A Workover: A New College Graduate Wants a Career in Advertising

On PsychologyToday.com, I've been posting edited transcripts of callers to my radio show wanting career advice. I call them Workovers. 

Today's is a recent college graduate who'd like to launch a career as a creative in advertising. It was a fun exchange about how one might market Crayola crayons.

Career Advice for Men

In the fourth and final part in my PsychologyToday.com series on career advice for boys and men, I finally turn to career advice for men.

Helping Your Child Choose a College or Other Post-High School Option

In this third installment in my PsychologyToday.com series on career advice for parents of boys and for men, I offer advice on choosing and making the most of college as well as other post high-school options. I believe this is one of my more useful articles.

Helping Your Child Explore Careers

In this, Part II of my four-part series on career advice for boys and men, I discuss how parents can help their sons and daughters to explore career options. As usual, it's in PsychologyToday.com.

Helping Your Son Develop Moderate Self-Esteem

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I argue that moderate self-esteem is prerequisite to success and that today, it's particularly difficult to develop in boys.  I go on to offer suggestions for how to engender it.

A Workover: He Desperately Wants a Career Change But...

On my NPR-San Francisco radio program, I do Workovers: Listeners call in with a career problem.
I've been posting edited transcripts of Workovers that might interest PsychologyToday readers.

Today's offering presents the exchange I had with a caller who is an unhappy engineer and would love to change careers but is scared because he has the expenses of being married and having a child. He's also daunted by the cost and time of going back to school.

Why Planned Parenthood is a Most Worthy Charity

Politicians' twisted efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood are reprehensible. 

In my PsychologyToday.com arrticle today, I explain why and why, in fact, Planned Parenthood is one of the wiser charities you can donate to.