Rick Capaldi, MFT, PhD, has been a practicing family therapist for forty years, specializing in working with children, adolescents, and parents. He is a former Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine University's Graduate MFT counseling program and a former instructor of psychology and sociology at Saddleback and Irvine Valley Community Colleges. Dr. Capaldi is President of Capaldi & Associates, which provides executive management assessment and organizational development services worldwide. In 1993, he cofounded Outreach Concern, Inc., a school-based nonprofit agency that has been providing counseling and support services to children and families in Southern California schools for over a quarter of a century.