Raymond A. DiGiuseppe

After earning a B.S. degree from Villanova University and an M.S. from SUNY Brockport, Ray received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1975. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Ellis Institute in 1977. Ray joined St. John's in 1987, where he developed the doctoral (Psy.D.) program in School Psychology and received the University's Faculty Achievement Medal. He served as Department Chairperson from 2001 until 2014. He is presently a Professor in the psychology department, chairperson of the University's Institutional Review Board (a federally mandated Research Ethics Committee), and director of the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology. 

Ray received the Jack Krasner Early Career Contribution Award from APA's Division of Psychotherapy (29). He was elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association's divisions of Psychotherapy (29), Clinical Psychology (12), School Psychology (16), and Family Psychology (41). He served two terms as a representative and then one term as chair of Division 29's Publication Board. He then was elected president of Division 29 - the Society of the Advancement of Psychotherapy in 2014. 

Ray has been active in the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT). He helped develop the Diplomat in Behavioral Psychology (1986-1987) and served on the Diplomat board. Ray 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. 

Ray is one of the world's leading experts on anger as a clinical problem. He has co-authored with Chip Tafrate the book Understanding Anger Disorders, the Anger Disorder Scale, and the Anger Regulation and Expression Scale. He is a Distinguished Diplomate of the National Anger Management Association (NAMA). 

Ray is a world-renowned expert in Rational-Emotive Therapy. Since 1980, he has served as Director of Professional Education at the Albert Ellis Institute, where he worked with the famous psychologist Albert Ellis from 1975 until he died in 2007. Ray has trained hundreds of therapists in REBT and CBT throughout the world. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Therapies and co-authored the Practitioners Guide to Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, now in its third edition. 

He has four children, Matthew, Daniel, Thomas, and Anna, and two grandchildren, Jack and Eloise. Ray loves to cook Italian food and makes great risotto, pizza, and pasta.

His academic geneaology, which appears below, goes back to the founding of psychology to Wilhelm Wundt. 

Raymond DiGiuseppe
Ph.D., 1975, Hofstra U.  

Howard Kassinove
Ph.D., 1970, Adelphi U.

Gordon F. Derner (1915-1983)
Ph.D., 1950, Columbia U.

Laurence F. Shaffer (1903-1976)
Ph.D., 1930, Columbia U. APA President, 1952.  

Harold O. Rugg (1886-1960)
Ph.D., 1915, U. Illinois  

William C. Bagley (1874-1946)
Ph.D., 1900, Cornell U.

Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927)
Ph.D., 1892, U. Leipzig  

Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
MD, 1856, U. Heidelberg  

Books

DiGiuseppe, R. & Tafrate, R. (2007). Understanding Anger and Anger Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dryden, W., DiGiuseppe, R., & Neenan, M. (2010). A Primer on Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Third Edition. Champaign, Illinois: Research Press.

DiGiuseppe, R., Doyle, K., Dryden, W., & Backx, W. (2014). A Practitioners Guide to Rational Emotive Therapy, 3rd Ed. New York: Oxford University Press

DiGiuseppe R.A., Doyle K. A., Dryden W., Backx W. (2014). Manuale di terapia razionale emotiva comportamentale. Milano, IT: Raffaello Cortina Editore.  ISBN: 978-88-6030-680-7

David, O. A., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2016). The Rational Positive Parenting Program. New York, NY, US: Springer Science + Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22339-1

Psychological Tests

DiGiuseppe, R., & Tafrate, R. (2005). The Anger Disorder Scale: Manual. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Multi-Health Systems.

DiGiuseppe, R., & Tafrate, R. (2011). The Anger Regulation and Expression Scale for Youth: Manual. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Multi-Health Systems.

Chapters

DiGiuseppe, R. (2009). Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. In N. Kazantzis, M. A. Reinecke, & A. Freeman, (Eds.). Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Using Theory and Philosophy to Strengthen Science and Practice. New York: Guilford Press. 

David, D., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2009). Social and cultural aspect of rational and irrational beliefs. In D. David, S. J. Lynn, &A. Ellis (Eds.). Rational and irrational beliefs in human functioning and disturbances; Implication for research, theory, and practice. New York Oxford University Press.

David, D., Freeman, A., DiGiuseppe, R. (2009). Rational and Irrational Beliefs: Implication for clinical conceptualization and practice in psychotherapy. In D. David, S. J. Lynn, & A. Ellis (Eds.). Rational and irrational beliefs in human functioning and disturbances; Implication for research, theory, and practice. New York Oxford University Press.

