AERA-E: Counseling and Human Development Forum

 

The Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center invites applications for a staff 
psychologist/counselor with a primary interest in college student mental 
health. This is a full-time professional faculty appointment.

The Cook Counseling Center provides mental health services to the 
student community of Virginia Tech. The Staff Psychologist/Counselor 
works with a multidisciplinary staff of psychologists, counselors, 
psychiatrist, nurse practitioners, psychology interns, and practicum 
students to deliver services that maintain the highest standards of 
professional and ethical care. The Staff Psychologist/Counselor has 
responsibility for the following: provide individual services to 
students including initial assessment, diagnosis, and determination of 
treatment needs; conduct on-going individual, couples, and group 
psychotherapy with students; utilize appropriate psychometric 
assessments as needed during evaluations; conduct crisis interventions 
as needed during after-hours emergency on-call rotation; supervise 
pre-doctoral interns in APA-approved site as well as practicum students; 
provide outreach services to the university community. For additional 
information about Cook Counseling Center, please see our web site at 
www.ucc.vt.edu.

Requirements: Ph.D./Psy.D. in Counseling/Clinical from APA-approved 
program with APA-approved internship (ABD students may be considered) ; 
Ph.D., Ed.D., or D.S.W. in Counselor Education, Marriage and Family 
Therapy, Social work. Licensure or license eligible in Commonwealth of 
Virginia (licensure required within two years of hire). Interest and 
experience providing services to a multicultural population. Preferred 
qualifications: interest in and/or experience working with one or more 
of the following populations: multicultural students, international 
students, and/or LGBTQ students; interest and experience with crisis 
intervention, substance abuse, and eating disorders; experience in a 
higher education setting.

Interested applicants must apply on line at www.jobs.vt.edu, posting 
#0100157. Complete the faculty application and attach a cover letter, 
resume or vita and the names and contact information for three 
professional references. Review of applications will begin on April 26, 
2010. Virginia Tech has a strong commitment to the principle of 
diversity and, in that spirit, seeks a broad spectrum of candidates 
including women, minorities, and people with disabilities. Individuals 
with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process 
should notify Sandra Ward at 540/231-6557 or [log in to unmask]  


Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center

Virginia Tech

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Title:                     Associate Director
Salary:                  Highly competitive and commensurate with experience
Duties:                

·         In conjunction with counseling center management team, provide 
vision and leadership for all areas of responsibility of the center.

·         Provide leadership in the absence of the Director.

·         Oversee research initiatives within the Center and with 
research consortiums including the Center for the Study of College 
Student Mental Health.

·         Share responsibility for production of annual reports, policy 
and procedure manual, assessment initiatives, and Center publications.

·         Coordinate internal committee assignments and reporting.

·         Oversee website content and design.

·         Serve on divisional and university committees as needed.

·         Provide liaison relationship to student affairs departments 
and to academic areas of the university.

·         Provide individual and group treatment to undergraduate and 
graduate students.

·         Participate in outreach and education efforts within the 
university.

Education:          Ph.D. in Counseling or Clinical Psychology (or 
terminal degree in a related mental         health discipline).

                                  Licensed or license-eligible in the 
Commonwealth of Virginia

·         Significant experience in college student mental health, with 
progressive responsibility for counseling operations.

·         Interest and experience in counseling center administration.

·         Experience in supervision of classified staff members, 
trainees, and professional staff members.

·         Commitment to development of multicultural competence at all 
levels in the Center and to providing services to a diverse student body.

·         Proven record of positive communications with university 
community members including students, faculty, and staff.

·         Ability to work with diverse and talented staff to enhance 
professional development and work satisfaction.

·         Specific interest and experience in one or more of the 
following areas:

/Applied research in counseling centers; Service to international 
students and students of color; Suicide prevention; Outreach to GLBTQ 
community; Re-entry of Veterans./

/ The //Thomas// //E.// //Cook// //Counseling// //Center/

The Cook Counseling Center is located within the Division of Student 
Affairs, reporting to the Assistant Vice President for Health and 
Wellness.  The counseling center has two locations on campus, with most 
of the staff housed in McComas Hall, and a satellite clinic at East 
Eggleston.  Additionally, services are offered to students in the 
Athletics Department, the Graduate Life Center, and the College of 
Veterinary Medicine.  The staff is a diverse, multidisciplinary group of 
psychologists, professional counselors, psychiatrist, licensed nurse 
practitioners, and classified employees.  The Cook Counseling Center is 
an APA-approved predoctoral training site.  All full-time students pay 
the student health fee and are eligible for services at the center, 
including counseling and psychiatry.

The mission of the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center is to provide 
learning opportunities for students to know themselves as individuals, 
to form deeper relationships with their peers, and to grow to benefit 
our community and society at large.  The staff of the Cook Counseling 
Center provides these learning opportunities through individual and 
group psychotherapy, psychiatric care, and educational programming.  The 
staff of the Cook Counseling Center provides support to the Virginia 
Tech community through cooperative programming and consultation in our 
areas of expertise.  As the provider of mental health services to the 
student population, the staff of the Cook Counseling Center is guided by 
the highest professional and ethical standards of their professions and 
is dedicated to providing quality services.  The Cook Counseling Center 
supports the academic mission of the university through the enhancement 
of student learning and retention.  The Cook Counseling Center is 
committed to the development of our profession and provides training 
opportunities to graduate students, predoctoral interns and postdoctoral 
fellows.


Multicultural Statement

The staff of the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center is guided in its 
professional activities by the ethics of our professions and by the 
Virginia Tech Principles of Community 
(http://www.vt.edu/principles.php).  The Cook Counseling Center is 
committed to delivering professional services that respect and value our 
humanity, including differences and similarities of age, gender, gender 
identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual 
orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status.  Prejudice 
and discrimination are inimical to the practice of counseling where the 
value of each human being is prized.   Our professional guidelines call 
upon us to recognize prejudice and discrimination in all of its forms, 
to become aware of their effects on us as individuals and in our 
communities, and through awareness, learning, support and teaching, to 
overcome the limitations and restriction they place on each of us.  In 
the promotion of a just and caring university (Diversity Commitment 
Division of Student Affairs), the staff of the Cook Counseling Center 
will seek to promote social justice in all of its activities, including 
counseling, supervision, education, training, outreach, and hiring 
practices.

 The Institution

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Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and 
Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative 
research university with the largest number of degree offerings in 
Virginia, more than 125 campus buildings, a 2,600-acre main campus, 
off-campus educational facilities in six regions, a study-abroad site in 
Switzerland, and a 1,700-acre agriculture research farm near the main 
campus. The campus proper is located in the Town of Blacksburg in 
Montgomery County in the New River Valley and is 38 miles southwest of 
Roanoke. Through a combination of its three missions of teaching and 
learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement, Virginia 
Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: /Ut 
Prosim /(That I May Serve).

(For more on the history of Virginia Tech, go to /www.vt.edu/about 
<http://www.vt.edu/about>/.)

 

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Cynthia Hudley, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor, Dept. of Education
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-8324
805-893-7264 FAX
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http://education.ucsb.edu/hudley
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