Shechtman Zipora
Professor
Department of Counseling and Human Development
University of Haifa
Israel
Biography
Zipora Shechtman (Professor Emerita) is the chair of the Group Counseling M.A Program, at University of Haifa, Israel. She has conducted groups and trained group counselors for over thirty years. Her main research interst is in group counseling and group psychotherapy with children and adolescents who demonstrate social, emotional and behavioral difficulties. She is the author of three books, over 100 papers and book chapters and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Group Psychotherapy Associatin (AGPA) and the Society for Aggressive Behavior. She served as an associate editor on the Group Psychotherapy jouranl, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice journal and on the editorial board for all the major journal on groups, including The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, The International Journal of Group Psychotherapy & Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice. She received several research awards, inclufding the 2012 Excellence for resrearch on groups grom APA (Division 49).
Research Interest
Issues of interest: -Outcome and process research on group counseling with children and adolescents. -Child aggression: Treatment. -Treatment with bibliotherapy and its outcomes.
