November 5, 2004

Robert Shaw, M.D., spoke to a group of about 50 students, faculty and community members November 4 in the Visual Arts Center. At this event Dr. Shaw answered the question "Is it possible to raise, happy, productive, generous children who live with a larger meaning of their place in this world?" Dr. Shaw says, "YES".

Dr. Shaw has enjoyed a long career working with children and their families. Since 1958 he has maintained a private practice for family and individual psychotherapy. Dr. Shaw's professional positions have included Chief of Child Psychiatry In-patient Service and Chief of Child Psychiatry Residency Training at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, Director of The Coney Island Mental Health Center for Children and Youth, and Chief of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Family and Children's Mental Health Services for the entire South Bronx of New York, where he trained child psychiatry residents in community psychiatry.

After moving to Berkeley, California in 1970, he directed the Family and Children's Mental Health Services for the City of Berkeley and developed the Family Institute of Berkeley with his wife, Judith Shaw, M.A.. Dr. Shaw is a frequent featured speaker at many of the nation's professional conferences. The father of four, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Judith.

For details on Dr. Shaw go to his web site http://www.stoptheepidemic.com