Dr. Sylvia Shellenberger 

Dr. Shellenberger graduated from Millersville University with a bachelor in arts in elementary education 1971 and worked as a teacher of elementary education, primarily with Spanish-speaking students in the Lancaster public schools. At the same time, she earned a master's in science in psychology. She received her doctorate in School and Educational psychology from the University of Georgia in 1977 and studied marriage and family therapy at Mercer University from 1984 to 1985.

For over 30 years, Dr. Shellenberger has been a leader in the developing fields of collaborative health care and primary care psychology. She works alongside physicians helping them to learn how to approach the psychological aspects of their patients' dilemmas such as assisting the family of a child who is depressed or being bullied, assisting a woman where domestic violence is an issue, assisting a family in the throes of making decisions about long term care for a member. In addition, she has her own practice of psychology with specialty areas of marriage therapy and working with Spanish-speaking clients.

Dr. Shellenberger is author on more than 40 major publications including some in Spanish and published in Latin American books and journals. She has presented her work in over 90 national and international conferences. For many years, she has served on the editorial boards of several distinguished journals including Families, Systems and Health, Professional Psychology, the American Journal of Family Therapy, and a Peruvian international journal. She is co-author of the internationally acclaimed book, "Genograms: Assessment and Intervention."

Dr. Shellenberger won numerous awards and among them she became a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Argentina in 2002.  During her four months in Argentina, she developed a collaborative curriculum and training program for family oriented primary care, as well as screening and brief intervention for substance abuse. In 2005 Dr. Shellenberger received the "Florence Kaslow Award for Distinguished Contribution to International Family Psychology" for her collaborative work with physicians in Latin America as well as her culturally competent focus on substance abuse, rural mental health, family assessment  and couples and family intervention.