Coping With the Disruptive College Student: A Practical Model (The Higher Education Administration)

Amada, Gerald,Smith, Michael Clay

ISBN 10: 0912557168 / ISBN 13: 9780912557168

Published by College Administration Pubns, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coping With the Disruptive College Student: A Practical Model (The Higher Education Administration)
• Publisher: College Administration Pubns
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912557168
• ISBN 13: 9780912557168
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Book by Amada, Gerald, Smith, Michael Clay

About the Author

Dr. Gerald Amada, one of the founders and a director of the Mental Health Program, City College of San Francisco, is now retired after a thirty-year career at that college. He also maintained a private psychotherapy practice for over thirty years. He received B.A. and M.S.W. degrees at Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in social and clinical psychology at the Wright Institute, Berkeley, California. He has published twelve books and over ninety articles and book reviews on the subjects of mental health, psychotherapy, and disruptive student issues. His latest non-fiction books are: A Guide to Psychotherapy, The Mystified Fortune-Teller and Other Tales from Psychotherapy (Rowman and Littlefield) and The Power of Negative Thinking (Madison Books). He has also published two novels and his dog’s autobiography. He has lectured at over 150 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada on the subject of the disruptive college student for over forty years. Dr. Amada has been a book reviewer for the American Journal of Psychotherapy, University Press of American, The San Francisco Chronicle, The American Psychological Association and the Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. He was a member of the editorial board and the book review editor of the last-mentioned journal. He is the recipient of the 1984 Award of Excellence in the category of administrator, Post Secondary Education, conferred by the National Education Special Needs Personnel, Region 5, which comprises 18 states. Dr. Amada enjoys and feels challenged by the opportunity to share strategies and principles for fostering civility on the college campus. Anyone interested in contacting Dr. Amada regarding the subjects discussed in this book or about the possibility of conducting a workshop or delivering a keynote address on disruptive student issues may reach him by phone at 415-479-8889 or by email at mgamada@earthlink.com. He lives in San Rafael, California with his wife, Lorraine Amada Samuels.