PROFESSIONAL VITA

September 30, 2002

LEWIS APTEKAR, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR COUNSELOR EDUCATION
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
San Jose, California
95192-0073
Phone, 408-924-3662
Fax, 408-9243713
Email, laptekar@email.sjsu.edu

EDUCATION

Professor Counselor Education, College of Education, San Jose State University, 1987-current

Senior Fulbright Specialist, Visiting Professor of Community Counseling,
Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Francisco Morazan. Tegulcigapa, Honduras, 2002.

Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, 2000-01.

Nehru Visiting Professor, M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda, India, Department of Human Development, 1998.

Visiting Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University, Department of Psychiatry, and IPSER, Free University of Amsterdam and Department of Psychiatry, 1996-7

Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Swaziland, 1995-6

Visiting Scholar, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1994-5

Visiting Professor, Department of External Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

Fulbright Scholar, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1983-84
and Universidad de Santo Tomas. Bogota, Colombia.

Aptekar, L. (in press). The changing developmental dynamics of "children in particularly difficult circumstances": Examples of street and war traumatized children. In Gielen, U. & J. Roopnarine, Childhood and adolescence in cross-cultural perspective: Greenwood Press.

Aptekar, L. (2003). "Cultural problems for Western counselors working with Ethiopian refugees". In Counseling refugees: A psychosocial approach to innovative multicultural innovations (pp. 208-225). F. Bemak, R. Chung, & P. Pedersen (eds). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Aptekar, L & Giel, R. (2002). Walks in Kaliti Life in a Destitute Shelter for the Displaced. In Trauma, War, and Violence: Public Mental Health in Socio-cultural Context Joop de Jong (ed.), (pp. 337-366). NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub.

Aptekar, L., Paardekooper, B., & Kuebli, J. (2000). Adolescence and youth among displaced Ethiopians: A case study in Kaliti camp. International Journal of Group Tensions, 29,1-2: 101-135.

Aptekar, L., and Ciano, L. (1999) Street children in Nairobi, Kenya: Gender differences and mental health. In, Developmental issues among homeless and working street youth: New Directions in Childhood Development, Rafaelli, M. & R. Larson (eds.), pp 35-46. SF, CA: Jossey Bass.

Aptekar, L., Maphalala, T.P. , Dlamini, G., Makhanya, J., & Magagula, S. (1998). The newly emerging problem of street children in Swaziland. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2: 123-141.

Aptekar, L. (1997). Street children in Nairobi, Kenya: Gender differences and mental health. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2: 34-53.

Aptekar, L., & Abebe, B. (1997) Conflict in the Neighborhood: Street children and the public space. Childhood, 4 (4): 477-490.

Aptekar, L., & D. Stocklin. (1996). Growing up in particularly difficult circumstances: A cross-cultural perspective. In J. Berry, P. R. Dasen, & T. S. Saraswathi (Eds). Handbook of cross-cultural psychology (2nd ed.). Volume 2: Basic processes and development psychology (pp. 377-412). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Aptekar, L. (1994). Street children in the developing world: A review of their condition, Cross?cultural Research, 28 (3), pp. 195?224.

Aptekar, L. (1994). Environmental Disasters in Global Perspective. New York: G. K. Hall/Macmillan.

Aptekar, L. (1991). The Psycho?social Process of Adjusting to Natural Disasters. Working paper #70. Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center, Institute of Behavior Science, University of Colorado.

Aptekar, L. and Boore, J. "The Emotional Effects of Disaster on Children, International Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 19, No. 2,summer 1990, pp 77?90.

Aptekar, L. (1988). Street Children of Cali. Duke University Press.

