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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Professor Pittaro holds a masterâs degree in public administration (summa cum laude - 2000) and a bachelorâs degree in criminal justice (Whoâs Who Among Students in Colleges and Universities â 1989) from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. He is presently a 4.0 doctoral student and student ambassador enrolled in Capella Universityâs 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 Pennsylvaniaâs Orphans Court.

Professor Pittaro has authored several journal articles and has contributed to several book publications. Most recently, he authored the nationâs first and only criminal justice âquick studyâ academic reference guide. In addition to co-editing this particular volume, he also assisted the copyeditor in the final production stages of John Dempseyâs 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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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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Liz Zelvin is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist who has directed addictions programs and had a private practice in New York City for many years before turning to online counseling and online therapy in 2000. She has written and lectured widely on online practice, relationships, addictions, codependency, family issues, and women's issues.

Liz hosted a weekly chat for social workers on AOL for several years. She helped educate New York police officers about post-traumatic stress in the long-term aftermath of 911. Her publications include a book on gender and addictions and two books of poetry . In addition, Liz's first mystery, Death Will Get You Sober, appears in bookstores on April 15, 2008. Learn all about it on Liz's author site at www.elizabethzelvin.com. Liz is also a singer/songwriter who has performed from New York to Berkeley and from West Africa to the Philippines. You can hear some of Liz's songs on this site.

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

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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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Garry Cooper, LCSW, is a contributing editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. His âClinicianâs Digest,â? 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.

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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

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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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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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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Stephen A. Karp, MSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, CT Chapter, a position he held from 1989 â1999, 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. 

 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 Associationâs 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 Informationâs âHighly Citedâ? list for psychology and psychiatry [top 0.5% of published authors worldwide in terms of citation impact. Visit his webpage.

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

 
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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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Elizabeth Roberts, MD has a private practice in Murrieta, CA.  She is the Medical Director of Casa de Lago an eating disorder unit for adolescent girls in Canyon Lake, CA and the Medical Director of an Psychiatric Emergency Room for children in Riverside, CA.  Dr. Roberts has lectured at Berkeley University on the use of psychiatric medications in children.  Visit Dr. Robert's website.

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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

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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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.

Visit Mr. Gile's website.

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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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Topic: Supervision and consultation in mental health agencies

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Visit Dr. Jason A. Seidel's website The Business of Private Practice and his private practice website.

Visit the Talking Cure website.

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The Successful Coach: Insider Secrets to Becoming a Top Coach

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Is your therapist allowed to charge you for this service or even to deny you a copy of your own records?

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Dr. Riolo invites his peers to call and and record their thoughts on piggybacking. 

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Listen to an audio interview  with sercurity expert Rick Staines on how therapists can protect themselves from stalkers.

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Visit the Psychourney blogs on podcasting and blogging.

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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