About
Dr. William Saltzman is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy Master's Program at CSULB. He is also Associate Director of the Nathanson Family Resilience Center at the UCLA Semel Institute and has been on staff with the UCLA Child and Family Trauma Psychiatry Program since 1996. Dr. Saltzman is a nationally recognized leader in the field of child and family trauma and loss and through domestic and international grant funding has developed and implemented a number of large-scale programs for children and families impacted by war, community violence, terrorism, and disaster. He is lead author on the FOCUS Family Resilience Enhancement Program and Trauma-Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCT-A).