Jerrold Lee Shapiro


Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor at the Santa Clara University Counseling Psychology graduate program. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Education and academic career

Shapiro is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Colby College, Northwestern University and The University of Waterloo. He held internships at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Boston, MA, Downey VA Hospital Hawaii State Hospital and Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital.
He has been a professor at Santa Clara University in the graduate department of Counseling Psychology, also serving as the Chairman of the graduate program. Dr. Shapiro was director of Santa Clara University’s College of Professional Development from 2002-2014. Prior to his professorship at Santa Clara University, Shapiro was a professor at St. Bonaventure University, The University of Hawaii, visiting professor at UC Santa Cruz, and a myriad of clinical psychology and family therapy programs.
He has served on editorial boards of professional journals and as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals and book publishers.

Clinical and consulting career

Shapiro was first licensed in Hawaii in 1974 and later in California in 1978. During his career, he has held advanced certifications: A Diplomate from the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists, a Certified Clinical Consultant by American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, certified by the National Registry of Certified Group Therapists, and listed in the National Register of Health Care Providers in Psychology.
From 1970 until 2010, Shapiro was engaged in the part-time practice of individual, group, couple and family psychotherapy. He was a partner in the King Kalakaua Center for Humanistic Psychotherapy in Honolulu from 1974-1982, a member of Spectrum Comprehensive Mental Health, and partner in a private practice in Los Altos, CA. He was also a visiting staff counselor at the Counseling Center, University of California, Santa Cruz 1978-1979.
He is founding/managing partner of Family Business Solutions, a consulting firm that specializes in Family Business. In particular, the consultation is designed to help family and closely held businesses through transitions.
Among his consultations are several with the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific, U.S. Army and Navy. These have been primarily focused on Command Communications Equal Opportunities, Race Relations, family life and combat veterans' needs.

PsyJourn Inc.

From 1994-2001, Shapiro was president of PsyJourn, a psychotherapy-oriented software company. The company produced homework modules for patients to use between psychotherapy sessions. The modules were successfully clinically tested and shown to enhance the effectiveness of group therapy for training and for treating posttraumatic stress disorder.

Awards and accolades

Shapiro’s research has ranged from a lengthy series of empirical studies on the outcome effectiveness of group therapy, and interview-based studies of fatherhood, psychotherapist training, couple therapy, and the life transition after midlife. A number of journal, book publications, book chapters, and presentations at professional meetings in each area have ensued.
Based on the pioneering empirical effectiveness research on brief closed groups in the 1970s, he developed a vertically-integrated group leader training program. The model program was instituted at the University of Hawaii and subsequently at Santa Clara University, where it continues. The training involves separate classes in group theory and practice, membership in a training group, advanced class in group leadership, co-leadership of a training group with an experienced professional and finally senior leadership after licensure.
Shapiro’s signature work was a two decade study of the male experience of fatherhood. These interview and clinically-informed studies ranged from expectant fathering to lifelong fatherhood and father-child interactions. Most importantly, the work underscores the psychological influence of a man’s relationship with his own father to the manner in which he subsequently approaches his children. His fatherhood work was part of a renewed interest in men and fatherhood that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. Until this time, during most of the twentieth century, parenting and research was almost exclusively focused on motherhood.

Publications

Shapiro has authored, edited, and contributed to over twenty books, many of which have been published in numerous languages. His book publications include:
Additionally, he has authored 47 professional articles, 17 chapters in professional edited collections, several peer book reviews, 15 trade publications and over 100 presentations & symposia.

Media

Shapiro has served as a media expert for the American Psychological Association and for Santa Clara University. He has appeared on over 200 radio and television programs, locally across the U.S. and Canada, nationally, and internationally.
His work on fatherhood has been cited with major spreads in a host of popular publications including the newspapers: New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, Toronto Globe and Mail, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Nashville Banner), popular periodicals,, and numerous websites geared to parenting, male-female relationships and child-rearing
Finally, he has authored articles for Parents, The San Francisco Sunday Examiner, and Psychology Today.

Miscellany

An avid folk musician and singer, Shapiro has been a member of several Appalachian, old-timey, bluegrass, and folk bands since 1961. He performed with Old Pali Highway Ramblers in Hawaii from 1973-1982.
He served as an expert prosecution witness in precedent setting trial in Honolulu in December 1982; a case in which hypnotically-refreshed testimony was successfully admitted in a rape trial.