Jane Utley Adelizzi, PhD, BCET, FAET earned her doctoral degree in educational studies at Lesley University in 1996, her dissertation focusing on the impact of psychological trauma on learning and functioning in women with learning disabilities. She is a board certified educational therapist, registered art therapist, and a certified Canadian counselor. Jane is Professor Emeritus at Curry College, where in 1985 she completed her M.Ed. degree, the concentration of which addressed tailoring techniques and structures that provided frameworks to enhance the academic performance of students with diagnosed learning disabilities. Jane’s publishing career began in 1994 in the article, “The Unconscious Processes in the Teacher-Student Relationship”, for the journal, The Educational Therapist. Throughout her professional career she has continued to publish magazine and journal articles; be interviewed by the Monitor on Psychology in 2003 on her contribution to the book, Gender Issues and ADHD (2002); be interviewed by CN8 journalist, Barry Nolan, on her co-authorship of Parenting Children with Learning Disabilities (2001); authored Shades of Trauma (1998); and, co-edited A Closer Look: Perspectives & Reflections on College Students with Learning Disabilities (1995). During her academic and publishing career she introduced the concept of “classroom trauma”, the symptomatology of which relates to anxiety and mood disorders, and in more severe cases to posttraumatic stress symptoms. Presently, the focus of her work is a culmination of her former research and publications, and focuses on the overlap of symptomatology in mood and anxiety disorders, learning disabilities, and attentional disorders.
