Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcasts interviews Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D., author of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind  published by Thomas Dunne Books about medical necessity.

Dr. Bryant Welch, a nationally-prominent psychologist/attorney for thirty years, provides expert witness evaluations and testimony for psychological trauma, psychological injury, discrimination and civil rights matters, and malpractice. He also provides expert testimony in front of professional licensing boards.

Dr. Welch graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and Harvard Law School in 1972 before receiving the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He is a Research Associate graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

From 1986 to 1993 Dr. Welch initiated and ran the American Psychological Association Practice Directorate leading Organized Psychology through one of its most successful advocacy eras. Under Dr. Welch's leadership psychologists gained access to practice in Medicare, hospitals, and psychoanalysis. He was also one of the first critics to warn of the dangers of the managed health care system.

 

Dr. Welch is an outstanding public speaker. A past president of the Harvard debate council and successful national debater, he has provided testimony on psychological matters to all levels of government including the White House, Congress, and the Federal Judiciary. He has been widely recognized as an effective advocate for mental health services and for civil rights.

Dr. Welch has appeared on all major networks and been quoted in most major news sources on mental health related matters. He has received numerous awards from national and state mental health organizations and held academic appointments with several universities including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Washington University, and the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

Most recently Dr. Welch has published his first book, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press, June, 2008).

Dr. Welch has been married to his wife, Debbie, for forty years. They currently reside in Hilton Head Island, SC and have two adult sons.  Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider, interviews Ms. Carmella Broome, author of Carmella's Quest: Taking on College Sight Unseen published by Red Letter Press.

Carmella Broome works for a private counseling agency in the midlands of South Carolina. She holds an Educational degree in Counselor Education Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of South Carolina and is licensed as a Professional Counselor and as a Marriage and Family Therapist/Intern in the state of SC. She works with adolescents,adults, couples, and families and is passionate about relationship issues.She has a particular interest in young adults and all the transitions and choices faced during that phase of life.

Carmella's first book, Carmella's Quest: Taking On College Sight Unseen  describes a part of her own young adulthood.  It is the story of Carmella's first year at a small Christian college in upstate SC .  Carmella has been legally blind since birth due to complications related to  prematurity.  Her struggles with wanting to just be like everyone else while dealing with the day to day  limitations and frustrations of having limited vision are discussed in her book along with the usual college issues of  relationships,  academics, and differentiation.  Visit her blog.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast, interviews Mr. Jason Emerson, author of Lincoln the Inventor published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Jason Emerson is an independent historian freelance writer living in Cazenovia, NY. He has published numerous articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications.

He has worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch) in St. Louis; a costumed interpreter at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY, a professional journalist, a newsletter publisher, and a freelance writer. Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Dr. John Sotos, M.D., author of The Physical Lincoln published by CreateSpace.

Dr. John Sotos, a cardiologist, earned his MD degree and completed all of his medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He wrote the classic clinical text Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnoses, which catalogs unusual and striking manifestations of disease largely unknown to physicians.

In 2003 Dr. Sotos established that President William Howard Taft had severe obstructive sleep apnea during his Presidency. This grew from his larger work, the award-winning web encyclopedia of The Medical History of American Presidents. It has been the Yahoo! Site of the Day and has twice been a USA Today Hot Site.

Dr. Sotos is currently CEO of Apneos Corporation, a colonel in the Air National Guard, and a medical technical advisor for the television series House, MD.   Visit The Physical Lincoln website.

Dr. John Riolo, The Insider, interviews Professor Jon L. Mills, author of Privacy: The Lost Right published by Oxford University Press.

 Jon Mills is Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, and Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law. As a researcher and teacher, he directed major studies including international projects in Brazil, Poland, Haiti, and Central America. In addition to teaching at the College of Law, he has taught in Costa Rica,Brazil, the University of Warsaw and Cambridge University.

He has authored books, law review articles and reports on constitutional law, environmental issues, Voting Rights, and Ethics inGovernment.

