After earning a B.S. degree from Villanova University, Dr.
DiGiuseppe received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in
1975. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert
Ellis Institute in 1977. Dr. DiGiuseppe joined St. John's in
1987, where he developed the doctoral program in school psychology
and received the University's Faculty Achievement Medal. He is
presently professor and chair of the psychology
department.
Dr. DiGiuseppe received the Jack Krasner Early Career
Contribution award from APA's Division of Psychotherapy
(29). He has elected a fellow of the American Psychological
Association's divisions of Psychotherapy (29), Clinical (12),
School (16), and Family Psychology (41). He is presently
President-elect of the Division of Psychotherapy (29) of the
American Psychological Understanding Anger Disorders
Association.
Dr. DiGiuseppe has also been active in the Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT). He helped develop the
Diplomat in Behavioral Psychology (1986-87) and served on the
Diplomat board. He was the ABCT associate program chair
(1995), and program chair (1996). He served as ABCT convention
coordinator (1997 - 2000) and associate convener for the 2001 World
Congress for Behavior Therapy. Dr. DiGiuseppe was elected ABCT
representative-at-large in 2001, and served as President in
2006-2007.
Dr. DiGiuseppe has studied anger and is one of the leading
experts on anger in the world. He has co authored with Chip
Tafrate, and developed the Anger Disorder Scale, and the Anger
Regulation and Expression Scale. He is a Distinguished
Diplomat of the National Anger Management Association
(NAMA).
He is also an expert in Rational-Emotive Therapy. Since
1980, Dr. DiGiuseppe has also served as Director of Professional
Education of the Albert Ellis Institute. He has worked with the
famous psychologist Albert Ellis until his death in 2007. He
has trained hundreds of therapists in REBT and CBT throughout the
world. He is Co editor of the Journal of Rational-Emotive
and Cognitive Behavior Therapies, and co-authored the
Practitioners Guide to rational-emotive Behavior Therapy.
He has four children ages 14 -30 and lives with his youngest
two children and his wife. He cooks great risotto.