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CURRENT POSITION:

 

Title:  Clinical Psychologist  (private practice)

Location:

 

         PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATES

         710 Brookside, Suite 3

         Redlands, California 92373

         (909) 798-7267

 

            Activities:

                        Personality and neuropsychological assessment

                        Individual, marital, family, and group psychotherapy

                        Sex therapy

                        Substance Abuse counseling

                        Adult children of alcoholics

                        Post traumatic stress disorders

                        Somatization disorders

                        Pain and illness management

                        Stress management

                        Assertiveness training

                        General practice

 

            Populations:

                        Adult, Adolescent, and Geriatric

 

            Dates:   February, 1980-Present

 

Title:  Clinical Psychologist

 

CHILDREN'S THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY

 

            Location:

17675 Van Buren Blvd., Suite A

PO Box 2277

Riverside, CA 92516-2277

(909) 789-4410

 

Group home for adolescent males, 12-18. Individual and group psychotherapy. 

 

 

PREVIOUS POSITION:

 

            Title:  Clinical Psychologist in Health Psychology and Geropsychologist

            Location:

             Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

             Psychology Service

             11201 Benton St.

             Loma Linda, California 92357

            Assignments:

                        Hemodialysis/Transplantation Unit

                        Oncology Unit

                        Nursing Home Care Unit

                        Urology

                        General Medicine

                        Dental Service

            Responsibilities:

                        Personality, vocational, and neuropsychological assessment,

                        Individual, marital, family, and group psychotherapy          

                        Crisis intervention

                        Sex education and therapy, particularly with medically disabled patients

                        Stress management and assertiveness training with staff and patients

                        Patient and staff education

                        Staff consultation

                        Death and dying counseling with staff and patients  

                        Dates:  March 11, 1979 - December 31, 1989

 

 

EDUCATION:

                                   

Graduate:

 

            CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY                                   Cleveland, Ohio

            Dates attended: September, 1974-November,1978

            Degree and date:  Ph.D.  (1979)

                                 M.A.   (1978)

            Major field of study:  Clinical Psychology

 

            UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH                            Galveston, Texas

            Dates attended:  1962-1964

            Major field of study:  Medicine

                       

Undergraduate:

 

            THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS                                                    Austin, Texas

            Dates attended:  1960-1962

            Degree and date:  B.A.  (1962)

            Major fields of study:  Pre-med and English

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

 

Location:          Cleveland V.A. Hospital

                        10106 East Boulevard

                        Cleveland, Ohio 44106

 

            Service:   Spinal Cord Injury

                        Supervisor:        Myron G. Eisenberg, Ph.D.

                        Dates:  April, 1978 - October, 1978

                        Hours: 1000

            Duties:  Personality and vocational assessment, individual and marital therapy, crisis intervention, patient and staff education, rehabilitation counseling, sex therapy (individual and group).

           

Service:   Neuropsychology

                        Supervisor:        Youngjai Kim, Ph.D.

                        Dates:   October 1977 - April, 1978

                        Hours: 425

                                    Duties:  Neuropsychological assessment of neurological and neuropsychiatric patients.

 

            Service:   Mental Hygiene Clinic

                        Supervisor:        Walter Knacke, Ph.D.

                        Dates:  October 1977 - April, 1978

                        Hours: 925

                                    Duties:  Personality assessment; individual and marital psychotherapy  with psychiatric outpatients; team planning.

 

            Service:   Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, and Nephrology

                        Supervisor:        Lynne C. Rustad, Ph.D.

                        Dates:  October 1976 - October 1977

                        Hours:              1200+

Duties:  Personality, cognitive, and vocational assess­ment; crisis intervention;individual, marital and family therapy;  patient and staff education; staff consultation; team planning; initiated psychology program on the nephrology unit; counseled adjustment to dis­ability.

 

Location:  Cleveland Clinic Foundation

                 9500 Euclid Avenue

                 Cleveland, Ohio 44106

 

            Service:  Psychiatry (In-patient)

            Supervisors:   David A. Rodgers, Ph.D., Garland Y. de Nelsky,PhD., and Michael G. McKee, Ph.D.

            Hours:    1000

Duties:  Personality assessment; individual, marital, family, and group psychotherapy with psychiatric in-patients.  Initiated assertiveness training and bibliotherapy in Be­havioral Program.

 

 

Clinical Practica:  

 

                              Course                                                   Supervisor

                        Personality Assessment, Adult                             Robert Goldberg, Ph.D.

                        Psychodynamic Psychotherapy                             Irving B.Weiner, Ph.D.

                        Behavior Therapy                                                  Barbara Melamed, Ph.D.

                        Client-Centered Therapy                                       Fred Zimring, Ph.D.

                        Community Psychology                                        Marc Lewis, Ph.D.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:

            Qualified Substance Abuse Professional -  Certificate of Proficiency, American Psychological  Association

            Fellow, Prescribing Psychologist Register (FPPR)

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

Chaired Symposium:  The Aged Patient and his Health Care"

Paper Presentation:  The Aged Patient and his Health Care System:  Exploding the Myths.

            APA Convention, Anaheim, California, 1981.

