Counseling Psychology’s Barry Schreier received the Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award for his work with Active Minds. Congratulations Barry!

Doctoral candidate Alexus Hamilton's solo authored paper “Examining Same-Race Dyads: Black Therapists' Experiences With Their Black Clients” was accepted as a Poster to the NCFR conference in the Fall. Stay tuned for more details!

Don Yarbrough retired from our college in May after being a Hawkeye since 1982. He had a remarkable career and we will miss him very much. Thanks Don, for all your service, contributions, and dedication to the College of Education.

Counseling Psychology’s Stacey McElroy-Heltzel was recently on Iowa Public Radio discussing “What does it take to rekindle a friendship? And should you?” You can listen to Stacey’s interview here: bit.ly/3sWZuHo

Several of our students received Graduate Certificates in either College Teaching or Online Teaching from College of Education this Spring. Congrats to Mary Ball, Amanda Goslin, Alexus Hamilton, Deborah Koons-Beauchamp, and Kalen Leake!

Counseling Psychology Stacey McElroy-Heltzel & several CP students had a poster “Intellectual Humility, Meaning, and Activist Identity: Implications for Political Engagement and Well-Being During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election” accepted for the 2022 APA Convention. Congrats!

Amanda Goslin and Deborah Koons-Beauchamp’s article we shared was accepted last month, is now published in The Family Journal and available to read. Check it out here! bit.ly/AGnDKBpub

School Psychology's Yanchen Zhang, 张䶮晨, PhD, LP, NCSP and his SP students Alex Pauls and Sabrina Kelbe will present "Happy Together": Multilevel Associations between Teachers' and Students' Subjective Wellbeing" at the 2022 APA Convention. Congrats!

Counseling Psychology's Stacey McElroy-Heltzel and her team were awarded a grant from the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. They will facilitate a series of community dialogues as an intervention to decrease polarization and increase intellectual humility. Congrats!

At the 2022 APA Convention, School Psychology's Yanchen Zhang, 张䶮晨, PhD, LP, NCSP will present on an International Positive Psychological Program for Parents Raising Children with Disabilities. Congratulations, Yanchen!

You can now access Kayla Reed Fitzke, Phd, LMFT and colleagues’ (Anthony J. Ferraro Dr_Jimmy_Dash_Duncan) recent publication “A person-centered approach to identifying at-risk U.S. army soldiers-in-training based on adverse childhood experiences” in Traumatology here bit.ly/KRF22Trauma

School psychology’s Yanchen Zhang, 张䶮晨, PhD, LP, NCSP is one of the investigators who received funding!

Counseling Psychology’s Alissa Doobay was featured in the Press Citizen about the acitivites of the @iowa_csmh over the past year. Check it out here! bit.ly/PressICSMH

Student Deborah Koons-Beauchamp has provided volunteer service w Riverview Center on the hospital response sexual assault victim advocacy team since 2019. Are you interested? There are many ways to volunteer. Go to riverviewcenter.org for information on how you can make a difference.

Check out faculty Kayla Reed Fitzke, Phd, LMFT's ‘research in action’ article on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and military families in Military REACH’s latest newsletter bit.ly/MREACHaces

LGBTQ Counseling Clinic Director Jacob Priest was recently interviewed on Des Moines’ Local 5 news station We Are Iowa regarding the need for gender affirming health services in Iowa. Check it out here! bit.ly/PrideDM

Please welcome Kay Ramey, PhD who is an Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology. Her research focuses on interest-driven learning and spatial thinking and learning in makerspaces and other STEAM learning environments, both in and outside of schools.

Faculty Kayla Reed Fitzke, Phd, LMFT workshop proposal on leveraging person-centered analyses to bolster systemic research was accepted to the upcoming Intervention Research in Systemic Family Therapy Annual Conference. Congrats!