DiGiuseppe, R., & Tafrate, R. (2010). Anger: How it differs from other emotions. In Irving Weiner & Ed Craighead (Eds.). Corsini’s encyclopedia of psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Hollon, S. D., & DiGiuseppe, R, (2010). Cognitive psychotherapies. In J. C. Norcross, & G. VandenBos (Eds.) History of psychotherapy: Continuity and change (2nd ed.).Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Gavita, O., DiGiuseppe, R., & David, D. (2013). Self-acceptance and raising children: The case of parental unconditional acceptance. In M. E. Bernard (Ed.). The Strength of Self-Acceptance. New York: Springer

DiGiuseppe, R. (2013). Assessment and treatment of anger as a clinical problem. In G. P. Koocher, J. C. Norcross, B. A. Greene (Eds.) , Psychologists' desk reference (3rd ed.) (pp. 210-214). New York, NY US: Oxford University Press.

Seeler, L., Freeman, A., DiGiuseppe, R., & Mitchell, D. (2014). Traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy models for antisocial patterns. In R. C. Tafrate, D. Mitchell (Eds.), Forensic CBT: A handbook for clinical practice (pp. 15-42). Wiley-Blackwell.

DiGiuseppe, R., & David, O. (2015). Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches. In H. T. Prout, & (Eds.). Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: Theory and Practice for School and Clinical Settings, Fifth Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Maclaren, K., Doyle, K. & DiGiuseppe, R. (2015). Albert Ellis and Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy. In H. E. A. Tinsley, S. H. Lease, and N. S. Giffin-Wiersma (Eds.). Contemporary Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy. New York: Sage.

DiGiuseppe, R., David, D., & Venzia, R. (2016). Cognitive Theories. In J.C. Norcross, G.R. VandenBos, & D.F. Freedheim (Eds.). The Handbook of Clinical Psychology Volume II of V: Theory and Research. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. The Associate Editor for this volume II is Bunmi O. Olatunji.

DiGiuseppe, R., Barnea, M., Duke, G., Murphy, B., Brewer, W. (2016). Assessment and intervention for anger in school psychology. In M. Terjesen & M. Thielking  (Eds.). Handbook of Australian School Psychology International: Research, Practice and Policy. New York: Springer.

DiGiuseppe, R., Venezia, R., & Gotterbarn, R. (2017). What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy? (pp. 1-36) In A. Vernon, & K. Doyle (Eds.). Cognitive Behavior Therapies: A Guidebook For Practitioners.  Alexandra, VA: American Counseling Association.

DiGiuseppe, R., Venezia, R., & Gotterbarn, R. (2019). Introduction to Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In S. Little, A. Aiken-Little (Eds.). Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Evidence-Based Positive Strategies, Second Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

DiGiuseppe, R. & Doyle, K. (2019). Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. In K. Dobson (Eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, 4th Edition. New York; Guilford

David, D. DiGiuseppe,, R., Dobrean, A. Păsărelu, C. R., & Balazsi, R. (2019). The Measurement of Irrationality.  In M. E. Bernard and W. Dryden (Eds.). REBT: Advances in Theory, Research and Practice. New York: Springer-Nature

Matweychuk, W., DiGiuseppe, R, & Gulyayeva, O. (2019). A Comparison of REBT with Other Cognitive Behavior Therapies. In M. E. Bernard and W. Dryden (Eds.). REBT: Advances in Theory, Research and Practice. New York: Springer-Nature

DiGiuseppe, R. & Ammendola, E. (2019). REBT and Personality Disorders. In Dryden, W., & Bernard, M. E. (Eds.) REBT: Best Practice and Applications. NY: Springer/Nature.

Doyle, K., Hickey, M., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2022).Supervision in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. In D. McKay, E. A. Storch, & J. Abramowitz (Eds.). Training and Supervision in Specialized Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: Methods, Settings, & Populations. New York: Springer: Nature. 

DiGiuseppe, R. & Doyle, K (2021). Commentary to Chapter VIII. REBT's B-C connection and negotiation of treatment procedures. In G. M. Ruggiero, G. Caselli, S. Sassaroli (Eds.). Case Formulation as a Therapeutic Tool in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. New York: Springer Nature. 

