
Peter Mortola is a professor of counseling psychology and coordinator of the school psychology program. He specializes in school psychology, narrative approaches to understanding children’s problems, Gestalt theory, child development, and developmentally appropriate methods of child and adolescent counselor education.
Areas of Expertise
Lifespan Development, Group Counseling with Children, Social & Emotional Assessment of Children, Developmentally Appropriate Methods of Counseling Children
Publications
Boys Advocacy and Mentoring (BAM!)
“I loved your Boys Advocacy and Mentoring guide. You have written a wise and grounded guide for working with boys in groups. You really get it about boys.”
Author of Raising Cain: Focus on Boys and host of the associated PBS documentary
Windowframes
“Thank you, Peter, for writing this book. I hope those of you who read it will gain from it an appreciation of what it takes to create and run such a training program, as well as insights into the complexity of teaching adults to learn how to work with children and adolescents in a vital and effective way.”
-Violet Oaklander
Santa Barbara, CA
August, 2004
Articles
- Mortola, Peter. (1999). Narrative formulation and gesalt closure: helping clients make sense of “disequilibrium” through stories in the therapeutic setting. Gestalt Review. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
- Mortola, Peter. (1999). Narrative as a bridge: storied links within and between Confluent Education and Multi-Cultural Education. In J. Brown (Ed.), Advances in Confluent Education: Integrating Consciousness for Human Change. Vol. 2. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
- Mortola, Peter & Shapiro, S. (1998). The Place of Group Dynamics in Confluent Education: Integrating Consciousness for Human Change. vol. 1. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Academic Credentials
PhD 1998, MA 1993 University of California,Santa Barbara, BA 1981 University of California, Berkeley
Location: Rogers Hall
Counseling, Therapy, and School Psychology is located in room 326 of Rogers Hall on the Graduate Campus.
email ctsp@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-6060
fax 503-768-6065
Chair Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Counseling, Therapy, and School Psychology
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 86
Portland OR 97219