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VITAL was created in late 2002 as a collaboration between Professor Herbert P. Ginsburg at Teachers College and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). The underlying technologies, now called VITAL, have been adapted for a number of new courses in Spring 2004, including Clinical Practice with Couples at the School of Social Work.
Faculty Partners
Herbert P. Ginsburg, Jacob H. Schiff Foundations Professor of Psychology & Education, Teachers College
Project Manager
Michael Preston
Design Research
Lila Pinto
Content Development
Janet Eisenband, PhD Candidate, Teachers College
Susan Jang, PhD Candidate, Teachers College
Melissa Morgenlander, PhD Candidate, Teachers College
Faculty Partners
Tazuko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, School of Social Work
Susan Oppenheim, Associate Director of Field Education, School of Social Work
Ann McCann Oakley, Assistant Dean and Director of Computing & Instructional Technology, School of Social Work
Project Manager
Debbie Marcus
Design Research
Lila Pinto
Video Credits
Behavioral Therapy with Dr. Richard Stuart
Family Therapy with the Experts Video Series, Allyn & Bacon Professional, a Pearson Education Company
Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs, Don-David Lusterman, Ph.D.
American Psychological Association; APA Psychotherapy Videotape Series II
Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Counseling, Steven M. Harris, Ph.D., Elizabeth Wieling, Ph.D.
Wieling-Harris
Feminist Family Therapy, Marianne Walters
International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC), Distinguished Presenter Series
Fighting for Your Marriage: The PREP Approach (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program)
PREP Educational Products, Inc.
Irreconcilable Differences, Insoo Kim Berg
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
The Angry Couple: Conflict-Focused Treatment; Susan Heitler, Ph.D
Assessment and Treatment of Psychological Disorders; Newbridge Communications, Inc
Concept and Pedagogy
David VanEsselstyn, Lead
David Miele
Technology Architecture
David Miele
Anders Pearson
Programming
Gordon Campbell
Darya Chernikhova
Pojen Deng, intern
Devang Thakkar, intern
Video Production
Gerard Zoehfeld
Interface Design
Zarina Mustapha
Marc Raymond
Quality Assurance
Michael Deleon
Brian O'Hagan
Production Director
Ted Bongiovanni
Executive Producers
Frank Moretti
Maurice Matiz
VITAL is production of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.
© 2004 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Protocol Acknowledgements
VITAL uses PureTLS in the login protocol. PureTLS is a free Java-only implementation of the SSLv3 and TLSv1 (RFC2246) protocols. PureTLS was developed by Eric Rescorla for Claymore Systems, Inc. and is distributed for free.