DiGiuseppe, R. & Doyle, K. (2021). Commentary chapter on REBT. In G. M. Ruggiero, ‎G. Caselli, & ‎S. Sassaroli (Eds.). CBT case formulation as a therapeutic process. Switzerland, AG: Springer-Nature. 

DiGiuseppe, R. (2022). REBT's Place in Modern Psychotherapy: Similarities with All Psychotherapies, With Other Forms of CBT, And Unique Characteristics. In W. Dryden (Ed.). New Directions in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: 65 Years On. New York: Springer-Nature. 

Articles

Deffenbacher, J. L., Oetting, E. R., & DiGiuseppe, R. A. (2002). Principles of empirically supported interventions applied to anger management. The Counseling Psychologist, 30(2), 262-280.

DiGiuseppe, R. A., & Froh, J. J. (2002). What cognitions predict state anger? Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 20(2), 133-150.

DiGiuseppe, R. & Tafrate, R. C.  (2003). Anger treatment for adults: a meta-analytic review.  Clinical Psychology, 10, 70 - 84.

Carmony, T. M., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2003). Cognitive induction of anger and depression: The role of power, attribution, and gender. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behavior Therapies, 21(2), 105-118.

Terjesen, M.D., Jacofsky, M., Froh, J., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2004). Integrating positive psychology into schools: Implications for practice.  Psychology in the Schools, 41 (1), 163-172.

Lachmund, E., DiGiuseppe, R., & Fuller, J. R.(2005). Clinicians' diagnosis of a case with anger problems. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 39(4),  439-447.

Szentagotai, A., Schnur, J., DiGiuseppe, R., Macavei, B., Kallay, E., & David, D. (2005). The organization and the nature of irrational beliefs: Schemas or appraisal? Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, 5(2), 139-158.

Li, C. E., DiGiuseppe, R., & Froh, J. (2006). The roles of sex, gender, and coping in adolescent depression. Adolescence, 41 (163), 409-415.

DiGiuseppe, R. (2006). The mission continues: The past, present, and future of behavior therapy. The Behavior Therapist, 29(7), 152-153.

DiGiuseppe, R. (2007). ABCT at 40: No mid-life crisis. The Behavior Therapist, 30(1), 1-3.

Macedonio, M. F., Parsons, T. D., DiGiuseppe, R. A., Weiderhold, B. K., & Rizzo, A. A. (2007). Immersiveness and physiological arousal within panoramic video-based virtual reality. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10 (4), 508-515.

DiGiuseppe, R. (2007). Behavioral principles and public policy: Dissemination in actions. The Behavior Therapist, 30(6), 93-95.

DiGiuseppe, R. (2008). Surfing the waves of behavior therapy. The Behavior Therapist, 31(8), 154-155.

McDermut, W., Fuller, J. R., DiGiuseppe, R. A., Zimmerman, M. & Chelminski, I. (2009). Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behavior Therapies, 27(2), 121-135.

Fives, C. J., Kong, G., Fuller, J. R., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2010). Anger, Aggression, and Irrational Beliefs in Adolescents. Cognitive Therapy and Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-009-9293-3.

Fuller, J. R., DiGiuseppe, R., O’Leary, S., Fountain, T (2011). An Open Trial of a Comprehensive Anger Treatment Program on an Outpatient Sample. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 38(4), 485-490. DOI:10.1017/S1352465810000019.

DiGiuseppe, R. (2011). A comprehensive treatment program for a case of disturbed anger. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 18, 235–240.

DiGiuseppe, R. (2011). Reflection on My 32 Years with Albert Ellis. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 29, 220–227. DOI:10.1007/s10942-010-0118-9.

Ahmed, A. G., Kingston, D. A., DiGiuseppe, R., Bradford, J. M., & Seto, M. C. (2012). Developing a clinical typology of dysfunctional anger. Journal of Affective Disorders, 136(1-2), 139-148. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2011.09.008

DiGiuseppe, R., McDermut, W., Unger, F., Fuller, J., Zimmerman, M., & Chelminski, I. (2012). The comorbidity of anger symptoms with personality disorders in psychiatric outpatients. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 68(1), 67-77. doi:10.1002/jclp.20835

David, D., Coteț, C. D., Szentagotai, A., McMahon, J., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2013). Philosophical versus psychological unconditional acceptance: Implications for constructing the Unconditional Acceptance Questionnaire. Journal of Cognitive And Behavioral Psychotherapies, 13(2A), 445-464.