Membership Chairman, Division 22, Rehabilitation Psychology, APA

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

            TEACHING: 

                        Loma Linda University

                        School of Allied Health

                        Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Departments

                        Course:  The Psychology of Physical Disability

                        Dates:  September, 1984 - June 1987

 

                        University of California Riverside

                        Arts and Sciences

                        Psychology Department

                        Course:  Introduction to Clinical Psychology

                                    co-taught with Durand F. Jacobs, Ph.D.

                        Date:  Fall, 1983

 

                        United States International University

                        Extension/ Counseling Program

                        Courses:  Counseling Skills and Social Psychology

                        Dates: Summer, 1979 - Spring, 1980

 

PUBLICATIONS:

                       

            Thesis:  Personality Factors in Factitial Dermatitis (1978)

 

            Dissertation:  Spinal Cord Injured Patients' Perception

                                    of Ward Atmosphere following Assertive­ness Training of Ward Nurses (1979)

 

Sutkin, L.  The communication problem:  staffs' point of view.  In M. Eisenberg, J. Falconer, and L. Sutkin (Eds.) Communication in a Health Care Setting Springfield, Ill.:  Charles C Thomas, 1980.  

 

Sutkin, L.  Changes in patients' perception of ward atmosphere following assertiveness training of nurses.  In M. Eisenberg, J.  Falconer and L. Sut­kin (Eds.)  Communication in a Health Care Set­ting.  Springfield, Ill.:  Charles C Thomas, 1980.

 

Eisenberg, M., Falconer, J. and Sutkin, L. (Eds.)  Communication in a Health Care SettingSpringfield, Ill.:  Charles C    Thomas, 1980.

Sutkin, L.  Introduction.  In M. Eisenberg, L. Sutkin and M. Jansen (Eds.)  Chronic Illness and Dis­ability Through the Life Span:  Effects on Self and Family.  New York:  Springer Publishing Com­pany, 1984.

 Eisenberg, M. Sutkin, L., and Jansen, M. (Eds.)   Chronic Illness and Disability Through the Life Span:  Effects on Self and Family.  New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1984. 

Sutkin, L. and Good, G.  Therapy with men in a health-care setting.  In Scher, M.,  Stevens, M., Good, G. and Eichenfeld, G. (Eds.)  Handbook of Counseling & Psychotherapy with Men.  Newberry Park:  Sage Publications, 1987.

    

 

REPRESENTATIVE LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTED:

 

Alcoholism

 

            Alcoholism

                        Charter Hospital of Redlands

                        Redlands, California                                                                  Apr. 1988

 

            Sexuality and the Recovering Alcoholic Woman

                        Conference on Women

                        Valley College

                        San Bernadino, California                                                          Feb. 1988

            Drug and Alcohol Addiction

                        Chino State Prison

                        Chino, California                                                                      Nov. 1985

Gerontology

 

            Management Techniques  for Elderly Patients

                        USC Pacific Geriatric Center                                                               Jan. 1985                                

                        Los Angeles, California                                                                        Mar. 1986

                        Asilomar, California                                                                               Feb. 1986

                        Las Vegas, Nevada                                                                                Mar. 1985

 

            Third Annual Gerontology Conference

                        Loma Linda, California                                                                       Sep. 1985

 

            San Diego County Academy of General Dentistry

                        San Diego, California                                                                          Mar. 1985       

 

            Discussant, National Educational Project On Aging.

                        Wadsworth VA Medical Center

                        Los Angeles, California                                                                          Jan. 1980

 

Health Psychology

 

            Death and Dying

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda, California                                                                             1980-1988

                                               

            Cancer and the Clergy

                        Episcopal Clericus

                        San Bernadino, California                                                                          Jan. 1980

 

            Management of AIDS Patients

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda California                                                                                  Nov. 1987

 

            Behavioral Approaches to Holistic Health

                        Jerry L. Pettis  Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda, California                                                                         Apr. - May, 1980

 

 

Staff Development

 

            Assertiveness Training/Communication Skills

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital                                                   1985

                        Redlands Community Hospital                                                               Jul. 1980

                        Massilon State Hospital                                                                          Apr. 1978

                        Ohio Psychological Association                                                              Nov. 1977

                        Cleveland Clinic Foundation                                                                  Aug. 1977

                        Ohio Psychological Association                                                               Apr. 1976

 

            How to Deal with the Troubled Employee

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda California                                                                              1980-1988

 

           

Patient-Staff Interactions:  An Examination of the Process

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda, California                                                                             1979-1980

 

            Transference and Counter-transference in Nurse Patient Interactions

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda, California                                                                               Nov. 1979

                                                           

 

            The Communication Problem: Staffs' Point of View

                        Sixth Annual Conference on the Care and Treatment of the Spinal Cord Injured

                        Cleveland, Ohio                                                                                            Nov. 1978

                                                           

            Peer Counselor Training Program

                        Case Western Reserve University                                                                  Aug. 1978

                                               

Sex Counseling Workshops

                        Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital

                        Loma Linda, California                                                                                     1980-1988

                                                           

                        School of Applied Social Studies

                        Cleveland, Ohio                                                                                                Apr. 1978

                                                             

How To Deal With Your Perpetual Adolescent:  Asocial Children When They Grow up.

                        Cal State San Bernadino                                                                                    Jul. 1980

 

The Two Career Couple   

                        Cal State San Bernadino                                                                                    Aug. 1980

 

  

REFERENCES:  On request.