JOHN A. CALISO, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Certified School Psychologist
10 Wilsey Square
Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
201-447-4715
webpage: drcalisoclinicalpsychologist.com
EDUCATION
ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, Jamaica, New York
Received B.A. degree in Psychology - June 1972
JERSEY CITY STATE COLLEGE, Jersey City, New Jersey
Received Master of Arts degree in Educational Psychology - June 1974
JERSEY CITY STATE COLLEGE, Jersey City, New Jersey
Received Professional Diploma and Certificate in School Psychology - June 1975
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, South Orange, New Jersey
Received Doctor of Philosophy degree in Child/Clinical Psychology - December 1985
WILLIAM PATERSON COLLEGE, Wayne, New Jersey
Supervisors Certificate
NEW YORK INSTITUTE for Self Psychology and Psychoanalysis, New York
1999 – 2003
Center for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis of New Jersey, New Jersey, Completion of Certificate in Psychoanalytic-Systems Couples Therapy Program, 2020.
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago, Completion of Cetificate Program in Integrative Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy, 2022.
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS), Completion of One Year Distance Learning Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2024.
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE
NJ License #2285
EMPLOYMENT
September 1975 - July 2016 FRANKLIN LAKES BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Responsibilities: Director, Special Services
July 1978 - March 1986 MID-BERGEN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH,
Paramus, New Jersey. Part-time Staff Psychologist. Responsibilities: individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults, group psycho-therapy for adults.
January 1986 - Present PRIVATE PRACTICE - Ridgewood, New Jersey
Child, Adolescent and Adult, and Couples
INTERNSHIP
September 1974 - June 1975 ROSELLE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Roselle, New Jersey. School Psychology Internship.
June - August 1975 JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER, Jersey City, New Jersey. Clinical Internship.
January 1984 - June 1984 NEW JERSEY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY, Newark, New Jersey Community Mental Health Center, Child and Adolescent Unit, American Psychological Association approved Child/Clinical Internship.
PUBLICATIONS
Caliso, J. A. & Lee, S. (1983). Ethical issues in the patient-therapist relationship. ERIC, ED 244-219, p. 42
Caliso, J. A. (1985). Interviewing candidates for a superintendency. Superintendent Search Guidelines, N.J. School Boards Association.
Caliso, J. A. (1986). A psychological study of mothers who do not physically abuse their children despite histories of physical abuse in their own childhood. Dissertation Abstracts International (University Microfilms).
Caliso, J. A. & Ruvolo, A. (1990). Parenting the handicapped child. New Jersey Psychologist, Vol. 40 (1), pp 24-27.
Caliso, J. A. & Milner, J. S. (1992). Childhood history of abuse and child abuse screening. Child Abuse & Neglect: An International Journal, Vol. 16, pp 647-59
Caliso, J. A. (1991). Creating a regular and special education partnership through school intervention programs. Channels: A Journal For Special Educators, Vol. 6, pp. 47-49.
Caliso, J. A. & Milner, J. S. (1994). Childhood physical abuse, childhood social support, and adult child abuse potential. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 9 (1), pp 27-44
Caliso, J.A. (1992). A developmental perspective of self-esteem: difficult hurdles for special education children. Channels: Journal for Special Educators, Vol. 7.
Caliso, J. A. (1993). A developmental perspective of self-esteem: promoting competence in parents of children with disabilities. Channels: Journal for Special Educators, Vol. 8, pp. 8-10.
Crouch, J. L., Milner, J. S. & Caliso, J. A. (1995). Childhood physical abuse, perceived social support, and socio-emotional status in adult women. Violence and Victims: Vol. 10 (4).
Caliso, J. A. (1996). Understanding competency and shame in the special needs child. Channels: Journal for Special Educators: Volume 11.
Caliso, J.A. (2004). A reliable method for assessing the need for an instructional aide. In progress
Caliso, J. A. (2004). Assessing the need for a 1:1 instructional aide: student record booklet. copyrighted
2004.
Caliso, J. A. (2011). Student Inventory for Behavior Support. Winsor Learning, MN.
