Steve Davidson, Ph.D.

Speaking Engagements

August 2008:  Coping Clinically with Substance Abuse:  The Magic of Motivational Interviewing.  Orange County Psychological Association Continuing Education, Orange County, CA.

June 2008: A Workshop on Motivational Interviewing.  Children and Youth Services, Orange County, CA.

May 2008:  Addiction & the Family:  From Operations to Motivational Interviewing.  Pacific Hills Treatment Center, San Juan Capistrano, CA.

January 2007:   Heroes in the workplace: Drawing on archetypes.  Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Management, Orange County, CA.

July 2006:  Splendidly sane: What can we learn from the ancient Minoans, forerunners of the Classical Greeks?  26^th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece.

January 2006:  The Hawaiian-Minoan connection: Towards a positive prototype culture. 4^th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Oahu, HA.

May 1999:  Ego-syntonic goal-setting: A method for counseling resistant clients.  Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA. 

August 1998:  Excursions into Valhalla: Adolescent forensic counseling.  International Association of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

March 1998:  Prometheus unbound: A psychological/ economic model for the youth justice system.  Forensic Mental Health Association of California, Asilomar, CA.

March 1997:  Deep structure: A new analysis of the foundation of psychological theories.  American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.