DIANA SULLIVAN EVERSTINE
CURRICULUM VITAE
BIRTHDATE: March 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH: San Francisco
CITIZENSHIP: United States
MARRIED TO: Louis Everstine, Ph.D., M.P.H.
EDUCATION: B.A., 1969: Fine Arts (emphasis sculpture, painting)
California State University at San Francisco
M.A., 1971: Special Education
California State University at San Francisco
Ph.D., 1974: Clinical and Community Psychology
California School of Professional Psychology
SCHOLARSHIP:
NIMH Community Psychology Training Grant to California School of Professional Psychology: 1972-1974
TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS:
Tutorial Program, California State University: 1968-1969
Langley Porter Youth Drug Unit, San Francisco: 1970-1971
Fort Miley Veterans’ Hospital, San Francisco: 1971
Evaluation and Treatment of Traumatic Induced Acute and Chronic Pain
Oakland Police Department Conflict Management Unit: 1972-73
County of Santa Clara Mental Health Services: 1972-1974
Intern in Program Evaluation and Research Team of Mental Health
Administration
Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto: 1973-1974
Internship in family therapy and member of Mobile Emergency Team
ART SHOWS AND AWARDS:
National Grumbacher Award: 1964
Carnegie-Mellon Institute (group show): 1965
Broner’s Gallery (one-woman show of paintings): 1967
El Escorial Gallery (one-woman show of paintings and sculpture): 1969
Professional Licenses:
Psychologist:
State of California: License # PSY4771, (1976)
Marriage and Family and Therapist:
State of California: License # MFC7640, (1975)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Free-lance designer and illustrator: 1965-1973
University of California Medical Center Student
Union 1968-1970:
Lifeguard and Pre-School Swimming Instructor
Josephine D. Randall Junior Museum, San Francisco
1969-1971
Instructor of Arts
Mountain View, California Police Department:
1973-1974
Police Psychologist, member of Mobile
Emergency Team
Palo Alto Psychological Associates 1973-1976
Private practice
County of Santa Clara Mental Health Services:
1974
Training Consultant to Mobile Emergency Services
Unit of Immediate Treatment Services
Mid-Peninsula Women Against Rape: 1974
Psychological Consultant
The Emergency Treatment Center: 1974-1992
Director of the Center and Member of the Board
of Directors
The center provided emergency psychological services to a population of 750,000 people. The area the Center served included nine cities and eight police departments in Santa Clara County. The Center had a clinical staff of fourteen people and opened approximately 1,000 cases a year; funded by the County of Santa Clara.
Mental Research Institute: 1974-present:
Senior Research Fellow and Member of the Board
of Directors
San Francisco Police Academy: 1976-1979
Advanced Officers' Course in Hostage Negotiation
Affiliated Psychologists and Counselors, Inc.: 1976-present
President of psychological corporation, with offices in Palo Alto and Cupertino, California, that provides comprehensive clinical, diagnostic, and consulting psychological services to families, adults, adolescents, and children, as well as organizations, law enforcement, and the corporate world.
Affiliated Psychologists' clinical services include: Individual, couples, family therapy, psychological and neuropsychological testing, evaluations, consultation, and training.
Santa Clara Sheriff's Department Hostage Negotiation Team Member: 1978-present
San Jose State University, Administration of
Justice Department: 1978-1995
Instructor: Psychological Aspects of Sexual
Assault
The Psychological Profile of Sex Crimes
Criminal Justice Training Center: 1981-2005
Police Academy Instructor: Psychological Pre-Screening of Police Officers
Mental Research Institute International Conferences:
1981-1987
Conference Coordinator
The Trauma Center: 1984-present
Director of this special clinical group in Affiliated Psychologists and Counselors, Inc., which specializes in the assessment and treatment of adults, children, adolescents, and groups who have experienced a traumatic event such as physical or sexual abuse, the death of a family member or parent, a serious physical injury or medical problem, or a natural disaster.
Center for Exceptional Children and Adolescents: 1990-present
A clinical group within Affiliated Psychologists and Counselors, Inc.Staff members are specifically trained to diagnose psychological and developmental disorders and conditions of childhood and adolescence, such as: Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, Mental Retardation, processing disorder, Depression and Anxiety Disorders, Conduct or Oppositional Defiance Disorders, and elimination disorders.
In addition to evaluation services, the Center offers counseling services to exceptional children, adolescents, and families. Counseling may be conducted in individual and family sessions, and may include couple’s counseling for parents who are learning how to cope with the challenges that arise from raising a child or adolescent with special needs.
Behaviordata, Inc.: 1996-present
President of a psychological corporation with offices in Palo Alto and Cupertino, California, that provides computerized test scoring, behavioral analysis, consultation, and training to clinicians, the corporate world, and law enforcement. Behaviordata became an American Psychological Association sponsor of continuing education in 2002.
