Faculty

Jed Yalof, PsyD, ABPP, ABSNP, is Professor & Chair of the Department of Graduate Psychology at Immaculata University, and Coordinator of the PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Yalof has been chair of the Department of Graduate Psychology since 1990 and Coordinator of the PsyD program in Clinical Psychology since its inception in 1991. He was also the director of college counseling and testing services at Immaculata from 1984-1995. Dr. Yalof was the 2005 recipient of the university’s Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. 

Krishnamurthy, R., & Yalof, J. (in press). The assessment competency. In M. B. Kenkel and R. L. Peterson (Eds.), Competency-based education for professional psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Yalof, J (in press). Right hemispheric disorders and emotional disturbance. In S. Feifer & G. Rattan (Eds.), The neuropsychology of emotional disorders. Middleton, MD: School Neuropsych Press. Yalof, J., & Abraham, P.P. (2006). Personality assessment in schools. In S. Smith & L. Handler, (Eds.), The clinical assessment or children and adolescents: A practitioner’s guide, (pp. 19-35). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. Yalof, J. (2006). Case illustration of a boy with nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger’s features. Neuropsychological and personality assessment. Journal of Personality Assesmsent, 87, 15-34. Yalof, J., & Domingos, B. (2005). DSM-IV-TR learning disorder not otherwise specified: Implications and applications in school psychology. The School Psychologist, 59, 4, 134-139. Yalof, J. & Abraham, P.P. (2004). Psychoanalytic interviewing. In R. J. Craig, (Ed.), Clinical and diagnostic interviewing, (2nd ed., pp. 57-90). NY: Jason Aronson, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. Yalof, J., & Brabender, V. (2001). Ethical dilemmas in personality assessment courses: Using the classroom for in vivo training. Journal of Personality Assessment, 77, 203-213. Selective Recent Presentations McGrath, M.C., & Yalof, J. (June, 2008). Clinicians’s attitudes and aprctices regarding emotional trauma, attachment, and the developing brain. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Harrisburg, PA. McGrath, M.C., & Yalof, J. (February, 2008). School neuropsychology: Practitioners’ perceptions of training. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, New Orleans, LA. McGrath, M.C., & Yalof, J. (March, 2007). School neuropsychology: Impact on school psychology program training practices. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, New York, NY. Yalof, J. (April, 2008). Conflict compromise or complementarity: Psychodynamc theory alongside short-term clinical methods in our clinical doctoral programs. D. Downing (Chair). Roundtable participant at the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY. Yalof, J. (March, 2008). Writing for Publication. Roundtable participant at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, New Orleans, LA. Yalof, J. (March, 2008). Wishful assessment teaching. In L. Handler (Chair). Innovative teaching of personality assessment. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, New Orleans, LA. Yalof, J. (March, 2007). The role of integrative neuropsychological and personality assessment in the evaluation of complex cases involving subtle learning disorders: Case illustration of at-risk student. In B. Domingos (Chair) Personality assessment and its function in a neuropsychological evaluation. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA. Yalof, J. (April, 2006). Classroom as clinic: Challenges of teaching psychoanalytic theory to doctoral students. In M. Hadley (Chair) Teaching psychoanalysis to clinical doctoral students in the age of managed care and short-term treatment. Symposium conducted at the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis, Philadelphia, PA. Yalof, J. & Abraham, P. (March, 2006). Assessment supervision. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA. Yalof, J. (March, 2005). Validate the unthinkable? The challenges of teaching students a psychoanalytically informed Rorschach research methodology. In P. Lerner (Chair) Validity and a psychoanalytic approach to the Rorschach. Symposium conducted at the Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL. Yalof, J. (March, 2005). Parallels in teaching and learning the Rorschach. In M. Hilsenroth (Chair). Teaching and learning the Rorschach. Symposium conducted at the Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

* Psychoanalytic Theory & Therapy * School Neuropsychology * Topics in Professional Psychology * Diagnostic Seminar I & II * Dissertation Seminar