Meet the Editors
David Capuzzi, PhD, NCC, LPC, is a counselor educator 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 several 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, 2019); Introduction to the Counseling Profession (1991, 1995,1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017); Introduction to Group Work (1992, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011).
In addition to Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) and Foundations of Group Counseling (2019), published by Pearson with Dr. Mark D. Stauffer, he and Dr. Stauffer have published Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications (2006, 2012, 2019); Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling (2015, 2021); Human Growth and Development Across the Life Span: Applications for Counselors (2016); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (2016, 2022). Other books include 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 D. Burlew. He has authored or coauthored articles in several 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 was the first recipient of ACA’s Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and was 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, and in 2016, he received the Locke/Paisley Mentorship award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES). In 2018, he received the Mary Smith Arnold Anti-Oppression Award from the Counselors for Social Justice, a division of ACA, as well as the U.S. President’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He was the 2019 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from ACES.
One of Dr. Capuzzi’s most recent contributions to the profession was a webinar series titled Leading Lights in Counseling developed for Walden University in 2021. This series featured prominent scholars and practitioners who addressed pertinent issues and topics that impact the role of the counselor and other helping professionals.
Mark D. Stauffer, PhD, NCC, is a core faculty member in the clinical mental health counseling program 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.
Dr. Stauffer is the past president of the Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC) and past cochair of the ACA International Committee, and he recently served on ACA’s Climate Change Task Force. He was a Chi Sigma Iota International Fellow and was awarded ACA’s Emerging Leaders Grant and the AHC Humanistic Leadership and Past President’s awards.
As a clinician, Dr. Stauffer has worked in crisis centers and other nonprofit organizations working with low-income individuals, couples, and families in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon. Along with an existential-humanistic and systems theoretical orientation, he has studied and trained in the Zen tradition for 25 years and presents locally and nationally on meditation as well as mindfulness-based therapies in counseling. He also leads nature-connection community mentoring programs for youth. His current research projects focus on climate change and mental health as well as antiracism in counselor education.
In addition to Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (2016), he has copublished with Dr. Capuzzi Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling (2015, 2021); Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020); Foundations of Group Counseling (2019); Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications (2006, 2012, 2019); and Human Growth and Development Across the Life Span: Applications for Counselors (2016).
Meet the Contributors
Talana Butler is a second-year student in the master’s counseling program at Xavier University of Louisiana, where she serves as coordinator of the university’s Center for Traumatic Stress Research, working under the direction of Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji. Ms. Butler’s research interests focus on clinical interventions for adjudicated youth. She is a graduate of the psychology program at Southern University (Baton Rouge, LA).
Julia Champe, PhD, core faculty at Walden University, teaches counseling theory, practicum, and research coursework in the clinical mental health and counselor education and supervision programs. A former co-owner of a rural private practice specializing in low-cost couple and family counseling, Dr. Champe has taught in counselor education programs in Wisconsin and Illinois. An avid group worker, Dr. Champe has written several articles on group work theory and practice and taught group work across the United States and in Japan. She currently serves as chair of the Product Development Committee for the Association for Specialists in Group Work and as an editorial reviewer for The Journal for Specialists in Group Work. She has cowritten extensively on counselor education and diversity, cultural competence, and inter-cultural communication. Dr. Champe’s additional areas of scholarly interest include supervision, counselor development, sexuality, multicultural issues, and qualitative research.
Lauren B. Clark, MS, LPC, NCC, is a current doctoral candidate in the counselor education program at the University of New Orleans. She serves as Doctoral Member-at-Large for Chi Sigma Iota-Alpha Eta chapter at the University of New Orleans and has published the journal article, “Utilizing Mindfulness Based CBT to Address Anger and Aggression in Middle Schools.”
Tatiana Cruz, MS, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor in New York state and current doctoral student at the University of Texas at San Antonio studying counselor education and supervision. She received her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
Thelma Duffey, PhD, is professor and chair in the Department of Counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA). An ACA Fellow, Dr. Duffey was a longtime member of the ACA Governing Council and a two-term ACA treasurer. Dr. Duffey was the founding president of the Association for Creativity in Counseling, a division within ACA, and she is editor of the Journal of Creativity in
