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HUMAN GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT ACROSS
THE LIFESPAN

Applications for Counselors

Edited by

David Capuzzi

Walden University, Johns Hopkins University

Mark D. Stauffer

Walden University

 

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the authors who contributed their expertise, knowledge, and experience in the development of this textbook. We would also like to thank our families, who provided the freedom and encouragement to make this endeavor possible. Our thanks are also directed to members of the Wiley production team: Rachel Livsey as Acquisition Editor and Patricia Rossi as Executive Sponsoring Editor, for their encouragement and assistance with the publication of the book; Kristi Bennett for copyediting; and to Maria Sunny Zacharias our Production Editor.

Special thanks are extended to Stephanie Scott, core faculty of clinical mental health counseling at Walden University, for review and suggestions of our content areas when we were developing this book. Additionally, thanks go out to Kakumyo-Lowe Charde for his review of chapter components on spiritual development.

About the Editors

David Capuzzi, PhD, NCC, LPC, is a counselor educator and member of the core faculty in clinical mental health counseling at Walden University and professor emeritus at Portland State University. Previously, he served as an affiliate professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services at Pennsylvania State University and scholar in residence in counselor education at Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), formerly the American Association for Counseling and Development, and past chair of both the ACA Foundation and the ACA Insurance Trust.

From 1980 to 1984, Dr. Capuzzi was editor of the School Counselor. He has authored a number of textbook chapters and monographs on the topic of preventing adolescent suicide and is coeditor and author with Dr. Larry Golden of Helping Families Help Children: Family Interventions With School Related Problems (1986) and Preventing Adolescent Suicide (1988). He coauthored and edited with Douglas R. Gross Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents (1989, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2014); Introduction to the Counseling Profession (1991, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013); Introduction to Group Work (1992, 1998, 2002, 2006; with Mark Stauffer, 2010); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011; coauthored and edited with Mark Stauffer, 2016). Other texts are Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners (2003), Suicide Across the Life Span (2006), and Sexuality Issues in Counseling, the last coauthored and edited with Larry Burlew. He has also coauthored and edited with Mark Stauffer Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications (2008, 2012) and Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008, 2012, 2016). He has authored or coauthored articles in a number of ACA-related journals.

A frequent speaker and keynoter at professional conferences and institutes, Dr. Capuzzi has also consulted with a variety of school districts and community agencies interested in initiating prevention and intervention strategies for adolescents at risk for suicide. He has facilitated the development of suicide prevention, crisis management, and postvention programs in communities throughout the United States; provides training on the topics of youth at risk and grief and loss; and serves as an invited adjunct faculty member at other universities as time permits.

An ACA fellow, he is the first recipient of ACA's Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and also a recipient of the Leona Tyler Award in Oregon. In 2010, he received ACA's Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person. In 2011, he was named a Distinguished Alumni of the College of Education at Florida State University.

Mark D. Stauffer, PhD, NCC, is a counselor educator and member of the core faculty in mental health counseling at Walden University. He specialized in couples, marriage, and family counseling during his graduate work in the counselor education program at Portland State University, where he received his master's degree. He received his doctoral degree from Oregon State University, Department of Teacher and Counselor Education.

As a clinician, Dr. Stauffer has worked in the Portland Metro Area in Oregon at crisis centers and other nonprofit organizations with low-income individuals, couples, and families. He studied and trained in the Zen tradition and presents locally and nationally on meditation and mindfulness-based therapies in counseling. His research focus centers on Eastern methods and East–West collaboration.

Dr. Stauffer was a Chi Sigma Iota International fellow and was awarded the American Counseling Association's (ACA) Emerging Leaders Training Grant. He recently served as cochair of the American Counseling Association International Committee.

In addition to the present counseling textbook with Dr. Capuzzi, Dr. Stauffer has coedited several textbooks in the counseling field: Introduction to Group Work (2010); Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications (2006, 2012); Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008, 2012, 2016); and Foundations of Couples, Marriage and Family Counseling (2015). Drs. Stauffer and Capuzzi are currently working on Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (6th ed., 2016) with the American Counseling Association.