Dr. Bernie Schwartz

 
 

Dr. Bernie Schwartz has over 35 years of experience as a practicing individual and family therapist, educator and author. He is a licensed clinical psychologist who has taught at the preschool, elementary, undergraduate and graduate levels, and has developed a number of specialties including parent-child relations and sports psychology. He was the founder and director of the Student Psychological Services at Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California, where he taught for two decades. He has authored a number of books including the highly successful: “How to Get Your Children to do What You Want Them to Do,” and most recently “How Therapists Fail,” which focuses on the factors which lead to therapeutic success or failure. This book has been adopted by dozens of university training programs throughout the country. Currently, he is a professor of psychology at Chapman University and supervises future therapists at Outreach Concern of Orange County, a non-profit organization which places interns in elementary, middle and high schools.