Professional Biography

 Stephen E. Brock, Ph.D., NCSP, LEP

Dr. Stephen E. Brock is a Professor at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). His professional preparation includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology, and a Ph.D. in Education (with an emphasis in psychological studies) at the University of California, Davis, where he researched Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Currently, he coordinates the CSUS school psychology training program and is a member of the departmental Human Subjects and Graduate committees. University courses taught have included Educational Research, Functional Assessment of Behavior, Preventive Psychological Interventions, Psychology in the Schools, and Human Development and Learning.

A Nationally Certified School Psychologists (NCSP) and Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP), Dr. Brock worked for 18 years as a school psychologist with the Lodi Unified School District (the last 6 of which included assignment as Lead Psychologist) before joining the CSUS faculty. As a school psychologist he helped to develop the district's school crisis response protocol, served on an autism specialty team, and specialized in functional behavioral assessment.  

A member of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) since 1985, Dr. Brock currently serves as a Contributing Editor to the Communiqué (the NASP newsletter), is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the School Psychology Review, is a member of the National Emergency Assistance Team, and is co-chair of the PREPaRE Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum workgroup. In addition, he previously served as the California representative to the NASP Delegate Assembly and Coordinator of the Crisis Management Interest Group. He was the lead editor of the NASP publication Best Practices in School Crisis Prevention and Intervention and lead author of School Crisis Prevention and Intervention. Dr. Brock received NASP's Presidential award in 2004 and 2006, and the Crisis Management Interest Group's Award of Excellence in 2006 and 2007.

At the state level, Dr. Brock is a past president of the California Association of School Psychologists (CASP), and is currently on the editorial board of CASP Today (the CASP newsletter). Previously, he served CASP as the Region X representative, the Employment Relations Specialist, the Convention Chairperson, and as an Associate Editor of The California School Psychologist (which has the second largest circulation of any peer reviewed school psychology journal in the nation). In 1997 he received CASP’s Outstanding School Psychologist award.

Dr. Brock's academic work has included study of school-based crisis intervention; system level school crisis response; suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention; ADHD; functional behavioral assessment; violence prevention; threat assessment; reading; and autism. His curriculum vitate lists over 200 publications (including 11 book titles) and over 100 invited or refereed state/national conference presentations. Most recently he was lead author of the books School Crisis Prevention and Intervention: The PREPaRE Model and Identifying, Assessing, and Treat ADHD at School. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of School Violence, and along with Dr. Shane R. Jimerson, he is currently editing a book series for Springer Science+Business Media titled Developmental Psychopathology Scientist Practitioner at School Series. Books in from this series in preparation, which will find Dr. Brock also playing an authorship role include: Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School; Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Bipolar Disorder at School; Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at School; Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Dyslexia at School; and Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School.

For a complete listing of Dr. Brock’s applied and academic work refer to his curriculum vitae.