Specialist psychiatrist, specialist in child and adolescent psychotherapy, certified therapist of the Polish Psychiatric Association (PTP), certified supervisor conducting supervision across various regions of Poland (both for clinical teams and individually), specialist in community therapy (PTP).
Academic lecturer at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Chair of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University; head of the Home Treatment Team of the Clinical Ward of Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, with which he has been associated for over a quarter of a century. He is President of the Board of the Kraków Foundation for Psychotherapy and Development „Dom Terapii.” From 2008 to 2017, he served as director of the Kraków Institute of Psychotherapy Podbrzezie. From 2000 to 2002, he acted as head physician of the Child and Adolescent Sanatorium- Rehabilitation Psychiatry Ward with Psychotherapy at the Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Rabka-Zdrój. Co-founder and head (2002–2005) of the Outpatient Psychotherapy Clinic for Children and Adolescents and the Family Counselling and Therapy Centre of the „Dobra Nadzieja” Association. Recipient of the Alina Margolis- Edelman Award, granted by the Empowering Children Foundation and the Literary Notebooks Foundation, in recognition of outstanding contributions to helping children (2019). He provided substantive oversight and supervision (2008–2011) for the Family Psychotherapy Centre in Radom.
Research and training activities:
– Member of a team founded by Prof. Maria Orwid that works with chronic war trauma—among Children of the Holocaust, the so-called second generation of Holocaust survivors, and Roma victims of the Holocaust; author and co-author of over seventy scholarly publications and book chapters
– author of over two hundred conference presentations – defended his doctoral dissertation with honors; the dissertation was awarded the W. Moczulski Prize by the Executive Board of the Polish Psychiatric Association “for the outstanding quality of the doctoral dissertation”
– Research fellow at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Jagiellonian University Medical College, conducting pre-diploma training for physicians and postgraduate training in courses required for specialization in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry; formerly advisor to the student Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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– Academic director of postgraduate studies organized by the Jagiellonian University Medical Center for Postgraduate Education: “Psychoprophylaxis and the Basics of Therapeutic Interventions in Developmental Age” (until 2013)
– teaching in courses on psychotherapy (comprehensive courses leading to a psychotherapy certification) and in courses on family therapy
– conducting numerous training sessions, courses, and lectures for psychologists, educators, social workers, and professionals working with youth and psychiatric patients
Presentation title: Psychotherapy for Holocaust survivors in Poland thirty years later.