CURRICULUM VITA
Name: Sebastiano Gaetano Santostefano, Ph.D, FAClinP (ABPP)
Address: 169 Grove Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
Education
1953 B.S. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (with honors); Major:
Psychology; Minor: Physiology
1954 M.S. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Major:
Clinical Psychology; Minor: Speech Pathology and Physiology
1957 Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University; Major: Clinical Psychology
1972 Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.; graduated with
full training in adult clinical psychoanalysis, June 21, 1972
1973 Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.; graduated with
full training in child psychoanalysis, May 16, 1973
Predoctoral Training
1954-55 Personal Adjustment Counselor, Division of Counseling, Pennsylvania
State University; half time
1955-56 Clinical Psychology Intern, Veteran's Administration Neuropsychiatric
Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; full time
1956-57 USPHS Fourth Year Fellow in Clinical Psychology, Pennsylvania
State University
Postdoctoral Training
1957-58 USPHS Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Child Psychology, University
of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; full time
1958-60 USPHS Career Teacher Fellow, University of Colorado School
of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; full time
Licensure and Certification
1967 American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology, Certified
in Clinical Psychology, Diplomate No. 2083
1972 Adult Psychoanalysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute,
Certificate
1973 Massachusetts Board of Certification in Psychology, No. 143
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1973 Child Psychoanalysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute,
Certificate
1975 National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology,
Certificate No. 11052
Academic Appointments
2001-Present Adjunt Faculty, center for Adoption Research, University
of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
1998-2000 Master Lecturer, Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
1973-1992 Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA
1991-1992 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Boston College
1971-1973 Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Dept. of Child Psychiatry,
Boston University School of Medicine; and, Professor of Psychology,
Graduate School
1967-1970 Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Department
of Child
Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
1964-1967 Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology,
Clark
University
1960-1964 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry,
University of Colorado School of Medicine, and, Co-Director of
Psychological Training
1958-1960 Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University
of
Colorado School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Appointments
1992-Present Director, The Institute for Child and Adolescent Development,
Inc.
Wellesley, MA (A non-profit organization)
1973-1992 Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology and
Psychoeducation, Hall-Mercer Center for Children and Adolescents of
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
1977-1992 Director, Cognitive Therapy and Diagnostic Service, Wellesley,
MA
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1967-1973 Director, Psychoeducation Unit, University Hospital, Boston
University School of Medicine
1964-1967 Director of Clinical Research, Worcester Youth Guidance Center
of
Worcester State Hospital
1959-1964 Director, Clinical Child Psychology, University of Colorado
School of
Medicine
1958-1959 Chief Psychologist, Denver General Hospital
Other Appointments
1979- Faculty Member and Associate Supervisory Child Analyst, Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.
1978-1980 Faculty Member, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology,
Newton, MA
1978 (April) Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University
School
of Medicine, Boston, MA
1975-1992 Instructor, McLean Hospital Continuing Education Program
1974-1985 Member, Brandeis University Counseling Center Visiting Committee,
Waltham, MA
1969-1972 Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University
of
Massachusetts at Boston, MA
1968-1971 Clinical Psychology Consultant, Framingham Mental Health
Center,
Framingham, MA
1965-1968 Clinical Psychology Consultant, Children's Friend Society,
Worcester, MA
1964-1965 Clinical Psychology Consultant, Family Service Organization,
Worcester, MA
1959-1964 Visiting Instructor, Department of Psychology, University
of Denver,
Denver, Colorado
1959-1961 Clinical Psychology Consultant, Adams County Mental Health
Center,
Adams City, Colorado
1958-1959 Clinical Psychology Consultant, Arapahoe County Mental Health
Center,
Englewood, Colorado
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Awards and Honors
1964 Elected to Fellow Status, Masaachusetts Psychological Association
1967 Elected to Fellow Status, American Psychological Association
1969 Publication: Santostefano, S., and Stayton, S.: "Training
the pre-school retarded children in focusing attention: a program for
parents." Selected as one of "Top Twenty" research reports
from literature published between
1966-1969 by Research Awards Committee of the American Rehabilitation
Counseling Association.
