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Dr. Aptekar received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan. After having post-graduate training in Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech Medical School, he became licensed as a Clinical Psychologist.
He is a Professor of Counselor Education at San Jose State University with academic awards including two Fulbright scholarships (Colombia and Swaziland), and the Kellogg/Partners of the Americas Fellowship in International Development. He was also a United Nations Representative for the International Year of the Disabled in South America and has consulted for UNICEF in Africa. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Natural Hazards and Research Applications Center, and Sun Microsystems.
Dr. Aptekar's books include Street children of Cali (Duke University Press, 1988) and Environmental disasters in global perspective (G. K. Hall/Macmillan, 1994). He has published over 50 chapters and articles in scientific journals including "Growing up in particularly difficult circumstances (in Handbook of Cross-cultural psychology, 2nd ed., Allyn & Bacon, 1997), "Street children in the developing world" (in Cross-cultural Research), "Are Colombian street children neglected? The contributions of ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches to the study of children" (Anthropology and Education Quarterly), "The emotional effects of disasters on children" (in International Journal of Mental Health), and "Suggestions for providing services to the handicapped in Latin America" (in World Development).
He has been affiliated with the Universidad del Valle, Colombia, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, University of Swaziland, Addis Ababa University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Free University of the Netherlands.
Professor Aptekar is married with two children, Rachel and Samuel.
Email, laptekar@email.sjsu.edu
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