Welcome to the professional practice website for Dr. Michael Cheng, a child and family psychiatrist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Cheng works on the Consultation Clinic at CHEO and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. In between patients, Dr. Cheng works with eMentalHealth.ca, an initiative of the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health.

Dr. Gord Neufeld is a psychologist from British Columbia who has powerful ideas about attachment, the relationships that a child has with his/her parents. He talks about how attachment can be superficial, or deep, and about how children attach to parents. In our modern Western society however, many things have intervened which prevent children from deeply attaching to parents. As a result, we are seeing an unprecedented way of problems in our children related to this, such as anxiety, attention problems, aggression, and peer orientation (whereby children no longer value parents and adults as their source of guidance but rather turn to other children/youth as sources of guidance).

I am finding his ideas incredibly powerful and useful for most clinical situations. To learn more, visit his website http://www.gordneufeld.com!

This movie is about the life of Temple Grandin, a woman with ‘autism’ who found ways to cope and succeed, even despite her condition. Or perhaps, who succeeded because of it... Starring Clare Danes as Temple Grandin. Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about autism spectrum disorder, as it highlights some of the main issues seen such as the sensory issues, social skills challenges, as well as strengths such as visual thinking (“I think in pictures”).