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Author and
Counseling Psychologist Chuck
Falcon has been working with psychiatric patients for the
last 22 years and incest abusers for the last 5 years. He
has been an Adjunct Faculty member of Delgado Community College
in New Orleans for the last 2 years, teaching courses in
Communications Disorders. His first book, Happiness and Personal
Problems, sold to 3 book clubs (Behavioral Science Book Service,
Nurses' Book Club, and Executive Program Book Club), sold Russian
translation rights, and led to TV appearances and radio shows
across the country.
Previous
positions include doing program evaluation and working with deaf
and deaf-blind people as the Office for Persons with Disabilities
Service Coordinator at the Deaf Action Center in Lafayette,
Louisiana, working with psychiatric inpatients and outpatients,
alcoholics, and veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress
disorder at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Gainesville,
Florida, working with deaf psychiatric inpatients at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C., with teenage and child
psychiatric patients at Sagamore Hills Children's Psychiatric
Hospital (now Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital) in
Northfield, Ohio, with mentally disabled and autistic children at
Weaver School in Akron, Ohio, and with drug addicts at two
different treatment centers: the Corner Drugstore in Gainesville,
Florida and Akron's House Extending Aid on Drugs in Akron, Ohio.
He has appeared on TV and radio shows across the country,
including syndicated networks with hundreds of stations and
millions of listeners.
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An
Interview with the Author:
Why
did you write this book?
"I
always felt that people should have access to the best counseling
information without having to pay for expensive psychotherapy to
get bits and pieces of it. There an too many people hurting
out there and most people just need a little good advice to move
in the right direction. Personal problems are often interrelated,
so the traditional narrow focus of self-help books loses the
larger picture. I wanted to give people the tools to cope
successfully with life's sorrows and trials, all in one book."
At one
time, the web site for your book said that a psychologist angrily
yelled at you for giving this counseling information away.
What's the story?
"That happened before I wrote the book. During
graduate school, I was doing individual and group therapy and I
used to give our little handouts that explained how to work on
different kinds of personal problems. The more motivated
patients really appreciated having something to keep and follow
to work on their problems, but the Director of Training at the
facility, a psychiatrist, became really angry and yelled at me.
He insisted psychologists should evaluate and diagnose people
before they get any of this information. Fortunately for
me, a new Director of Training replaced him and the new Director
really appreciated all the work he had seen me do and all the
work he had heard about from other staff members. I ended
up with a really great reference. The whole experience made
me feel more determined that people had a right to basic
counseling information and helped lead to my writing the book."
Continue
Author's Interview
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