About Julie and the Goldstein Personality and Learning Profile
I am a licensed clinical social worker with over seventeen years experience
working with children and families both as a teacher and as a clinical social worker. Highlights early in my career
include teaching students in inner city Los Angeles, working in the South Bronx as a psychotherapist for adults and children,
and acting as the mental health consultant to Teach for America's New York City corps members. As a native of Farmington,
I am proud to have worked for Avon Public Schools and in CREC's Montessori Magnet School. In my role as school social
worker at H.W. Porter School in Columbia, CT, I am in charge of the development and implementation of SRBI/Behavior,
a federal initiative. I am also the 504 Coordinator, a member of the Juvenile Review Board, and National Junior Honor
Society Adviser, and Field Work Instructor for Fordham University.
One of the things I have noticed in many of the situations where a child is struggling
has to do with how he or she is perceived by adults. Teachers care about their students, but sometimes they fall
into a trap of linking everything they see in child with his or her circumstances. Probably the easiest example to give
is when students are overactive and have trouble focusing. It seems like the possibility that they have ADHD becomes
the focal point and is connected with every issue the child experiences. An opposite example would be the quiet, earnest
student- their teachers may never be able to tap into the child's interests and creativity, simply because they aren't aware.
These traps happen naturally; they are not necessarily anyone's fault. But they do result in a teacher- student relationship
in which the teacher does not truly know or understand the child and therefore cannot reach the child as fully as they would
otherwise.
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Personality and Learning Profile is a research based assessment tool that explains your child's personality aspects and learning
style in a concise manner that is easy to read. It is free of cumbersome technical jargon and includes helpful, easy to use tips for the classroom. Bring the PaL Profile to
a meeting with your child's teacher or simply pass it along to the professionals who work with your child. Please contact
me for more information regarding the theory, resources and methods behind the Goldstein Personality and Learning Profile,
as well as professional references who can attest to its validity, integrity and efficacy.
Your child's teacher will thank you for helping them to know, understand and appreciate
your child. Your child will feel more connected to the teacher, which result in a higher sense of security, confidence
and ability to do his or her best. Best of all, as a parent, you will feel enlightened, validated and confident about
your knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of your child.
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Julie Goldstein, LCSW balanced perspective founder and clinician
Julie Thompson
Goldstein received her MSW from Columbia University in New York City in 1995. A graduate of Bates College, charter alumna
of Teach for America, and graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Julie is committed to a high standard of
excellence when it comes to quality of service, and professional competence. Julie has worked directly with over 1,000
children, adolescents and parents as a classroom teacher, clinical social worker and certified school social worker in inner-city
Los Angeles, New York City and Connecticut for the past seventeen years. In her years as a clinical social worker she
has presented many workshops and classes for teachers, child care givers and parents. Julie is currently a full time
k-8 school social worker in Columbia, CT and a Board member of the Connecticut Association of School Social Workers.
Julie conceived of the idea for balanced perspective and the Personality and Learning Profile after
several years of studying and using personality type as it relates to learning. She regularly meets with parents who
express a wish for others to understand their child the way they do, free of judgment and skepticism. Julie lives in
West Hartford, Connecticut with her husband and elementary school-aged daughter and son.
You can contact Julie at jgoldsteinlcsw@gmail.com
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