Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Birchak on the publication of his new book The Jerk Whisperer. He was on hand recently for a book signing where he gave a lively lecture in the Touhey Forum!

Congratulations to Dr. Bologna who recently had a poster presentation on The Relationship Between Interpersonal Partner Violence, Gender, Alcohol Use, and Help Seeking Among College Students accepted for the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference to be held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 8-10th, 2012.

Academic Honors

We'd like to congratulate the following students who were chosen to receive this year's Graduate Honors Award at the 2012 Honors Convocation. Faculty choose students from each program to receive this award based on students' academic merit, professionalism, and contributions to the field. They will be honored in a formal ceremony at the Massry Center on March 23, 2012.
 
Mental Health Counseling: College Faith Enemark
Mental Health Counseling: Community Stephanie Oakley & Stephanie Coppa
School Counseling: Christina Rizio
College Student Services Administration: Heather Shaw & Jennifer Long

Graduate Students featured on Admissions Blog

Congratulations to counseling students Fayth Enemark and Raymond Blanchard who are featured in the Graduate Admissions blog:

http://gradblog.strose.edu/category/student-spotlight/

Faculty News

Dr. Schermer and Meaghan Furman, graduate mental health counseling student, will be co-presenting, "Being creative in an evidence-based world: Finding balance in your practice," at the annual New York Mental Health Counselors Association (NYMHCA) conference this April, 2012.

Dr. Lingertat-Putnam is featured on the graduate admissions blog here.

Drs. Kennedy and Neifeld-Wheeler presented at NASPA on Preparing New Professionals to Embrace Diversity, March 10-14, 2012 in Phoenix, Az.

Congratulations to Dr. Bologna, whose article An Evaluation of a Peer-Run Hospital Diversion Program:A Descriptive Study
was accepted for publication by the American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation! You can find the article in the October-December 2011 issue, Volume 14(4).

Dr. Birchak presented a workshop titled  The Five Golden Rules for Staying Connected to Children at the New York State Middle School Association Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs on October 21, 2011, and was also the keynote speaker at the Community Coalition for Family Wellness Conference in South Glens Falls on October 22, 2011 where he presented Resilience- Teaching Children to Survive Tough Times. 

Dr. Lingertat-Putnam reviewed A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One, by Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, published in OMEGA, Vol. 64(1) 95-99, 2011-2012.

In Fall 2011, Dr. Lingertat-Putnam was awarded another grant for service learning work her graduate school counseling students are doing at the Emmaus After School Program for Refugee Children. For more information on this project, check out Dr. Lingertat-Putnam's faculty page!