Dr. Mitch Abram

Dr. Mitch Abrams is a licensed sport psychologist and author of Anger Management in Sport: Understanding and Controlling Violence in Athletes (Human Kinetics, 2010). He created and developed the first

Dr. Mitch Abrams is a licensed sport psychologist and author of Anger Management in Sport: Understanding and Controlling Violence in Athletes (Human Kinetics, 2010). He created and developed the first comprehensive anger management program for athletes to address this topic. His program provides strategies and interventions for overcoming excessive anger and aggression in athletes, as well as techniques for athletes to manage emotions and enhance performance.

Dr. Abrams is a national speaker and frequent contributor to national and international media. His opinion is highly sought after when an athlete transgresses, as well as commenting on other sport psychology issues. He writes an ongoing sport psychology blog entitled “Sports Transgressions” for Psychology Today. Dr. Abrams contributed to The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine edited by Lyle Micheli (2011) by writing the sport psychology entries on anger management and imagery in visualization. He also co-wrote the chapter on “Anger: How to Moderate Hot Buttons” with Dr. Bruce Hale in Dr. Shane Murphy’s Sport Psych Handbook. Besides anger management, Dr. Abrams lectures regularly on dating violence/sexual assault prevention, identification and treatment of trauma and mental health.

Dr. Abrams earned his Bachelors of Science from Brooklyn College (Pre-Med & Psychology) and earned his Masters of Science in Applied Psychology and his Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology from C.W. Post/Long Island University. He received specialized training in family violence, the treatment of trauma and anger management. His dissertation demonstrated the effectiveness of an anger management program for male athletes and he has been working with anger and violence (including dating/sexual violence prevention) with athletes since. His private practice has clinical, forensic and sport psychology services where treatment focuses on anger management and the treatment of trauma stemming from various forms of abuse.

Further, he is the President and Founder of Learned Excellence for Athletes, Dr. Abrams’ Sports Psychology Consulting firm. With the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), he is the Chair (and founder) of the “Anger & Violence in Sport” Special Interest Group (SIG). Dr. Abrams is on the program review committee for AASP’s Annual Convention and is a member of the Board of Directors for CASA of Monmouth County A licensed psychologist in NY and NJ, Dr.

Abrams is also a member of APA’s Divisions 47 (Sport & Exercise Psychology), Division 46 (Media Psychology) and Division 41 (American Law-Psychology Society). He oversees mental health services for five of the state prisons in NJ as Clinician Administrator for University Correctional Health Care, which is part of Rutgers. He coordinates the forensic track of the pre-doctoral psychology internship program where he is actively involved in training young psychologists.

Finally, he has been adjunct faculty at C.W. Post/Long Island University, Brooklyn College and Fairleigh Dickinson University; and currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.