As an expert on constitutional issues, he has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post among others. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, ABC, BBC and other media. He also produced an Emmy winning show on the Florida Everglades.

 In public service, Mr. Mills served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. During his ten years in the Legislature, he was a member of Florida's highly successful 1998 Constitution Revision Commission, and was named its most valuable member.As a lawyer, Mr. Mills has appeared in federal courts and the Florida Supreme Court on issues including voting rights and various constitutional issues. He is a fellow of the American Bar Association (ABA) and in 2007 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee to the ABA's World Justice Commission.

He is a scuba diver, licensed pilot and studied karate. He is married to Beth Mills and has two daughters, Marguerite and Elizabeth. Visit his webpage.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast interviews Dr. Mary Gresham about therapy and the economy.

Dr Gresham  has degrees in clinical psychology from Tulane, Emory and Georgia State.She has been practicing in Atlanta for 20 years and has special interests in the psychology of women and especially women and money issues. In her practice she has been running a ongoing women's therapy group for 15 years.  Visit her website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider Podcast, interviews Dr. Louis Hoffman about politics, psychology and ethics.

Dr. Louis Hoffman is a core faculty member at the University of the Rockies and in private practice through the Center for Growth, P.C. in Colorado Springs, CO. He is co-editor/contributor to Spirituality and Psychological Health, The God Image Handbook for Spiritual Counseling and Psychotherapy, Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, and the forthcoming Existential Psychology East-West.

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the University of the Rockies Press as well as serving on the editorial boardsfor PsycCRITIQUES: APA Review of Books and the Journal of HumanisticPsychology.

Dr. Hoffman has also begun traveling to China once a year to
provide training in existential psychotherapy in various locations in Hong
Kong and mainland China. Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider Podcast, interviews Mr. A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible published by Simon & Schuster.

 

A.J. Jacobs is the editor of What It Feels Like and the author of The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis, The Know-It-All, and America Off-Line. He is the senior editor of Esquire and has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, New York magazine, New York Observer, and other publications.   Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Bryant Welch, J.D., Ph.D., author of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind published by Thomas Dunne Books.

Bryant Welch, J.D., Ph.D. has more than thirty-five years of experience in law, psychology, and politics. He spent seventeen years in Washington, D.C.,where he built the American Psychological Association's Practice Directorate, and has held faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina and , where he lives with his wife, Debbie.  Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Dr. Douglas Gentile, co-author of Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research and Public Policy published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Douglas Gentile is a developmental psychologist, and is assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University and the Director of Research for the National Institute on Media and the Family.  His experience includes over 20 years conducting research with children and adults. Dr Gentile has authored numerous studies, including "The Effects of Violent Video Game Habits on Adolescent Aggressive Attitudes and Behaviors, and others. He is the editor of the book Media Violence and Children. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, Vice-President of Psychjourney, and host of The Insider Podcast, interviews Michael Pittaro, M.P.A, co-author of Crimes of the Internet written by Frank Schmalleger, Ph.D and Michael Pittaro, M.P.A  published by Prentice Hall.

Michael Pittaro, M.P.A is the Executive Director of the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Allentown, Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching, he serves as a criminal justice curriculum specialist for the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Degree Granting Team and as a criminal justice subject matter expert for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), Washington, D.C. Most recently, Professor Pittaro’s criminal justice associate degree program, which he chairs, was ranked in the nation in a June 2007 report titled,  “Top 100 Associate Degree Producers,â€� in the publication -  Community College Week, 19(21).  

Professor Pittaro holds a master’s degree in public administration (summa cum laude - 2000) and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice (Who’s Who Among Students in Colleges and Universities – 1989) from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. He is presently a 4.0 doctoral student and student ambassador enrolled in Capella University’s School of Public Safety where he is pursuing his PhD degree in criminal justice. 

