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 [at] americanmentalhealthfoundation [dot] org.
Blog posts by Dr. William Van Ornum:
- 05/11/13 The Great Gatsby, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Craig House Hospital
- 05/11/13 Mental Illness and Churches
- 04/30/13 Books from Colleagues at ACA
- 04/21/13 Anti-Seizure Meds: From Irritability to Depression and Even Suicide
- 04/14/13 Harder than Reaching the Moon?
- 04/08/13 The Future, the Brain
- 03/30/13 Budget Cuts, Nonprofits, and Developmental Disabilities
- 03/17/13 Welcome Pope Francis
- 03/17/13 Budget Cuts 2013 Endanger Nonprofits
- 03/09/13 Therapy Strikes Out?
- 02/25/13 Man with Down Syndrome Dies in Police Custody
- 02/24/13 AMA and New CPT Codes
- 02/17/13 Eugenics: Beware of History Repeating Itself
- 02/07/13 More on PTSD
- 01/28/13 Reasons for Doing Psychological Testing
- 01/27/13 Suicide and the Hemingway Family
- 01/19/13 "I Have Been to the Mountaintop"
- 01/10/13 State of the State of Mental Health 2013
- 12/31/12 Recommended Books for 2013
- 12/26/12 Eugene Kennedy, Love, Newtown: A Blow to the Heart
- 12/23/12 Letter by American Psychiatric Association to Congress Regarding Newtown
- 12/15/12 "I didn't feel right walking away...."
- 11/25/12 More from Abraham Low
- 11/23/12 Disparities in Mental-health Care for African Americans
- 11/17/12 Girl Scouts Honored
- 11/11/12 Mother Teresa'a Prescription
- 11/11/12 In Flanders Fields....
- 10/30/12 Disparities in Mental Health Care for Latinos
- 10/30/12 Asian-American Mental Health
- 10/27/12 Ann Coulter: Use of the "R" Word
- 10/20/12 A Father's Sadness about Schizophrenia and Schools
- 09/30/12 Adlerian Approaches for the 21st Century
- 09/24/12 "Trouble with the Curve" Challenges "Moneyball"
- 09/15/12 A Current Look at Mental Health and Learning Disabilities in Schools
- 09/08/12 Recovery International/Abraham Low Group Training
- 09/01/12 Hope Springs
- 08/18/12 Grant to Astor Services Follows APA Recommendations
- 08/18/12 Working with Children of Deployed Military Parents
- 08/17/12 Marsha Linehan Receives Gold Award from APA
- 07/28/12 Fuller Torrey and Paranoid Schizophrenia
- 07/28/12 Statement on Aurora Colorado from International Bipolar Foundation
- 07/21/12 Northrop Frye and Mental Health
- 07/21/12 Many Unite against Bullying
- 07/18/12 Delivered from Distraction
- 07/14/12 Combating Autism Act of 2006: PL 109-416
- 07/12/12 One Less "Big Brothers Big Sisters"
- 06/30/12 Judith Wallerstein Dies: Studied Pain of Divorce
- 06/30/12 Marsha Linehan on "Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Synthesizing Radical Acceptance with Skillful Means"
- 06/25/12 Jane Pauley's Bipolar Disorder
- 06/25/12 Medicine and Therapy Combined Can Be Most Efficacious
- 06/19/12 Ten Funny Movies to Enhance Mental Health
- 06/11/12 Enhancing the Tradition of Paul Quinnett and Izaak Walton
- 06/08/12 June 14 Lecture: International Bipolar Foundation
- 05/30/12 Play Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorders
- 05/29/12 "Men In Black III" and Propranolol
- 05/28/12 Not Your Grandfather's VA
- 05/27/12 Former Rockette: Near Death Struggle With Bulimia
- 05/27/12 Memorial Day Reflections
- 05/20/12 Pre-School and Later Incarceration
- 05/18/12 THE AVENGERS: Do No Harm?
