Brenner is also a member of the research team at Craig Hospital. She is a member of the Colorado Brain Injury Advisory Board and has consulted with the Colorado Department of Human Services to improve care for persons with TBI receiving treatment in the community mental health system. Brenner serves as Member at Large on two national boards: APA Division 22 and the VA Psychology Training Council. Her primary area of research interest is traumatic brain injury (TBI) and comorbid psychiatric disorders. Brenner is also the Director of Training for the MIRECC Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship program. is a Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, and Director of Education for the VA VISN 19 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). Borsos looks forward to the day when allįoundations of Mental Health Counseling counselors and therapists are equally effective and efficient and when going to counseling is as accepted by the public as getting a flu shot. He also serves as the administrative coordinator for the program. Here he finds great pleasure in bringing new counselors into the field through such courses as Counseling Techniques, Theories, Psychopathology, Group Counseling, Supervision and other treatment-oriented courses. Borsos teaches as an assistant professor in the Master’s Program in Clinical and Counseling Psychology at Chestnut Hill College.
His professional interests these days revolve around integrating the various theories of counseling into a more unified field and teaching others how to do effective therapy. These include the “normal” outpatient mood and anxiety disorders, as well as some intense work with addictions and acting-out psychotics staying in community living arrangements.
He has treated a wide variety of clinical cases in his 25-year career. Borsos is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania. Minton is an editorial review board member for Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation and the Journal of Professional Counseling, and she serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Counselor Education & Supervision. She is an active member of state and national counseling associations, where she serves as President-Elect of Chi Sigma Iota (CSI) International, on the Executive Council for the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education (AACE), and as co-chair of the AACE Task Force regarding CACREP Assessment and Evaluation Guidelines. Minton is active on research teams regarding suicide and crisis, has published multiple journal articles regarding crisis and counselor preparation, and is co-author of a book regarding counselor preparation. A National Certified Counselor and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Trainer, she specializes in crisis intervention, has experience working with adolescents and adults across mental health counseling settings, and has served as director of the Counseling & Human Development Center, a university-based mental health counseling training center. Casey Barrio Minton is Associate Professor of Counseling and Counseling Program Coordinator at the University of North Texas. Includes biographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Foundations of mental health counseling / edited by Artis J.
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