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Contributors About the Editors Suzy Mygatt Wakefield, Ph.D., C.D.F., Editor, a retired high school counselor, has worked in two states (Michigan and Washington) in three school districts since 1970, when she earned her Master's Degree in Education from the University of Washington. In 1978, she earned her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Michigan. (Earlier, she had worked as a high school Spanish teacher in Washington State.) She was a part-time program coordinator for the Washington Pre-College Program (1981-85) in Seattle. She served as President of the Washington School Counselor Association (1988-89) and helped to pass the Fair Start Bill to fund elementary counseling (1992). She is a certified Career Development Facilitator and has taught in the Career Development Certificate Program at the University of Washington. Suzy enjoys people, tennis, photography, writing, traveling, entertaining with her husband (also an editor) and their little dog, Nanuk. Suzy can be reached at [email protected] Howard Sage, Ed.D.,Associate Editor, is a retired high school counselor, formerly with the Issaquah School District, 20 miles east of Seattle. Howard Inc. was a full-time high school counselor, and part-time parent educator, teacher, mental health counselor and counselor educator. He has developed School to Career Programs in four different school districts. Howard completed his doctorate from Seattle University in Education and has taught Life Planning and Career Development at City University, Heritage College, Seattle University and the University ofWashington. He lives in Bellevue,PRO-ED, Washington, with his wife Lynne and has two grown children. Dr. Sage can be reached at [email protected] by Doris Rhea Coy, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, NCSC, NCCC, CDF, Assistant Editor, an associate professor at the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas), coordinates the school-counseling program. A former middle school teacher, high school counselor, and department chair inmaterial the Whitehall School District in Whitehall, Ohio, Doris is a past president of the American Counseling Association, the American School Counselor Association, the Ohio Counseling Association, the Ohio School Counselor Association, the Texas Career Development Association and past editor of the ASCA Counselor. She is the current president of the Texas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Secretary of the Texas School Counselor Association and chaircopyrighted of the ACA Insurance Trust. Dr. Coy travels extensively internationally© and has provided numerous programs xix and workshops. She has published over 50 articles and chapters; she was Lead Editor ofToward the Transformation ofSecondary School Counseling; American Counseling Association -A 50-Year History 1952-2002, and Co-Author of Bullying-An Activity and Resource Book for School Counselors, Teachers, and Parents. Dr. Coy can be reached at [email protected] Tami Palmer, Assistant Editor, is Deputy Director of WOISlThe Career Infonnation System in Olympia, Washington and Professional Development Manager for the National Training Support Center in Seattle. Tami has worked at WOIS for 23 years. Tami started working at WOIS while a student at The Evergreen State College. After 6 months of exploring career infonnation with WOIS resources, Tami changed her career direction. As Deputy Director, Tami oversees many of the company's daily operations and most special projects. She trains and provides presentations at conferences and workshops. Summers are spent reviewing updates to WOIS infonnation. At the National Training Support Center in Seattle, Tami assists with development and coordination of resources to support the work of America's Career Resource Network, a project of the Department of Education's Office ofVocational and Adult Education. Herfavorite project is a web-based parent guide to provide parents tools to help their children succeed in school and in their careers. Tami Palmer can be reached at Inc. [email protected] PRO-ED, by material copyrighted © xx About the Authors Jackie M. Allen, Ed.D., a past president of the American School Counselor Association, has been a school counselor and bilingual school psychologist for over 30 years. She is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist, and an adjunct faculty member at La Verne University and National University. Jackie is an accomplished presenter and author. She is editor of the popular book, School Counseling: New Perspectives & Practices and editor of the California School Counselor, the newsletter ofthe California Association ofSchool Counselors. The H.B. McDaniel Foundation recently announced Dr. Jackie Allen as the winner of the 2003 H.B. McDaniel Individual Award for Outstanding Leadership. Dr. Allen is known throughout the state and the nation as being an effective school counseling leader and an unwavering supporter of the schJol counseling profession. Jackie is currently an education programs consultant in the Counseling and Student Support Office of the California Department of Education. Dr. Allen can be reached at [email protected] James W. Allen, M.S., is a retired educator with over 30 years ofexperience in the public school system. He has been a junior high, senior high, and adult school counselor. In addition, he has taught at both the elementary Inc. and junior high school levels. He served the last four years of his career as an at-risk transition counselor with 8th grade junior high school students and with 9th grade senior high school students-developing his Dream Formula approach to counseling at-risk students. He has recently developed a website, specifically for students in California considering postsecondary options, at http://www.edpathways.com. Jim Allen can be reachedPRO-ED, at jallen491 @attbi.com by Keith Anderson, Ed.D., LMHC, a high school counselor, serves as the Counseling Department Chair for Anacortes High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Education degree from Western Washington University. His doctorate is from Seattlematerial University. He began his counseling career in 1978 for the Neah Bay Schools located on the Makah Indian Reservation in Washington State. In 1985 he moved to Anacortes and helped to begin the comprehensive counseling program process. The Anacortes High School Counseling Center has received recognition as an "exemplary counseling program" from the Washington School Counselor Association as well as an "honorable mention" from the American School Counselor Association (as an exemplary counseling program). Dr. Anderson has served,copyrighted twice, as president of the Washington School Counselor Association,© once as president of the Washington xxi Counseling Association and as chair of the American Counseling Association Western Region. Dr. Anderson's email address is [email protected] or [email protected] Stephen A. Armstrong, Ph.D., LPC-S, is an assistant professor of counselor education at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Stephen was an elementary school counselor for 11 years and has extensive experience working in culturally diverse schools with African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American students. His research interests include play therapy, group counseling, and school counseling. He recently published an article, "Expressive Arts in Family Therapy: Including Young Children in the Process," in the Texas Counseling Association Journal (Fall, 2002). He is currently involved in research projects involving play therapy in' elementary schools and counselor/principal relationships. He is an active member of the American Counseling Association, American School Counselor Association, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Association for Specialists in Group Work, and the Texas Counseling Association. Stephen also serves on the editorial board of the Texas Counseling Association. Dr. Armstrong can be reached at [email protected] Inc. Bridgette Belasli, M.Ed., is currently the Manager of Secondary Curriculum for the Edmonds School District. She was formerly a curriculum specialist in the Lake Washington School District, where she worked as a secondary educator for eleven years. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in English literature in 1989 and earned a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 2001. Her specialties in educationPRO-ED, include developing performance-based graduation standards and assessmentby tools. Bridgette Belasli can be reached at [email protected] Judy Bowers, M.S., supervises the 165 K-12 school counselors who serve 61,000 students in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), in Tucson, Arizona. Judy was a teacher for six years, a high schoolmaterial counselor for 16 years and has been the counselor supervisor for eight years. She has worked with the state of Arizona and TUSD since 1990 to restructure school counseling programs. This work led to the TUSD Governing Board adopting the Comprehensive Competency-Based Guidance (CCBG) in 1993. Under her guidance, the TUSD school-counseling department, awarded two federal elementary demonstration grants, has increased from 95 counselors in 1994 to 165 copyrightedcounselors in 2002. Leadership activities include President ofthe Arizona School Counselor Association, Supervisor/ Post Secondary and Western© Region Vice-President for the American School xxii Counselor Association (ASCA), and she was recently elected to serve as President-Elect for ASCA. She is also a consultant to