Allen E. Ivey is a distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A diplomat in counseling psychology, he has presented workshops and keynote lectures with Dr. Mary Bradford Ivey throughout the world. Dr. Ivey is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association and the Asian-American Psychological Association. His work in diversity led him to be honored as a multicultural elder at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. He has written more than forty books and two hundred articles and chapters, and his writing has been translated into twenty languages. Dr. Ivey's undergraduate work was in psychology at Stanford University, which was followed by a Fulbright grant to study social work at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. His doctorate is from Harvard University. At Colorado State University, he led the first research study video in counseling and therapy, and he is the originator of the microskills approach, foundational to this text. He was first to introduce applied neuroscience and neurobiology to the helping fields. He is the recipient of numerous national and international awards.