- 04/29/12 Boston Globe: Too Many Antipsychotics Adminstered in Nursing Homes
- 04/22/12 New Schizophrenia Treatment Recommendations
- 04/22/12 New Books on Counseling
- 04/18/12 Mary Todd Lincoln's Sanity Trial to Be Reenacted
- 04/15/12 Laugh with the Three Stooges
- 04/15/12 Irwin Yalom Addresses American Counseling Association
- 04/08/12 Easter Sunday and the Revolution of Hope
- 03/26/12 "Student May Have Died From Undiagnosed Seizure Disorder"
- 03/26/12 Seziure Disorders and Epilepsy: Part 1
- 03/19/12 Purple Day: March 26, 2012
- 03/19/12 Susan Cain: Introverts Run the World Quietly
- 03/14/12 Cinematherapy
- 03/14/12 "The Prince of Tides"
- 03/14/12 Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes
- 02/26/12 Developmental Delays and Disabilities Listed in IDEA
- 02/26/12 Neuropsychology and Children
- 02/26/12 Social Phobia in "DSM-IV-TR"
- 02/26/12 Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- 02/26/12 Trends in Psychological Testing
- 02/13/12 APA Guidelines on Disabilities
- 02/13/12 Benefits of Forgiveness and Gratitude
- 01/30/12 The Power of Quiet
- 01/30/12 Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
- 01/23/12 "Extremely Fearful, Incredibly Grieving": Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock
- 01/18/12 Curt Schilling Reflects on ADHD, Video Games, Scheduling
- 01/18/12 American Psychological Association Announces Guidelines for Psychologist Involvement in Pharmacological Issues
- 01/14/12 Feds: NYS System Fails Developmentally Disabled
- 01/14/12 Special Needs Financial Calculator
- 12/31/11 Year-end Note from Glenn Close
- 12/29/11 Drug and Alcohol Policy in the 21st Century
- 12/29/11 Condolences
- 12/26/11 Counsel, Don't Just Medicate, the Dually Diagnosed
- 12/21/11 More from Glenn Close and Jesse Close
- 12/13/11 Facebook Addresses Potential Suicides
- 12/05/11 Street Drugs, Psychiatric Drugs, and Healing
- 11/28/11 Psychiatric Center Closing Looms
- 11/26/11 Setting Free the Bears: Escape from Thought Suppression
- 11/26/11 A Life Restored
- 11/20/11 Dick Cavett and Depression
- 11/13/11 Order of Malta Meets in NYC
- 11/03/11 Request from Glenn Close
- 11/03/11 Still More on the DSM Discussion
- 10/30/11 AMHF Attends 51st Annual Meeting of New England Psychological Association
- 10/30/11 AMHF Attends Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology
- 10/23/11 Pathologizing Normal Behavior II?
- 10/23/11 Dr. James Quick on Soldier Fitness
- 10/08/11 Hideki Irabu's Suicide
- 10/08/11 Some Headlines on Developmental Disabilities
- 10/05/11 Happy Birthday Gene Gollogly
- 09/29/11 Cautions on Psychiatric Medication in Children
- 09/28/11 Bryan Stow, Steve Bartman, and Fan Violence
- 09/26/11 New Medical School Admissions Test Recognizes Psychology/Mental Health
- 09/19/11 American Psychological Association Addresses Internship Crisis
- 09/11/11 Genetic Prediction for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
- 09/11/11 Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) Offers Scholarships
- 09/08/11 How 9/11 Changed a Profession
- 08/29/11 New Books from American Counseling Association
- 08/25/11 Pat Summitt, Tennessee Coach, to Continue Despite Alzheimer's Diagnosis
- 08/18/11 Cuomo Administration Responds to Abuse of Developmentally Disabled
- 08/14/11 Trains and Tracks and Autism
- 08/08/11 Bayley Scales Part 1: Infants Assessed, but Adults, Too?
