Donald N. Bersoff

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Donald N. Bersoff
Born
Donald Neil Bersoff

(1939-03-01) March 1, 1939 (age 85)
NationalityAmerican
EducationNew York University (BS, MA, PhD)
Yale Law School
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, law

Donald Neil Bersoff (born March 1, 1939) is an American psychologist, attorney and academic. He was the president of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2013. Before being elected president, Bersoff served as APA general counsel and held several leadership positions within the organization. He has been a faculty member at several law schools and he developed the nation's second joint graduate program in psychology and law. Bersoff has written four editions of a popular book on ethics and psychology.

Biography

Career

Donald Bersoff earned BS, MA and Ph.D degrees from

Jenner and Block and Ennis, Friedman and Bersoff. In 1990, he became director of the psychology and law program at Villanova University, where he is now an emeritus professor of law.[2]

Bersoff was elected president of the APA in 2013, and he is the first lawyer practitioner to hold the office.

American Psychology-Law Society, a division of the APA, and was also chair of the Law and Mental Disability Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He has written more than 100 publications and has authored all four editions of Ethical Conflicts in Psychology.[5] As APA president, he created the Bersoff Presidential Award to Multicultural Programs to recognize psychology graduate programs that recruit and train ethnic minorities.[6]

Honors and awards

Publications

  • Ethical Conflicts in Psychology (4th ed.). American Psychological Association (2008)

See also

References

  1. ^ "APA President: Donald N. Bersoff, PhD, JD". American Psychological Association. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  2. ^ "Donald Bersoff, Professor of Law Emeritus". Villanova University. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  3. ^ "Professor Donald Bersoff Elected President of the American Psychological Association". Drexel University. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  4. ^ "APA Members Elect Bersoff 2013 President". Monitor on Psychology: 82. December 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d "American Psychological Association Elects Drexel Professor Donald N. Bersoff as 2013 President". American Psychological Association. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  6. ^ "Bersoff Presidential Award to Multicultural Programs". American Psychological Association. Retrieved June 20, 2013.