Prior to teaching, he worked for the Northampton County Department of Corrections in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he served in a number of administrative roles, including time spent as the lead Internal Affairs Investigator, Inmate Treatment Division Coordinator, Criminal Records Administrator, and Field Investigations Officer.  He has nearly 20 years of professional field experience working with both juvenile and adult criminal offenders and victims. He has also served as a youth advocate and mentor, a group facilitator for sexual offenders, a drug and alcohol counselor, and most recently as a child custody supervisor Northampton County Pennsylvania’s Orphans Court.

Professor Pittaro has authored several journal articles and has contributed to several book publications. Most recently, he authored the nation’s first and only criminal justice ‘quick study’ academic reference guide. In addition to co-editing this particular volume, he also assisted the copyeditor in the final production stages of John Dempsey’s Introduction to Private Security text (Wadsworth, 2007); and is on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences. Professor Pittaro is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, and the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators.  Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider Podcast, interviews Mr. Jason Emerson, author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Jason Emerson is an independent historian and freelance writer writing from Fredericksburg, Va.  He has published articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications, links to some of which can be found on this page.

He has worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch) in St. Louis; a costumed interpreter at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY, a professional journalist, a newsletter publisher, and a freelance writer. Currently, he is a stay-at-home dad while he writes. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider Podcast, interviews Attorney Richard A. Epstein, author of Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection For Private Property published by Oxford University Press.

Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kristin Bredford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute since 2000. He is the author of numerous books and has written for National Review and The Boston Globe.

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Michael B. Donner.

Topic: The Ethical Use of the Listerv: Privacy and Professional Conduct 

Read the article in the Nov/Dec issue of the California Psychologist Journal 

Dr. Donner is the Chair of the California Psychological Association Ethics Committee, The Ethics Chair for the Alameda County Psychological Association, and a member of the Ethics and Impairment Committee of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Center for Psychoanalysis. He has been on the faculty at a variety of educational institutions teaching Law and Ethics for mental health professionals.  He has a forensic practice and has served as a court appointed Special Master, Chemical Dependency Evaluator, Child Custody Evaluator, and as an expert witness for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and expert reviewer for the California Board of Psychology.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Robert Klitzman, author of When Doctors Become Patients published by Oxford University Press, USA.

Dr. Klitzman  is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the School of Public Health, also a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is the Director of the Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center, and the Co-Founder of the Center for Bioethics at Columbia. He has written widely about ethical issues concerning genetics, HIV, and other areas in academic journals, as well as the New York Times and other publications.
 
His books include: Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS,
Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV, The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease, A Year-long Night: Tales of A Medical Intern. Visit his website.  Contact Dr. Klitzman by email at rlk2@columbia.edu.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Nicki McClusky, LCSW, about life coaching.

Nicki McClusky has a dual practice in therapy and coaching, head-quartered in St. Louis , Missouri. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Professional Counselor; serving her patients for the last 27 years. Nicki is a Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association, and is an active member (and past board member) of the Missouri Society for Clinical Social Work.

Nicki has studied coaching through Mentor Coach, The Institute for Life Coach Training, and is currently completing her next level of coaching certification through the International Coach Academy. She serves her Life, Spirit and Voice Coaching clients in person and internationally by phone. Visit her website and blog.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Mr. Garry Cooper, LCSW, about the treatment of depression and his C.E. course Depression: The Therapist's Toolkit offered online through the Zur  Institute.

Garry Cooper, LCSW, is a contributing editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. His “Clinician’s Digest,� appearing in each issue, is read by over 55,000 psychotherapists, psychiatrists and social workers. The Digest covers the latest news, research, trends and ideas that affect mental health and the clinical and business aspects of therapy. His psychotherapy practice, in Oak Park, IL, has recently celebrated its 25th year working with adults, couples and adolescents on the usual issues. Cooper is also a writing coach and free-lance editor. His essays and other non-psychological writing have appeared in magazines and newspapers. His latest work appears in the Spring, 2007 issue of Another Chicago Magazine.

Learn more about  the classes offered by Garry Cooper, LCSW CEU at the Zur Institute.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Dr. Parker Wilson about mindfulness in psychotherapy.

