About the Author

John R. White, Ph.D., is the author of Overcoming Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and empirically based CBT treatment protocol published by New Harbinger. He is also an editor with Art Freedman, Ed.D. of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapies, published by APA Books in 2000. As Adjunct Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology-Alameda he teaches the Advanced Clinical Series in CBT and serves as Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, School of Education for counseling Psychology graduate students. After graduating from CSPP and completing NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center he took two years of extramural training at the Cognitive Therapy Center of Philadelphia with Aaron T. Beck, M.D. He maintains a private practice in Fremont, California and serves as Director of Psychological Services at Fremont Hospital where he developed its inpatient CBT program and manual. In the beginning he earned a Masters of Divinity at the Pacific School of Religion where he studied with Rollo May, Ph.D. Dr. White currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children.