TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Marymount University

    Master’s Level Courses: 

• Theories and Techniques of Family Therapy: Master’s level course providing an overview of the major theories of family counseling and therapy. Instruction included case conceptualization and treatment planning from various theoretical perspectives.

• Research and Evaluation: Instruction of master’s level course on research design, methodology, and implementation. Course activities included on-going research article critiques and survey of both parametric and nonparametric statistical techniques. This course focused on choosing appropriate methods of data analyses and the use of SPSS statistical software to conduct and evaluate the results.

• Theories of Chemical Dependency: Introduction to the various theories of chemical dependency counseling. Included instruction on the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of substance abuse/dependence and treatment protocols associated with each.

• Counseling Techniques: Masters level instruction on knowledge and skill development for effective interviewing, assessment, and counseling of individuals of diverse backgrounds. 

• Counseling Internship in CMHC: Supervise and instruct master’s level students involved in community counseling field experiences. Provided feedback and supervision of student’s videotaped psychotherapy sessions.

• Counseling Practicum in CMHC: Supervise and instruct master’s level students involved in community counseling practicum field experience.

• Cognitive Therapy Techniques: Master’s level course providing an introduction to the theory, techniques, and practical application of cognitive-behavior therapy.

• Dreamwork in Counseling: introduction to the theories and techniques of dreamwork.

• Emotion Focused Short-Term Dynamic Therapy: Introduction to the theory and techniques of emotion focused psychodynamic therapy.

    Doctoral Level Courses:

• Advanced Theories in Counseling: Doctoral level course providing in-depth study, analysis, and critical evaluation of various counseling theories.

• Doctoral Practicum in Counseling Supervision: Doctoral level course providing instruction and review of supervision theory and techniques, case analyses, and videotape review of student supervision sessions.

• Theories and Models in Counseling Supervision: Introduce doctoral students to the theories an models of supervision in counseling

• Advanced clinical skills counseling lab: Course to provide advanced graduate students an opportunity to demonstrate and develop advanced counseling skills.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Theories and Techniques of Family Therapy

• Counseling Internship

• Theories of Chemical Dependency: Introduction to the various theories of chemical dependency counseling. Included instruction on the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of substance abuse/dependence and treatment protocols associated with each.

SCHOLARSHIP

Dissertation Research

 Cooper, J. B. (2006). The relationship between trait emotional intelligence and the supervisory    working alliance: A cross-sectional study of agency counseling supervision dyads in CACREP accredited programs. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC.

Refereed publications

Abrams, L., Post, P., Algozzine, B., Cooper, J. B., Miller, T., Gomory, T., & Ryan, S. (2006). Ethnicity and professional characteristics of play therapists. International Journal of Play Therapy, 15, 11-34.

Culbreth, J. R., & Cooper, J. B. (2008). Factors impacting the development of substance abuse counseling supervisors. Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 29, 22-35.

Cooper, J. B. (2008). Mental health consultation versus counseling supervision: A brief overview.    Virginia Counselors Journal, 30, 55-58.

Cooper, J. B. & Ng, K. M. (2008). Trait Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Supervisory Working Alliance of Counseling Trainees and Their Supervisors in the Agency Setting. International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling, 31(3), 145-157.

Cannon, E. C. & Cooper, J. B. (2009). Clinical Mental Health Counseling: A national survey of counselor educators. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 32(3), 236-246.

Book Chapters

Cooper, J. B.  (2007). Response to critical incident: Mandated Supervision: Trouble for an External Counseling Clinical Supervisor. In T. L. Harrington & J. R. Culbreth (Eds.), Critical Incidents in Clinical Supervision. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Cooper, J. B., Meyer, D., & Paul, R. (2008). The impacts of marriage on depression and anxiety with non-clinical adults who have experienced early life stressors. Compelling Counseling Images:  The Best of VISTAS 2008. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Cooper, J. B. & Jackson-Cherry, L. (2009). Essential crisis intervention skills. In L. Jackson-Cherry & B. T. Erford (Eds). Crisis intervention and prevention (pp.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Cooper, J. B. (2009). Counseling Microskills. In B. T. Erford (Ed). Orientation to the profession of counseling: Advocacy, ethics, and professional foundations (pp.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Cooper, J. B. & Ng, K. M. (2009). On becoming an emotionally intelligent counseling supervisor. In  J. Culbreth & L. Brown (Eds.). State of the art in clinical supervision. Routledge.

