Professional Biography

 Stephen E. Brock, Ph.D., NCSP, LEP

Dr. Stephen E. Brock is an Associate Professor at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS).   His professional preparation includes 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 fieldwork and internship programs and is a member of the departmental human subjects committee. 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 is the California representative to the NASP Delegate Assembly.   In addition, he 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, is co-chair of the PREPaRE Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum workgroup, and a past Coordinator of the Crisis Management Interest Group.   He was the lead editor of the NASP publication Best Practices in 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). He is on the editorial board of CASP Today (the CASP newsletter), and is an Associate Editor of The California School Psychologist (which has the second largest circulation of any peer reviewed school psychology journal in the nation). Previously, he served CASP as Past-President, President, President-elect, Region X representative, employment relations specialist, and convention chairperson. 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 protection; ADHD, functional behavioral assessment; violence prevention; threat assessment; reading; and autism. He has authored over 185 publications and has made over 100 invited or refereed state/national conference presentations. Most recently he was lead author of the books Preparing for Crises in the Schools and Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism 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 Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder 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.