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contact dr. Jay
james d. livingston, ph.d, LIC Psychologist, CA PSY 5940 tel 831.275.8260 fax 831.241.6885 direct 888.328.7470 leave vm email: [email protected] abbey psychological services www.abbeypsychservices.com abbey monterey: 2100 garden rd, Bldg A-104 monterey, ca 93940 abbey saratoga: 12850 saratoga ave., sar, ca 95070 always be listening global initiative 501(c)(3) www.alwaysbelisteningglobal.com FELLOW: SOCIETY FOR PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT (SPA) PHYSICIANS FOR HUYMAN RIGHTS (PHR) HEALTHRIGHT INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SURVIVORS OF TORTURE (CST) Preferred Contact: Prefer no text, or text for procedural matters only, as confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. email: [email protected] For Consultation, Clinical or Forensic Services Psychological Assessment: Forensic or Clinical Court Testimony Refugee Psychology Second Opinion Review, Expert Witness; Psychotherapy inquiries email: [email protected] plus phone message Victims of Crime CA, Provider Asylum Evaluator & Treatment; Testimony, case by case |
In addition to their clinical work with children and families, Drs. Jay and Marilee love researching and collaborating, teaching, training, mentoring and consulting. They have been longtime clinical psychology professors of doctoral students
at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now Palo Alto University) where they primarily taught Adult and Child Psychological Assessment, child and adult Clinical Psychotherapy courses, developed and supervised community trauma-focused, assessment-informed informed treatment for at-risk children, and taught Child, Adult, and Lifespan Development.
They created, directed, funded and supervised innovative Field and Advanced Field school-based Assessment and Treatment programs during the most crime-infested, drug-infused years of East Palo Alto and Central San Jose, instructing and supervising PGSP practicum students and interns in innovative ways of reaching highly traumatized children and youth who were vastly underserved in terms of community safety and mental health services. These children and youth were often unable to utilize educational services as a result of home instability, neighborhood crime and violence, and perpetual family economic and personal upheaval that disrupted their day to day living situations, their ability to even attend school, their ability to concentrate on learning given chronic high levels of fear, anger, parentification, and perpetual concern for personal and family members' wellbeing.
They have contributed as instructors, supervisors, consultants, and dissertation committee members, at a number of other SF Bay Area institutions: JFK's emerging doctoral program in the North Bay, and ITP (now Sophia University).
Most recently, Dr. Livingston was an instructor for five years of Assessment and Ethics at CSPP/Alliant, San Francisco, including a brief assignment teaching Ethics in Hong Kong. Dr. Marilee taught Lifespan Development at Notre Dame de Namur, Belmont, expanding the course to include address pressing global issues and contemporary religio-cultural, linguistic, and economic concerns pertinent to the development and wellbeing of children and families in transition as a function of fleeing life-threatening regimes and finding themselves stateless.
Much of their work has focused, with global colleagues, on bringing assessment and trauma-informed treatment to the millions of extremely disadvantaged and needy child and adolescents in transition, and supporting their families, caregivers, and educators.
Dr. Jay and Dr. Marilee developed multiple grant-supported child violence exposure assessment & treatment programs: which undergirded and supported student clinicians and researchers at specific treatment sites - field practicums,& advanced field practicums for at-risk, high risk, impoverished, often undocumented, primarily non-caucasian, kindergarten through high school children and youth chronically exposed to community and interpersonal violence. These youth were often found living in transient, temporary, overcrowded conditions in CA, predominantly immigrant, non-English speaking, low to no- employment, communities.
SAMPLING OF INSTRUCTION, CLINICAL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, SUPERVISION
- Dr. Jay, Teaching, Clinical Research, ITP, now Sophia University, Research Methods, Psychopathology, etc.
- JFK Orinda, beginning of their doctoral program, Dr. Ruebsamen (Child Family Therapy, Hx & Systems, Child Psychopathology)
- Fuller MFT program at St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, Psychological Assessment
- CSPP/Alliant SF, Psychological Assessment, Dr. Livingston, and Ethics at their Hong Kong extension, Dr. Livingston
- UC BERKELEY Extension, SF. Neuropsychological Assessment, Rorschach and MMPI-2: Jay co-teaches the Update for Advanced Clinical Practice. Course has now been offered for twenty years.
