Faculty

Jed Yalof, Psy.D., ABPP, ABSNP

Professor of Psychology
Chair, Graduate Psychology Department
Coordinator, Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology

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. 

 

Dr. Yalof holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, and is a licensed psychologist. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Devereux Foundation in the areas of clinical psychology and traumatic head injury. He is also a certified school psychologist, completing postdoctoral training at Bryn Mawr College, and a neuropsychologist, completing postdoctoral training at the Fielding Institute. He is board certified in clinical psychology (ABPP) and school-neuropsychology (ABSNP), and a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the Society for Personality Assessment, and the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology and of the Society for Personality Assessment.

 

Dr. Yalof is presently the editor of the Society for Personality Assessment Exchange, and a member of the Society for Personality Assessment Board of Trustees. He is also on the Advisory Board of the American Board of School Neuropsychology, and is a past-president of the Academic Division of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.  Dr. Yalof’’s interests are in the areas of teaching and learning, academic leadership and governance, psychoanalytic theory and therapy, diagnostic assessment, and professional issues. Professional writing includes authorship of journal articles in the areas of nonverbal learning disability, intake-referral process, teaching and learning personality assessment, teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy, and college counseling, and co-authorship of articles in the areas of ethics, clinical supervision, and achievement motivation in athletes. Dr. Yalof has co-authorship of professional newsletter articles in the areas of diagnosing subtle learning disorders, neuropsychological assessment of high-risk adolescents, school psychology and Rorschach, and doctoral training. Dr. Yalof published the book Training and Teaching the Mental Health Professional and co-authored book chapters on clinical interviewing and personality testing in schools. Dr. Yalof has also presented numerous papers and workshops at professional conferences and meetings, and was a Visiting Professor/Workshop Presenter at the C.F. Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas in 1998. He has served as a reviewer for peer-refereed journals and for book publishers, and has been an examiner of peers for board certification in clinical psychology and school neuropsychology. His private practice is in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychological assessment, including neuropsychological, and school-neuropsychological evaluations of children and adolescents (e.g., neurodevelopmental, neurocognitive - ADHD, LD, autistic spectrum, social-emotional/personality), and consultative evaluations for other psychologists. .

Selective Recent Publications

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.

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