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About Jody Kussin, PhD

Jody Kussin, Ph.D. is the original author of Catch Them Being Good:  A Guide to Positive Parenting, an award winning parent training program. The revised edition was printed when the first book sold out and became out of print.  Phillips re-issued Catch Them Being Good in response to students and alumni of Kussin who asked for a new book so that they could train their own students to work with parents while focusing on relationship, connection, and positive role modeling between children and parents.  

Kussin was a founding Academic Chair and Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Phillips and she has been mentoring and supervising students of mental health disciplines for decades.  Her main research and educational areas are parenting, parent-child relations, and child, teen and adult development.  She is currently working in an area near and dear to her heart: children’s community mental health, with Casa Pacifica, in Camarillo, California.  In addition she works in the area of psychological assessment and forensic evaluation.   

Kussin has an active consulting practice, working with public school districts, independent schools, preschools, religious institutions, and community agencies throughout California.  She is a frequent speaker and educator on the local and national scene.  

Of most significance, however, Jody and husband/scientist Dr. Steve Shoptaw happily live together raising their three children and assorted dogs.

NEWS & EVENTS
President Honored (details)

Phillips honored (details)

“I Am an Art Therapist,” Currently on Display (details)

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CONT. EDUCATION
New Fall Courses (details)

PSY 555LX Collage/Assemblage as Therapeutic Tools (26hrs) (details)

PSY 555MX Religion, Spirituality, and Psychotherapy (26hrs) (details)

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