In his South Denver based practice, Dr. Wilson specializes in the treatment of psychological trauma, addiction and compulsion, grief, depression, and family and couple's issues.

Over the years, Dr. Wilson has worked with thousands of people who have been victimized by childhood abuse, become addicted to alcohol and substances, are battling depression and grief, are grappling with intimacy/sexual issues, or are just struggling to stay together as a person, a couple, or a family.

Over the last decade, Dr. Parker Wilson has studied with some of the greatest Buddhist meditation masters in the world and he has brought the wisdom of mindfulness to bear in his psychotherapy. Dr. Wilson's practice and deep understanding of Buddhist mindfulness serves as the bedrock that Mindful Healing Psychotherapy is built upon. Mindfulness is the primary foundation upon which a client begins to cultivate a profound awareness of his or her own mind (thoughts, feelings, memories, beliefs, perceptions, fantasies, memories, and judgments.) This increased awareness in the client' level of mental balance, clarity, peace, stability and happiness.  From here, the unpacking process of psychotherapy can truly begin.  Visit Dr. Wilson's website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of  The Insider,  interviews Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil  published by Random House.

Philip Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the 'voice and face of contemporary American psychology' through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment, and authoring the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, in its 18th Edition. Past president of APA, and the Western Psychological Association, Zimbardo has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and writing.

Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now an Emeritus Professor), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, and service to the profession. Recently, he was awarded the Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. Among his more than 300 professional publications and 50 books is the. His current research interests continue in the domain of social psychology, with a broad spread of interests from shyness to time perspective, madness, cults, vandalism, political psychology, torture, terrorism, and evil.

Zimbardo has served also as the Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) representing 63 scientific, math and technical associations (with 1.5 million members), and now is Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation. He heads a philanthropic foundation in his name to promote student education in his ancestral Sicilian towns. Zimbardo adds to his retirement list activities: serving as the new executive director of a Stanford center on terrorism -- the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT). He was an expert witness for one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib Prison abuses, and has studied the interrogation procedures used by the military in that and other prisons as well as by Greek and Brazilian police torturers.

Noted for his personal and professional efforts to actually 'give psychology away to the public', Zimbardo has also been a social-political activist, challenging the U.S. Government's wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American Correctional System.  Visit his websites  Philip Zimbardo.com and  The Lucifer Effect.org

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Elliot Aronson, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts written by Dr. Elliot Aronson and Dr. Carol Tavris published by Harcourt.

Elliot Aronson is one of the most distinguished social psychologists in the world. His books include The Social Animal and The Jigsaw Classroom. Chosen by his peers as one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the only psychologist to have won all three of the American Psychological Association's top awards-- for writing, teaching, and research. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney & Founding Partner Dorothy Clay Sims.

Dorothy Clay Sims is founding partner of her own law firm Sims, Amat, Stakenborg, & Henry in Ocala, Florida and was the first woman chair of the Worker's Compensation Section of the Florida bar in 22 years. She was president of the Marion County Bar Association; co-founder/past president, Florida Worker's Advocates; CEO, Florida Academy of Impairment Rating, Inc.; and co-founder, International Forensic Medical Association.

Sims has carved a significant niche deposing defense doctor witnesses in brain injury, malingering, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) cases that lead to favorable trial outcomes and frequent awards to plaintiffs nationwide. Sims is CEO of MD in a Box, an online business she founded in 2005 to provide other lawyers real-time access to fully trained medical doctors during deposition or trial while they cross-examine the opposing doctor.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz.

Ms. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science, and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert, Bruce D. Perry, MD. PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic 2007).

She is also the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead 2006) and co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Guide You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000).

She is a Senior Fellow at Stats.org, a media watchdog organization, which investigates coverage of science and statistics.

She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Salon, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other major publications. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC's News with Brian Williams, and NPR.

Maia Szalavitz has also worked in television--first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for PBS' Charlie Rose, then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AID special for ABC and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Stephen A. Karp, MSW.