- 08/08/11 Economic Stress: More than Money
- 08/05/11 Sallie Mae, Tuition Reimbursement Insurance, and Mental Health Parity
- 07/31/11 Baseball Player Suicide
- 07/27/11 New Books: Integrating Spirituality; Girls' and Women's Wellness
- 07/18/11 Upcoming DSM-V and Childhood Depression
- 07/18/11 Primary Care and Mental Illness in Children
- 07/15/11 Peter Kramer: Antidepressants Are Effective
- 07/11/11 Margarita Alegria and Minority Substance Abuse
- 07/09/11 Rememebering Betty Ford
- 06/30/11 New York Times: Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
- 06/23/11 Vice President Biden, David Axelrod, and Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE)
- 06/21/11 Six Tips to Help Summer Depression
- 06/21/11 Misery Index Hits 28-Year High
- 06/21/11 Special Olympians Disrupted in Madison
- 06/13/11 New York Times Alleges Abuse in Large Institutions for Developmentally Disabled
- 05/26/11 APA Introduces Video on Bullying
- 05/26/11 From JFK to Patrick Kennedy: A New Moonshot
- 05/16/11 Opening the World to Persons with Autism
- 05/10/11 Stefan de Schill Award/SPI Walk For Life Event a Success
- 05/02/11 A Beautiful Weekend, a Wonderful Conference
- 04/25/11 Chronic Sorrow: Reproductive Loss, Developmental Disabilities, and Severe Psychiatric Problems
- 04/25/11 A Question on Note-taking
- 04/13/11 Regina Sewell and LGBTQ Issues
- 04/13/11 National Day of Silence: April 15, 2011
- 03/28/11 Archie Pal "Out" in "Riverdale"
- 03/28/11 Congratulations Peter Campanelli and New York City's Institute for Community Living
- 03/28/11 Art and Talk Therapy Combined
- 03/21/11 States Cut Mental Health Funding
- 03/20/11 Learning to Live Less Perfectly
- 02/27/11 Infants, Toddlers, and Mental Health Treatment
- 02/27/11 More on Soldiers and Medication
- 02/16/11 Soldier Suicides
- 02/09/11 More on Bullying....
- 02/06/11 DSM V Changes to Substance Abuse Disorders
- 01/27/11 A College Student Responds
- 01/24/11 Bullying and Hazing, on the Internet and Otherwise, at Colleges and Universities
- 01/20/11 "When Love Stinks...."
- 01/14/11 E. Fuller Torrey: Mandated Treatment Needed
- 01/14/11 Strains on College Mental-health Centers
- 01/09/11 Women, Depression, and Diabetes
- 01/05/11 Unit Cohesion, Combat Exposure, and PTSD
- 01/04/11 On SSI and Medicaid: How Do You Find Good Mental-health Care?
- 01/04/11 Autism and Mitochondria
- 12/26/10 Confidentiality Cloaks Medicare Abuse, Says Wall Street Journal
- 12/24/10 Merry Christmas
- 12/19/10 ADHD Is Real, Says New York Times
- 12/16/10 William James Continued
- 12/13/10 Concierge Medicine and Mental Health Care
- 12/13/10 Courts Criticize Medicare Rule Interpretation
- 12/04/10 Boosting Workplace Morale
- 12/04/10 Acne and Depression
- 12/01/10 Group Therapy: Strength in Numbers
- 12/01/10 18 Million Americans Have Untreated Mental Illness
- 11/30/10 Mental-health Problems: Children of the Military
- 10/27/10 No Beds for Children in Boston
- 10/25/10 The Power of Dad
- 10/19/10 Child Abuse in Ghana
- 10/15/10 Respecting genetic anomalies
- 10/15/10 Kendra's Law Again?
- 10/08/10 Despite Association Endorsement, Oregon Psychologists Against Election of Senator
- 09/27/10 Forgiveness
- 09/27/10 DSM V: The Future of Psychiatric Diagnoses
- 09/27/10 Distrust in the Gulf?
- 09/27/10 Time to Clear out Old Medicines
- 09/22/10 Supreme Court Refuses Death Row Case
- 09/20/10 Should You Disclose Your Depression in the Workplace?
- 09/11/10 More on the Sports Wound
- 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
- 11/30/99 Faulty mitochondria--related to autism?
- 11/30/99 Mitochondria and Autism
- 11/30/99 Mitochondria and Autism
- 11/30/99 Mitochondria and Autism
- 11/30/99 Mitochondria and Autism
