IBAR Research Registry

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Diana Sullivan Everstine
A native San Franciscan, Dr. Everstine received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1974. She is an expert on trauma, emergency response, pre-employment screening, and threat assessment. She has co-authored five professional textbooks and has taught courses on the subject. Dr. Everstine has extensive experience in working with law enforcement agencies in psychological profiling and threat assessment. She has 30 years of experience as a trained hostage negotiator. She has worked for numerous corporations as a consultant for executive search to assess employee threats and risks. • Assessment and treatment of Post-traumatic Stress • Pre-employment psychological screening of law enforcement and emergency services personnel • Executive search • Threat assessment and homeland security • Hostage negotiation • Assessment and Treatment of Obesity • Addiction and It’s Relationship to Trauma
Louis Everstine
Dr. Everstine received Master’s degrees in Science and Public Health, and his doctorate is in Psychology. He was a graduate student of Philosophy at Oxford University (Linacre College) where he worked and taught in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies. Upon his return to the United States, he worked as a researcher in the Human Factors in Technology Research Group and Center for Research in Management Science at UC Berkeley. He is the author of five psychology textbooks. Dr. Everstine was a founding faculty member of the California School of Professional Psychology. He is a fellow of the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, and a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, London. • Suicide prevention • Nonverbal behavior • Measurement of trauma
Neil Hibler
Dr. Hibler is a board-certified clinical psychologist with additional specialization qualification as police psychologist (ABPP) who has been practicing in the field for some thirty years. He was the first police psychologist with the Federal government and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations’ Psychologist as well as Special Agent. He is the primary consultant for federal law enforcement agencies regarding pre-employment screening, special duty and fitness for duty evaluations. He serves the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and specific agencies to include US Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation. • Police psychology • Pre-employment screening for law enforcement and emergency service personnel • Military psychology • Homeland security • Law enforcement special duty screening • Fitness for duty evaluation
Eric Hickey
Dr. Hickey is the Director of the Center for Forensic Studies at Alliant International University. He has taught various courses in criminal personalities, sex crimes, homicide and psychopathology in universities, colleges, jails and prisons and supervises theses and dissertations involving forensic and criminal psychology. He has considerable field experience working with the criminally insane, psychopaths, sex offenders and other habitual criminals. He has also served as an adjunct instructor for the American Prosecutor's Research Institute at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina profiling stalkers, cyber-stalkers, criminal personalities and sexual predators. Internationally recognized for his research on multiple homicide offenders, Dr. Hickey has conducted seminars in several countries including Canada, England, France, and Japan. He has also trained VIP protection specialists in Israel in profiling stalkers. • Psychological profiles of offenders including: • Murderers, Mass Murderers and Serial Killers • Paraphiliacs, Rapists and Sexual Predators • Stalkers and Cyber-stalkers • Sociopaths, Psychopaths and Primary Psychopaths • Fire-setters and Arsonists • Domestic Batterers
James Madero
Dr. Madero has over 35 years experience as a Clinical Psychologist. He is a specialist in workplace and school violence prevention, and has conducted over 1300 threat assessments of potentially violent individuals for private and public sector companies, organizations, and school systems. Dr Madero received his PhD from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Dr. Madero has developed “Best Practice” workplace and school violence prevention training programs and materials, and has trained numerous Workplace and School Violence Prevention Teams across the United States. Clients include International Paper, Coca-Cola, Rockwell Automation, GAP Inc., US Department of Energy, Internal Revenue Service, and the Law Firm of Morrison & Foerster. Dr. Madero has written extensively on workplace and school violence prevention, and is co-author of Preventing Workplace Violence, A Decision Makers Guide. • Workplace violence • Threat assessment • School violence • Violence prevention in schools and in the workplace
Dave Nichols
Dr. Nichols’ interests have focused on structured personality inventories, particularly the MMPI/MMPI-2™. The majority of his more than 30 publications are related to this instrument. His major publications include the MMPI-2™ Structural Summary (with Roger L. Greene), Psychological Assessment with the MMPI-2™ (with Alan F. Friedman, Richard Lewak, and James T. Webb) and, most recently, Essentials of MMPI-2™ Assessment. • General psychopathology • Diagnosis of Mood Disorders with MMPI-2 • Relations between the MMPI-2, the PCL-R, and psychopathy • MMPI-2 scale development • Strategies of MMPI-2 interpretation • Malingering, impression management, and self-deception on the MMPI-2 • Research on the application of the MMPI-2 to clinical practice
Ron Stolberg
Dr. Stolberg’s clinical specialty is working with high risk teenagers and their families. He currently teaches courses on personality assessment and the assessment of children and adolescents. His research interests lie primarily with personality measures such as the MMPI-2™ and Rorschach, and how they are currently being used by practicing clinicians. Other areas of interest include the “standard of care” practices of psychologists and test utilization. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Winston School whose focus is educating children with learning disabilities. Dr. Stolberg has written extensively in journal articles and books about personality assessment, suicide, and even developed a new scale for the MMPI-2™ to identify suicidal individuals. • High-risk teenagers and their families • Personality assessment of children and adolescents and adults, using: • MMPI-2 • Rorschach • Suicide/self-harm • How psychologists actually use assessment instruments
Don Viglione
Dr. Viglione has taught and conducted research on the Rorschach and other assessment instruments for over 25 years and has more than 45 publications. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology and a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment. His recent book is entitled Rorschach Coding Solutions: A Reference Guide for the Comprehensive System. In his consultation practice he performs various forensic, clinical, and psycho-educational evaluations. • Assessment with particular attention to the Rorschach Inkblot Test • Empirical validation and enhancements to the Rorschach Inkblot Test on the following topics: • Sex offenders • Violent behavior • Malingering • Trauma • Cultural and international issues • Development of Rorschach normative reference samples for children • Development of a scale to measure marginal and pre-psychotic states in children
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. is a clinician, author, teacher, researcher, and consultant in the field of addictions. She is the Director of The Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California, an outpatient clinic, and a Research Associate at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, where she co-directs The Family Recovery Research Project. She is currently applying this research to the development of a new extended family treatment program at Mayflower in Marin County. She is also Consulting Director of the Institute on Addictions at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco. A psychologist, she is the author of Treating the Alcoholic (Wiley, 1985), and Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics (Wiley, 1988) and Editor of Treating Alcoholism, (Jossey-Bass, 1995.) She is coauthor of The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model (Guilford, 1999), and The Family Recovery Guide (New Harbinger, 2000,) and co-editor of The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women ( Jossey-Bass, 2002.) Her latest book is A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation (Hazelden, 2004.) A companion workbook was published in the fall, 2006. She has completed two training videos (Jaylen Productions, 1997) and a video for professionals and families in recovery through Hazelden, 2005. She lectures widely and maintains a private practice. • Developmental Theory • The Developmental Model of Addiction and Recovery • The Individual, Couple and Family in Active Addiction and Recovery • Children and Adult Children of Alcoholics • Addiction and Trauma • The Process of Addiction and Trauma Recovery • Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-Step Programs • Relationship to change • Relationship to psychotherapy

Marilyn Foley
Marilyn Foley, Ph.D is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialization in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and addiction. She is Clinical Director of the Residential/Day treatment program at the Sequoia Center, and she is in private practice in Redwood City California. Dr Foley’s research interests are: • Acceptance and Commitment therapy in relapse prevention • The relationship between borderline personality disorder and substance abuse disorders. • The effect of skills training on relapse coping and problem solving following treatment of substance dependence. • Anxiety disorders and substance dependence • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training in chemical dependency treatment and relapse prevention.