Positive Psychology, Psychotherapy & Cognitive Behavioral Sciences

David Baron is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Director, and Global Center for Exercise, Psychiatry and Sports at USC and Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He is currently working on cutting edge research on Traumatic Brain Injuries funded by the NFL. He received his MEd from USC, and trained in bioethics at Georgetown University and NIH. Additionally, he was the NIMH bioethics representative at NIH.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mood symptoms, Depression treatment

Dr Nimmi Hutnik is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and an accredited cognitive behaviour therapist. She is also an academic with a doctorate from Oxford University She was Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the California School of Professional Psychology. More about Dr Hutnik at www.cbtintheuk.com.rnDr Nimmi Hutnik has recently launched a new course in CBT at London South Bank University: Advanced CBT Practice (Resilience and Positive Development). See www.lsbu.ac.uk/courses/course-finder/cbt. She has worked with Dr Christine Padesky on resilience research. She has presented at a number of prestigious conferences in UK where she lives and practices. She is contactable at hutnikn@lsbu.ac.uk.rn

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, positive psychology

Hector W.H. Tsang is a Professor and works at Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Laboratory, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Stress; Teacher; Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Cognitive Behavioral Intervention; Psychosomatic Symptoms; Physical Responses, Mental Health

Ann Macaskill is Professor of Health Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom and Head of Research Ethics for the university. She is trained as a health psychologist and a psychotherapist. She obtained her PhD from Aberdeen University and then worked as a Post-doc at Edinburgh University. She then moved to the University of Sheffield and currently works at Sheffield Hallam University where she established a psychology degree. She has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 3 books and 9 book chapters and serves on the Editorial Board of several journals.

forgiveness - interpersonal, self and situational defining lay and psychological understanding of the forgiveness process grudge holding and vengeance seeking conflict resolution and the facilitation of forgiveness psychological determinants of health and illness evaluation of therapeutic interventions

Oakley E Gordon completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Utah in 1984. He has travelled 15 times to Peru to study with the Paq'os (indigenous mystics/healers) in isolated villages of the high Andes. He has shared his findings with his culture at five regional and international academic conferences, through a blog and a recently published book, and through several hundred Andean meditation classes.

He has been studying the epistemology of the indigenous people who live in remove villages in the high Andes of Peru.

Augustine Nwoye is a Professor of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and a Member of the School of Applied Human Sciences. Through his research and writings, he has made original and unique contributions to the definition and study of African Psychology as an emerging specialization very much in demand in the curriculum of many departments of psychology in the South and other regions of Africa. He has held distinguished teaching positions in several universities in Africa, including: The University of Jos, Nigeria; Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, The University of Dodoma, Tanzania and Covenant University, Lagos, Nigeria. He has also won several visiting fellowships and given public lectures in many universities in continental Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. He has received his PhD from the University of Nigeria and was recently in the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at Howard University and the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.

African Psychology and Bifocal Ideologies; African Identity and Cultural Orphanhood; African Femininity and Womanhood; Models of Fertility Management; African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; African Epistemologies; Psychology of Skin Bleaching.

Driss Moussaoui is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine. In 1979, he founded and is still the Chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca, Morocco, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health and Neurosciences since 1992. He is the past-president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He was honoured as “Knight of Throne Wissam” of the Kingdom of Morocco in 1993 and received the Prize of the President of Tunisia in Medicine in 1988.

His special interests include transcultural psychiatry, Child and adolescent psychiatry