The Family Foundation School is proud to announce that Mark P. Vogel, Ph.D. has been named Director of Counseling

The Family Foundation School is proud to announce that Mark P. Vogel, Ph.D. has been named Director of Counseling. A veteran clinical psychologist, Dr. Vogel has been a consultant with the school since 2007. Dr. Vogel is a graduate of Rutgers University, received an M.A. from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. from Duke University. He succeeds retiring director Susan Runge, LCSW-R, SSW, who has held the post since 2006, and who will continue to counsel students on a part-time basis. 

A skilled child, adolescent and family therapist, Dr. Vogel brings more than 30 years' experience as a private practitioner to the position. His areas of expertise include teen alcohol and drug issues, parent/teenage relations, learning disabilities, diagnostic testing, and psychological and vocational assessment. He is a frequent consultant to attorneys, courts and schools on psycho-educational issues, and is an authority on the relationship of adolescent alcohol and drug use to achievement motivation, future goal orientation, and parent supervision and control.

Under Dr. Vogel's leadership, the FFS counseling program will continue to employ cognitive restructuring and other cognitive behavior techniques, which we have seen work for a full range of students --- those who struggle with ADHD, ODD and mood disorders, as well as those with addictive behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse.

Daily therapeutic counseling, along with rigorous academics and the principles of 12-Step living creates the therapeutic milieu responsible for the lasting behavioral and emotional changes in the troubled teens served by The Family Foundation School. 

As always, we appreciate your support of The Family Foundation School and invite you to visit our website regularly for updates to our program.

Warmest wishes for a peaceful and prosperous 2010.