Providing psychotherapy to clients and ongoing crisis counseling
               Developing, coordinating, facilitating and supervising new programs at the Center Reviewing and developing new                contracts and grants for the Center  Providing quarterly reports (statistics) on all activities of emergency services               department to the Executive director of the Center

               Serving on the quality assurance/utilization review committee, the clinical chief’s committee, and the coordinator’s                 committee   Supervising and providing psychological services to inmates of the Ocean County Jail

               Supervising psychological evaluations for the Division of Youth and Family Services of Ocean County under a                 contract with Shore Mental Health Center

               Providing psychological employment screenings for the Probation, Correction and Sheriff’s Departments of               Ocean County  Writing clinical policy and pocedures

Principal Clinical Psychologist, Admissions Unit, Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, Marlboro, New Jersey (9/84-8/85)

Job responsibilities included:

               Serving as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team  Screening admissions to the hospital for                appropriateness
               Conducting complete psychological evaluations, including neuropsychological  screening, DSM-III diagnoses and                treatment   recommendations
               Providing individual, group and family psychotherapy
              Serving as a neuropsychological consultant for staff
              Supervising unlicensed clinical psychologists and psychology interns
               Offering new employees group therapy
               Providing in-services and case conferences for staff
               Assisting the Admissions Unit Coordinator in the development of new programs

Acting Director of Psychology, Psychology Department, Weston (State) Hospital, Weston, West Virginia (6/84-8/84)

Job responsibilities included:

               Supervising a fourteen member psychology department
                Serving on the Hospital’s Administrative Council
               Planning, directing, and coordinating hospital-wide psychological programs
               Maintaining a quality assurance program in psychology
               Interviewing and making recommendations for hiring of new staff
               Providing timely evaluations for the promotion of staff
               Coordinating services between Unit Directors and psychology staff on MR/DD, geriatric, forensic, admissions               and adult psychiatric units
               Providing monthly progress reports to the Clinical Director
               Chairing departmental meetings
               Coordinating activities of the psychology consultants
               Serving on the Administrative Complaint Committee
               Coordinating the psychology intern program
               Lecturing on the role of psychology to students of other disciplines (nursing and psychiatry)
               Consulting with staff on difficult cases
               Maintaining ethical, professional, and legal standards of the department

Psychologist, Admissions Unit and a Geographic Unit, Weston (State) Hospital of the West Virginia Department of Health (1/82-5/84)

Job responsibilities included:

               Serving as Psychologist on the Admissions Unit and as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team
               Conducting complete psychological evaluations including neuropsychological assessments, DSM-III diagnoses,               and treatment recommendations for new and re-admissions
               Acting as case manager for selected residents
               Providing group and individual psychotherapy
               Screening and testing residents from other units of the Hospital that were referred and selected for the                Halstead- Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
               Administering the Ward Self Government Program and writing special programs
               Providing consultation services to staff
               Supervising psychology graduate students and several psychology assistants
               Providing in-services for psychology assistants, medical students, residents and others
               Conducting tours of the Admissions Unit for community workers
               Evaluating residents on other hospital units and testifying as necessary for civil commitment and other court                proceedings
               Evaluating residents for social security benefits
               Evaluating residents on other hospital units to determine their competence to consent to medications
               Evaluating and presenting problem cases at the Hospital’s Multiaxial Staffings
               Serving on the Employee Management Advisory Committee, The Human Rights Committee and the Peer Review                Committee
               Supervision and Training in Clinical Psychology was provided

Psychologist, Greenbriar Training Center for Mentally Retarded, Handicapped and Severely Learning Disabled Children and Adults (ages 7-23),

 Residential Treatment and Assessment Facility of the West Virginia Department of Health (4/81-12/81)

Job responsibilities included:

               Serving as Clinical and School Psychologist
               Providing Psychological and Neuropsychological assessments of residents for diagnosis and treatment planning,                and Neuropsychological assessments for .all potential new admissions
               Consulting with resident teachers on B-MOD programs
               Developing, maintaining and acting as chairman of a behavior management team
               Training aides to write and carry out their own behavioral modification programs under supervision
               Developing and managing a Token Economy System
               Assisting in the development of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
               Providing counseling to residents, staff and others
               Supervising the evening shift and a psychological assistant
               Testifying at court hearings for civil commitment
               Supervision and Training in Clinical and School Psychology was provided

Farmer, Shepherd, Honey Producer,  Honey Bee Queen Breeder (8/76-4/81)

Honey Bee Specialist (Educator and Inspector), West Virginia Department of Agriculture. seasonal employment, 8/80-10/80).

