Department of Counseling

Dr. Gladding speaks on treating students as professionals (MP3 download)

Education:

BA; MAEd - Wake Forest University; MA - Yale; PhD - UNC-Greensboro

Specialties:

Family counseling, professional issues, creative arts in counseling & group counseling

Email Address:

stg@wfu.edu

Personal Home Page:

Sam's Web Page

Family:

Wife: Claire
Children: Ben, Nate, and Tim.

Hobbies:

Jogging, tennis, swimming, and humor.
I also like to write and have authored over 100 publications (See Below)

Selected Published Works:

• Gladding, S. T. & Newsome, D. W. (2010). Clinical Mental Health Counseling in Community and Agency Settings.(3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Gladding, S. T. (2009). Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (Translated into Russian, Polish, Swedish, Indonesian)
• Gladding, S. T. (2009). Becoming a Counselor: The Light, the Bright, and the Serious (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
• Gladding, S. T. (2008). Group Work: A Counseling Specialty (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Gladding, S. T. (2007). Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice. (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Gladding, S. T. (2006). The Counseling Dictionary: Concise Definitions of Frequently Used Terms (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Gladding, S. T. (2005). Counseling as an Art: The Creative Arts in Counseling (3rd ed.). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
• Gladding, S. T. (2005). Counseling Theories: Essential Concepts and Application. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Previous Academic Appointments, Accreditations:

• University of Alabama at Birmingham)
• Fairfield University (Connecticut)
• Rockingham Community College (Wentworth, North Carolina).
• Director of Children's Services at the Rockingham County (North Carolina) Mental Health Center for five years before going into the academic world.
• National Certified Counselor (NCC)
• Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC)
• Licensed Professional Counselor (North Carolina).

See Vita For More (Adobe PDF*)

Teaching Responsibilities:

• CNS 740: Professional Orientation to Counseling
• CNS 773: FAMILY COUNSELING

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