Penulis: Helene S. Wallach

 Marilyn P. Safir is Professor Emeritus, (specializing in Clinical and Social Psychology.) Safir was a founder of, and the second President of the Israeli Association of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and received its First Award as Outstanding Member in Recognition for the Establishment of and Contributions to CBT in Israel. She also received the Award for Contributions to International Psychology from The American Psychological Association’s Division for International Psychology (52)  and was its first recipient as  Distinguished Visiting Professor.  She was also a founding Fellow of APA’s Division (56) Trauma Psychology, and a founding Fellow of the American Psychological Society (APS).Helene S. Wallach received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, is a certified supervising Clinical Psychologist, a certified hypnotherapist, a certified marital and family therapist. Her teaching and research interests are varied: Forensic psychology – former head of criminology program in a University college, parole committee member, research in jail and in forensic wards in psychiatric hospitals; CBT – supervisor, co-founded a CBT internship program, a CBT post-grad psychotherapy program, as well as research on various aspects; VR – research into presence in VRCBT as well as efficacy of VRCBT; Pain – research into pain alleviation.  Helene chaired sessions in conferences and reviewed grant proposals and papers.   Albert “Skip” Rizzo received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the SUNY-Binghamton and is the Medical Virtual Reality Director at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He has Research Professor appointments with the USC Dept. of Psychiatry and the USC Davis School of Gerontology. Skip conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of Virtual Reality (VR) systems for clinical applications. This work spans the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. In 2010, he received the APA D56 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Trauma Psychology for his R&D work on VR exposure therapy.