Bellagio Institute (Rockefeller Foundation), accepted for residency to work on manuscript on Ethiopian refugees. Feb, 2003

Fulbright Senior Specialist Program 2002-2007

Senior Fulbright Specialist, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional,
Francisco Morazan, Tegulcigapa, Honduras 2002

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of Zambia 2001

National Science Foundation, "The street children of Kenya: Consequences of Modernization and Changing Family Structures". 1994

Sun Microsystems Foundation, "Helping Under-represented Students Make the Transition: The High School Entrance Academy" 1992

Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Quick Response Grants, "Understanding the Mental Health Problems of Children in a Disaster." 1989

The Kellogg Foundation @ Partners of the Americas, "Training University Students to Work With Street Children." 1987

Bellagio Institute (Rockefeller Foundation), accepted for residency to work on manuscript on Ethiopian refugees, February, 2003.

Invited Professor, Senior Fulbright Specialist, Visiting Professor of Community Counseling, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Francisco Morazan Fulbright Senior
Specialists project. Tegulcigapa, Honduras, June, November, 2002.

Invited Symposium: The changing developmental dynamics of children in particularly difficult circumstances: Some examples of street and war traumatized children. The New York Academy of Sciences Workshop on Childhood and Adolescence in Cross-cultural Perspective, October 27-28, 2000. New York.

Key Note Address: New directions on adolescent research: Developing a cross-cultural methodology for working with street children. 7th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, June June 3, 2000.

Key Note Address: A world view of street children in the year 2,000. Program for Street children symposium, UNICEF City 2,000. Jyvaskyla, Finland, April 4,2000.

Invited Symposium: African Refugees: A case study of Kaliti, Ethiopia. Child and family study group, Cambridge University, March 29, 2000.

Invited Speaker: First International Conference on AIDS in Ethiopia, "HIV positive adolescence among the displaced population of Ethiopia: A case study from Kaliti Camp. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 9, 1999.

Invited Speaker: University of Amsterdam, International Development Research Association, International Conference on Refugees and the Transformation of Society: Loss and Recovery. Paper presentation, "Providing mental health services to refugees: Understanding the changing roles of gender and age among the displaced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia", April 22, 1999.

Nehru Visiting Professor: M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, January 11, 1999. Street children: A cross cultural perspective.

Key Note Address, International Society for Study of Behavioral Development, Adolescence and youth among displaced Ethiopians: A case study in Kaliti Camp, July 22, 1998, Windhoek, Namibia.

Invited participant: Norwegian Center for Child Research, Urban Childhood - An Interdisciplinary Conference, June 9, 1997 Trondheim, Norway, Understanding the Mental Health of Refugees: A case study.

Invited Keynote International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), South Asian Regional Workshop, "A Culturally Sensitive Plan for Working with Street Children", Chandigarh, India, November 21, 1995.

Invited Speaker: Save the Children Southern African Regional Conference, "Working with Traumatized Children", American Cultural Center, Maputo, Mozamibque, October 4, 1995.

Chair 6th Annual BOLESWA Conference, Training Teachers to Work with Street Children", Gabarone, Botswana, August 8, 1995. (Presented with T. P. Maphalala).

Invited speaker: University of South Africa, "Cultural Factors Influencing Children's Responses to Particulariily Difficult Circumstances", Pretoria, South Africa, July 13, 1995.

Invited Workshop: Norwegian Center for Child Research, Haholmen, Norway, May 2-24, 1995, Using drawings to understand traumatized children.

Invited Keynote: Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, S. Africa, March 9, 1995. Cross-cultural problems faced by people who work with street children

(Licensed Psychologist, Texas #2944, California, #PZ10507)

Professor, Department of Counselor Education. San Jose State University. Training counselors to work with children and families, current

Psychologist, (Passed education and experience for clinical correctional facility, OCE86), current.

Psychologist, Expert Reviewer, State of California, Available for expert testimony, current.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Addis. Designed and implemented a community mental health action research project on the mental health of refugees and displaced people, 1996-7.

California Psychological Health Plan, Evaluator PASSAR, 1989-91.

Texas Tech University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. El Paso, Texas, (Post Doctoral Residency), 1985-6.

El Paso Guidance Center. El Paso, Texas. 1985-86

William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas, 1979-80