The Brat Stops Here! About Dr. Jacobsen

ABOUT DR. JACOBSEN

Mary-Elaine Jacobsen

Dr. Mary-Elaine Jacobsen is a Clinical Psychologist, speaker, trainer, coach, and author, whose expertise in the development of high potential is recognized both nationally and internationally. As Director of Omega Point Resources, Dr. Jacobsen provides assessment, consultation, team-building workshops, training, and executive coaching, to business leaders, educators, professionals, and creative artists here and abroad. She has worked with a broad range of individuals and organizations from biomedical innovators to school systems to government think-tanks. She is interested in the identification of emerging gifted leaders and formulating strategies for development and retention of high-potential people and teams within organizations.

She earned a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Minnesota and subsequently obtained a Master's degree and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has served as the Chief Psychologist at a large nonprofit foundation and has been a regular guest on her local NBC affiliate’s Today Show. Beyond her responsibilities at Omega Point Resources, Dr. Jacobsen serves as Associate Professor of Psychology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her new applied reference book, THE BRAT STOPS HERE!, a user-friendly parenting book of proven techniques for getting rid of the bad behavior from children and teenagers in five weeks or less, is now available for purchase here and published by St. Martin’s Press/Griffin, New York.

International Society for Gifted Adults & Advocates

Her breakthrough first book, The Gifted Adult, Ballantine, New York (English and Spanish), is available at Amazon.com and other booksellers. In it Dr. Jacobsen explains critical personality factors and life issues of high-potential adults and offers specific strategies for the fulfillment of creative potential and real-world success. It remains the only book of its kind in print. Nearly every day since the publication of the book, Dr. Jacobsen has received letters, calls, and e-mails from readers across the United States and from more than 15 other countries on every continent except Antarctica. Dr. Jacobsen has published numerous articles on the development of human potential and is the Founder and Chairwoman of the Board of the new International Society for Gifted Adults & Advocates (ISGAA).