Allison Friedman, LCSW
New Paltz, NY
Allison Friedman, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for over 25 years, is in private practice in New Paltz, NY working with adolescents and young adults. Allison is also on-staff at Marist College's Health and Wellness Center in Poughkeepsie, providing clinical services to college students and developing holistic, preventive and wellness programming for the community. Ms. Friedman attended Columbia School of Social Work where she received her LCSW in 1981. Her four adolescent and twenty-something-year-old kids help keep her up-to-date on everything to do with teens.
Carolyn Jabs
N/A, N/
Carolyn Jabs has been writing about families and technology for over 15 years. She was a Contributing Editor at both Home PC and Family PC magazines. For the past six years, she has written the syndicated column, "Growing Up Online," which appears in regional parenting magazines from Staten Island to Sacramento (www.growing-up-online.com) She earned her Masters degree from the Practical Philosophy program at Bowling Green State University where she wrote her thesis on online ethics. Carolyn also has three computer-savvy children who provide her with regular insight into the opportunities and perils young people encounter online.
Dr. Frances Walfish
Beverly Hills, CA
Dr. Frances P. Walfish, Psy.D., practices psychotherapy in Beverly Hills, California. In addition to her work with children and families, Dr. Walfish was an HIV/AIDS education consultant, and has worked for many years at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Early Childhood Center in Los Angeles. As a parent educator, Dr. Walfish has given presentations at numerous private schools and has been interviewed on radio and television. Her articles on parenting have appeared in Child and Parents magazines and on MomLogic.com, a parenting column owned by Warner Bros. Dr. Walfish received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2000.
Elaine Leader, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Leader is co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Young People/TEENLINE. Dr. Leader received her MSW from UCLA and her Ph.D. from The Sanville Institute (formerly the California Institute for Clinical Social Work) where she is Clinical Consulting Faculty. She has been in private practice in Los Angeles since 1970. In addition to having numerous publishing credits and receiving many honors (such as the 2000 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention award), Dr. Leader is a consultant to law enforcement and adolescent-serving agencies and the media.
Lynda Chassler, Ph.D
Beverly Hills, CA
Lynda Chassler, Ph.D., Board Certified Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst, is an expert on eating disorders. Currently in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, Dr. Chassler also teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles and at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Chassler received her Postgraduate Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Wright Institute in Los Angeles, and her M.S.W. in Social Work from Adelphi University in New York. Her expertise in Eating Disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder and Child and Adolescent Development has resulted in numerous publishing credits and TV appearances.
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