Sequoia Center: 2004-present
Psychological consultant for a chemical dependency treatment program.
Institute for Behavior Assessment and Research, California School of
Professional Psychology at Alliant International
University: 2006-present Director
SEMINARS AND COURSES TAUGHT ON THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:
Clinical Practice, Psychotherapy, Assessment, and Research:
Crisis Intervention, Emergency Care, and Trauma:
Forensics, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations:
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS:
California State Psychological Association
Fresno: 1974
Symposium on Mobile Emergency Team
Western Psychological Association
San Francisco: 1974
Symposium on Mobile Emergency Team: Clinical issues concerning privacy and confidentiality
First national conference on Psychology and the Law
San Francisco: 1974
Symposium on Mobile Emergency Team
Conference on Crisis Management (sponsored by the National Conference of Christians
and Jews)
Berkeley: 1974
Assessment and Treatment of Violent Crimes
Division 29, American Psychological Association Midwinter Conference
San Diego: 1976
Symposium on Emergency Treatment
California State Psychological Association
San Diego: 1976
Symposium on Privacy and Confidentiality
California State Psychological Association
Los Angeles: 1977
Symposium on Contemporary Issues of Privacy and Confidentiality in Clinical
Practice
American Psychological Association
San Francisco: 1977
Symposium on Privacy and Confidentiality in Clinical Practice
California State Psychological Association
San Francisco: 1977
Symposium on Guarding Privacy and Confidentiality
Western Psychological Association
San Francisco: 1978
Symposium on Developing Countermeasures for Threats to Privacy
Texas Research Institute of Mental Science Conferences: Violence and the
Violent Individual
Houston: 1978
Paper: "The Treatment of Violent Families"
Mental Research Institute: Fourth Don D. Jackson Memorial Conference
San Francisco: 1979
Paper:"The Emergency Treatment
Center: A New Model for the Treatment of Violent Families"
American Psychological Association
Los Angeles: 1981
Symposium on Privacy and Confidentiality Revisited
Mental Research Institute and the Emergency Treatment Center: First International
Biennial Conference
Nice, France: 1982
Paper:"New Concepts in the Treatment of Families in Crisis"
Santa Clara County Superior Court: Training Seminar for Judges Concerning
Victims of Violent Crimes
San Jose: October, 1982
The Psychological Trauma Suffered by Rape Victims
Mental Research Institute
and the Emergency Treatment Center: Second
International Biennial Conference
Munich, Germany: 1984
Paper: "The Treatment of Victims of Sexual Trauma"
Santa Clara County Bar Association and The American Psychology Law Society
Seminar: Psychological Issues in Family Law
San Jose: 1984
Speaker: System Theory and Family Systems
Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior: Conference on Child Abuse
San Francisco: April, 1985
Speaker: Developmental Issues in the Ongoing Treatment of Sexually Abused
Children
Mental Research Institute Symposium
Palo Alto: August, 1985
The Treatment of Sexual Assault Victims and Their Familiess
Nordlands Psykiatriske Sykehus
Bodo, Norway: September, 1985
Three-day Workshop on Emergency Psychology
Krisiscentrum Utrecht
Utrecht, Holland: April, 1986
Two-day Workshop on Therapy for Crisis
Nordlands Psykiatriske Sykehus
Bodo, Norway: August, 1987
Three-day Workshop on Crisis and Trauma
International Conference on Violence and the Family: Seminar on Adults who
were traumatized as children
Brussels, Belgium: 1989
Keynote Speaker: The Impact of Violence and Trauma on Family and Social Systems
Seminar: Adults Who Were Traumatized as Children
Department of Mental Health
Ghent, Belgium: 1989
Training Seminar: Emergency Treatment and Assessment of High-risk Families
and Individuals with Children
IMPA Conference
Mexico City: 1990
Training Seminar: Treatment and Assessment of Trauma in Families, Children,
and Adolescents
International Red Cross
Mexico City: 1990
Training Seminar: Treatment of Acutely Traumatized Disaster Victims
(two-day seminar for hospital staff and front-line disaster workers).
Second International Conference on Emergency Psychiatry
Amsterdam: April, 1991
Keynote Speaker: Emergency Psychology: A Systems Point of View
Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies
Mexico City: October, 1992
Seminar: The Treatment of Traumatized Adults
Police Judicial de Mexico
Mexico: October, 1992
Training Seminar: Psychological Dynamics of Hostages and Victims of Violence
Family Court Services: Bay Area Regional Conference
Oakland: June, 1993
Speaker: High-risk Clients and Families in the Family Court Systems and Their
Impact on Mediation and People Who Work in the Court System
Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)
San Francisco: August, 1993
Keynote Speaker: Pervasive Effect of Sexual Harassment: Educating the Jury
on Psychological Traumas and Proving Damages
Three Rivers Center: The Seventh Conference for Women Abused as Children
Palo Alto: October, 1993
Keynote Speaker: What is Trauma? Illness or Injury?
