Author: Barry J. Koch

Joseph Palombo is the Founding Dean of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago, a staff member and founder of the Rush Neurobehavioral Center, and a faculty member of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Well-known as an author who has published numerous papers on a variety of topics related to the diagnosis and treatment of psychological conditions, he has specialized in the area of the effects of learning disabilities of development. He has published two books: Learning disorders and disorders of the self in children and adolescents and Nonverbal learning disabilities: A clinical perspective. Harold K. Bendicsen has an advanced degree from the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is currently a faculty member of that program. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. He was the director of a child welfare agency and of an agency that provided services to adolescents and young adults. He has been a consultant to many facilities that provide services to children and adolescents and is in private practice. Barry J. Koch, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Field Coordinator for Newman University’s Master of Social Work (MSW) program in Colorado Springs where he teaches courses in advanced clinical practice,  psychopathology, human development, and social policy. He received his Ph D in Chicago from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in 2004. Dr. Koch has taught undergraduate and graduate students. He has been the director of a crisis intervention center and has many years of clinical practice experience treating a wide variety of mental health conditions.