Lewis Aptekar received his PhD 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. His academic awards include 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. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Natural Hazards and Research Applications Center, and Sun Microsystems.

His 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, Columbia, Institute of African Studied, University of Nairobi, University of Swaziland, Addis Ababa University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Free University of the Netherlands.

EDUCATION

	Post-doctoral residency in clinical psychology. Texas Tech University, School of Medicine, 1985-86. (Licensed Psychologist, California #PZ105507)
	Ph.D. University of Michigan, Educational Psychology, 1970.
	B.S. Wayne State University, Psychology and Special Education