Workshop: Coming Back from Trauma and Abuse
Institute for Behavioral Healthcare: Psychotherapy Under Managed Care
San Francisco: December, 1993
Workshop: Emergency Treatment and Crisis Intervention in a Managed Care Model
Milton Erickson International Conference
Orlando: December, 1993
Workshops: Theoretical Overview of Trauma
Assessment and Treatment of Trauma
Crisis Intervention
Cross Cultural Issues in Therapy
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Symposium
San Francisco: October, 1994
Symposium: Effective Use of Expert Witnesses
Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties Trial Lawyers Seminar
Santa Cruz: October, 1994
Speaker: Sexual Abuse: Sexual Harassment and the Abuse of Authority
NBC Today Show
Los Angeles: November, 1994
Television Interview: Susan Smith Case: What Would Make a Mother Want to Harm
Her Children?
Justice Institute of B.C.: Workplace Stress and Trauma: Sources, Symptoms,
and Solutions
Vancouver: March, 1995
Keynote Speaker: Trauma in the Workplace
Workshop: Advanced Clinical Support
City and County of San Francisco Division of Mental Health and Substance
Abuse
Child, Youth, and Family Services
San Francisco: October, 1995
Speaker: the Use of Brief Therapy in Treating Traumatized Children
Training Seminars: Brief Interventions with Traumatized Children (Oct. 1995-June
1996)
Santa Clara Police Wives' Association
Santa Clara: April, 1996
Workshop: Helping Your Spouse Through Times of Crisis
Twelfth Annual Robert S. Wigton Seminar
Omaha: May, 1997
Workshop: Emotional Trauma: Treating Clients in Crisis
Child Representation Training Seminar
Santa Clara: September, 1998
Speaker: Psychological Aspects
Association of Defense Counsel Claims Liaison Seminar: The Brain Game: The
Uses and Abuses of Neuropsychological Testing
San Francisco: September, 1998
Speaker: "A Meeting of the Minds"
Calpelra Conference (Monterey, Ca)
November 13, 2008
"Psychological Pre-screening and Fitness for Duty Evaluations for Firefighters."
Cento de Terapia Familiar y de Pareja (C.E.FA.P. Puebla, Mexico)
November 19, 2008
"Brief Strategic Therapy Theory and Practice."
Cento de Terapia Familiar y de Pareja (C.E.FA.P. Puebla, Mexico)
November 21, 2008
"Strategic Therapeutic Interventions for Trauma Survivors."
Cento de Terapia Familiar y de Pareja (C.E.FA.P. Oaxaca, Mexico)
November 26, 2008
"How Therapists can Effectively Respond to Natural Disasters."
DISSERTATION:
1974
"The Mobile Emergency Team: A Model for Psychological Intervention in Police Crisis Cases."
PUBLICATIONS:
1977
with Louis Everstine:
"Emergency Psychology: A Mobile Service for Police Crisis Calls," Family Process 16(3), 281-292.
1980
with Louis Everstine, Gary M. Heymann, Reiko Homma True, David H. Frey, Harold G. Johnson, and Richard H. Seiden: "Privacy and Confidentiality in Psychotherapy," American Psychologist, 35, 828-840.
1981
with Louis Everstine:"The Treatment of Psychological Emergencies."
In J.R. Hays, T.K. Roberts, and K. S. Solway (Ed's) Violence and the Violent Individual. New York: SP Medical and Scientific Books, 391-407.
1983
with Louis Everstine: People in Crisis, New York: Brunner/Mazel.
1984
with Louis Everstine: Mensen in Nood: Strategieen voor hulpuerlenung: Van Loghum Slaterus bv, Deventer, The Netherlands.
1985
with Louis Everstine: Krisentherapie, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.
1986
with Louis Everstine: Psychotherapy and the Law, New York: Grune & Stratton.
1986
with Louis Everstine: Akutpsykologi: Hjälp åt offer för våldsbrott, Lund: Natur och Kultur.
1989
with Louis Everstine: Sexual Trauma in Children and Adolescents, New York: Brunner/Mazel.
1992
with Louis Everstine: Personas en Crisis: Intervenciones Terapéutica Estratégicás, México City: Editorial Pax México.
1993
with Louis Everstine: The Trauma Response: Treatment for Emotional Injury, New York: W.W. Norton.
with Louis Everstine: Des Gens en Crise, Paris: EPI Hommes & Perspectives.
2006
with Louis Everstine: Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster,
New York: Routledge.All content © 2009 Diana Everstine
(Rev. 7/07)