Honey Bee Queen Breeder and Personnel Consultant, Genetic Systems Inc., LaBelle, Florida. (Seasonal employment, 2/80-5/80)

Assistant Professor Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Graduate Faculty, (8/73-7/76)

Job responsibilities included:

            Teaching courses in psychology including: Physiological
            Psychology, Animal Behavior, Introductory Psychology and others.
            Supervision of Graduate Students Research
            Supervised Master’s Thesis on the use of temperature biofeedback to
            Control migraine headaches.
            Participating in Psychology Department Meetings and acitivities
            including research in Biofeedback for Consciousness Control

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, (1971-1976)

Job responsibilities included:          

               Managing a developmental neuropsychobiology laboratory
               Supervising students in a mental retardation research training program
               Conducting research on the development of sleep in kittens, rats and newborn humans using electrophysiological                techniques including evoked potentials, electroencephalograms, electromyograms, electro-oculograms and others
               Developing techniques for chronic recording of single units (neurons) in actively behaving kittens
              Developing, coordinating and chairing weekly seminars in developmental neuropsychobiology
               Providing in-service training to psychiatric residents in specialty areas:  biofeedback, neuropsychology and                sleep .(physiology, pathology, pharmacology, neuroanatomy neurochemistry)
               Persisting at interdisciplinary grant writing for the department

Some Research:

            LoPresti, R.W. and Goodman, I.J., Intracranial induction of sleep in the avian  forebrain.  Psychophysiology, 1968, 5(2):199

            Sterman, M.B., LoPresti, R.W., and Farichild, M.D. “EEG and behavioral studies of   monomethylhydrazine             toxicity in the cat.
            (Control of experimentally induced  seizures through brain wave conditioning).” Technical Report, AMRI-TR 69-3,
            USAF.  (Discovered the use of biofeedback to control grand mal and  subcortical seizures)

            LoPresti, R.W., Oswalt, G.I., Meier, G.W. and Copenhaver, J.H.

Effects of parachlorophenylalanine on the development of sleep in kitten. Sleep  Research Vol. 2  (This study demonstrated serotonin’s control of sleep)

            LoPresti, R.W. and McGinty, D.J. Sleep in the Phalanger:

                        An Australian marsupial. Psychophysiology, 1970, 7(2):304

            DeProspero, T., LoPresti, R.W., and Atkinson, T.

                        A Screening system for neuropsychological testing.  Poster session paper  presented at the Association for               the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,  Waahington, D.C., December 1983.

Programs and Projects Developed:

            Group Psychotherapy on a Psychiatric Admissions Unit
            Group Therapy for Treatment Team
            Self Government  on a Psychiatric Admissions Unit
            Mealtime Management on a Behavioral Problem Ward (Residents were Functionally retarded and assaultive)
            Adjustment to Medications
            Screening system for Neuropsychological Testing
            Human Rights Committee
            Token Economy
            Behavioral Management Team
            Quality Assurance for Emergency Services at a CMHC
            Aggressive Outreach for Emergency Services at a CMHC
            Comprehensive Psychological Testing Service at a CMHC
            Multifamily Therapy Team at a CMHC;

 

Programs and Projects Developed (Continued)

            Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group
            Men’s Psychotherapy Group
            Self-Help Group for ADHD Adults and their Significant  Others. (1987 to present)
            Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy Group for Clients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
            Behavioral Therapy Group for Clients with Panic Disorders
            Psychotherapy Groups for ADD Adults, Women’s ADD Therapy Group
            Workshops and Lectures given at Ocean County College and Brookdale

Community College on various topics:

             Love, Marriage, Anger--ADD Style; ADD on the Job;   ADD Management; Infidelity; For Couples Only and             others.

            Workshops given to local schools and college class to Special Education teachers on learning disabilities.

References:  Available on Request.

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