Ruth Malkinson is the director of training at the International Laboratory for the Study of Loss, Bereavement and Resilience, University of Haifa. Director of the Israeli Center of REBT, she is past president of the Israeli Association for Family and Marital Therapy. Her fields of expertise are grief, trauma and bereavement and RE-CBT. Malkinson maintains an active psychotherapy and supervision practice. She has authored numerous articles and books on bereavement, cognitive grief therapy, loss, and trauma.