Edward Beck
Edward S. Beck, Ed. D., CCMHC, NCC, LPC is a Contributing Faculty Member to the Mental Health Counseling Program of the School of Counseling and Social Services at Walden University, Director of the Susquehanna Institute and President-Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Until recently before his retirement, he also with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree from New York University and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the faculties and student personnel staffs of The Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University, New York University. He has also taught at Alvernia College, Rosemont College and Lebanon Valley College. He is the author of numerous article and book chapters and is a co-author of Mental Health Counselor Training Standards (1987)[1]
He is a Past President of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, The Mental Health Association of the Capital Region (PA). He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Counseling and Development (now American Counseling Association) and is a past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the Pennsylvania Counseling Association. A Licensed Professional Counselor,he is also certified by both the National Board of Certified Counselors and Academy of Clinical Mental Health Counselors.
He practices mental health counseling, marriage and family counseling and career counseling with Commonwealth Affilitates, P.C. in Harrisburg PA.
He currently serves as Vice President of Marketing and Membership for the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg and has been editor and publisher of Kol Harrisburg since 1999.
Dr. Beck was co-Founder and President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East from 2002-2009 and served on the board through 2011. He currently services as President Emeritus and Chair of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Task Force of that organization. Dr. Beck has been instrumental in defeating boycott activities against Israeli academics and academic institutions by rallying as many as 50 Nobel Laureates on various projects (as many as 40 at a time), in combating boycott campaigns.
