James Windell
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James Windell

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James Windell, M.A., is an author, parenting specialist, editor and criminal justice instructor. He has been a court clinical psychologist with the Oakland County (Michigan) Circuit Court's Psychological Clinic where he conducted group therapy with delinquent adolescents and ran the high-conflict post-divorce group ADEPT. As a psychotherapist, he specialized in work with disruptive and oppositional children and teens. He has taught parent training classes and a discipline skills training class he developed for parents of delinquents was awarded the Outstanding Education Program by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. He wrote the "Coping With Kids" column for The Oakland Press, Journal Register newspapers and the Staten Island Advance for more than 30 years. His writing career includes, in addition to newspaper articles and columns, magazine articles, booklets, journal articles, and books. He has written blogs for TwoHappyHomes.com and KristinMeekhof.com and currently contributes blogs to the Michigan Psychological Association. His first book, "Discipline: A Sourcebook of 50 Failsafe Techniques for Parents," was published by Macmillan in 1991. He subsequently published "8 Weeks to a Well-Behaved Child" (Macmillan/Hungry Minds, Inc., 1994), "Children Who Say No When You Want Them to Say Yes" (Macmillan/Hungry Minds, Inc., 1996), "6 Steps to an Emotionally Intelligent Teenager" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999) and co-authored "What You Need to Know About Ritalin" (Bantam, 1999). In addition, he has authored or co-authored books on postpartum depression, fathers, talking to teens about sex, high-conflict divorce, criminal justice, and child psychology. Among his 39 books are such recent books as "Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach" (2nd Edition) (2021); "The Student’s Guide to Writing a Criminal Justice Research Paper" (4th Edition) (2020) and "Bobby Had Game, Bobby Grund: The Forgotten Promoter of Barnstorming Black Basketball" (2021). His most recent book is "Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison: Justice Denied." It was published by Routledge on April 8, 2022. Mr. Windell earned his Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology at Oakland University (Rochester, MI). He has been a consultant to various juvenile court programs, the State of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Social Services, and to daycare and preschool programs. He has run parenting classes at the Haven, a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Pontiac, MI. He currently teaches in the Criminal Justice Department at both Wayne State University and Oakland University. He is the editor of the Michigan Psychologist, the newsletter for the Michigan Psychological Association. Since 1991, Mr. Windell has appeared on over 185 radio and television programs including CNN, The Company Show, Gerry Spence, and The Donahue Show. Reviews and articles about his books and his work with parents have appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Detroit News, Working Mother Magazine, Child Magazine, Parent Magazine, Parents Digest, and many other publications. The father of two adult children and an adult stepson, Mr. Windell is married to an early childhood educator and college professor and lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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