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Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D. Jonathan Cohen is the Co-founder and Director of The Project for Social Emotional Learning (PSEL) at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Center for Social and Emotional Learning (CSEE). The mission of CSEE and the PSEL is to train and educate a critical mass of educators, school specialists, and parents to promote social and emotional literacy. Its vision is that all children will have the opportunity to become socially and emotionally literate to support healthy, responsible, accomplished and productive lives. Since completing his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York in 1979 and a post-doctoral fellowship in child psychology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and then, at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Cohen is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Cohen has been a supervisor and a teacher of undergraduate and graduate students in education, clinical and developmental psychology at Columbia University. He has also taught at New York University and the City University of New York. Dr. Cohen has worked in and with public and independent schools in a wide variety of ways for over twenty five years: as a teacher; school psychologist; program developer; director of support services; psychoeducational diagnostician and social emotional educational consultant.		Learn more from Dr. Cohen Tool / Concept you will learn from his presentation at Nexus: What characterizes effective social and emotional education for students as well as teachers and school specialists? His Nexus 2000 schedule and presentation description Books | Bibliography | Links
Dr. Cohen is frequently invited to lecture nationally and internationally about social emotional education, child development and the child psychotherapeutic process. Dr. Cohen founded the Teachers College Press Social Emotional Learning Book Series. He is the editor of Educating Minds and Hearts: Social Emotional Learning and the Passage into Adolescence (1999, Teachers College Press & the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), Gaining Balance: Educating the Hearts and Minds of Young Children (forthcoming, Teachers College Press), and co-editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time: Clinical and Research Studies of Children Who Return to Children in Adulthood (1999, Academic Press). He is also the author of over twenty-five journal articles and chapters about a wide range of educational, special education, developmental and psychotherapeutic issues.