Scott Simon Fehr

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Scott Simon Fehr, Psy.D., CGP, LFAGPA has had a private psychology practice since 1979 specializing in Group Psychotherapy. He was accepted as a student in the first Psy.D. class in the state of Florida. Since 1993, Dr. Fehr has been a Faculty Member with the Master's Mental Health Counselor Program, the School Counselors Program and APA Doctorate Clinical Psychology Program in the Center for Psychological Studies at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he teaches Group Theory and Processes and Advanced Group Theory and Processes and supervises both Doctoral Directed Research Studies in group therapy and Master's and Doctoral Practicums. He also has supervised licensed eligible post-masters and post-doctorate interns for the past thirty-seven years.

Dr. Fehr is a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (of which he is the Past President of the Florida Affiliate) and a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP) and a Life Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He, too, is a member of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. His first book, Introduction to Group Therapy: A practical guide, second book, Group Therapy in Independent Practice, and his third book, Introduction to Group Therapy: A practical guide (2nd ed.) are published by the Haworth Press, Inc. His 4th and 5th and 6th books 101 Interventions in Group Therapy and 101 Interventions in Group Therapy (Revised) and 101 Interventions in Group Therapy 2nd Edition are published by Routledge Press. His seventh book, Introduction to Group Therapy: A practical guide 3rd edition was released in September 2018 through Routledge Press. He has been a reviewer for numerous psychology books and journals, has been published in the Journal of Independent Private Practice, and was the guest editor of the Special Edition of Group Therapy in the Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice (both from the Haworth Press, Inc.). Dr. Fehr was also awarded Mentor of the Year by the American Group Psychotherapy Association

Dr. Fehr's formal education was in Behavioral Psychology but his personal 12 year analysis, both in individual and group, was Psychoanalytic. Dr. Fehr is an international lecturer in group psychotherapy and has led over 8000 psychotherapy groups at the time of this writing. He is an avid collector of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century antiques and a student of the Spanish Language and the Jungian Tarot.