- Stanford Drug/Alcohol Program, Coordinator of Adolescent Substance Abuse Day Treatment Program, Dr. Livingston.
- Alum Rock Counseling Center, San jose, Dr. Livingston, Senior Clinical Supervisor
- Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC), San jose, Clinical Supervisors, Clinical Director . . . .
- Therapeutic School for Children and Teens, San Jose, Clinical Director, Dr. Ruebsamen.
- Chabad Psychiatric Clinic, SF, Dr. Ruebsamen, nine years, psychological assessment and clinical services. Located on Union St., SF, Clinic founded by Chabad SF to serve low-income, underserved immigrant populations .with no access to mental health services.
- Founding Director of AAPIC multi-layered Intern Program at Sutter inpatient psychiatric facility, Sacramento, CA.Offered range of Doctoral, post-doctoral, and MFT level clinical and assessment, and emergency psychological services.
- St. Elizabeth's School Project, St. Elizabeth's School, Group Treatment Project for violence-exposed children, low-income, multiculturally diverse, fourth-grade students from East Palo Alto neighborhoods who were bussed to Catholic parochial school located in Palo Alto, Dr. Ruebsamen and Dr. Livingston:
- Wednesday's Child Project, grant-supported multi-year multi-Location School-Based Clinical Group Treatment Project for Violence-Exposed Latency aged Children. Project created, directed and supervised by Dr. Ruebsamen and Dr. Livingston Located primarily in East Palo Alto with high-risk children and youth, but also in East San Jose, Central San Jose, South San Jose, and South Santa Clara County.
- Wednesday's Child Project, Advanced Clinical and Assessed Multi-Location School-Based Group Treatment Project for Violence-Exposed latency age children. Project created, directed, and supervised by Dr. Ruebsamen and Dr. Livingston. Grant-supported Advanced Field Practicums of Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.Clinical and Assessment, Dr. Ruebsamen and Dr. Livingston. Located primarily in East Palo Alto, Central and South Palo Alto and South Santa Clara County.
- The Pacificwood Project: grant-supported multi-location school-based Clinical Individual and Group Treatment Project for Violence-Exposed Latency aged and Teen Children and Youth Project created, directed and supervised by Dr. Ruebsamen and Dr. Livingston, staffed by doctoral practicum students. Project included public elementary, middle, and high schools, a therapeutic school for all grade levels, and children in a domestic violence shelter in South Santa Clara County.
- Their presentations and training programs throughout California, Silicon Valley and South Santa Clara County have served a wide variety of children, youth, and families: substance abuse recovery programs - Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center,
- Bay Area Domestic Violence Shelters, Sutter Health, Stanford Drug and Alcohol Program.
- Their work for impoverished, multi-ethnic, marginalized and underserved children, many of whose parents are undocumented and non-English speaking, in school and clinic-based programs through PGSP and Alum Rock Counseling Center attracted an impressive number of sequential grants funding children's assessment and treatment in Santa Clara and surrounding counties, including an award from the Rosenberg Fund and multi-year grants from The Health Trust of Santa Clara County.
- While maintaining private practices, they taught, mentored, supervised, and trained pre and post- doc interns, presented results of clinical research, trained and mentored others around the country and locally, provided trainings, including UN-sponsored workshops.
- They have facilitated students' research and presentations, and collaborated with students, colleagues and other professionals across the US on clinical-research projects.. They created and maintained innovative, trauma-focused school-based services, offered referrals for low-fee, cultural and language-consonant treatment or provided those services themselves at no cost to clients and their families, using interpreters.
- Global Reach, Dr. Ruebsamen, founding executive director of unique global non-profit for war/armed conflict affected children at geopolitically highly unstable country borders, As a post-doc, Dr. Ruebsamen was an active member of Doctors of the World/Health Right International, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Center for Survivors of Torture. She began treating asylum-seeking survivors of torture as an independent psychologist, trained by Doctors of the World/HealthRight International, Jerald Gray, Carlos Gonsalves, Ph.D., and Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D., contracting with the newly formed Center for Center for Survivors of Torture SJ for evaluating adults and adolescents, with an emphasis on treating female adult survivors and adolescents.
