Gene Cash, Ph.D, NCSP

Ralph Eugene (Gene) Cash is a Florida licensed psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP). After graduating from the University of Tennessee with high honors and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received a full fellowship to attend graduate school in psychology at New York University (NYU). He earned both his master’s degree and Ph.D. in school psychology from NYU after serving a one year externship at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and a year’s internship as well as a subsequent year of supervised experience in a community mental health center and parochial schools in Brooklyn. 

 

Gene moved to Florida in 1976, where he worked for the Broward County Public Schools as a school psychologist for three years and as an administrator for a year. He was in private practice full-time from 1981 to 2003 and now handles the administration of that practice, emphasizing psychoeducational and child custody evaluations; treatment of mood and anxiety disorders; and individual, marital, and family therapy.

 

Currently he is an associate professor of psychology at the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Center for Psychological Studies, at which he has been named “Specialist Professor of the Year” two consecutive years, and he is the director of the NSU School Psychology Assessment and Consultation Center (SPACC). He is a past president, Children’s Services Fund representative to the Executive Board, and member of the Ethics Committee of the Florida Association of School Psychologists (FASP); co-founder, past president and current treasurer of the FASP Children’s Services Fund, Inc., FASP’s charity arm; a member of the Florida Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council as well as NSU’s Suicide Prevention Task Force; Past President of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP); the former Florida representative to the NASP Delegate Assembly; and a former Southeast Regional Delegate Representative to the NASP Executive Council.

 

Gene was recently honored by FASP with their rarely bestowed Willard Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.