Dr Will Cupchik's abbreviated Resume

Psychologist in Private Practice:  

1. Head, Cupchik Centre For The Assessment And Treatment Of Atypical Theft Offenders

2. Conducting Psychotherapy with adults, adults together with their parents, couples, and adolescents; 

3. Teaching; Supervision; Research.

Academic Background:

Ph.D. Counseling Psychology; --1979 --. University of Toronto/OISE

B. Eng. Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical):  1961 - McGill University

B.A.    Major in Psychology: -- 1963-- Carleton University

Ontario Teachers College - 1963-- at Queens University

Ontario Department of Education --Specialists Certificates in Physics and Guidance -- 1966

M.Ed. Counseling and Guidance, -- 1970 -- Applied Psychology; University of Toronto/OISE.

Membership in various U.S. and Canadian Professional Associations

Registered Psychologist - - 1980 --Ontario College of Psychologists

CPQ -- Certificate of Professional Qualifications in Psychology -2001-  Association 

               of State and Provincial Psychology Boards 

American Psychological Association (APA) - Full Member since 1980

American Group Psychotherapy Association  (AGPA) - Full Member  since 1980 

American College  of Forensic Examiners -(ACFE) -Board Certified Forensic Examiner, 

                    Diplomate status -1996   

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) - Full Member since 1980

Ontario Psychological Association - (OPA) - Full member since 1980

Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association (CGPA) - Full Member since 1980

Canadian Registry of Health Service Providers in Psychology - Full Member  since 1992

Academic Appointments:

University of Toronto/OISE (Applied Psychology), Extramural Lecturer, 1996-8, taught graduate courses in Group Psychotherapy

University of Toronto/School of Continuing Studies (1980-89),  taught a variety of courses, including 

    "Shoplifting: Assessment and Treatment",  and  "Mid-Life, Mid-Career Issues"

Listed in Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology, 1984

Advisory Committees:

Executive Board of Scientific and Technical Advisors of the American Board of Forensic Examiners  1997-98 term of office

Professional Experience: 

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry: 1974-1986

:Forensic Clinic/Program (full-time from 1976-1986). Duties included: both inpatient and outpatient sections: diagnostic assessments, individual and group therapy, teaching, supervision of interns, research and administration. Developed and led Gay Issues Group.

  :Psychologist-in-Charge, Forensic Outpatient Psychological Programs, 1984-86:. Additional duties included supervision of psychologists and psychometrists re psychological assessments. Developed and led the Atypical Theft Offender Program, including assessment, research, individual and group treatment modalities.

  Forensic Consultant:  February 1986 to present.   

a) Consultations and Assessments.  For criminal court proceedings, as an expert witness in person and/or via clinical assessment/psychological reports to discuss the theft behavior of individuals who have stolen, in terms that aim to provide understanding of the accused’ underlying psychodynamics and situational elements that may have contributed to their theft behavior, and which aim to provide formulations arising from clinical practice and investigations into this area of human conduct, in ways which might be of assistance to the courts. Also, application of psychotherapeutic theory in dealing with theft offenders, so as to provide possible directions for treatment.

Head, Atypical Theft Offender Intervention Program [A.T.O.I.P.]

b) Teaching and Supervision.  In a variety of settings, including the American College of Forensic Examiners conferences and publications. 

Over 39 years conducting counseling and psychotherapy 

•  sixteen  years (1986-present) assessing and treating theft offenders from within private practice.

•  ten years (1976-86) as first, a psychology intern and then as a psychologist with  the forensic service of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, including two years as the Psychologist-in-Charge, Forensic Outpatient Psychological Services, developing programs for theft offenders;

• Eight years (1964-72) as a guidance counselor, counseling children while working for three successive Boards of Education

Other Private Practice Activities: February 1986 to present.

Guidance Counselor and High School Teacher

Attendance Counselor, Etobicoke Board of Education, 1969-1972. Operated out of Board head office, dealing with troubled children and adolescents (K to 13), assessing and/or treating students in central district. Began and led group for drug users, plus other specialized groups.

Guidance Counselor,  Science and Mathematics teacher, North York Board of Education, 1966- 1969.  At Northview Heights Secondary School.

Guidance Counsellor and Science and Mathematics teacher, Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa, 1963-1966.  At Northview Heights Secondary School.

Professional Electrical Engineer

Navigational Systems Design Engineer, Computing Devices of Canada, Bells Corners, Ontario. 1961-1962. Designing navigational guidance systems for the then-next generation of winged aircraft and aircraft carrier-based helicopters.

Publications:

Books:  

Non-Fiction:

Why Honest People Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft: Assessment and Treatment of  ‘Atypical Theft Offenders’, published by Tagami Communications, Toronto, 1997 (357 pages), 

(ISBN: 1-896342-02-7 )

Revised Edition of Why Honest People Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft: Assessment and Treatment of  ‘Atypical Theft Offenders’, published by Tagami Communications, Toronto, 2002 (ISBN 1-896342-08-6)  

Fiction:

The Arrow Manipulation: A Novel (to be published in the fall of 2003)

Chapter:

Chapter: in Clinical Criminology: The Assessment and Treatment of Criminal Behavior, Edited by Ben-Aron, M.H., Hucker, S.J., and Webster, C.D., Clarke Institute of Psychiatry/University of Toronto, 1985.    Chapter 18,  by  Cupchik,W and Atcheson, D.J., Shoplifting: An Occasional Crime of the Moral Majority.

  Articles:  

 Cupchik, W and Atcheson, D.J., Shoplifting: An Occasional Crime of the Moral Majority, published in the Bulletin of the  American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 11, 4-343, 1983.

 Cupchik, W Reintrojection Therapy: A Procedure For Altering Parental Introjects, published

  in  Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 21, Summer, 1984, #2

 Cupchik, W  Why Essentially Honest People Steal, published in The Forensic Examiner, 

   Nov/Dec edition 1997              

 Cupchik, W, When Essentially Honest Clients Steal: Understanding, Assessment and  Treatment , published in The Los Angeles Psychologist Newsletter, Vol.12, No. 3, 1998

Professional Offices and activities:

  American Board of Forensic Examiners, Executive Board of Scientific and Technical Advisors (1997-1998)

Ontario Psychological Association, planning committee co-chair, for  Mental Health Fair 1999