Dan Tomasulo

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Full Name	Dan Tomasulo
Occupation	Psychologist
Date Of Birth	Jul 20, 1951(1951-07-20)
Age	73
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Cancer

Dan Tomasulo Biography

Dan Tomasulo is one of the most popular and richest Psychologist who was born on July 20, 1951 in New York City, New York, United States.

Tomasulo was born in New York City and raised in Waldwick, New Jersey, with an Irish mother and Italian father. He earned a B.S. in psychology from Springfield College in 1973, an M.A. in child development from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yeshiva University in 1981. Tomasulo began his study of psychodrama and group therapy in 1980 with Jacquie Siroka and Bob Siroka. He was hired at Brookdale Community College in 1980 where he won the Master Teacher award and became professor of psychology. He worked there until 2001 and then moved to New Jersey City University where he developed the first online psychology courses and later the first permanent positive psychology course in the New Jersey state system. In 1998–99 he was a teaching fellow at Princeton University under the mentorship of John M. Darley in the psychology department and studied with Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang. He won two international reTHINK Theatre playwriting competitions for his plays on mental health: Negatively Oriented Therapy N.O.T. (2012) and Sticks, Stones and the R Word (2010). Both plays premiered in Auckland, New Zealand.

In 1986, Tomasulo became licensed as a counselling psychologist in New Jersey. In 2005, he and Nancy Razza became the first psychologists to be given the New Jersey Healthcare Providers of the Year award for their work with people with intellectual disabilities. The American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama awarded him the David A. Kipper Scholar’s Award for research and their Innovators Award for his clinical work in psychodrama with the developmentally disabled. During 1992–2010, he served as contributing editor of their journal and in 2015 was guest editor for the New Jersey Psychologist Special Edition on Positive Psychology. His most recent book American Snake Pit was published in 2018. In this memoir, Tomasulo chronicles the first experimental group home for the treatment of mentally ill patients coming from the infamous Willowbrook State School, a hell on earth Senator Robert Kennedy called a “snake pit.” The Willowbrook Consent Decree was designed to protect the constitutional rights of these patients and move them out into the community. Because of the success and the progress made by the in-group homes, mental health became a civil right in the United States and the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act was enacted. The screenplay for American Snake Pit has won 32 awards at international film festivals since June 2017 including first place in Comedy/Drama at the West New York F.A.M.E. Festival, and was a finalist in the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition. His screenplay Rock, Paper, Sister won first place in the short films category at the Poe Film Festival. The short story is about a former heroin addict now an Ivy League music professor who enters a unique form of psychodrama for therapy to deal with a secret he’s kept for thirty years. His next book, Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity To Overcome Depression, is due out in spring, 2020, by New Harbinger Publications.

Dan Tomasulo Net Worth

Dan Tomasulo is one of the richest Psychologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dan Tomasulo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Daniel Joseph Tomasulo (born July 20, 1951) is an American counseling psychologist, writer, and professor who teaches positive psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI) clinical psychology program, and in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the Director of the New York City Certification in Positive Psychology for the New York Open Center. His clinical specialization is in psychodrama and sociometry, with an academic specialization in intellectual disabilities. Tomasulo developed Interactive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) and later Positive-Interactive Behavioral Therapy (P-IBT), forms of group psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities, and coauthored the American Psychological Association’s first book on the subject: Healing Trauma: The Power of Group Treatment for People with Intellectual Disabilities (2005) with Nancy Razza. Tomasulo is also the author of: Action Methods in Group Psychotherapy: Practical Aspects (1998), Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir (2008), American Snake Pit (2018), and Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity To Overcome Depression (2020).

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