Daniel David

For other people named Daniel David, see Daniel David (disambiguation).

Daniel David (born 23 November 1972 in Satu Mare, Romania) is an "Aaron T. Beck" professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He was the head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy[1] of the Babeş-Bolyai University between 2007 and 2012. Daniel David is also an adjunct professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[2] and is the head of the Research Program at Albert Ellis Institute[3] in New York.

National achievements

David created the first school of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in Romania, based on international principles, recognized as such by the founders of this field such as Albert Ellis and Aaron T. Beck; he and his trainee also extended the application of CBT in education (e.g., rational-emotive & cognitive-behavioral education) and organizational fields (e.g., cognitive-behavioral coaching). He is a Fellow in the Academy of Cognitive Therapy,[4] U.S.A. and the national representative in the Social Sciences Standing Committee at the European Science Foundation.[5] He is among those who introduced in Romanian academic psychology the evolutionary psychology and genetic counseling as modern interdisciplinary approaches between psychology and biology.[6] David reintroduced and up-dated the Retman concept, and is the coordinator of the team that created the comics, stories and cartoons with this character.[7][8]

He has promoted the reform of Romanian clinical psychology and psychotherapy based on modern principles.[9] Such a reform was necessary, taking into account that during the communist period of Romania both clinical psychology and psychotherapy were practically forbidden by the communist regime, and thus, the field was frozen in time. For example, after the communist era, Szondi and Lusher, among other projective test, were still commonly used for clinical testing.[10] David, who studied in the U.S.A. for both his doctoral and postdoctoral studies,[11] was one of the leaders of the first generations of psychologists after the anti-communist revolution of 1989, as since the 2000s, he has constantly been the most cited Romanian psychologist in the international literature.[12][13] Given that he had several governmental and professional positions/leadership, he marked the reform of the clinical field in Romania, helping in moving the field from a '70s style approach to the modern one.[9] For his merits in research and education he was knighted in 2008 by the President of Romania, in the National Order of Knights for Merit.[14] Also, for the advanced research programs that he has initiated, in 2014, together with other important contemporary researchers, he received the innovation award, part of the "Foreign Policy Romania" Gala.[15]

International achievements

He has contributed to the assimilation of cognitive science principles in the clinical field.[16][17] A more specific contribution was focused on developing the theory and practice of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT/REBT),[18][19] which brought him both the Aaron T. Beck Award and the Albert Ellis Award of the International Institute for the Advanced Study of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health. In 2004 he was invited as "Guest Editor" by the Journal of Clinical Psychology to organize a special issue titled: "Cognitive revolution in clinical psychology: Beyond the behavioral approach" in order to present the state-of-the-art regarding the impact of the cognitive revolution on the clinical field.[20] As founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies (abstracted: SSCI/Thomson ISI Web of Science; SCOPUS; PsycInfo; IBSS and full text: EBSCO; ProQuest[21]), a Journal focused on evidence-based practice, he has supported the evidence-based approach in the clinical field. At this moment, is co-editor of the prestigious Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.[22] In 2013, the two research platforms, The SkyRa Platform for Clinical Cognitive Neurosciences and the PsyTech-Matrix Platform in Robotics/Robotherapy and Virtual Reality Psychotherapy, that he is coordinating as part of the International Institute for the Advanced Study of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, have both been included in Mapping of the European Research Infrastructure Landscape (MERIL database).[23]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty/Staff". Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 2007-07-15. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Daniel-Ovidiu David | Mount Sinai - New York". Mount Sinai Health System. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  3. ↑ "Daniel David, Ph.D. |". albertellis.org. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  4. ↑ "- Academy of Cognitive Therapy". members.academyofct.org. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  5. ↑ "Scientific Review Group : European Science Foundation". www.esf.org. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  6. ↑ "editura polirom / catalog / carte - 2015". www.polirom.ro. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  7. ↑ "RETMAN: Interventii psihoterapeutice pentru copii si adolescenti". retman.ro. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  8. ↑ "The Retmagic of Retman - International Institute". psychotherapy.psiedu.ubbcluj.ro. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  9. 1 2 Popescu, Victor (2006-08-17). "Cultura". revistacultura.ro. Fundația Culturală Română. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  10. ↑ Minulescu, Mihaela (2001). Tehnici Proiective. Bucuresti: Editura Titu Maiorescu. ISBN 973-98628-2-9.
  11. ↑ David, Daniel (2014-10-25). "Academic CV" (PDF). Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  12. ↑ "Ad Astra - Cartea albă a cercetării din România". old.ad-astra.ro. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  13. ↑ Dobrean, Anca; Matu, Silviu (2015). "INTERNATIONALLY ACTIVE, VISIBLE, HIGH IMPACT, AND EMINENT ROMANIAN PSYCHOLOGISTS. A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS". Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies. 15 (1).
  14. ↑ Decree of the President of Romania regarding the attribution of decorations, published in The Official Monitor, Part I, no. 52 1/23/2008.
  15. ↑ Diana Rusu. Gala Foreign Policy România: top 100 oameni care mișcă țara în direcții bune, Ziarul Adevărul, 25 February 2014. Accessed on 3 March 2014.
  16. ↑ David, Daniel; Szentagotai, Aurora (2006-05-01). "Cognitions in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies; toward an integrative model". Clinical Psychology Review. 26 (3): 284–298. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2005.09.003.
  17. ↑ David, Daniel; Miclea, Mircea; Opre, Adrian (2004-04-01). "The information-processing approach to the human mind: Basics and beyond". Journal of Clinical Psychology. 60 (4): 353–368. doi:10.1002/jclp.10250. ISSN 1097-4679.
  18. ↑ David, Daniel; Lynn, Steven; Ellis, Albert (2010). Rational and irrational beliefs in human functioning and disturbances; Implication for research, theory, and practice. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195182231.
  19. ↑ David, Daniel; Freeman, Arthur (2014). "Overview of cognitive behavior therapy of personality disorders". In Beck, Aaron; Davis, Denise; Freeman, Arthur. Cognitive therapy of personality disorders (Third ed.). New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 9781462518050.
  20. ↑ "Journal of Clinical Psychology - Volume 60, Issue 4 - Cognitive Revolution in Clinical Psychology: Beyond the Behavioral Approach - Wiley Online Library". doi:10.1002/jclp.v60:4/issuetoc.
  21. ↑ "Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies". Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  22. ↑ "Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - incl. option to publish open access". springer.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  23. ↑ AG, Avedas. "MERIL - RI Information System". portal.meril.eu. Retrieved 2016-10-14.

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