Amanda Clinton, M.Ed., Ph.D., is the Senior Director for the Office of International Affairs at the American Psychological Association (APA). Prior to joining the APA, Dr. Clinton served as Professor of Psychology at the University of Puerto Rico where she specialized in cultural adaptation, early childhood, social-emotional development, and the neuropsychology of bilingualism. Dr. Clinton is a licensed psychologist and a credentialed school psychologist with experience in community clinics, pediatric hospitals, public schools, academic settings, and public policy. Dr. Clinton’s scholarly work includes “Climate Action and Global Psychology” and “Integrated Assessment of the Bilingual Child,” as well as numerous peer-reviewed papers and chapters. She is also Co-Editor of the upcoming second edition of the “Handbook of International Psychology.” Dr. Clinton completed an APA/AAAS Congressional Fellowship in the office of Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) where she helped write the Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 (passed as 21st Century Cures). Dr. Clinton has won several prestigious awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship and APA Division 9 Educator/Mentor of the Year. Dr. Clinton earned her master’s degree at the University of Washington, her doctoral degree at the University of Georgia and a post-doctoral title in Trauma and Humanitarian Response from the State University of New York.

Judith S. Beck, PhD, is President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (beckinstitute.org), a nonprofit organization that provides state-of-the-art training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R).The Beck Institute also offers certification in CBT, and online courses on a variety of topics, in addition to conducting research and providing CBT resources around the world. Dr. Beck is also Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written over 100 articles and chapters, workbooks, pamphlets for professionals and nonprofessionals, and 7 books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, 3r dEdition (2021) and Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work. She has made hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally on various applications of CBT and is the primary developer of the Beck Institute’s on demand CBT training courses, which have been taken by more than 28,000 health and mental health professionals in over 130 countries. Dr. Beck also provides supervision and treats clients.