1978 The Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize for outstanding contributions
to
psychoanalysis, awarded by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and
Institute for the essay, "Cognition in Personality and the Treatment
Process: A Psychoanalytic View"
1979 The Harold S. Rosenberg Memorial Prize awarded by the San Francisco
Psychoanalytic Institute for the essay, "Cognition in Personality
and the
Treatment Process: A Psychoanalytic View"
1981 Elected to Fellow Status, Society for Personality Assessment
1992 Elected to Fellow Status, American Association of Applied and
Preventive
Psychology
1994 Elected to Life Fellow Status, Society for Personality Assessment
Major Committee Assignments
National and Regional:
1973- Member, Committee on Child Analysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Society
And Institute
1980-1982 Member, Social Science Research Council, Subcommittee on
Developmental Psychology
1980-1990 Member, Fellows Committee, American Psychological Association
(Division 37)
1973-1990 Member, Appointments and Review Committee for Social and
Behavioral
Sciences, Harvard Medical School
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Editorial Boards
1999-Present Member, Editorial Board, Spanish Journal of Psychology
1999-Present Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Infant, Child, and
Adolescent Psychotherapy
1990-1995 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
1986-1998 Consulting Editor, Psychoanalytic Psychology (Journal of
the Division of
Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association)
1974-1992 Member, Editorial Board, and Special Sections Editor, McLean
Hospital
Journal
1968-1975 Member, Editorial Board, Developmental Psychology, Journal
of the
American Psychological Association
Memberships, Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies
1957- American Psychological Association (Fellow)
1959-1961 Secretary, Colorado Psychological Association
1960-1975 American Orthopsychiatric Association (Fellow)
1960- Society for Research in Child Development (Member)
1963-1965 Member, Committee on Clinical Psychology, American Association
of
Psychiatric Clinics for Children
1964- Massachusetts Psychological Association (Fellow)
1965-1967 Chairman, Committee on Clinical Psychology, American Association
of
Psychiatric Clinics for Children
1966-1967 President-Elect, Section on Clinical Child Psychology, Division
12,
American Psychological Association
1967-1973 Task Force on Youth, Board of Professional Affairs, American
Psychological Association (Member)
1972- Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Member)
1972- American Psychoanalytic Association (Member)
1972- Association for Child Psychoanalysis (Member)
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1973- International Psychoanalytic Association (Member)
1981- Society for Personality Assessment (Life Fellow)
1992- American Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology (Fellow)
Major Research Interests
1. Developmental Psychopathology
2. Relations Among Cognition, Emotion, Body Image and Metaphor
3. Cognitive Control Therapy for Children and Adults as Preparation
for Psychotherapy
4. Relations Among Action, Fantasy and Thought as Behavioral Modes
5. Cognitive Correlates of Violence and Suicide in Children and Adolescents
6. The Effects of Life Stressors on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning
and
Development of Children and Adolescents
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Sebastiano Santostefano, Ph.D.
Addendum to Curriculum Vita
Teaching Experiences and Partial List of Lectures Given
2001 (Feb) Member of delegation of mental health professionals who
visited Cuba to share concepts and techniques with Cuban professionals.
2000 (Dec) Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Lecturer "How
Children Interact with Landscape to Heal Trauma During Psychological
Treatment."
2000 (May) Wesleyan University, Keynote Lecturer, "How Children
Interact With Lanscape During Psychoanalytic Treatment to Resolve the
Effects of Trauma."
1999 (July) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Visiting
Lecturer
1995 (June) Trinity College (Ireland), Visiting Lecturer
1994 (June) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Visiting
Lecturer
1992 (June) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Visiting
Lecturer
1991 (Sept.) Boston College Psychoanalytic Forum Lecture Series; Lecture:
Slips of Cognition and Violence in Youth
1991 (June) Harvard Medical School Continuing Education; Lecture: Symbols
and Metaphors in Child Psychotherapy
1990 (March) Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association,
New York, NY, Lecturer: Object Relations Theory and Child Psychoanalysis
1989 (Oct.) Boston Institute for Cognitive Therapies, Worcester, MA,
Conducted a
workshop on the concepts and methods of psychodynamic cognitive therapy
1989 (Sept.) Massachusetts Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology,
Boston, MA,
Lecturer: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
1989 (May) National Association of School Psychologists, Boston, MA,
Lecturer.
Diagnosing Cognition within Personality. The Cognitive Control Battery.
1989 (Jan.) Herman A. Witkin Memorial Symposium, Clark University,
Lecturer:
Cognitive Style: Coordinating Outer Space with Inner Self
1988 (Sept.) First Harvard Institute in Development and Psychopathology,
Lecturer:
The Need for a Developmental Psychopathology of Everyday Life
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1988 (May) Antioch College Graduate School of Professional Psychology,
Keene, NH,
Lecturer: The Development of the Capacity to Symbolize -- Implications
for Diagnosis and Treatment"
1988 (Feb.) CUNY Graduate Center, Lecturer: Cognition and Aggression
1987 (Oct.) Tufts University Counseling Center, Medford, MA Lecturer:
Childhood Roots of Metaphor: Implications for Therapy with Adults
1987 (Oct.) Orthogenic School, University of Chicago, Lecturer. A Psychoanalytic
View of Cognition: Implications for Educating Troubled Youth
1987 (Sept.) Division of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry, Pennsylvania
Hospital,
Lecturer: Metaphor and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
1987 (June) Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, Keynote speaker
at Seventeenth Annual Symposium of Society on Developmental Psychopathology
1987 (May) Tufts University, Lecturer on metaphor in psychotherapy
with adolescents
1987 (April) Dartmouth Medical School, Lecturer, cognitive development
in research and clinical practice
1987 (March) Convalescent Hospital for Children, Rochester, N.Y., developed
and conducted workshop on Cognitive Control Therapy: Technique and Rationale
1986 (Nov.) Clark University, Lecturer on Cognitive Correlates of Suicide
in Children and Adolescents
1986 (Oct.) Devereux Foundation, Rutland, MA, Lecturer on Cognitive
Control Therapy
1986 (May) Massachusetts Psychological Association, Boston, MA organized
and conducted workshop, "Integrating Cognitive and Psychodynamic
Therapies: For Whom, When, Why"
1985- Boston Chapter, Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological
Association, organize and conduct course on cognitive/developmental
theory as part of continuing education program
1985 (June) Faculty, Continuing Education Division, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA. Organized and conducted workshop on cognition in
psychotherapy as part of CME program on New Directions in Psychotherapy.