Stephen A. Karp, MSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, CT Chapter, a position he held from 1989 –1999, and again since August 2001.

Mr. Steve Karp obtained his MSW in 1983 from Fordham University  with a concentration in community organization. Mr. Karp has a long history of involvement with NASW, first as a volunteer , then as the Political Director for the New York State Chapter. He served the CT Chapter and was later the Director of Chapter Services and Continuing Education at the national office of NASW from 1999-2001.

Prior to working for NASW Steve spent over ten years in the fields of aging and developmental disabilities, where he did a combination of direct service and administration. He has been an adjunct professor of social work, teaching at several colleges and universities and on the advisory board for the Institute for the Advancement of the Practice of Political Social Work at the UCONN School of Social Work and the Office of Managed Care Ombudsman. 

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Richard McNally, author of Remembering Trauma published by Belknap Press.

 Richard J. McNally received his B.S. in psychology from Wayne State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. He completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Behavior Therapy Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine. In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School where he established the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and directed the university counseling center. He moved to the Department of Psychology at Harvard University in 1991 where he is now Professor and Director of Clinical Training.

He has more than 290 publications, most concerning cognitive aspects of anxiety disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder), including the books Panic Disorder A Critical Analysis (Guilford Press, 1994) and Remembering Trauma (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003). Recent laboratory studies concern cognitive functioning in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse, including those reporting to having repressed and recovered their memories of trauma. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.

He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV PTSD and simple phobia committees, and now serves on the DSV-V fear circuitry and stress-induced disorders workgroup. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and on the Institute for Scientific Information’s “Highly Cited� list for psychology and psychiatry [top 0.5% of published authors worldwide in terms of citation impact. Visit his webpage.

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Ofer Zur, author of Boundaries in Psychotherapy: Ethical and Clinical Explorations published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Ofer Zur, Ph.Dis a licensed psychologist, forensic consultant, and a pioneer of the managed-care-free private practice movement. In his nationwide workshops he has taught about ethics, private practice, burnout, and consulting to thousands of psychotherapists. He also presented the first course ever on dual relationships and how they can increase clinical effectiveness. For many years he taught courses on ethics, research, psychology of gender, and psychology of war at graduate schools, such as the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP, Alameda, CA) and the California School of Integral Studies (CSIS, San Francisco, CA), where he also served as the associate program director.

 He has written dozens of articles in professional journals on topics, such as dual relationships, effective therapy, private practice development, therapists families, burnout, victims, gender roles, and the psychology of peace and war. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Jerry Finn, Ph.D., M.S.W. 

Topic: Using technology and the Internet in social work practice.

Dr. John Riolo, The Insider, interviews Leonard Reich, Ph.D and Andrew Kolbasovsky, Psy.D., authors of Mental Health Provider's Guide to Managed Care: Industry Insiders Reveal How to Successfully Participate and Profit in Today's System

Leonard Reich, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Mental Health Services of the Health Insurance Plan of New York. He was in private practitioner for 10 years.

Andrew Kolbasovsky, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist and Director of Clinical Development and Behavioral Medicine for the Mental Health Services of the Health Insurance Plan of New York.

 
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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Ofer Zur, Ph.D., author of The HIPAA Compliance Kit: Understanding and Applying the Regulations in Psychotherapeutic Practice

Topic: Make your private practice HIPAA Compliant

Ofer Zur, Ph.D., is a consultant, licensed psychologist, writer, forensic consultant and lecturer from Sonoma, CA. He is a pioneer in the development of the ethical and effective managed-care-free practice and is a prolific writer and researcher.  Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Thomas G. Pante, Ph.D.,  author of Do The Right Thing: Living Ethically in an Unethical World.

Thomas Plante is professor and chair of psychology at Santa Clara University and clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.  Learn more about Dr. Plante.

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Topic: Mindfulness in Psychotherapy

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Parker Wilson.

