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Courses

  • 40300 Treatment of Children
  • 41900 Treatment of Adolescents: A Contextual Perspective
  • 42600 Diagnosing Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Job experience

  • Private Practice
  • EAP Counselor, Kankakee area businesses
  • Riverside Hospital
  • Psychologist, Lutheran General Hospital

Fields of Special Interest

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of childhood and adolescent 
    disorders particularly eating and anxiety disorders
  • Treatment of trauma-related disorders in all age groups
  • Behavioral medicine applications for stress and stress-
    related illness and chronic pain syndromes

Publications or presentations

  • "Classroom Interventions for Anxiety-Disordered Children", Francis Parker School, 2005
  • "Understanding DSM IV", SSA Professional Development Program, 2004, 2005
  • "Anxiety Disorders in Children", SSA Professional Developemnt Program, 2003, 2004
  • "Understanding Diagnoses in Children and Adolescents",   Juvenile Probation Department of the Cook County Court System, 2003
Ashley Lepse

Child Welfare Witness

Many scholars don’t get an opportunity during their entire career to testify on Capitol Hill. Ashley Lepse has already done so as a Master’s student at SSA.