SoilingSolutions.com
Title
Encopresis, soiling, encopresis treatment, chronic constipation, child constipation
Description
Dr. Collins retired as President of the Psychological Services Center, LC on April 30, 2002 with offices in Grand Haven, Muskegon, and Holland, MI on "The Lakeshore" (Lake Michigan) of Western Michigan. He is operating Soiling Solutions from his home. At this early stage of website development callers will often get him personally or his voice mail on calling in. He does all of the mailing, web site updates, consults, etc. on an almost daily basis.
Dr. Collins has degrees from the University of Michigan (B.A.-Psychology), Kent State University (M.A.-Psychology), and Indiana University (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, an American Psychological Association Approved Program). He was on the faculty of Grand Valley State University from 1969-1981 and in this time period was invited to the University of Western Australia in a suburb of Perth, Australia for one academic year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He toured Australia in 1976 giving a variety of talks, including one given to the medical staff at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia where he was introduced as "America's leading Pyssologist". This spelling is actually taken from the Olde English! This hospital at the time had the world's largest bedwetting clinic. Currently the hospital is doing leading research on physiological factors in colonic motility.
His license to practice psychology was issued in 1970. He is listed in the National Register which can be verified at www.nationalregister.org . He was also a Senior Fellow of the National Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA No. 38--now retired). He is a member of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Michigan Psychological Association, and a State of Michigan Fully Licensed Psychologist. His professional colleagues elected him as President of the Michigan Society of Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback in 1982 and the Michigan Psychological Association in1987. He has taught other professionals. He presented the results of treating anxiety attacks with group therapy at the 1995 National Conference of The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Also, in 1995, he gave an invited paper or course at the 130th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Michigan State Medical Society. He has coauthored a chapter about encopresis in the recently published Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine in Primary Care by Sage Press (2003). He recently had an article on encopresis published in the National Association for Continence Quarterly, Vol 22, Issue #1, 2004.
Contact
- Robert W. Collins, PhD, PC
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- Spring Lake MI
- US 49456
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