PRESENTATIONS
Caliso, John A. Ethical issues in the patient-therapist relationship. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pennsylvania, April, 1983.
Caliso, John A. Preventing multigenerational child abuse. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York, 1987
Caliso, John A. & Milner, J. S., Ybaben, M. A. Childhood history of abuse and child abuse screening. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Georgia, 1990.
Milner, J. S. & Caliso, John A. Childhood physical abuse, childhood social support, and adult physical child abuse potential. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Louisiana, 1991.
Caliso, John A. & Tancer, N. Psychological and psychopharmacological treatment of children. Paper presented for the Northwest Bergen Council of Special Education, New Jersey, 1992.
Caliso, John A., Developing social skills groups in special children. ASAH: 21st Annual Conference, Long Branch, New Jersey., Nov. 1997.
Caliso, John A., A reliable method to assess the need for a 1:1 paraprofessional. Council for Exceptional Children Convention; New Orleans, Louisiana 2004.
Caliso, John A., A reliable method to assess the need for a 1:1 paraprofessional. Cypress – Fairbanks Independent School District; Houston, Texas 2004.
Caliso, John A., How to determine the need for a personal aide for a special education student. NJ Association of Pupil Services, Long Branch New Jersey. November 2005.
Caliso, John A., A promising method to assess the need for a one on one instructional aide. CASE: Sixteenth Annual Convention, Scottsdale, Arizona., November 2005.
Caliso, John A., CHAMPS: A proactive and positive approach to classroom management. Professional Development Day, Franklin Lakes Schools, New Jersey 2006.
Caliso, John A., Assessing the need for an instructional aide: student record booklet-responding to issues, New Jersey Council for Exceptional Children, Annual Conference, Edison, New Jersey, May 2007
Caliso, John A., Assessing the need for an instructional aide: student record booklet, Clifton Public Schools, Clifton, New Jersey 2007.
Caliso, John A., Assessing the need for in instructional aide: student record booklet, Belleville Public Schools, Belleville, New Jersey, 2007.
Caliso, John A., Use data not impressions to determine who requires a 1:1 instructional aide. Second Annual School Psychology Conference, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey., October 2007.
Caliso, John A., Use data not impressions to determine who requires a 1:1 instructional aide. Forty-second Conference Program, The Ebb and Flow of Pupil Services, National Association of Pupil Services Administrators, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, October 2007.
Caliso, John A. and Borgess, D., Assessment portfolios to measure children’s growth in rti and special education programs. Council for Administrators in Special Education, Long Beach, California, November, 2007.
Caliso, John A. My child needs a 1:1 instructional aide. Council for Exceptional Children, Boston, MA. April 2008.
Caliso, John A. My child needs an instructional aide: avoiding disputes with data driven decisions. Council for Exceptional Children. Nashville, TN, April, 2010.
Caliso, John, A. My child needs a 1:1 paraeducator: avoiding disputes with data driven decisions. Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education, Traverse City, MI, August, 2010.
Caliso, John, A. My child needs a 1:1 paraeducator: avoiding disputes with data driven decisions. Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators, Burlington, VT, December, 2010.
Caliso, John A. My child needs a 1:1 paraeducator: avoiding disputes with data driven decisions. Council for Exceptional Children, MD, April, 2011.
Caliso, John A. Student inventory for behavior support: making informed and accurate student support decisions. Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education, Traverse City, MI, August, 2011.
Caliso, John, A. Student success with or without paraeducator support: sibs helps design action plans. Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators, Burlington, VT, December, 2011 (Keynote Address).
Caliso, John A. Effective designs of intervention plans with student inventory for behavior support. Louisiana Council for Exceptional Children, Layfette, LA, January, 2012.
Caliso, John A. Effective design of intervention plans with the student inventory for behavior support. Georgia Council for Exceptional Children, Macon, GA, February, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. Student success with or without paraeducator support: sibs helps design action plans. Council for Exceptional Children, Denver, CO, April, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. Design of effective school based intervention plans with the student inventory for behavior support. Texas Council for Exceptional Children, San Antonio, Texas, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. Design of effective school based intervention plans with the student inventory for behavior support. Louisiana Council for Exceptional Children, Layfette, LA, January, 2013 (paper accepted and presented by Tom Guyer, President Winsor Learning).
