Dean Rishel

Dr. Rishel received his degree in clinical psychology from Alliant International University, Los Angeles. His forensic/clinical field experiences include, but are not limited to, managing an intensive substance abuse day treatment program for women and their children; providing individual, family, couples, and child psychotherapy to ethnically and diagnostically diverse populations; conducting full psychological batteries on adults and children; working with teenagers who have co-occurring disorders through individual, group and family therapy; providing crisis intervention to survivors of trauma or serious loss; performing time-limited psychotherapy with college students; serving victims of domestic violence through individual and group psychotherapy; and counseling serious juvenile offenders in the California Department of Juvenile Justice (formerly the California Youth Authority).

Dr. Rishel's research experiences include, but are not limited to, his work with the California Youth Authority assisting in the validation of a mental health assessment battery for serious juvenile offenders and assisting with a program evaluation for a new mental health parole transition program, his dissertation work looking at depression among male African American and Hispanic incarcerated juveniles in the California Youth Authority, and his Master's thesis work focusing on the development of an internet-based personality scale to compare factor structures of the collected data to the Five Factor Model of Personality.