- She now consults, trains, and conducts refugee and asylum evaluations and treatment through Abbey Asylum and Refugee Services, as does Dr; Livingston. Both are known for their emphasis on applied clinical work and the integration of research into practice. Dr. Livingston is a Founding Board Member of always be listening.
- Serving survivors of torture from more than 70 countries: dr. livingston
- Dr. Jay has treated survivors of torture full-time at the Center for Survivors of Torture, San Jose, while also teaching doctoral students, traveling to conduct national trainings, and consulting. He continues his work with survivors of torture part-time through Abbey Psychological Services.
- Before being hired full-time by the Center for Survivors of Torture, SJ, he was trained by Jerald Gray, Dr. Carlos Gonsalves, Ph.D., and HealthRight International, worked with Doctors of the World, HealthRight International and Physicians for Human Rights, performing asylum evaluations independently as a contractor for CST. He has been instrumental in the training of many other psychologists and mental health workers over the years, regionally and nationally, in collaboration with other Torture Treatment Centers across the US, frequently in Washington, D.C., regarding critical, contemporary aspects of torture evaluation and treatment, including Secondary Traumatization, Self-Compassion, and self-care. He has providing many other trainings, including training for the California Psychological Association on writing psychological assessments for immigration court. Dr. Ruebsamen also trained with HealthRight International, conducts asylum evaluations and disability evaluations, assesses and treats, and provides expert witness services through Abbey.
- They have functioned in clinical and professional leadership capacities, taught, trained, shared results of clinical/forensic research regionally, nationally, provided clinical and forensic direct, consultive and supervisory services, maintained psychotherapy and psychological assessment services through private practice in multiple settings: institutional, county, juvenile justice, educational and special educational, Criminal, Juvenile, Dependency, Mitigation, Family, and Immigration courts, probate court, hospital, clinic, outpatient, inpatient, residential, private health/mental health facilities.
GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ENGAGEMENT
Contributing with others, with intention and care in areas of rapidly increasing \
US and Global Humanitarian need . . .
Drs. Livingston and Ruebsamen enjoy their work immensely, appreciate its challenges
and breadth, believe deeply in the wellbeing of those they are privileged to work with, and in the humanitarian challenges their profession provides. They continue to work together leading the global nonprofit they've developed for war/armed conflict affected children, always be listening global initiative, described on this website and on alwaysbelisteningglobal.com.
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEEP UNDERSTANDING . . .
They truly appreciate the contribution of psychological assessment to clinical and forensic work. . . they still greatly enjoy obtaining, analyzing and integrating psychological assessment on new cases from students and colleagues, finding how and in what manner those results contribute to a richer understanding of the issues of concern to the referring clinicians - and truly enjoy mentoring others in the same process of discovery.
Dr. Livingston maintains an active, enduring, forensic practice of Second Opinion Assessment Review.
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You, who are on the road Must have a code
That you can live by.
And so -- Become Yourself
Because the past Is just a good-bye
Teach your children well
Your father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your Dreams
The one they pick The one you'll know by
Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.
And you of tender years Can't know the fears
That your elders grew by
And so please help them with your youth
They seek the truth before they can die
Teach your parents well.
The children's hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick The one you'll know by
Don't you ever ask them why -
If they told you you would cry
So just look at them and sigh And know they love you.
Teach Your Children, Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Released, 19
That you can live by.
And so -- Become Yourself
Because the past Is just a good-bye
Teach your children well
Your father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your Dreams
The one they pick The one you'll know by
Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.
And you of tender years Can't know the fears
That your elders grew by
And so please help them with your youth
They seek the truth before they can die
Teach your parents well.
The children's hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick The one you'll know by
Don't you ever ask them why -
If they told you you would cry
So just look at them and sigh And know they love you.
Teach Your Children, Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Released, 19