Author: yepstein

I am a retired Emeritus Professor of Psychology. I was a member of the Rutgers, New Brunswick Department of Psychology for 47 years. I did my doctoral studies at Columbia University in a Social Psychology program directed by Morton Deutsch (who encouraged his students to call him Mort.) Mort’s primary research and teaching interests focused on Conflict Resolution and his influence on me contributed strongly to my motivation for creating this site. In addition to my graduate work in social psychology I also had a private practice as a Clinical Psychologist. I did an internship in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of Rutgers Medical School in Piscataway, NJ. During that internship I focused on family therapy and on clinical work with children and adolescents. I created the Children Helping Children program for children of divorce and their custodial parent. The focus of this program was to help children deal with the multitude of emotions they had to deal with as they tried to cope with the aftermath of divorce. A major component of that program was teaching the children and their custodial parents about conflict and ways to try to cooperatively resolve their divorce-related conflicts.