William Van Ornum

Several miles from the State Capital in Albany New York the old building that was once an orphanage stands proudly as the Pastoral Center for the Albany Diocese whose boundaries span the Catskill Mountains to the Adirondack Mountains Playgrounds are now parking lots Once inside there are frien

Psychological Testing has always intrigued me so much so that conducting assessments and teaching graduate courses led to a six-year project with two colleagues and the publication of ldquo Psychological Testing Across the Lifespan rdquo by Prentice-Hall Despite my enthusiasm there must always

A delightful essay by David Dudley in the New York Times ldquo The Mercury Class rdquo garnered my curiosity About a particular series of cars it pointed to the realm of the mind and the spirit at least in my thoughts Dudley writes about his father rsquo s strivings to become a full professo

The clock read 1 35 I slipped out the car door ambled past farm buildings and sodium lights opened a door that weighed more than 300 pounds and entered the Abbey of the Genesee Words like massive or mammoth understate the feeling of the space I entered The walls of granite were extraordinarily

ldquo Annulments are just for the rich rdquo nbsp ldquo The Church makes a great deal of money from annulments rdquo nbsp ldquo Just more hypocrisy from the Catholic Church–it teaches against divorce but figures out another way to give a divorce rdquo ldquo Total sham how can the Churc

Ten years ago there were a number of injuries amputations and deaths occurring in the New York Subway system when persons displaying severe and untreated mental illness pushed unsuspecting commuters onto the tracks One victim was Kendra–her family organizations for the mentally ill civic group

It is important to understand the scope of child maltreatment in the United States Toward this end the United States Department of Health and Human Services-Administration for Children and Families releases a yearly summary and report of child maltreatment statistics obtained from child abuse regi

A thank you to the nuns and a story relevant to child psychology today nbsp nbsp nbsp Wesley Van Ornum was born December 14 1914–a year when an assassin rsquo s bullet began a war as brutal as any where death came by mustard gas instead of suicide bombers Soon my father would experience

First an introduction I am a licensed clinical psychologist and a committed Catholic with a strong interest in the ways in which the Christian faith and psychology intersect As a contributor to In All Things I hope to explore these ideas and respond to readers questions about my field of study n