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Professor Michael E. Bernard
Professor Michael E. Bernard is an international consultant to educational authorities, organisations and government and is a Professor at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education, Australia.
After receiving his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he worked for 18 years in the College of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.
In 1983, he was appointed as Reader and Coordinator of the Master of Educational Psychology Program.
Between 1995 and 2005, he was a tenured professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling, College of Education, at California State University, Long Beach.
Professor Bernard has worked as a consultant psychologist helping families and schools address the educational and mental health needs of school-age children.
He has spent extensive time counseling children with emotional, behavioural or academic difficulties.
Professor Bernard is a co-founder of the Australian Institute for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and is the author of many books on REBT.
For eight years, he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy.
He is the author of over 50 books, 15 book chapters and 30 journal articles in the area of children’s early childhood development, learning and social-emotional well being as well as parent education, teacher professional development and school improvement.