Dr. Saltzman is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at California State University, Long Beach where he directs the MFT graduate program. For the past twenty-five years Dr. Saltzman has worked nationally and internationally developing and implementing treatment programs for children, couples and families contending with serious and chronic illness, traumatic death, foster placement and family reunification, community violence, war, disaster, and military deployment and associated injuries. As lead author of two nationally-disseminated evidence-based programs (the FOCUS Family Resilience Enhancement Program and Trauma – Grief Component Therapy – TGCT), he has trained and supervised thousands of mental health providers in the community, medical, juvenile justice, and military systems of care, and published over fifty articles.