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Frank C. Worrell, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as Faculty Director of the School Psychology Program, the Academic Talent Development Program, and the California College Preparatory Academy. He also holds an affiliate appointment in the Social and Personality Area in the Department of Psychology at Berkeley. A licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist, his research interests focus on at-risk youth and talent development and include psychosocial factors that are associated with academic achievement and psychological well-being, including cultural identities and time perspective. Author of more than 350 scholarly works, book publications include Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School (2016), Talent Development as a Framework for Gifted Education: Implications for Best Practices and Applications in Schools (2018), The Psychology of High Performance: Developing Human Potential into Domain-Specific Talent (2019), The Cambridge Handbook of Applied School Psychology (2020), and Motivation Myth Busters: Science-Based Strategies to Boost Motivation in Yourself and Others (2024). Dr. Worrell is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as a member of the Society for the Study of School Psychology and the National Academy of Education. He was the 2022 president of the American Psychological Association and the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Heidelberg University in Germany in 2023.