For the Media

"Dr. Vicki" Panaccione has been lauded as everything from, "A blessing from God," to "The b---- they love to hate." While receiving both the Governor's Award and the Millennium Maker's Award for her "selfless actions and deeds," she is also known by the courts, educational, and medical communities as the psychologist to refer the "families from h---."

In actuality, she is all of the above.

Dr. Vicki is a dedicated child psychologist who is passionate about assisting parents find fulfillment as they raise happy children and responsible adults. For the past 25 years, she has devoted her work solely to the emotional well-being of children and adolescents. Her passion is just as evident in her clinical practice, as it is in her national and international speaking engagements, seminars, and published works.

She is frequently quoted in numerous publications, such as Family Circle Magazine and Florida Today Newspaper, as well as many television and radio programs. Dr Vicki has appeared numerous times on the Award winning Rose Lee Archer Show, offering millions of viewers nationwide solutions to issues affecting women and families.

"Dr. Vicki is an invaluable resource for the Rose Lee Archer Show, providing expert advice to parenting and family concerns."

Dr. Vicki is the author of Discovering Your Child, a guide to helping parents reconnect with their children and rediscover the joy and fulfillment of being a parent. This theme continues weekly in her on-line newsletter, CaringConnections, as well as her monthly parenting column for the Hometown News.

More mundane credentials include her published research in the " Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology " (which has been cited in numerous other studies) and her listing in "Who's Who of American Women", 19th edition. She is an associate staff member of Holmes Regional Medical Center and a member of the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Vicki has been featured in such publications as...

Dr. Vicki has been quoted in articles with:

• Dr. Joyce Brothers
• Sean Covey
• Dr. Susan Bartel

Dr. Vicki has also been listed in:

• "Who’s Who of American Women, 19th edition".
• The 2005/2006 Global Directory of Who's Who
• Best Parenting Program @ the Ultimate Parent Guide.com

Dr. Vicki is the recipient of the:

• Millennium Makers Award
• Patrick Air Force Base Deployed Spouses Award
• The Kentucky Governor's Award Commendation.
• The Kaleidoscope of People" award

Dr. Vicki's research has been cited in numerous journals and institutions, including:

J. of Abnormal Child Psychology
Master University, Ontario, Canada
Children and Society
Infant Mental Health Journal
Parenting
J. of Clinical Child Psychology
J. of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Psycho-Oncology
Applied Developmental Science

Dr. Vicki has also been invited to appear on the Dr. Phil Show.

However, her most cherished credential is that of "Alex's Mom," her son attending Emory University in Atlanta.

What other journalists are saying:

"Dr. Panaccione's responses to the parenting and family challenges du jour are sharp, concise and insightful . The happy result is a more enlightened readership."
-- Billy Cox, Staff Writer with Florida Today

When interviewing Dr. Panaccione for national magazines, I have always found her to be available and knowledgeable on matters of child and adolescent psychology.  She is always able to articulate her position in terms readers can easily grasp.   Her informative and down-to-earth approach has made her an invaluable resource."
--Melba Newsome, Free-lance writer
Winner of the 2004 American Society of Journalists June Roth Memorial Award. (Melba writes articles for Family Circle Magazine , LA Times, Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and more.)

"Dr. Vicki Panaccione is a dynamic, popular guest on the award winning Rose Lee Archer Show, offering millions of viewers nationwide solutions to issues affecting women and families. Her passion and expertise in parent/child relationships are demonstrated in a friendly, down-to-earth manner that our viewers find extremely helpful. 'Dr. Vicki' is an invaluable resource for the Rose Lee Archer Show providing expert advice to parenting and family concerns. Stay tuned to upcoming episodes featuring Dr. Vicki's practical answers to benefit your family's quality of life."
--Rose Lee Archer, MS
Producer /Host of the "Rose Lee Archer Show", and Winner of the 2005 US Small Business Administration Journalist of the Year Award, 2004 Best Diversity Initiative in Human Interest Award and the Association for Women in Communication 2003 Woman of the Year in Television Award.

Quotable quotes by Dr. Vicki:

"What parents preach is not always what they teach."

"Raising a child is like being handed a box of 5000 puzzle pieces---without the cover picture!"

"Parents are so busy doing parenting, that they don't make time to enjoy being a parent."

"The children of today are the parents of tomorrow."

Dr. Vicki is available for media interviews, requests to write targeted articles based on the needs of your audience, as well as workshops and seminars to assist parents in developing fulfilling, joyful relationships with their children.

Specialty topics such as communication, discipline, role modeling, fostering independence, and many, many more can be formatted for any venue. 

Dr. Vicki can be contacted through her online contact form or by calling 321-722-9001.

Keynote and Seminar Topics:

Can They Hear You Now?
Taking the Static Out of Communicating with Your Child

This presentation offers insight into the minds of children revealing: Shocking messages kids hear may be messages parents never meant to send!

Messages include:

• Apologies are Lies
• Telling the Truth is Not OK
• You Don't Want to Know
• Kisses Don't Mean Love
• Reading is Bad
• Feelings Aren't How We Feel
• 'Doing Your Best' is Over-rated

Parenting is a Box of Puzzle Pieces... Without the Cover Picture
How to Raise Happy Children and Responsible Adults

This presentation can be conducted as a keynote address, or a series of seminars reveal s revealing the 7 essential pieces to the parenting puzzle, and how these pieces are as crucial and interrelated to raising children, as the smooth and jagged jigsaw pieces are to a puzzle. Segments include communication, love, independence, values, time, discipline and communication.

What Are We Doing Right?

When’s the last time you patted yourself on the back for being a great parent? Well—IT’S TIME YOU DID! So often programs take a look at problems and tell parents how to deal with them. Not this one! This presentation encourages parents to take a look at what they are doing RIGHT in their efforts to raise competent, caring, moral children. You are already instinctively giving your children a lot of what they need. You are actually a better parent than you think...let Dr. Vicki show you how.

CaringConnection

This presentation is uniquely innovative and different from all the other parent talks around. It is not about what to do . . . it is about how to be. It does not focus on specific techniques for dealing with children's behavior. The focus is on rediscovering who your child is, and how to help him/her become the unique individual she/he was meant to be. It's about rekindling the joy and fulfillment of parenting, by carefully creating and maintaining what Dr. Vicki believes to be the essential emotional bond with your child -- the CaringConnection. And it is through this bond that great parenting can occur.

CaringConnection II

The way we must meet the needs of our children will change, but the underlying CaringConnection must always be maintained. The CaringConnection is the vehicle through which we recognize who our children are, and help them evolve. And in so doing, we can use this connection to face any parenting issue that comes along. Discipline, stress management, coping with anger, sibling rivalry, peer pressure, you name it. This presentation can be tailored to specific parenting issues of your choice. Pick a topic, and Dr. Vicki will show you how to use the CaringConnection to deal with it and still maintain that essential emotional bond with your child.

Dr. Vicki can be contacted through her online contact form or by calling 321-722-9001.

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