Vita

Donald W. Werner, Ph.D.

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Department

of Psychology

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Lynchburg College

Bedford, Virginia 24523

Lynchburg, Virginia 24501

540-***-****

434-***-****

abpmzy@r.postjobfree.com

Licensed Clinical Psychologist (Virginia)

PROFESSIONAL

INTERESTS

COUNSELING AND

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Individual,

couple, group, psychosomatic illness, chronic and terminally ill, and

sexual dysfunction

TEACHING

General

psychology, personality, abnormal, psychological testing and

assessment, theories of counseling and psychotherapy, group

counseling, crisis intervention, organizational consultation,

supervision, human sexuality

RESEARCH:

Affective

sensitivity, paraprofessional training, educational strategies.

EDUCATION

Ph.D.

1977

Ph.D.

Counseling Psychology, Michigan State University. An APA approved

program. Major Advisor: Norman Kagan, Ph.D.

M.A.

1970

M.A.

Philosophy, Michigan State University.

1969

Ph.D.

Candidate, Inorganic Chemistry. Completed all course requirements.

Michigan State University.

M.S.

1965

M.S.

Physical Chemistry, High Temperature Thermodynamic Studies. University

of Kansas.

B.S.

1962

B.S.

Chemistry, Queens College, CUNY, New York.

TEACHING

EXPERIENCE

Associate

Professor

of Psychology

Lynchburg

College, Lynchburg, Virginia. August 1981 to present. Full-time

faculty member (since Fall 2003) and Program Coordinator (or

Department Chair) (since Fall 2002).

Previously held a joint appointment as Clinical Director of the

College Counseling Center and as regular faculty member in Psychology

Department. Teach courses related to human growth and development,

including General Psychology (103/104), Statistics for Psychologists

(274), Theories of Personality (306), Social Psychology (302),

Psychological Testing and Measurement (392), Abnormal Psychology

(308). Also taught Human Growth and Development (602), Educational

Measurement (610), Personality Disorders (760), Human Sexuality

(550C), and Abnormal Behavior (763) as graduate courses in the School

of Education.

Instructor

College

of Human Medicine, Michigan State University. Winter Quarter, 1978 and

1979. Taught freshmen medical students the elements of facilitative

communication as part of a program in Doctor/Patient Relationships.

Employed IPR (Interpersonal Process

Recall) methodology. Responsibilities included classroom lectures,

workshop style supervision, and individual consultation with the

medical students.

Instructor

Lansing

Community College. September 1978 to June 1980. Taught courses in

psychology department to community college students. Courses included

Introductory Psychology, a Seminar in Childhood Sexuality, and a

Seminar in the Psychology of Health and Illness. One course per

semester.

Instructor

Lyman

Briggs College, Michigan State University, 1978, previously Graduate

Assistant in Chemistry and Physics, 1971-1977. In 1974 and 1975 was

nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award by the faculty

and students. Supervised the laboratory and undergraduate teaching

assistants (half-time position).

Co-instructor

Psychology

985 (seminar in Clinical Psychology) Planned Change, Michigan State

University, 1975. Co-led a seminar in the consulting relationship, a

two-term practicum for graduate students in Counseling, Psychology and

Social Work. Students worked with local business and organizations as

organizational consultants. Course staff comprised Dozier Thornton,

Ph.D., June Jacobson and myself.

Co-leader

Seminar

in Human Sexuality, Department of Family and Child Science, Michigan

State University, 1972-74. Seminar developed the skills of group

facilitation for staff members responsible for small groups. A weekly

seminar plus two personal growth weekends per quarter. Repeated six

times in two years. With Eleanor Morrison.

Graduate Assistant and

Research Assistant

Chemistry

Department, Michigan State University, 1967-1971. Assisted in

general and Honors chemistry programs.

COUNSELING

EXPERIENCE

Clinical

Director of the

College Counseling Center

Lynchburg College.

August 1981 to Present. A joint appointment as

Clinical

Director of the College Counseling Center and as Associate Professor

of Psychology. Until 1988 provided coverage in excess of 20 hours per

week as sole college counselor for 1500 undergraduate students.

Currently supervise a full-time counselor, plus a half-time program

director. Offer individual counseling and psychotherapy, including

treatment for depression, eating disorders, psychosis, adjustment

reactions, substance abuse, grief reactions, marital discord, etc.

Lead theme groups as need arises. Provide consultation services to

student affairs staff and faculty. Assisted in the development of RA

selection and training programs. Supervised a student centered peer

counseling/peer educators program and practicum students. Supervised

colleagues working toward their license in Clinical Psychology.

Psychology Intern

University of New

Hampshire Counseling Center and Portsmouth Pavilion. August 1989 to

August 1990. A year-long internship taken during my sabbatical leave.