Dr. Parker Wilson  is a practitioner and educator. His expertise include: substance abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, depression, grief work, and anger management.  Dr. Wilson  also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at Marymount College in human sexuality and in psychotherapy, meditation and Buddhist psychology. Additionally, he instructs courses in mindfulness meditation, and various other meditation techniques from the wisdom tradition of Buddhism.  His website is at http://www.drparkerwilson.com/    Visit the Mind and Life Institute

Topic: HIPAA and the impact on your practice for Clinical Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Attorney David Schoolcraft a member of Miller Nash law firm in Seattle with a practice focusing on health care, corporate representation, technology, and data privacy. 

They are joined by Laura Groshong, LICSW,  the Director of Government Relations for the Clinical Social Work Association and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.

Purchase the report on HIPAA discussed in the interview.

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Dr. John Riolo, The Insider, interviews Mr. John Gile  an author, journalist, editor, and  publisher about the epidemic of copyright infringement on the Internet. 

As a Grievance Officer/Contract Advisorfor the National Writers' Union, a  UAW/AFL-CIO affiliate, he is focused on strengthening copyright protection to safeguard the rights and livelihoods of all who create intellectual property.  Learn more about his work on this issue.

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Dr. John Riolo interviews Dr. Michael Lamport Commons

Topic: Informed consent in therapy and mental health treatment

Dr. Michael Lamport Commons is Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center and directs research in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law and Director of the Dare Institute, Cambridge, MA. 

Learn more about Dr. Lamport Commons and share your thoughts on the interview.

 Visit his website, Dare Association, Inc.  Dr. Lamport Commons can be reached by email at commons@tiac.net

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Cathleen Mann, a forensic consultant in Lakewood, Colorado, a western suburb of Denver. She has also been a licensed counselor since 1993. Dr. Mann obtained her Ph.D in psychology in 2003. Dr. Mann has 14 years of counseling, supervision, and consulting experience. Dr. Mann has been qualified as an expert in a court of law in 5 states, including Colorado. Additionally, Dr. Mann provides consultation and supervision services to prospective licensees, interns, lawyers, and other professionals. 

Topic: Supervision and consultation in mental health agencies

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Dr. John Riolo and Dr. Jason A. Seidel continue their debate on the merits of evidence based practice in therapy.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" and Jason A. Seidel, Psy.D., P.C. a leading scholar and practitioner of "client-directed, outcome-informed" therapy debate the effectiveness of evidenced based practice in therapy.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Laura Groshong, LICSW,  the  Director of Government Relations for the Clinical Social Work Association about the reorganized Clinical Social Work Association.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Larina Kase, PsyD, MBA co-author of the new book, The Successful Coach: Insider Secrets to Becoming A Top Coach.  

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Frederic G. Reamer

Topic: Ethics In Social Work

Frederic G. Reamer is Professor in the graduate program of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. His research and teaching have addressed a wide range of human service issues, including mental health, health care, criminal justice, public welfare, and professional ethics

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Heather G. Miller, L.C.S.W

Topic: Case Management and Supervision In Social Service Agencies

Heather G. Miller, L.C.S.W, is currently Clinical Supervisor at Jewish Family and Childrens Service in Philadelphia, PA. She has worked in the mental health field for over ten years providing individual, couples, family and group therapy to a diverse population. Ms. Miller is also actively involved with the Pennsylvania National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and serves on the states Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) Committee

Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Robert Klitzman, MD

Topic: Medical Ethics In Medicine and Social Work

Robert Klitzman, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the School of Public Health, and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is the Director of the Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center, and the Co-Founder of the Center for Bioethics at Columbia. He has written widely about ethical issues concerning genetics, HIV, and other areas in academic journals, as well as the New York Times and other publications. He is currently completing work on an R01 award from the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute to study â??Views of Privacy of Genetic Information.

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Dr. John Riolo "The Insider" introduces his new Internet radio show, The Insider.  Dr. Riolo is the Vice-President of Psychjourney. In the second half of the show he interviews Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney.

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