Beutler received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Nebraska and subsequently served on the faculties of Duke University Medical Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He currently is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Chair of the Faculty, and Director of Clinical Training at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of California. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), a fellow of both American Psychological Association (APA) and Association for Psychological Science (Australian Psychological Society ), a Past President of Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of APA, current President of Division 12 (Clinical) of APA, and a two-term Past President (international) of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR).
He has also been honored for his contributions by the States of Arizona and California.
He has published over 350 scholarly articles and chapters and is the author or co-author of 15 books on psychotherapy, assessment, and psychopathology. Later in his career he became involved in the psychology of terrorism and response to terrorist acts.
He currently is the director of the National Center on the in Palo Alto, California. (STS) is an empirically derived approach to the practice of psychotherapy.
lieutenant revolves around the use of an expert system to guide the clinician"s thinking about how best to approach a particular case.
The STS model has been demonstrated to improve treatment outcomes significantly compared to treatment as usual.