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1985 (May) University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, Lecturer,
CME Workshop on Therapy with Children and Adolescents - Unstructured
and Structured Approaches
1984 (March) Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, Visiting Lecturer:
CME Workshop on Attention Deficit and Learning Disorders
1983 (June) Jean Piaget Society; Philadelphia, Plenary Session Speaker
1983 (June) Southeastern Massachusetts Child Care Alliance and Massachusetts
Department of Social Services. Cape Cod Community College, Keynote Speaker:
Annual Conference
1982 (Dec.) Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, Lecturer:
Diagnosis and Cognitive Control Therapy with the Brain Injured
1982 (April) New England Council of Child Psychiatry, Lecturer: CME
Workshop on Diagnosing Aggressive Disorders in Children and Adolescents
1982 (Feb.) Downstate Medical Center, New York, Lecturer on Cognitive
Pathology and Cognitive Therapy
1982 (Jan.) Framingham (MA) Memorial Hospital, Lecturer on Cognitive
Pathology and Cognitive Therapy
1981 (Oct.) Pennsylvania Hospital and Horsham Clinic and Philadelphia
Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, Lecturer: Diagnosis and Treatment
of Aggressive Children and Adolescents - Methods and Concepts
1980 (Aug.) Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Faculty
Member of Postgraduate Workshop on Cognition in Clinical Practice
1980 (March) Wisconsin School Psychology Association, Annual Postgraduate
Workshop, Lecturer on Cognitive Development and Cognitive Theory
1980 (March) Massachusetts Association for Children with Learning Disabilities,
Keynote Address on Cognitive Therapy
1980 (Feb.) Rhode Island Psychological Association Annual Meeting,
Keynote
Address on Cognitive Pathology
1979 (Dec.) New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Lecturer: Cognition
in Personality and Cognitive Pathology
1979 (Aug.) University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Lecturer
and Faculty Member: CME postgraduate course on child and adolescent
psychiatry
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1979 (June) Adelphi University, New York, Lecturer: Cognitive Control
Therapy with Aggressive Patients. Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy
1979 (March) Georgetown University Hospital, Lecturer: Innovative Treatment
Approaches to the Learning Disabled Child
1978-1980 Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Newton,
MA, Visiting Professor, developed and conducted courses on normal cognitive
development and assessment of cognitive pathology
1975-1992 Harvard Medical School, Course Director, developed and conducted
course for medical students and graduate students on developmental psychology
and child psychopathology
1975-1978 McLean Hospital Continuing Education Program, developed and
conducted courses in the rationale and techniques of cognitive control
therapy to practicing clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts
and special educators
1973-1992 McLean Hospital, Hall-Mercer Center for Children and Adolescents,
Director of Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Training in Clinical Child
Psychology and Special Education
1973-1992 Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor, supervised doctoral
dissertations by graduate students of Harvard University; Boston University;
University of Ottawa
1973- Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Faculty Member, develop and
conduct seminars and lectures on developmental psychology and psychoanalytic
techniques with children
1973-1992 McLean Hospital, Hall-Mercer Center for Children and Adolescents,
developed and conducted seminars on developmental psychopathology and
a comparative analysis of methods of psychotherapy for psychiatric residents
1969-1972 University of Massachusetts, Visiting Professor, developed
and conducted
courses on psychoanalytic theory and developmental psychology
1969-1973 Boston University Medical School, Professor of Psychology,
supervised doctoral dissertations
1967-1973 Boston University Medical School, Professor of Psychology
and Psychiatry, developed and conducted seminars in developmental
psychopathology, psychodiagnostic and psychotherapeutic methods
with children, and assessment and treatment of cognitive disabilities
for pre and postdoctoral psychology interns and psychiatric residents
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1964-1967 Clark University, Associate Professor, developed and conducted
graduate school courses on developmental psychopathology and diagnostic
and psychotherapeutic techniques
1964-1967 Clark University, Associate Professor, supervised doctoral
dissertations
1964-1965 Family Services Organization, Worcester, MA, Lecturer on
infant development to staff
1958-1964 University of Colorado Medical Center, Assistant Professor,
developed
and conducted seminars on child development, psychodiagnostic testing
methods, child psychotherapy techniques for psychology predoctoral and
postdoctoral interns and pediatric and psychiatric residents
