Actually, You're Fine
A Compassionate, Practical Guide to Maximizing Your Child’s Potential in the Age of Anxiety
$33.29
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Clinical neuropsychologist and child development expert Dr. Katie Davis offers a new approach to child development that calls for a paradigm shift in how we conceptualize and support neurodevelopment. Offering actionable insights, Actually You’re Fine guides parents through conversations at home with their teens and preteens, and shows how to advocate for them at school and foster their potential everywhere else.
Starting from the point of ‘what’s normal, anyway?’ there is pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399833813 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399833812 |
| Author: | Dr Katie Davis |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Sheldon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Dr Katie Davis
Dr. Katie Davis is a clinical neuropsychologist in New York City, providing psychotherapy and cognitive remediation to teenagers with learning and related developmental disorders. She also serves as a professor of child psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, where her research focuses on cognitive development and learning.
Previously, Dr. Davis was a faculty researcher in Cognitive Neurology and Neuropsychology at Johns Hopkins University. She also held positions as an NIH-funded Career Development Investigator at Columbia University’s New York Psychiatric Institute and Mailman School of Public Health. Her research is frequently presented at national conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals, including Cognitive Neurology, Developmental Science, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Annals of Family Medicine. She is also a regular expert source in the news media, appearing on Inside Edition and in publications such as New York Magazine, Psychology Today, and Reader’s Digest.
Dr. Davis is a prolific writer, authoring a weekly Substack newsletter called Teensights. This newsletter, which has a wide readership of parents, educators, and mental health professionals, explores topics related to cognitive development, mental health, and education. She is also a contributing author for Emily Oster’s ParentData platform.
She earned her Master of Science and Doctor of Psychology from Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf School of Psychology, where she was awarded the Golding Distinguished Scholars Fellowship. Her predoctoral clinical training included appointments at the Churchill School and Center, New York Presbyterian-Columbia School-Based Mental Health Program, New York Presbyterian-Columbia Department of Pediatric Oncology, and Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Neurosurgery. Her postdoctoral fellowship in the Cognitive Development and Neuroimaging Lab within the Columbia University Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry centered on the neural correlates and biological foundations of learning disorders. Dr. Davis holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Education Studies and Music from Brown University.
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