Biographical Information
Bio: David Pelcovitz, Ph.D.
Dr. Pelcovitz holds the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and Jewish Education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration . Serving for over two decades as Director of Psychology at North Shore University Hospital-NYU School of Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, at NYU School of Medicine, he has consulted extensively with the Jewish community in the United States, Europe, Australia, South Africa, and Israel on a wide range of issues facing children and adolescents.
Dr. Pelcovitz, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has published and lectured extensively on a variety of topics related to education, parenting and child mental health. Areas of research and clinical specialty include family violence, the impact of domestic violence, stress management, transmitting values to children and adolescents and coping with trauma and loss. Among his most recent publications are “Life in the Balance: Torah Perspectives on Positive Psychology” a book he wrote in collaboration with his father on positive psychology from a Jewish perspective, and "Breaking the Silence" a book that he co-edited on the topic of child abuse in the Jewish community.
