- 05/12/10 Many Kinds of Bullying
- 04/27/10 Stop Bullying Now!
- 04/27/10 A Great Advocate for Children
- 04/25/10 Preventing Orphans (follow-up to Twain)
- 04/25/10 Orphans All (Mark Twain)
- 04/25/10 Boy Scout Troop Therapy
- 04/21/10 Excellence in Managed Care
- 04/21/10 Project Fatherhood
- 04/04/10 National Health Care and Mental Health
- 04/04/10 Stuff
- 04/04/10 Pilots and Antidepressants
- 03/26/10 Loneliness, Sadness, Depression: Do We Have It Backward?
- 03/26/10 OCD...as Viewed by Ashley Dupre
- 03/21/10 Spirituality and OCD: Part 4
- 03/21/10 Spirituality and OCD: Part 3
- 03/21/10 Spirituality and OCD: Part 2
- 03/21/10 Spirituality and OCD: Part 1
- 03/21/10 Clerical Abuse in Germany
- 03/20/10 Mental Health, Faculty, and College Violence
- 02/10/10 Neuropsychology: All Kinds of Things Affected by the Brain
- 02/10/10 Upcoming Changes in the DSM
- 02/10/10 Too Many Soldier Suicides: Part 2
- 02/10/10 Too Many Soldier Suicides Part 1: In Flanders Fields
- 01/25/10 Jerilyn Ross, 63, Dies: A Therapist Who Overcame Her Own Anxiety
- 01/25/10 More on Aging Gracefully
- 01/25/10 Our Medicated Army
- 01/11/10 Funding cuts for the Developmentally Disabled
- 01/11/10 Counseling out of the Office/Homeless Clients
- 01/09/10 Concussion, Football, and Other Sports
- 01/09/10 Seasonal Affective Disorder: Not Just in Central Wisconsin
- 12/28/09 Trouble Getting to Sleep?
- 12/17/09 2010 Convention of American Counseling Association
- 12/17/09 Book on Cognitive Therapy Wins British Medical Society Book Award
- 12/14/09 Tax Dollars at Work
- 12/07/09 "The New Psychosurgery" and OCD
- 12/04/09 A Jungian Poem by Leah Jimenez
- 12/01/09 In Appreciation of Eugene Kennedy
- 11/23/09 Handwriting and Personal Identity
- 11/23/09 Mental Health: Where Do Your Politicians Stand?
- 11/16/09 NASA Worries About Robot's Mental Health
- 11/16/09 A Powerful Grass-Roots Organization
- 11/16/09 A New York (Therapy) Minute
- 11/11/09 Fort Hood and the Violent Person
- 11/09/09 Therapists, Therapies, or Both?
- 11/09/09 McCarthy Test of Children's Abilities
- 10/29/09 "Happy Days: Kierkegaard or the Couch?"
- 10/29/09 Reflections on foundations and forgotten children
- 08/17/09 American Psychological Association (AAP) Convention 2009
- 07/09/09 I HATE YOU! DON'T LEAVE ME! Borderline Personality Disorder
- 07/09/09 Hagiophobia: Defined but How Prevalent?
- 06/19/09 Some Things I Have Learned about Autism
- 06/15/09 My Summer with William James
- 06/11/09 New Approach to OCD
- 04/24/09 In Developed Countries, Eight out of Ten Leading Causes of Disabilities Are Related to Mental Illness
- 04/24/09 Did You Know ? . . . SAT and Mental Health
- 04/24/09 Help for Many Children
- 04/17/09 Teens, Gambling, and Mental Health
- 04/17/09 Kudos to the National Association of the Dually Diagnosed (NADD)
- 04/15/09 Since Grandma Died, Grandpa Has a Severe Phobia about Falling Asleep
- 04/10/09 Marriage and Mental Health
- 04/03/09 A Wonderful Place: The Astor Home for Children
- 03/27/09 Speech Therapists and Mental Health
- 03/23/09 The American Group Therapy Association and AMHF
- 03/20/09 Simple Phobias
- 03/16/09 Finally, Parity for Mental Illness
- 03/10/09 Therapists Working with Babies
- 02/04/09 Dealing with Depression
- 02/04/09 Special Needs Children in Harder Economic Times
- 02/04/09 Genetic Research and Mental Health
- 02/04/09 Aging Well!
- 12/01/08 Watch out for Dual Roles
- 11/28/08 The Psychology of Gratitude
- 11/05/08 Preschool Intervention
- 10/17/08 Learn about Down Syndrome
- 10/17/08 Reaching an Autistic Teenager
- 09/17/08 American Psychological Association
- 09/15/08 The Bipolar Child
- 09/15/08 A graduate student's thoughts on depression
- 09/11/08 Anna Freud, WAR AND CHILDREN, 9-11
- 09/04/08 DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION
- 09/03/08 PSYCHODYNAMIC DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL: Helpful companion the DSM IV
- 08/11/08 Help for our older relatives, friends, and neighbors
- 08/11/08 Finding helpers to assist parents
- 08/09/08 Individual Therapy with Aggressive Children
- 08/09/08 Licensure as Psychoanalyst in New York State
- 08/08/08 Depression, Narcissism, and Dr. Karasu