McMahon, J., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2013). A personal reprise of couple’s intervention. Journal Of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 31(2), 49-56. doi:10.1007/s10942-012-0155-7

Gavitz, O. A., David, D., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2014). You are Such a Bad Child! Appraisals as Mechanisms of Parental Negative and Positive Affect. The Journal of General Psychology, 141(2), 113-129. DOI:10.1080/00221309.2013.874971

Lee, A., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2017). Anger and aggression treatments: A review of meta-analyses. Current Opinion in Psychology, 19, 65–74. doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.04.004

Toohey, M. & DiGiuseppe, R. (2017). Defining and Measuring Irritability: Clarification and Differentiation of the Construct. Clinical Psychology Review. 5, 393-108. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.009

DelVecchio, T, Jablonka. O., DiGiuseppe, R., Notti, J. & David, O. (2017). Psychometric Evaluation of the Parent Anger Scale.  Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26 (11), 3013–3025. doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0824-3

DiGiuseppe, R. Leaf, R., Gorman, B., & Robin, R. (2018).  The Development of a Measure of Irrational/Rational Beliefs. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapies, 36(1), 47-79.

Tuceta, L., Tomba E, & DiGiuseppe, R. (2019). Irrational Beliefs, Cognitive Distortions, and Depressive Symptomatology in a College-Age Sample: A Mediational Analysis. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.

DiGiuseppe, R., Gorman, B., & Raptis, J. (Accepted with revisions. Revisions made and resubmitted). The Factor Structure of a Measure of Ellis’ Irrational / Rational Beliefs.

Kathryn A. McGill, Raymond DiGiuseppe & Yue Zhuo (2021). The Code of Honor as a Predictor of Anger and Aggression. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 30:2, 226-242, DOI: 10.1080/10926771.2020.1832169 

DiGiuseppe, R., Gorman, B., Raptis, J., Agiurgioaei-Boie, A., Agiurgioaei, F., Leaf, R., & Robin, M. W. (2021). The development of a short form of an irrational/rational beliefs scale. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. https://doi-org.jerome.stjohns.edu/10.1007/s10942-021-00386-3 

Tecuta, L., Gardini, V., Digiuseppe, R. & Tomba, E. (2021) Do metacognitions mediate the relationship between irrational beliefs, eating disorder symptoms and cognitive reappraisal?, Psychotherapy Research, 31:4, 483-492, DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2020.1831098 

David, O. A., Cîmpean, A., Costescu, C., DiGiuseppe, R., Doyle, K., Hickey, M. David, D., (2022). Effectiveness of Outpatient Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. The American Journal of Psychotherapy; 2021 - DOI: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.202120200009 

Scaini, S., Piron, R., Nicoli, S., Fiore, F., DiGiuseppe, R., Ruggiero, G. M., & Caruso, C. (2022). A cross-validation of the Anger Cognitions Scale-revised: Cognitions and anger in an Italian adolescent sample. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 40(2), 278-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-021-00411-5 

Artiran, M., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2022). Rational emotive behavior therapy compared to client-centered therapy for outpatients: A randomized clinical trial with a three month follow up. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 40(2), 206-233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-021-00408-0 

DiGiuseppe, R., Fisher, A., Raptis, J. Katherine Romero. Annettee Schieffelin, & William Chaplin. (2023). What Cognitions Best Predict Disturbed Anger in Adults? A Revision of the Anger Cognitions Scale. Cognitive Therapy and Research (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10362-z 

Tecuta, L.; Tomei, G.; DiGiuseppe, R.; Schumann, R.; Ballardini, D.; Tomba, E. (2023). Mapping the Path to Cognitive Balance: Applying the States of Mind Model and Network Analysis to Eating Disorder Patients. Journal of Clinical Medicine - Section Clinical Psychology, 12, 5790. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12185790 

Courses Taught at St. John’s University

Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to Psychological Measurement
Psychology of Anger, Aggression, Hatred, and Violence
Scientific Discovery

Graduate Courses

Assessment Laboratory I & II
Behavior Therapy: Assessment, Consultation, & Therapy 
Clinical Practicum
Cognitive Psychotherapies
Empirically Based Interventions II
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Personality Assessment of Children, and Adolescents 
Psychopathology across the Life Span I
Psychopathology across the Life Span II
Psychological Interventions Practicum I
School Psychology Internship Seminar I: Professional and Legal Issues