Dr. Bauers is a freelance author and a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 30 years of experience in her field. She is a frequent contributor to AllAboutLifeChallenges.com, an online search engine that provides information on a variety of mental health and relational issues. She is also an adjunct Professor for Kings College and Seminary.

Deborah was recently privileged to be the recipient of a Pulitzer Citizen Journalism Award for her essay on Latin America's views of US politics in light of the pervasive influence of Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez.

Dr. Bauers began writing while still in high school. Her first published piece, Ode to a Gold Dredge, was written in 1976 and accepted into the Alaska bicentennial poetry anthology entitled, Alaska 76. Over the years she has been published in a number of poetry and short story anthologies and has experience as a mental health columnist.

Her marital paradigm, Three Questions to Heal a Marriage, was published in 2004 and released in a revised edition in 2005 through Holy Fire Publishing Co.

Deborah makes her home in Colorado with her husband, John. Dr. Bauers and her husband, John, have directed their passion, faith, experience and energies into the inception of a non-profit organization that exists to strengthen marriage and families.

To contact Dr. Bauers with a writing proposal or for a speaking engagement, you may reach her through her website or at talkndoc52@hotmail.com

My passion is ...

Speaking into people's lives

I know too much about ...

Other people's lives

My parents always told me ...

Never quit

My childhood ambition ...

To be a singer

My favorite memory ...

Spending time at the beach

Why I write ...

To pour out my soul on paper

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The People of the Book/House, CSI, and ER/Oldies but Goodies

My first job ...

School Teacher and Pastor's Wife

My best moment ...

Too many of them to pick!

My inspiration ...

The Holy Spirit

Health & Fitness > Childhood Disorders Is ADHD overdiagnosed in children?

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a mental health issue that continues to draw significant attention from the media, primarily due to two factors:

1. The ever-increasing numbers of children who are being diagnosed with ADHD

2. School nurses who are seeing and reporting a significant increase in the amounts of medications being dispensed during the school day to children who struggle with hyperactivity and inattentiveness

As a mental health professional with over twenty years of experience, I have seen a number of shoddy examples of ADHD assessment that have resulted in mi...

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