Caliso, John, A. Design of effective school based intervention plans with the student inventory for behavior support. Association of California School Administrators, Monterey, California, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. Design of effective school based intervention plans with the student inventory for behavior support. Paterson Public School System, Paterson, NJ, February, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. Data designed student behavior supports for the general education setting. Council for Exceptional Children, San Antonio, TX, April, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. Determine behavioral readiness for the classroom: the student inventory for behavior support (SIBS) makes this decision easier! Association of California School Administrators, Monterey, CA, 2014.
Caliso, John, A. Determine behavioral readiness for the classroom: the student inventory for behavior support (SIBS) makes this decision easier! Learning Disabilities Association 51st Annual International Conference, Anaheim, CA, 2014.
Caliso, John, A. Determine behavior readiness for the classroom: the student inventory for behavior support (SIBS) makes this decision easier! New Jersey Council for Exceptional Children, NJ, 2014.
Caliso, John, A. Behavior readiness for the general education setting: the student inventory for behavior support (SIBS) helps make the decision. Council for Exceptional Children, Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
Caliso, John, A. Determine “behavior and academic readiness” for the classroom: the student or behavior support (sibs) provides solutions. Pennsylvania Association Council of Exceptional Children, Harrisburg, PA, 2014.
Caliso, John, A. Use direct student observations to formulate interventions for the general education classroom. Association of California School Administrators, Monterey, CA, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. Use direct student observations to formulate interventions for the general education classroom. Council for Exceptional Children, Monroe Township, NJ, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. SIBS: use direct student observations to formulate interventions for the general education classroom. Learning Disabilities Association 52nd Annual International Conference, Chicago, IL, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. SIBS: use direct student observations to formulate interventions for the general education classroom. Tenafly Public Schools Professional Development, Tenafly, NJ, February, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. SIBS: use direct student observations to formulate interventions for the general education classroom. Nyack Public Schools Professional Development, Nyack, NJ, March, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. Student inventory for behavior supports (sibs): using data driven methods to build positive behavior support plans. Council for Exceptional Children, San Diego, CA, April, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. Student inventory for behavior support (sibs): using data driven methods to build intervention plans. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, Santa Monica, CA, May, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. Student inventory for behavior support (sibs): using data driven methods to build intervention plans. West Orange County Consortium for Special Education, Huntington Beach, CA, May, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Council for Administrators for Special Education (CASE), 26th Annual Conference, Continuing to Take Care of Business, GA, October, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Middlesex Regional Educational Services Commission, NJ, 2015.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), Monterey, CA, January, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions, Region V Directors of Special Services, River Edge, NJ, February, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Jersey City Public Schools, Jersey City, NJ, March, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven student profiles and interventions. NJASA/NJAPSA Leadership Conference, Atlantic City, NJ, May 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions to fit each student. NYC Special Education Collaborative, Manhattan, NY, June, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Hyde Leadership Charter School, Brooklyn, NY, July, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Milltown Public Schools, Milltown, NJ, August, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Tiny Tots Inc., E. Brunswick, NJ, September, 1, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Ocean County Public Schools, Ocean County, NJ, September 20th, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Cherry Hill Public Schools, Cherry Hill, NJ, October 6th, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. What can i do to help this child in my classroom. California Council for Exceptional Children, San Diego, CA, October 15th, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. What can i do to help this child in my classroom. Pennsylvania Council for Exceptional Children, Harrisburg, PA, November 10th, 2016.
Caliso, John, A. I need help with student behavior! create data driven interventions. Somerset County Directors of Special Education, Somerset, NJ, January 20th, 2017.
Caliso, John, A. What can i do to help this child in my classroom. Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), Anaheim, CA, February 2nd, 2017.
Caliso, John, A. Student inventory for behavior support(sibs) helps administrators and student support teams make critical decisions. Council for Exceptional Children, Boston, Mass., April 20th, 2017.