Cooper, J. B. (2013). Essential crisis intervention skills. In L. Jackson-Cherry & B. T. Erford (Eds). Crisis intervention and prevention (2nd Ed., pp. 67-84). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Cooper, J. B. (2013). Counseling microskills. In B. T. Erford (Ed). Orientation to the profession of counseling: Advocacy, ethics, and professional foundations (2nd Ed., pp. ). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Elliott, J., Abbass, A, & Cooper, J. B. (2016). International group supervision using webconferencing technology. In T. Rousmaniere (Ed.). Using technology to enhance counselor supervision. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Cooper, J.B. (2018). Self-Psychology theory: Addiction and the wounded self. In J. R. Culbreth & P.  Lassiter (Eds.). Theory and practice of addictions counseling. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Cooper, J. B. (2018). Counseling microskills. In B. T. Erford (Ed). Orientation to the profession of counseling: Advocacy, ethics, and professional foundations (3nd Ed., pp. ). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

CONFERENCE AND PRESENTATIONS

Refereed International

Briggs, W., Cooper, J. B., Furr, S., Magnus, V., & Scarboro, B. (2008). “If only I had known…”: Lessons from the field. Three hour learning institute presentation at the 2008 American Counseling Association Convention, Honlulu, Hawaii.

Hagedorn, B., Lambert, S., Juhnke, G., Cooper, J. B., Rohr, S., Temme, M., & Chiofalo, J. (2008). When talking won’t work: Implementing experiential activities with addicted clients. Program presented at the 2008 American Counseling Association Conference, Honlulu, Hawaii.

Meyer, D. D. & Cooper, J. B. (2008). The impact of marriage on depression and anxiety with adults who have experienced early life stress or traumas. Poster presentation presented at the 2008 American Counseling Association Conference, Honlulu, Hawaii.

Lambert, S. F. & Cooper, J. B. (2008). Building networks among addiction and offender counselors: Developing IAAOC state chapters. Poster presentation presented at the 2008 American Counseling Association Conference, Honlulu, Hawaii

Cooper, J. B. (2007, June). Emotionally intelligent supervision: An examination of the role of emotional intelligence on the development of the supervisory working alliance. Program presented at the Third International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision, Buffalo, NY.

Ng, K. M., & Cooper, J. B. (2006, April). Emotional intelligence at work. Three-hour learning institute presentation at the 2006 American Counseling Association Annual World Convention, Montreal, Canada.

Refereed National & Regional

Cooper, J. B. (2016 October). Using videoconferencing for distance supervision practices. Virginia Counseling Association Conference, Williamsburg, VA.

Cooper, J. B. & Band, M. P (2015, October). Using videoconferencing for distance supervision practices. Association for Counselor Education and Supervision conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Cooper, J. B. & Meyer, D. (2012, March). How does that make you feel? An introduction to affect regulation in counseling. Three-hour learning institute presentation at the 20012 American Counseling Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Meyer, D. & Cooper, J. B. (2011, November). How does that make you feel? An introduction to affect regulation in counseling. Virginia Counselors Association Conference. Portsmouth, VA. 

Meyer, D. & Cooper, J. B. (2010, October). How Does That Make You Feel? Treating Affect Regulation in Counseling. Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference. Williamsburg, VA.

Ng, K. M., Cooper, J. B., & Hill, K. (2010, March) The practice of emotionally intelligent clinical supervision. Three hour learning institute presentation at the 2010 American Counseling Association Convention, Pittsburgh, PA.

Meyer, D. & Cooper, J. B. (2009, October). Integrating Neurobiology into Human Growth and Development Courses. Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) Conference. San Diego, CA. 

Rambo, T. D., Cannon, E. C., Cooper, J. B., & Nielsen, S. (2008, November). Fundamentals of counselor supervision: Minimizing liabilities-maximizing achievement. Program presented at the 2008 Virginia Counselors Association Conference, Roanoke, VA.

Cannon, E. C., Cooper, J. B., & Davis, T. (2007). LGBT adolescents: The ethical responsibility of professional school counselors. Program presented at the 2007 Virginia Counselors Association Conference, Portsmouth, VA.

Cooper, J. B. & Cannon, E. C. (2007). Creative supervision: Integrating the sandtray as an experiential adjunct to the supervision of counselor trainees. Program presented at the 2007 Virginia Counselors Association Conference, Portsmouth, VA.

Lambert, S., Cooper, J. B., Baker, N., & Smith, K. (2007). Connecting Virginia addiction and offender counselors: The development of an IAAOC Chapter. Program presented at the 2007 Virginia Counselors Association Conference, Portsmouth, VA.

Cannon, E. C., Cooper, J. B., Starkey, D., Sheperis, C., & Williams, R. (2007, June). Community, clinical, mental health counseling specialties: Working to establish a solid counselor identity.  Program presented at the 2007 Association for Counselor Eructation and Supervision (ACES) Conference, Columbus, OH.

Cannon, E. C., Cooper, J. B., & Jackson-Cherry, L.  (2007, June). Navigating the culture of academe: What they don’t teach you in your doctoral program. Program presented at the 2007 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) Conference, Columbus, OH.

Ng, K. M., Cooper, J. B., & Snow, S. (2005, February). Supervision 101 for beginning clinical       supervisors. Program presented at the North Carolina Counseling Association           Conference, Charlotte, NC.

Ng, K. M., & Cooper, J. B. (2004, April). Counselor educators and international counseling students. Program presented at the 2004 American Counseling Association (ACA) Annual Convention, Kansas City.

Ng, K. M., & Cooper, J. B. (2004, February). Differences between non-Western international counseling students and American counseling students: In the eye of their professors. Program presented at the North Carolina Counseling Association Conference, Charlotte, NC.

Ng, K. M., & Cooper, J. B. (2003, September). Counselor educators' experience in training international counseling students. Program presented at the 2003 Southern Association for Counselor Educators and Supervision (SACES) conference, Chattanooga, TN.

Local and State Workshops

Cooper, J. B. (2016, February). Changing Defenses from syntonic to dystonic: I don’t want to hurt anymore. 3- hour training conducted at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC.

Cooper, J. B. (2017, January). Inquiry: Assessing and developing the conscious therapeutic alliance (CTA).  3- hour training conducted at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC.

Cooper, J. B. (2017, June). Introduction to Motivational Interviewing. 3-hour training conducted for the Jewish Social Service Agency, Rockville, MD.

Cooper, J. B. (2015, February). Review of interventions and the timing of interventions in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. 6- hour training conducted at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC.

Cooper, J. B. (2013, October). The graded format in Intensive Short-Term dynamic Psychotherapy. 3-day training conducted at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC.

Cooper, J. B. (2012, November). Introduction to motivational interviewing. 3-hour training conducted for Rathbone and Associates, Bethesda, MD.

Cooper, J. B. (2012, July 20-21). Introduction to motivational interviewing. 1 CEU course taught at Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD.

Cooper, J. B. (2008, April). An introduction to motivational interviewing. Training conducted for local and state substance abuse counselors. Sponsored by Virginia Tech’s chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, Falls Church, VA.  

Cooper, J. B. (2007, December). An introduction to emotional intelligence. Program presented to the 5th grade class of Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, Falls Church, VA.

Cooper, J. B. (2007, July). Introduction to sandplay therapy with adults and children. Program presented to the counseling staff of The House of Ruth, Beltsville, MD.

Cooper, J. B.  (2005). An introduction to motivational interviewing: theory and technique. Staff training  conducted for McLaughlin Young Employee Assistant Program. Charlotte,     NC.

Cooper, J. B. (2004) The supervisory relationship: Implications for practice and research. Guest lecture for Doctoral internship class in counseling supervision. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Cooper, J. B. & Scarboro, B. A. (2003). Get into gear: Motivational interviewing with addicted         populations. Training for local and state substance abuse professionals. Charlotte, NC.

Cooper, J. B. (2001). Motivational interviewing: Techniques for addressing substance abuse issues with adolescents. Training to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Student Assistance Program Counseling staff.

Cooper, J. B. (1999). Modified interactive group therapy: Integrating Self-Psychology into the group treatment of clients with dual disorders. Training conducted for the outpatient chemical dependency staff at Pathways Recovery Center, Gastonia, NC.

SERVICE

Service to Marymount University

• Member of Academic Policy, Budget, and Planning (APBP) committee (SP 2018-present).

• Chair of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program (2016-Fall)

• Coordinator and Program Monitor for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program (2015-2016).

• Served as chair of the search committee and interviewed applicants for faculty positions in the Department of Counseling, 2016.

• Coordinator and Program Monitor for the EdD Counselor Education and Supervision program (2015-current).

• Reviewed and updated community and school counseling program syllabi, policies, and procedures to be in accordance with CACREP and SACES standards for upcoming 2007 & 2016 site reviews.

• Reviewed and updated EdD in Counselor Supervision and Education program syllabi, policies, rubrics, and procedures to be in accordance with CACREP standards for upcoming 2015 Doctoral Program review.

• Committee member of the Marymount University Budget Committee (2015-2017)

• Assisted in the development of the Counselor Education Doctoral Program which included syllabi development, course description, and program objectives, 2009-11.

• Chair of Chi Sigma Iota, National Counseling Honor Society, 2009-2012.

• Served as coordinator for new student interviews 2009-2011.

• Served on the search committee and interviewed applicants for faculty positions in the Department of Counseling, 2009.

• Assisted with keeping the Department of Counseling Website current, 2014- present

• Assisted with setting up the counseling training labs (video/audio recording, software, etc.) and managing any technological issues that arise 2012-present.

Service to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Student interviewer, as a part of the selection process for applicants for faculty positions in the Department of Counseling (2005).

• Professional orientation for prospective doctoral students from Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

Service to the Profession

• Member of the planning and development committee for the 2005 North Carolina Association for Counselor Education and Supervision graduate student conference.

• Member of the 2007 American Counseling Association Convention program selection committee.

• Member of the 2008 American Counseling Association Convention program selection committee.

• Membership chair of the International Association of Addiction and Offender Counselors 2008-2011.

• Board member and Treasurer, The International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association (IEDTA, 2017-2023).