Dan Tomasulo

Daniel Joseph Tomasulo (born July 20, 1951) is an American counseling psychologist, writer, and professor and the Academic Director and core faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology, MFA in writing, and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and was formerly the Director of the New York City Certification in Positive Psychology for the New York Open Center. He is also a Review Editor for Frontiers in Psychology's special section on Positive Psychology and ''The Journal of Positive Psychology.'' He received the 2021 Teachers College, Columbia University Teaching Award.

His clinical specialization is in psychodrama and sociometry, with an academic specialization in the science of hope. Tomasulo developed Interactive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) and later Positive-Interactive Behavioral Therapy (P-IBT), forms of group psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities, and coauthored the American Psychological Association's first book on the subject: ''Healing Trauma: The Power of Group Treatment for People with Intellectual Disabilities'' (2005) with Nancy Razza. Tomasulo is also the author of: ''Action Methods in Group Psychotherapy: Practical Aspects'' (1998), ''Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir'' (2008), ''American Snake Pit'' (2018), ''Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity To Overcome Depression" (2020), and "The Positivity Effect: Simple CBT Skills to Transform Anxiety and Negativity into Optimism and Hope" (2023)''. He is also coauthor of ''Character Strengths and Abilities Within Disabilities: Science and Practice'' with Ryan Niemiec, the first book devoted to the science and practice of character strengths and disabilities. Provided by Wikipedia