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Joseph A. Smith, Ph.D.
Professional Summary:
Ph.D. Psychologist with many years of experience in university teaching, research, and psychological counseling of children, students and adults. Additional special interests include researching human-interest issues including male and female behaviors and their motivations at all ages plus clinical testing, especially the use of projective techniques.
Significant Accomplishments and Work Experience:
- My book: Love's Mystery Solved: Building Lasting Relationships was purposefully written to enrich and strengthen long term human relationships. It is supported by history's first and only defensible, dependable and useful definition for the "essence of love/bonding" as the primary foundation for literally all meaningful relationships. It has a special focus clarifying many masculine/feminine interests and needs.
- Ph.D. in Human Development/Psychology University of Maryland
- Retired as Professor Emeritus of Psychology Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg PA after 26 years
- Member American Psychological Association 12 years
- Listed in Who's Who in the Northeast 5 years
- Designed and obtained university approval for 2 graduate courses, The Psychology of Personal Choice and Decision-Making and Studies in the Psychology of Adolescence and taught both of these courses for 15 years. Taught several other graduate courses for 26 years in Psychology including Developmental Psychology, Personal Adjustment and Mental Health, Choice and Decision-Making and Studies in the Psychology of Adolescence
- Taught undergraduate courses such as Developmental Psychology, Child Growth and Development, and Exceptional Psychology for 26 years
- Designed tests for significant research into the causes of Juvenile Delinquency for the
- Juvenile Justice Master's Program at Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg PA
- Licensed as a Psychologist - primary focus clinical testing and projective techniques for 25 years
- Private psychological and counseling practice 3 years
- Psychologist at South Middleton Schools, Boiling Springs, Pa two years
- Director of Guidance South Middleton Schools, Boiling Springs, Pa. 4 years
- Past President Cumberland County Schoolmen's Association (top level administrators)
- Teacher - Mechanicsburg Jr. High School 6 years
- Parish minister for 4 years providing therapy for domestic and spiritual issues
Community Activities:
- Professional lifetime involvement as ongoing counselor and mentor for seniors.
- Ongoing supportive care of 2 elderly women (one with beginning Alzheimer's Disease)
- Academic mentoring of high school students 3 years
- Habitat for Humanity 1 year
Counselor and clinical psychological tester of school children 30 years
Education:
- Ph.D. in Human Development/Psychology University of Maryland
- Pennsylvania State University Masters in Guidance and Counseling
- Clinical Psychologist training for public school work K - 12
- Dickinson College A.B. Degree with Major in Philosophy with minors in Psychology, Education, History and English
- Wyoming Seminary academic private high school: "Literary Scientific Diploma"
- Cincinnatus High School, Cincinnatus, N.Y. Business Diploma
Other Publication(s)and Speaking:
International Journal of Adolescence article, A survey of Adolescents' Interests: Concerns and Information, is included. It received special recognition by a division of the American Psychological Association as one of the 10 best creative research articles for the year.I have been a guest speaker a number of times at Maryland State Reader's Association annual meetings to groups of 200+. In over 26 years at Shippensburg University I have enjoyed lecture-discussions with 12,000+ graduate and undergraduate students.
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