APA Handbook of Clinical Psychology

John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Scranton, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at State University of New York Upstate Medical University, and a board-certified clinical psychologist. Author of more than 4 scholarly publications, Dr. Norcross has cowritten or edited 22 books, most of them in multiple editions. These include the APA books History of Psychotherapy, Continuity and Change, Second Edition and Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health: Debate and Dialogue on the Fundamental Questions as well as Psychotherapy Relationships That Work, Psychologists' Desk Reference, Self-Help That Works, Leaving It at the Office: Psychotherapist Self-Care, the Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, and Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis, now in its 8th edition. He has also published two self-help books: Changeology and Changing for Good (with Prochaska and DiClemente). Dr. Norcross has served as president of the APA Division 2 (Society of Clinical Psychology), APA Division 29 (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), the International Society of Clinical Psychology, and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists as well as on APA's governing Council of Representatives. Dr. Norcross edited the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session for a decade and has been on the editorial boards of a dozen journals. Dr. Norcross has also been a clinical and research consultant to a number of organizations, including the National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical companies. He has received multiple professional awards, such as APA's Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology award, Pennsylvania Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation, the Rosalee Weiss Award from the American Psychological Foundation, and election to the National Academies of Practice. An engaging teacher and clinician, Dr. Norcross has conducted workshops and lectures in 3 countries. He lives in northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife, two grown children, and their two new grandkids.
 
Gary VandenBos, PhD, ABPP, served as the Executive Director for the Office of Publications and Databases and Publisher for APA. The Office of Publications and Databases produces more than 9 journals, seven databases, and 8 books per year (under the imprints APA Books, Magination Press, and APA LifeTools). In addition, the Office of Publications and Databases produces the APA Psychotherapy Video Series and the APA Style and reference publications and products, including the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. In the publishing industry, Dr. VandenBos has served on the Board of Directors of CrossRef (2 amp ndash 2 5) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (2 7 amp ndash 2 ). Dr. VandenBos has coauthored, edited, or coedited more than 3 books, including the History of Psychotherapy, Continuity and Change, Second Edition, Clinical Geropsychology, and the award-winning Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Treatment of Choice. He has also written more than 4 book chapters and published more than peer-reviewed articles. He is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning APA Dictionary of Psychology, Second Edition and APA Dictionary of Clinical Psychology and was the managing editor of the American Psychologist, APA's flagship journal, and Psychological Services, as well as coeditor for APA's first open-methodology, collaborative data-sharing, open access journal, the Archives of Scientific Psychology. Dr. VandenBos began his career as the research coordinator of the Michigan State Psychotherapy With Schizophrenics Research Project he then served as the director of the Howell-Area Community Mental Health Center in Howell, Michigan. He was the first director of the APA Office of National Policy Studies. He held a position as professor of clinical psychology at the University of Bergen (Norway) from 982 through 2 3. Dr. VandenBos has maintained a clinical practice since 974, during which time he has also functioned as a consultant to various professional organizations on subjects such as crisis intervention, child abuse, family stress, schizophrenia, and violent individuals. He received the Early Career Award for Contribution to Psychotherapy from APA Division 29 (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy) and is an APA fellow and a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Psychology.
 
Donald K. Freedheim, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University. He earned his doctoral degree at Duke University and completed his internship at Boston Children's Medical Center. He was chief psychologist at the Mental Development Center at Case Western Reserve University before joining the department full-time in 97 . He was a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University in 975 amp ndash 97 . He is past president of APA Division 29 (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), and served on the APA Council of Representatives and the Board of Directors. In 992, Dr. Freedheim edited the first edition of History of Psychotherapy: A Century of Change in honor of the APA centennial and was coeditor (with Norcross and VandenBos) of the second edition (2 ). He and the current coeditors originated the popular APA Psychotherapy Video Series, and he was the therapist for the recent release, Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Dr. Freedheim also edited the first and second editions of History of Psychology and the first volume of the Handbook of Psychology (2 3 and 2 3) and also coedited The Clinical Child Documentation Sourcebook ( 999). For years, he edited the journal Psychotherapy and was the founding editor of The Clinical Psychologist, the bulletin of APA Division 2 (Society of Clinical Psychology), and of the APA journal Professional Psychology. He served as president of the Cleveland and Ohio Psychological Associations and is a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academies of Practice. Currently, Dr. Freedheim serves on the Trauma Response Team of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross.