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April, 2007
CURRICULUM VITAE
Wendy Lynn Wolfe, Ph.D.
Business Address:Department of Psychology
ArmstrongAtlanticStateUniversity
11935 Abercorn St.
Savannah, GA31419-1997
Business Phone:(912) 921-7351
E-Mail Address:
EDUCATION:
Clinical Psychology ResidencyMedicalCollege of Georgia/VAMC Consortium,
APA-approved7/00-6/01
Doctor of PhilosophyClinical Psychology graduate student
APA-approvedSyracuseUniversity, 8/95-8/01
Dissertation Title“The Effect of Alcohol on Women’s Body Image and Self-
(Defended: April 9, 2001)Awareness: A Balanced Placebo Design Investigation"
Stephen A. Maisto, Ph.D., Advisor
M.S.Clinical Psychology,
SyracuseUniversity, May 1998
Thesis: "The Effect of Self-Discrepancy and
Discrepancy Salience on Alcohol Consumption"
Stephen A. Maisto, Ph.D., Advisor
B.A.Psychology (GPA=3.97),
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1994
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE:
State of Georgia, License # 002643
HONORS AND AWARDS:
SyracuseUniversity Creative Research Award, 2000
Four Year Graduate Fellowship Award, Syracuse University, 1995-1999
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) Research Fellowship Award, 1994
CapeFear Area Psychological Association Annual Student Award, 1994
UNCW Chancellor's Achievement Awards, 1993-1994
PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR SOCIETIES:
Coastal Area Psychologists, 2006-present.
American College Personnel Association, 2005-present.
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (formerly AABT), 1998-present.
American Psychological Association, 1996-present.
Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology), 1993.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, ArmstrongAtlanticStateUniversity, 7/06-present. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate psychology courses; advising psychology majors; mentoring students in research and professional activities; and providing service as needed to the department, institution, and community. Courses taught thus far include Introduction to Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Health Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.
Adjunct Faculty, Georgia Southern University, 9/01-5/06. Responsibilities included teaching GSU 1210 and 1211 courses. These are mandatory courses on adjusting to college life and leadership, respectively. Guest lectures also were provided to other GSU 1210 and 1211 sections on a variety of topics, as requested by the instructors.
Supervisor, Research/Field Experience in Psychology, Georgia Southern University, 9/01-9/05. Responsibilities included development of syllabi for Research and Field Experience placements at the Counseling and CareerDevelopmentCenter, recruitment and screening of undergraduate psychology majors for this advanced level course, and supervision of 1-2 students per semester.
Instructor, Counseling Skills II, ArgosyUniversity (Savannah, GA), 2003. Instruction of two cohorts of graduate students pursuing their Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology via on-line and face-to-face interactions. Responsibilities included: development of course syllabi, learning activities, course assignments, and tests; provision of lectures; grading and provision of feedback to students and university administrators.
Instructor, Research & Evaluation, ArgosyUniversity (Savannah, GA), 2003. Instruction of graduate students pursuing their Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology via on-line and face-to-face interactions. Responsibilities included: development of course syllabi, learning activities, course assignments, and tests; provision of lectures; grading and provision of feedback to students and university administrators.
Instructor, Abnormal Psychology, SyracuseUniversity, 1/00-5/00. Responsibilities included: text selection; development of course syllabus; provision of lectures; development of learning activities, class projects, and tests; grading; and individual tutoring as needed.
Teaching Assistant, Clinical Assessment, SyracuseUniversity, 9/99-12/99. Responsibilities included: supervising graduate clinical psychology students in the proper administration and scoring (where relevant) of the clinical interview, WAIS-III, and MMPI-2; grading psychological test reports prepared by the students; and preparing and providing class lectures on neuropsychological and projective assessment. Supervisor: Stephen Maisto, Ph.D.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Director for Clinical Services, Georgia Southern University, Counseling and CareerDevelopmentCenter, 8/05-5/06. Responsibilities included: serving as Director in his absence, monitoring client flow and developing procedures to improve clinical services, writing reports to document utilization and efficacy of services, assisting with job searches, establishing on-call schedule and crisis management protocols, serving as liaison to area hospitals and other referral sources, managing telepsychiatry program, updating policies and procedures manual, maintaining testing supplies,and providing mentoring and consultation to professional staff. Responsibilities also included those described under Staff Psychologist (below).
Staff Psychologist, Georgia Southern University, Counseling and CareerDevelopmentCenter, 8/01-5/06. Responsibilities included: assessment, individual therapy, and group therapy for students presenting to the center with a wide range of mental health and vocational concerns; provision of outreach presentations on a variety of mental health-related topics to campus and community organizations; supervision of master’s level practicum trainees; provision of consultation services to students, parents, and other professionals on campus; service on campus committees; and crisis intervention during and after business hours on an on-call basis. I also served as Research Coordinator and as advisor for the undergraduate psychology research/field experience for the center. Director: David Matthews, Ph.D. 40 hours weekly.
Clinical Psychology Resident, Medical College of Georgia/VAMC Consortium, 7/00-6/01. Responsibilities included: provision of a wide range of clinical services (i.e., assessment, consultation, treatment) to adults, adolescents, children, the elderly, and veterans. Specialized training included work with eating disorder, substance abuse, and chronic pain patients, along with assessment and treatment of patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. In addition, I worked with two psychologists and a psychiatrist at the VAMC to develop a cognitive-behavioral track within an existing substance abuse treatment program. Supervisors: Christian Lemmon, Ph.D., Amy House, Ph.D., Lorraine Braswell, Ph.D., John Arena, Ph.D. 50 hours weekly.
Co-coordinator: Eating Disorder Outreach, Prevention, and Treatment Program, Psychological ServicesCenter, SyracuseUniversity, 9/98-5/99. Responsibilities included: providing psycho-educational presentations on eating disorders to campus groups, coordinating services with other university programs in the treatment of eating disorders among students, conducting semi-structured eating disorder intake assessments, and providing cognitive-behavioral treatment to eating disordered clients.
Supervisor: Robert Kuehnel, Ph.D. 5 hours weekly.
Therapist, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Care Center--Outpatient Mental Health, Syracuse, N.Y., 9/97-9/98. Responsibilities included: attending weekly staff meetings/case presentations and training seminars; providing individual and family psychotherapy; conducting assessments with child, adolescent, and adult outpatients and inpatients, and conducting intake evaluations with outpatients and clients presenting to a psychiatric emergency center.
Supervisors: Karl Sperber, Ph.D., John Harkulich, Ph.D., Amy Gross, Ph.D. 20 hours weekly.
Therapist, Veteran’s AffairsMedicalCenter, Syracuse, N.Y., 5/97-9/97. Responsibilities included: attending weekly staff meetings/case presentations and training seminars, providing individual psychotherapy to outpatients, assisting in intake evaluations of outpatients and clients presenting for chemical dependency treatment, assisting in neuropsychological assessments, participating in behavior therapy seminar, and serving as psychology consultant to medical inpatient rehabilitation team.
Supervisors: Douglas Scaturo, Ph.D., Robert Sprafkin, Ph.D. 20 hours weekly.
Therapist, Psychological ServicesCenter, SyracuseUniversity, 8/96-5/00. Responsibilities included: telephone screening of prospective clients, conducting intake assessments, providing individual and couple's psychotherapy for adolescent and adult clients, and presenting cases at weekly staff meetings.
Supervisors: Mark Ginsberg, Ph.D., Joseph Himmelsbach, Ph.D., James Mikesell, Ph.D., and Robert Kuehnel, Ph.D. 20 hours weekly (8/96-5/97), 5 hours weekly (5/97-9/97), 2 hours weekly (9/97-5/00).
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Supervisor, Honor’s Project: The effects of reflective processing versus rumination on emotional responses to sad memories: Influence of pre-existing depressive symptoms, ArmstrongAtlanticStateUniversity, 11/06-present. Responsibilities include providing supervision of the development and implementation of a research project to fulfill criteria for the Honor’s Program. Student: Tristen Hastings.
Research Coordinator, Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University, 8/01-5/06. Responsibilities included: coordination of ongoing research projects, development and implementation of new projects, development and revision of counseling center forms, data management and analysis, consultation with campus and external organizations about research findings, and supervision of undergraduate research assistants. Projects included:
- Client Satisfaction with CounselingCenter Services
- The Effect of Counseling Services on Academic Retention and Performance: An Archival Study of GPA, Retention, and Graduation Rates Among Clients and Non-Clients
- Perceived Barriers to Utilization of CounselingCenter Services: Questionnaire Development and Validation
- Predicting Retention in Treatmentafter the First Session: Development and Validation of the Post-Intake Survey
- Predictors of Retention and Clinician-Assessed Progress in Treatment
- Assessment of Change in Client Distress and Perceived Progress Towards Treatment Goals
- Efficacy of DBT Skills Training for College Students
- Efficacy of Web-Based Relaxation Exercises for Distress Reduction
- Telepsychiatry Services versus On-site Psychiatry: Comparison of Client Satisfaction and Retention in Treatment
Supervisor, Alcohol Research Lab, SyracuseUniversity, 1/99-5/00. Responsible for co-supervising undergraduate research assistants (5-10) who received independent study credit for participating in the research lab. Responsibilities included: interviewing prospective undergraduate lab members; developing a course syllabus, including the assignment of weekly readings; co-leading a weekly research meeting; training in data entry, data collection, and general research techniques; facilitation of undergraduate lab members’ independent research ideas; and mentoring first year graduate students as future lab supervisors. The research lab experience was developed by myself and a colleague as a framework for facilitating productive interactions among faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate psychology majors. Given the success of the research lab, my colleague and I were asked to draft a proposal for implementing this framework throughout the department. In the second semester of the lab’s existence, our students won two undergraduate poster session awards in a university-wide competition.
Supervisor: Stephen Maisto, Ph.D.
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, SyracuseUniversity, 8/95-5/00. Responsibilities included: conducting literature reviews, attending group research meetings, proofreading manuscripts, and other research duties as needed.
Supervisor: Stephen Maisto, Ph.D.
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, SyracuseUniversity, 5/99-9/99. Responsibilities included: development of role-play scenarios and videotaped stimuli to be used in an alcohol administration research study, assisting in the video production of the role-play scenarios, participant recruitment, and data collection.
Supervisor: Stephen Maisto, Ph.D.
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, SyracuseUniversity, 5/96-8/96. Responsibilities included: assessing substance use and substance use disorders among outpatient adults at HutchingsPsychiatricCenter and adults from the community using interview and written assessment methods.
Supervisor: Lesley Teitelbaum, graduate student.
Undergraduate Research, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 6/93-12/94. Responsibilities included: conducting literature reviews, interviewing clients at a substance abuse treatment facility, analyzing data, and preparing posters/manuscripts. Projects included a study of the effects of methadone dose changes on individuals addicted to heroin (research assistant) and a study of the determinants of relapse among heroin addicts receiving methadone maintenance treatment (primary investigator).
Supervisors: Mark Galizio, Ph.D. and Nora Noel, Ph.D.
CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS:
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: In a Nutshell, 7/06. Continuing education program provided for psychologists, social workers, licensed marriage and family counselors, and psychiatrists in Athens, GA. Sponsored by the Georgia Psychological Association for continuing education credits towards professional state licensure.
INVITED STAFF AND STUDENT TRAINING:
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, 12/06. Training provided to the counseling center staff at the University of South Carolina.
Solution-Focused Therapy, 11/05. Training provided to psychologists at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Mental Status Exams, 9/05, 3/05, 11/02. Trainings provided to therapists in training at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Record Keeping and Report Writing, 9/05, 9/04, 9/03, 9/02, 9/01. Trainings provided to therapists in training at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
DBT Skills Training, 11/04. Training provided to psychologists at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Intake Interviews, 8/04. Training provided to therapists in training at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Terminating with Clients, 1/04. Training provided to therapists in training at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, 1/04. Training provided to psychologists at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Integrative Psychotherapy, 4/03, 3/02. Training provided to therapists in training at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Cognitive Processing Therapy for Rape/Sexual Assault, 2/03. Training provided to therapists in training at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
Motivational Interviewing, 10/02. Training provided to psychologists at the Counseling and Career Development Center, Georgia Southern University.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Housing Liaison, 8/05-present. Serve as Counseling and CareerDevelopmentCenterrepresentative to University Housing in order to provide ongoing consultation regarding mental health issues of students residing on campus.
Alcohol Education/Prevention, 8/01-present. Serve as needed on Student Affairs committees related to alcohol/drug education and prevention efforts. Most recently involved in poster campaign to increase student awareness of the connection between alcohol use and sexual assault.
Sexual Assault Response Team, 8/01-8/04. Assisted with sexual assault prevention efforts through outreach presentations to classes and student groups, awareness month programming, annual Take Back the Night marches/rallies, first year experience programming, and collaboration with campus and community agencies (e.g., Judicial Affairs, Greek Life, Bulloch County Rape Crisis Center Initiative).
Search Committee Chair, 2003. Served as chair of search committee for the Health Educator position at Georgia Southern University.
Sexual Assault Prevention Advocates, 8/01-8/03. Served as advisor to SAPA, a student peer education group tasked with developing and implementing peer education presentations on sexual assault. Coordinated presentation requests, trained peer educators, recruited student members, and coordinated student involvement in awareness month and first year experience activities related to sexual assault.
Eating Disorder Treatment Team, 8/01-8/03. Member of multi-disciplinary team assisting in the treatment of Georgia Southern University students with eating disorders. Team included representatives from Health Services, Recreation/Fitness, and the Nutrition/Food Science Department.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Advisory Committee Member, 2006. DHHS/SAMHSA-funded three-year grant on campus suicide prevention (primary investigator: Dr. Prentiss Price).
Reviewer, 2005. Served as a peer reviewer for presentation proposals submitted for the 2006 Annual ACPA Convention.
Leadership Focus Group Facilitator, 2004. Served as facilitator for focus group research on student leadership programming.
Reviewer, 2002. Served as invited peer reviewer for a manuscript submitted for publication to the journal, Personality and Individual Differences.
Development of Assessment Protocol, 1998. Developed a protocol for screening and assessing substance use problems among mental health patients at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Substance Abuse Assessment, 1998. Conducted substance abuse assessments and provided feedback to students at a SyracuseUniversity alcohol and drug abuse center (OPTIONS).
PUBLICATIONS:
Wolfe, W.L. & Emerson, E.N. (under review). Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills
Training Group in a UniversityCounselingCenter Setting.
Wolfe, W.L.Maisto, S.A. (in press). The effect of alcohol on body sizediscrepancy and self-
awareness in young women. Addictive Behaviors.
Khasanshina, E., Wolfe, W., Emerson, E., & Stachura, M. (in press). Student client satisfaction
with tele-psychiatry support at a rural university counseling center.Telemedicine and E-Health.
Tomcho, T.J., Wolfe, W.L., & Foels, R. (2006). Teaching about psychological disorders:
Using a group interviewing and diagnostic approach. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 184-188.
Wolfe, W.L.Maisto, S.A. (2000). Eating disorders and substance use: Moving beyond co-
prevalence research. Clinical Psychology Review, 20, 617-631.
Wolfe, W.L.Maisto, S.A. (2000). The effect of self-discrepancy and discrepancy salience on
alcohol consumption. Addictive Behaviors, 25, 283-288.
Maisto, S.A., Wolfe, W.L., & Jordan, J.L. (1999). Short-term motivational therapy. In P.J. Ott,
R.E. Tarter, & R.T. Ammenman (Eds.), Sourcebook on Substance Abuse: Etiology,
Methodology, and Intervention. (pp. 284-292). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS:
Wolfe, W., Simpkins, D., Miller, M., & McKinney, A. (2006). Factors affecting utilization of a
university counseling center: Development of the Perceived Barriers Questionnaire.
Manuscript in progress.
PRESENTATIONS (peer-reviewed):
Wolfe, W. & Caldwell, J. (2006). DBT Skills Training for Female College Students with and
without Eating Disorders. Poster presented at the annual convention of the
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.
Wolfe, W. (2006). Innovations in College Counseling: Bringing Psychiatric Services to Students
at a Rural University. Presentation given at the annual convention of the American
College Personnel Association, Indianapolis, IN.
Wolfe, W. & Price, P. (2006). Using Web-Based Interventions to Supplement
CounselingCenter Services. Presentation given at the annual convention of the American College Personnel Association, Indianapolis, IN.
Emerson, E., Wolfe, W., Khasanshina, E., Shevitz, S., Matthews, D., Buckley, P., & Stachura,
M. (2006).CounselingCenter Based Student Tele-Mental Health at a Rural University. Presentation given at the annual convention of the American Telemedicine Association, San Diego, CA.
Emerson, E. & Wolfe, W. (2005). Doing More with Less: Treating Severe Clients in Dialectical
Behavior Therapy Group.Presentation given at the annual convention of the American
College Personnel Association, Nashville, TN.
Zanone, C., Wolfe, W., Emerson, E., & Caldwell, J., (2002). Programmatic Research in
Counseling Centers: Part II: Using Research Results to Inform Programs and Practice
and Improve Accountability and Collaboration. Presentation given at the annual
conference of the American College Counseling Association, St. Simons Island, GA.
Wolfe, W. & Maisto, S. (2001). Self-directed Beer Goggles: The Effect of Alcohol on Women’s
Body Image. Poster presented at the 35th annual conference of the Association for the
Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.
Wolfe, W., Burden, J., Sharma, S., O’Shea, K., & Maisto, S. (2000). Beer & Chips: The Search