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Current Initiatives and Research
Departamental & Faculty:
Department of Counseling and Personnel Services (EDCP)
Dr. Susan R. Komives (Professor, College Student Personnel Program) expertise areas are in college student affairs administration, student affairs trends, and college student leadership development. She was the keynote and consultant to the Division of Student Affairs in Doha, Qatar in April, 2008. She was also the keynote speaker and faculty in resident at the Canadian Institute for Student Leadership at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada in May, 2008. Dr. Komives also presented an invited paper at the Institute for Global Leadership in Seoul, South Korea in May, 2007 and was a co-presenter at the International Leadership Association in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Dr. Komives' book, Student Services: A Handbook for the Profession (4th ed.) was recently translated into Chinese and is being used in the People's Republic of China. Komives and a CSPA student, Beth Niehaus, are planning a January term study abroad experience for CSP and Higher Education graduate students at Education City in Doha, Qatar. She is president of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education and has received the 2006 contribution to scholarship and research awards from both ACPA: College Student Educators International and NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
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Dr. Margaretha Lucas (Associate Professor, Counseling and Personnel Services) presented a paper, Psychotherapy at a University Counseling Center: Students’ Symptoms and Progress, at the 29th International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany in July 2008. She also presented a workshop, Career Choice: Theory and Practice, to career counselors in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China in August 2006.
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Dr. Sylvia Rosenfield (Professor, School Psychology Program) is on the Executive Board of the International Society for the Study of Consultee Centered Consultation, a new organization that has grown out of a group of professionals who do research, training, and practice on a particular form of consultation, and who have been meeting in the USA and Sweden over the past 10 years. A conference is planned in Dublin for 2010 and the group is applying for a training grant in Europe to develop and implement training in consultation. Dr. Rosenfield is also in the preliminary stage of developing a research program on consultation training and practice in school psychology at the international level. She is a member of the International School Psychology Association and has presented papers at their annual summer colloquium.
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