Ann Bernhardt
School: Clinical Psychology
Bio:
Dr. Bernhardt has 40-years experience in psychotherapy and analytic practice, supervision and consultation, applied research, multidiscipline teaching, and professional training in clinical and academic settings in lifespan developmental, health, counseling, and clinical psychology integrating depth, humanistic, and transpersonal traditions. She has trained under three generations of mentors, encompassing classical, modern, and post-modern theory and clinical applications in individual and group psychotherapy, intergenerational, and multigenerational development, and social systems applications.
Dr. Bernhardt has participated in research, teaching, training, and publications funded under National Institute of Mental Health grants in Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology and Sociology through the University of California, San Francisco and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. She has participated in multidiscipline research in social and psychological issues in quality of life in chronic illness, early deprivation and adult survival in chronic illness, and the importance of the therapeutic alliance in medical ethics and standards of care. Through the C. G. Jung and Psychoanalytic Institutes of San Francisco, she has participated in research in psychological capacities and psychotherapy outcomes. Through grant-funded studies with Chapman University, she has consulted in research in quality of life and personhood in special needs in adult autism.
Dr. Bernhardt has served as graduate faculty with doctoral students at Institute of Imaginal Studies and master's students at Dominican University. As Associate Professor, she has instructed in the Depth Psychology Program and served on theses committees at Sonoma State University. She has served as Assistant Professor, Director of Research and Theses, and Director of the M.A. Program in Clinical and Counseling Psychology at Notre Dame de Namur University, Clinical Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Gerontology. As adjunct Clinical and Research Faculty, she has served on dissertation committees and instructed graduate coursework and clinical practica at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Dr. Bernhardt currently serves as adjunct Associate Professor and Clinical Supervisor in the Psy.D. Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. With Saybrook University, College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies, Dr. Bernhardt serves as Teaching Faculty and Chair of M.A. Psychology Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy and Professional Clinical Counseling.
Dr. Bernhardt trained in child and adult analytic training through the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She completed her dissertation in lifespan depth psychology integrating psychoanalytic and Jungian depth and transpersonal perspectives in individual and cultural development under the advisement of Erik H. Erikson. Her clinical practice, longitudinal research and graduate teaching include lifespan and intergenerational expertise with children, adolescents, adults, and elders. She is a licensed psychologist in clinical, consulting, and supervising practice in Mill Valley, California.
Degrees and Licensure
PSY5958, Psychologist License, State of California, 1979
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, 1976
M.S. Counseling Psychology, Dominican University of California, 1973
B.S. Human Development, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1968"
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
PSY5958, Psychologist License, State of California, 1979
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, 1976
M.S. Counseling Psychology, Dominican University of California, 1973
B.S. Human Development, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1968
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Dr. Bernhardt has 40-years experience in psychotherapy and analytic practice, supervision and consultation, applied research, multidiscipline teaching, and professional training in clinical and academic settings in lifespan developmental, health, counseling, and clinical psychology integrating depth, humanistic, and transpersonal traditions. She serves as adjunct Associate Professor and Clinical Supervisor in the Psy.D. Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Bernhardt joined Saybrook as Part-Time Faculty in 1998 and has served as Program Chair of MA Psychology with Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy and Professional Clinical Counseling since 2008.
Dr. Bernhardt serves on M.A. research projects and Ph.D. dissertation committees and instructs in Humanistic-Transpersonal Psychology and Clinical Psychology, She is a licensed psychologist in clinical, consulting, and supervising practice in Mill Valley, California with specialization in working with child, adolescent, adult, and elders.
Current Publications
Bernhardt, Ann. (2007). Feminine and masculine: The non-duality of dual principles [Review of the book The Old Woman's Daughter: Transformative Wisdom for Men and Women].
PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (No. 8), Article 4.
Significant Publications
The Living, Genetically Unrelated, Kidney Donor—A Survey. H. H. Sadler, L. A. Davison, C. P. Carroll, S. L. Kountz. Seminars in Psychiatry, Volume 3, page 86, 1971.
