People are fascinated by personality. They want to understand why people commit terrible crimes, why they act with mean-spiritedness and cruelty as well as kindness and empathy. People want to understand themselves, as evidenced by the numerous magazine quizzes and online tests available. Dr. Levak has a unique way to give people feedback about themselves. This approach is empathic and caring but direct, easy to understand and effective, and is based on science. Feedback is based on peoples’ personality. Utilizing personality assessment to individualize therapy is more effective than on relying on a one size fits all approach. Dr. Levak has a simple but rich way of describing personality.
Dr. Levak believes that personality issues can make dynamic, compelling content to a broad audience. As a personality expert, Dr. Levak distinguishes himself from other media media psychologists by describing people in simple, accurate language devoid of jargon.
An analogy may help explain the significance of personality. Any dog owner knows that, even though dogs are essentially alike, every dog has a unique personality. Within the dog kingdom there are friendly, affectionate labs, high strung, irritable terriers and fiercely protective Rottweilers! Typically, psychologists discuss people as if most people are the same, a one size fits all approach to psychology.
Most people think that “personality” means charisma, but it means a lot more than that. People have different personalities, different ways of thinking and doing things and different sensitivities. There are worried, responsible, detail- oriented types, risk- taking, adventurous types, argumentative, demanding types, affable, and agreeable types of people, to mention a few.
Parents know that if they have more than one child, each child is different, almost from birth. One may have been an easy child from the start and another more fussy and demanding. As they grow, they may have similar personality traits but often they may have different ones. Understanding a child’s personality can help a parent be a more effective coach. For example, a passive, introverted child almost never needs punishment when they make a bad decision. An extroverted, high energy, impulsive child needs more structure and natural consequences. One size fits all parenting is less effective.
Understanding personalities is critical in marriage, within a family, in business, and in politics. Dr Levak’s expertise has been used in casting reality TV shows, in in couples and family therapy, in in corporate settings, as a forensic expert consultant and he has appeared on radio and television shows describing personality and its impact on people, issues and events.
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