Caliso, John, A. Student inventory for behavior support (sibs) helps administrators and student support teams make critical decisions. Sussex-Warren County Directors, Supervisors, and Coordinators of Special Services Association. Alamuchy, NJ, November 29th, 2017.
Caliso, John, A. Do we need a 1:1 para-educator: yes, no, or maybe! Association of California Administrators (ACSA) Anaheim, CA, February 2nd, 2019.
Professional Development Training for Student Inventory for Behavior Support (SIBS)
Caliso, John, A. Two day training installation program Montcalm AISD, MI, April, 2011.
Caliso, John, A. Two day training installation program Bloomfield Hills, MI, May, 2011.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program for Royal Oak, Holly, Walled Lake, and Clawson School Districts, MI, March, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program for Berkley, Huron Valley, Lamphere, and Madison School Districts, MI, March, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program for Harrison Public Schools, Colorado Springs, CO, April, 2012.
Caliso, John A. One day training installation program in Newport, VT, April, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in North Kingston Public Schools, RI, June, 2012.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Bourne Public schools, MA, January, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Bourne Public Schools, MA, June, 2013.
Caliso, John, A, One day training installation program in Edmonton Charter Schools, Canada, June, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Grand Ledge Public Schools, MI, October, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Sharon Public Schools, MA, October, 2013.
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Huntington, CA, WOCCSE, October, 2015
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Nyack Public Schools, October, 2015
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Tenafly Public Schools, November, 2015
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Santa Monica-Malibu Public Schools, December, 2015
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in New Milford Public Schools, March, 2016
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Milltown Public Schools, October, 2016
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Region V Council for, Special Education, March, 2016
Caliso, John, A. One day training installation program in Vernon Public Schools, November, 14th, 2019
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Projective Drawing Institute, New York
Received Certificate of Completion, 1976
Community School, Englewood, N. J.
Annual Conference on the Learning Disabled Child, 1978
Institute of Mental Health Education, Englewood, N. J.
3 year training program psychotherapy 1978-1980
Institute For Advanced Study In Rational-Emotive Psychotherapy 1979
Seton Hall University, South Orange, N. J. - Neuropsychological Assessment, 1981
Negotiating Adolescence: A Behavioral Family Systems Approach to Parent-Teen Conflict, 1987
Enhancing The Social Skills of Children With Learning Disabilities, 1988
Attention Deficit Disorders In Children: Diagnosis, Assessment, Treatment, and Parent Training, Barkley, 1986
Attention Deficit Disorders: Diagnosis and Management in Family, School, and Community
Settings, 1988
An Introduction to the Neuropsychological Assessment of Children, 1990
Play Group Therapy, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1989
Cognitive - Behavioral Psychotherapy: An Advanced Symposium, Donald Meichenlaum, 1990
Short Term Therapy For The Long Term Patient, Arthur Freeman, 1993
Relationship Enhancement: A Brief Couple/Family Therapy, Bernard Guernez, 1995
Council for Exceptional Children; Convention, Vancouver, Canada, April 2000
Conference Workshops: Autism; Effective Leadership; Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities; Testing of Special Needs Children
Council for Exceptional Children Convention, Kansas City, April 2001
Council for Exceptional Children Convention, Seattle, Washington, April 2003Supervisor of In Class Support Programs, New Providence, New Jersey, February 2003
Bringing New Jersey Special Education Law In Focus, May 13, 2003
Inclusive Education Conference for the New Millennium, July 8 – 10, 2003
New Jersey Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, Fall Conference, October 2003;
Developmental Dyslexia: Neuroscience Lessons, The Link Between LD and Antisocial Behavior
Hot Legal Issues with Autism, November 21, 2003
Update on Legal Issues Related to IDEA Reauthorization, January 9, 2004
Selective Mutism, November 17, 2008
Continuing Education (cont.)