Also In Psychiatric Aspects of Organ Transplantation, P. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Editor, New York: Grune and Stratton, 1971.
Important Conference Presentations
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Treatment Approaches Specific to Developmental Stage of LIfe Issues, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, March 2010.
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Lifespan Retrospective: The Life Cycle in the Phase of Integrity versus Despair—An Integration of Depth Psychologies, Institute on Aging, July-August 2006 and 2007.
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A Life Phase Approach to the Dying Process: Intergenerational Perspectives, Institute on Aging, August 2006 and 2007.
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“Matter of Heart”: A Jungian Approach to Integrative Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, April 2005.
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A Jungian Perspective on Transference for Integrative Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, May 2005.
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The Child’s Role in Integration of Cross-Cultural Families: Child and Adolescent Clinical Case Conference and Child Study Intramural, C. G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, 2004.
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Intergenerational and Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Analysis, Child Study Colloquium, C. G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, 2003.
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Intergenerational Abuse and Neglect: Multiple Analyses in Families At-Risk, Child and Adolescent Clinical Case Conference, C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, 2002.
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Personal and Cultural Grief: Depth Psychology Reflections on September 11, 2001, The Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, October 2001.
Research Interests
Dr. Bernhardt has participated in research, teaching, training, and publications funded under National Institute of Mental Health grants in Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology and Sociology through the University of California, San Francisco and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. She has participated in multidiscipline research in social and psychological issues in quality of life in chronic illness, early deprivation and adult survival in chronic illness, and the importance of the therapeutic alliance in medical ethics and standards of care. Through the C. G. Jung and Psychoanalytic Institutes of San Francisco, she has participated in research in psychological capacities and psychotherapy outcomes studies. Through grant-funded studies with Chapman University, she has consulted in research in quality of life and personhood in special needs in adult autism.
Research Expertise
Dr. Bernhardt has participated in multidiscipline studies through National Institute of Mental Health grants in Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, and Sociology. She has served as consultant in case study exploration in personhood, interpersonal capacities, and quality of life in adult autism. She has participated in grounded theory research with Anselm Strauss in quality of life in chronic illness. She has participated in instrument development in psychological capacities research with Robert Wallerstein and in longitudinal psychotherapy outcomes research through the C. G Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has mentored with Erik Erikson in lifespan development and psycho-historical methods. She has participated in institutional review committee (IRB) tasked to define medical ethics, therapeutic alliance, and standards of care in at-risk and special needs populations. Her independent research includes longitudinal methods in lifespan case study, intergenerational and group dynamics, and the interface between cultural and individual development.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
Dr. Bernhardt joined Saybrook as Part-Time Faculty in 1998. She serves on M.A. research projects and Ph.D. dissertation committees and instructs in Humanistic-Transpersonal Psychology and Clinical Psychology. Since 2008 she has served as Program Chair of M.A. Psychology in Marriage and Family Therapy and Professional Clinical Counseling.
Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research |
3 |
| Field Experiments |
3 |
| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
3 |
| Quasi-experimental methods |
3 |
| Correlational Methods |
3 |
Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
3 |
| Survey Research |
3 |
| Interview Research |
5 |
| Observational Research |
5 |
| Epidemiological Research |
4 |
| Ethnography |
4 |
| Focus Groups |
3 |
| Self-Observational Methods |
4 |
| Narrative Methods |
4 |
| Feminist Methods |
3 |
| Content Analysis |
3 |
| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
4 |
| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
4 |
| Archival Research |
3 |
| Case History Methods |
4 |
| Appreciative Inquiry |
3 |
| Multiple Case Depth Research |
4 |
| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
4 |
| Longitudinal research |
5 |
| Cross-sectional research |
3 |
Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
4 |
| Hermeneutics |
4 |
| Grounded Theory |
5 |
| Phenomenology |
5 |
| Heuristic Research |
5 |
Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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