Responsibilities included providing individual and group psychotherapy

services to a university population that included a wide range of

clients of diverse ages, needs and concerns. Supervised a

masters-level trainee. Co-led a therapy group for children of

alcoholics. Provided liaison services for the University's programs

for the learning disabled and the handicapped. Received supervision

for individual and group psychotherapy, and as a supervisor. Attended

weekly professional seminars. Supervisors: Tom DuBois, Ph.D. and

Tricia Hanley, Ph.D.

During

the Summer 1990 trained at the Portsmouth Pavilion, a private

psychiatric hospital in Portsmouth, NH. Functioned as staff

psychologist, assisted in providing group therapy, attended and

consulted for activity groups, provided case management and assessment

services. APA approved.

Psychology Intern

Colorado

State University Counseling Center. August 1980 to August 1981.

Responsibilities included intensive individual counseling for persons

with vocational, social-emotional and educational concerns, marital

counseling, group counseling, individual test administration and

interpretation, assessment of learning disabilities and brain damage,

supervision of graduate level counselors-in-training, case

consultation and disposition. Caseload of 8-12 individual clients per

week, plus three twice-weekly therapy groups. Supervisors: Melba

Vasquez, Ph.D. and Marv Moore, Ph.D.

APA approved.

Psychologist

Health

Central (Health Maintenance Organization), Lansing, Michigan, February

1979 to August 1980. Provided therapy services to members of HMO.

Individual, conjoint and group psychotherapy. Services included

short-term (20 sessions or less) therapy or crisis intervention. Some

clients carried long term for training purposes. Typical client

concerns included chronic and acute depression, marital conflict,

psychosomatic disorders, adjustment reactions and severe psychosis.

Clients ranged in age from children to the elderly. Provided limited

psychological assessment services for self and colleagues, including

intelligence testing, MMPI, Rorschach, Draw-a-Person, etc. Supervisor:

Dr. Arnold Werner (no relation).

Practicum Student

Counseling

Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. 1973-74. A

yearlong practicum, included personal/social and vocational

counseling. Individual and group supervision.

Volunteer, Recruitment, andCoordinator

for Staff Training

The Listening Ear,

a crisis-intervention center, East Lansing, Michigan.

Responsible

for designing and implementing training programs, training and

consultation, program evaluation, lecturing, and advisor to board of

Directors. Worked as a trainer or consultant for six sixty-two hour

training programs for new volunteers. Totally responsible for two such

programs. More than 2500 hours of volunteer service over the four-year

period. Extensive experience as phone crisis worker.

RESEARCH

EXPERIENCE

Associate

College

of Education, Michigan State University, September 1979 to August

1980. Participated as co-researcher on the development of methods for

the assessment of affective sensitivity. A quarter-time appointment.

Responsibilities included writing computer programs for data reduction

and for statistical analysis. Supervised doctoral candidates on

research problems. Colleagues: Norman Kagan, Ph.D. and John Schneider,

Ph.D.

Research/EvaluationCoordinator

STRIDE, a

Substance Abuse Prevention Program of the Community Mental

Health

Board, September 1975 to January 1979. Developed and administered

research to assess the effectiveness of affective education programs

to reduce substance abuse behaviors in children and adults. Also

provided community consultation services for local school districts.

Offered adult-education courses in self-management, assertiveness and

stress management (a half-time position).

WORKSHOP

AND CONSULTATION EXPERIENCE

Consultant to Parents United

Parents

United of Central Virginia, 1983 to 1991. Helped develop training

experience for mental health professionals who provided group

treatment with incestuous parents, their children and adults molested

as children. Supervised group facilitators.

Training

Coordinator to

CISD

Blue

Ridge Emergency Medical Counsel's CISD (Critical Incident Stress

Debriefing) Unit, 1987-1992. Was trained as a professional team member

in stress reduction activities for Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT's)

and provided further training for professional and paraprofessional

volunteers who made up the CISD response teams.

Consultant

to Hospice

Program

Hospice

of Central Virginia, 1983-85. Lectured to trainees on the grief

process and provided case consultation for volunteers working with

families of dying patients.

Consultant

to Women's

Resource Center

Lynchburg,

Virginia, 1984 to present. Offered a 40-hour workshop to

Women's Resource Center in micro-counseling skills and peer

counseling, plus other short training seminars.

Workshops

in Peer

Counseling

Lynchburg

College, 1982 to 1995. Biannual weekend workshops for college students

who are members of a peer-counseling group. Three-day intensive

workshop focusing on the development of listening skills and

facilitating personal growth.

Consultant

to the

Faculty

Grand Valley State

College, Allendale, Michigan, September 1974 to August 1975. Offered a

seminar in faculty development. Incorporated listening and teaching

skills training through the use of IPR techniques (a half-time

position).