Understanding Section 504 in New Jersey: A practical contrast with IDEA and ADA, March 23, 2004
Making Inclusion Succeed: Strategies That Work for Learners on the Autism Spectrum, July 26, 27, 28 2004
The IDEA, Section 504 And The ADA, seminar, December 1, 200
Childhood Developmental Disorders: Practical Strategies, Interventions and Treatment, January 2005
Implementing Effective Strategies For Special Education In New Jersey, May 2005
Adult Children of Personality-Disordered Parents, NY, June 2005
Bipolar Spectrum Illnesses & Dysthymia, NJ, September 22, 2005
Suicide Awareness and Prevention – What you Need to Know Legal and Mental Health Issues, NJSEAA, October 20, 2006.
Understanding and Treating Selective Mutism, November 2008.
Advanced Training:
Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey: The New Jersey Couples Therapy Program: Graduate
Working in the Relationship: How Analytic Concepts Are Used to Deepen and Further Couples Therapy 2017
The Therapist’s Emotional Experience: Fluctuations of Identity and Shifting Self-States in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, September, 2017- 1 day workshop
Foundations in the Theory and Practice of Couples Therapy, Part 1, September 2017-5 weeks
Foundations in the Theory and Practice of Couples Therapy, Part 2, January, 2017- 5 weeks
Keeping Couples in Treatment: Shaping the Frame in Couples Therapy Fall 2017 -5 weeks
Falling in Love and Taking It Personally: Couple Relationship in the 21st Century Polly- Young Eisendrath Spring 2018 - 1 day workshop
Managing Affairs: Clinical Models for Harnessing the Power of Infidelity Fall 2018- 5 weeks
Psychodynamic -Systemic Approaches with Gay and Lesbian Identified Couples Fall 2018-1 1/2 days
The Perfect Marriage, Esther Perel, 2/21/19
Speak to Me in French, Esther Perel, 2/21/19
Introduction to Esther Perel’s Couples Therapy Approach, Esther Perel, 2/21/19
Love, Hate, Sex, and Death in the Clinical Setting: Intense Feelings and How to manage Them. Celenza, Andrea, CPPNJ, October 11, 2020.
Living and Being in Relationship is the Hardest Thing We Ever Do and for Each We Have Little Training: Managing Reactivity in Working with a Couple and in Your Life, Maya Kollman, 3/7/2021
Healing Intergenerational Wounds: A Relational-Neurobiological Approach to Transform Relationships. Fishbane, Mona, Commonwealth Educational Seminars, April 23, 2021.
Treating Pathological Narcissism within the Framework of Object Relations: Current Perspectives. Kernberg, Clarkin, Yeomans, Diamond, Caligor, Cain, Stern, & Sowislo, October 22, 2021.
Maternal Eroticism and Other Selected Essays on Transference, Love and Being. Celenza, Andrea, CPPNJ, November, 14, 2021.
In the Mind of the Psychoanalyst: When the Personal Becomes Professional. Kuchuck, Steven, CPPNJ, March 20, 2022.
Working with Out of Control Sexual Behavior: Theory and Technique with Individuals and Couples. Wendy Miller, April 16th, 2023.
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute June 2022
Integrative Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy Program/ Graduate
Part 1: Basic Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy
Part 2: Major Models of Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy
Part 3: Non-psychoanalytic Models of How They May Fit with Psychoanalytic Models
Part 4: Application to Specific Problems or Populations
Part 5: Case Conference
Part 6: Individual Consultation Component
International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology October 2023
The Creative Edges of Contemporary Self Psychology
Therapeutic Process and the Uniqueness of the Dyad
The Creative Edge of Psychoanalytic Play: Drama, Narrative, and Improvisation in Field Theory and Metapsychology
Permeable Boundaries, Complex Selfobjects, and Empathy
Working at the Intersection of Developmental and Sociocultural Trauma: A Clinical Conversation
International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology’ s 45th Annual International Conference: The Tragic Person Today: Existence and Meaning, in Life and in Clinical Practice. October 24-27, 2024, Rome.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Bergen County Association of Licensed Psychologists
New Jersey Psychological Association
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ELECTED OFFICER
Bergen County Association of Licensed Psychologists
Member of Executive Board 1990-91
Secretary 1991-93
Executive Board - New Jersey Association of Pupil Services Administrators 2005 - 2007