Bemak, Fred

PERSONAL: Born in Boston, MA; son of Walter (an educator) and Ruth (an educator) Bemak; married Rita Chi-ying Chung (a professor); children: Amber, Lani. Education: Boston University, B.A., 1970; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1971, Ed.D., 1975.

ADDRESSES: Office—Graduate School of Education, MSN 483, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030. E-mail—fbemak@gmu.edu.

CAREER: Writer, counselor, and educator. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, associate professor and department chair, 1989–97; Ohio State University, Columbus, professor and section head, 1997–2000; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, professor of education and program coordinator, 2000–. Consultant to more than 100 agencies and organizations in United States and abroad.

MEMBER: International Association for Counseling, International Society for the Study of Forced Migration, American Psychological Association, American Consulting Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fulbright scholar; Kellogg international fellow; also international fellow of World Rehabilitation Fund.

WRITINGS:

(With Susan Keys) Violent and Aggressive Youth: Intervention and Prevention Strategies for Changing Times, Corwin Press (Thousand Oaks, CA), 2000.

(Editor, with Peter R. Breggin and Ginger Breggin) Dimensions of Empathic Therapy, Springer (New York, NY), 2002.

(With wife, Rita Chi-ying Chung, and Paul P. Pedersen) Counseling Refugees: A Psychosocial Approach to Innovative Multicultural Interventions, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2003.

(Editor, with Robert K. Conyne) Journeys to Professional Excellence: Lessons from Leading Counselor Educators and Practitioners, American Counseling Association (Alexandria, VA), 2005.

Contributor to books. Contributor of more than sixty articles to education and counseling journals.

WORK IN PROGRESS: One book.