Seminar in Listening Skills

For

Resident Advisors at Grand Valley State College, 1974-1975. A weekly

seminar in communication and intervention skills. Offered for college

credit.

Consultant

to State

Department

of

Education

Lansing,

Michigan, 1975. Substance Abuse Prevention Program. Served as a

process consultant during a three-day workshop for regional directors.

Introduced the skills of group leadership, workshop design, and the

management of meetings.

Workshop

in Teaching

Skills

Lyman

Briggs College, 1972-1977. Training program for undergraduate teaching

assistants. Designed and administered yearly a two-day workshop for

laboratory and recitation instructors.

Co-leader,

Workshops

in

Family

Communications

Michigan

State Department of Education, Substance Abuse Prevention Program,

1974. Four six-day workshops conducted for teachers, counselors, and

administrators developing the skills of Listening Skill Training,

Conflict Resolution, Problem-solving, and group dynamic processing

techniques.

Co-leader, Workshops in

Human Sexuality

For

the United Church of Christ, Michigan Conference, 1973-1976. Weekend

workshops for church workers, teachers and professionals focusing on

human sexuality, sexual behaviors, values and sex education.

Training

in the Helping

Relationships

For

counselors and paraprofessionals working in the areas of alcohol and

drug abuse, 1973-1974. Offered through the Extension Education

Service, Michigan State University. In these programs variously

served as staff trainer, consultant and staff process observer, and

therefore worked on program design, lecturing and on program

implementation.

Staff Member

Psychology

290, Michigan State University, 1973. An Undergraduate course in human

sexuality. Small groups met weekly to discuss issues in human

sexuality. Workshop format.

Staff

Member

Psychology

400H, Michigan State University, 1973-1974. An undergraduate course in

Encounter Groups. Small groups met twice weekly in workshop setting,

typical encounter group format. For two terms.

Process Consultant

Community

workshops in Crisis Intervention, 1971-1973. Weekend programs for

professionals and paraprofessionals in crisis intervention, alcohol

and drug abuse, etc.

PUBLICATIONS

AND PAPERS PRESENTED

"Anxiety

and Stress Disorders: Current Thinking About Causes and Cures".

Randolph Macon Woman's College, February, 2003

"Repressed

and Recovered Memories: So Was Freud Correct?", 13-Club, Lynchburg,

January, 2003

"Science:

Absolute or Culturally Relative", Senior Symposium Lecture,

Lynchburg College, October 2001.

“The

Evolution and Human Nature Debate: Psychology’s Contribution”, Senior

Symposium Lecture, Lynchburg College, April 2001.

“Nature versus Nurture: the Confusing State of Current Psychotherapy”,

13-Club, Lynchburg, VA,

January, 2001.

“The

Unconscious Mind and Gender Differences”, a guest lecture given to the

Gender Studies class taught by Mary Shoemaker, February 2000.

“Genocide:

Implications for the Present and Future”, a guest lecture given to Jack

Padon-Travers Honors Seminar, November, 1999.

Southall,

S., Werner, D., Corodimas, K., Ratcliff-Baird, B., and Flory, R.

“Psychophysiology in the Classroom: Affordable Ways to Engage Students and

Make Learning Come Alive”. Paper presented at the Virginia Psychological

Association, April, 1999.

Werner,

Donald W. “The Biological Roots of Homosexuality”, Paper presented to the

13-Club, Lynchburg, VA, April, 1999.

Werner,

Donald W. “Genocide Failure of Empathy”, Paper presented to the 13-Club,

Lynchburg, VA, January, 1999.

Werner,

Donald W. "Teaching Statistics Using SPSS for Windows", Paper

presented at the Spring Convention of the Virginia Psychological,

Williamsburg, VA, April 1996.

Werner,

Donald W. "Integrating the Classics into Psychology", Paper

presented at the Fall Convention of the Virginia Psychological Association,

Richmond, VA, October 1993.

Werner,

Donald W. "A Intensive Model

for the Training of Peer Counselors", Paper presented at the Virginia

Psychological Association, Williamsburg, VA, November 1985.

Southall,

S. and Werner, D.W. "The

Teaching of Psychology as a Laboratory Science at Lynchburg College."

Paper presented at Virginia Psychological Association, Williamsburg,

VA, November 1985.

Werner,

Donald W. "Grief and

Bereavement Counseling" in Proceedings of Virginia Conference on Hospice, Blacksburg, Virginia (1983).

Werner,

Donald W. "The Structure,

Reliability and Validity of the Affective Sensitivity Scale (Form D): A Measure

of a Component of Empathy." Ph.D. Thesis, Michigan State University (1977).

Werner,

D.W., Kagan, N. and Schneider, J. "The Measurement of Affective

Sensitivity: The Development of an Instrument." Paper presented at the 16th

Annual Conference on Medical Education, Washington, D.C., 1977.

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