Dr John Murphy, Professor of Psychology & Counseling, presented an invited training workshop to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, training faculty, and graduate students entitled, “Solution-Focused Coaching with Children, Teens, and Families” October 10-11, 2017 at the Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute in Helsinki, Finland.
Dr. Alberto Soto and students to present at Arkansas Psychological Association
Congratulations to Dr. Alberto Soto and his student research team for upcoming presentations at the Arkansas Psychological Association later this month.
Pyle, J.M. & Soto, A. (2017). A Meta-analysis of Multicultural Counseling Competencies and Client Experiences in Psychotherapy. Paper presented at the fall convention of the Arkansas Psychological Association, Little Rock, AR.
Fradley, M., Pyle, J.M., Anderson, B., Green, M., Sutherland, E., Walker, A., Fason, M., Kim, J., Fults, B., & Soto, A. (2017). Culturally Adapted Treatments: A systematic review of common factors. Poster presented at the fall convention of the Arkansas Psychological Association, Little Rock, AR.
Anderson, B., Pyle, J.M., Fason, M., Fradley, M., Kim, J., Green, M., Fults, B., Walker, A., Sutherland, E., & Soto, A. (2017). Common Factors in Psychotherapy: Alliance, empathy, and expectations with outcome. Poster presented at the fall convention of the Arkansas Psychological Association, Little Rock, AR.
Morgan Bullard (graduate student) coauthors publication
Congratulations to Mental Health Counseling student, Morgan Bullard, on co-authoring this peer-reviewed article!!
Barnes, C.D., Bullard, M.B., Kohler-Evans, P. (2017). Essential Coaching Skills for Affective Development. Journal of Education and Culture Studies. Vol. 1, No. 2, 2017.
Cory Cobb, Dr. Xie, and Lee Sanders to publish article
Congrats to Cory Cobb (Counseling Psych doctoral student), Dr. Xie, and Lee Sanders (Mental Health Counseling student) on the acceptance of their paper, “From Advising to Mentoring: Toward Proactive Mentoring in Health Service Psychology Doctoral Training Programs”, in Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Full citation below:
Cobb, C., Zamboanga, B., Schwartz, S. J., Xie, D., Meca, A., & Sanders, G. L. (In Press).
From Advising to Mentoring: Toward Proactive Mentoring in Health Service Psychology Doctoral Training Programs. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
Kendra Anderson (doctoral student) receives award from APA
Counseling Psychology doctoral student, Kendra Anderson,received the APA Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) Student Award. Pic of Ms. Anderson with APA CEO, Arthur Evans, at the APA Convention in Washington, DC, earlier this month.
Congrats to Kendra!
Dr. John Murphy conducts workshop
Dr. John Murphy, Professor of Psychology & Counseling, presented a full-day training workshop on August 10th, 2017 entitled, “Brief Solution-Focused Counseling” to school psychologists, school counselors, therapists, social workers, and administrators in Intermediate Unit 17, Williamsport, PA.
Dr. Varghese, Dr. Bihm, and 4 students present research at APA
Congrats to Dr. Varghese, Dr. Bihm, Jon Nolan, Osiris Stephenson, Lizeth Tomas, and Jared Whitmire for presenting at the American Psychological Association meeting in Washington, DC.
Dr. Heather Martens to co-author publication on interprofessional education
Nice work Dr. Martens!
Lairamore C, Morris D, Schichtl R, George-Paschal L, Martens H, Margakis A, Garnica M, Jones B, Grantham M, Bruenger A. Student perceptions of teamwork when the number of professions represented in a case-based interprofessional education forum is expanded: a six-year cohort study. Journal of Interprofessional Care. Accepted August 2017.
Dr. Dong Xie chairs symposium at APA conference
Dr. Dong Xie chaired a symposium, entitled Training Chinese Professional Counselors: When Severe Shortage Encounters Huge Need at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, held in Washington, DC, in August 2017.
The three presentations in this symposium included:
1. Counselor Education and Training in China: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions by Ziqiu Li, Ph.D.,Training Director, Mental Health Services Beijing Normal University, China
2. Providing mental health training from the U.S to China by Chun-Chung Choi, Ph.D., Counseling and Wellness Center of University of Florida
3. Introduction to MyTherapist’s Online Counseling Foundational Program by Zhen Li, Founder and CEO, MyTherapist.
Ms. Hannah Horn presents poster at APA conference
Ms. Hannah Horn, a student in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program presented a poster, “Fluidity and Sharpness: A Brief Scale to Assess Line Drawings and Motion,” at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, held in Washington, DC, in August.