Counseling and Family Sciences faculty - Douglas Huenergardt

Email: dhuenergardt@llu.edu

Education and Advanced Training

Licenses, Certifications, and Memberships

Professional and Academic Experience -- 2000 to present
Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, Loma Linda University :
Department of Counseling and Family Sciences Designed and taught doctoral classes in Cybernetic Analysis of Family and Community
Systems; Program Development for Families and Communities, Outcome Evaluation and Monitoring, Program Administration, Grant Writing, Advanced Quantitative Methods, and
Child Abuse and Family Violence.

2000-2006
Director, Loma Linda University Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic Secured additional clinic services with Riverside County Office of Education (evaluation and transition services for children in foster care, pro-social skill development groups for children mandated to alternative education). Together with the SACH-Norton Clinic, developed co-parenting program, funded by San Bernardino Superior Court. Developed Clinic infrastructure (doubled space, services, and supervisors leading to integrated skill development with live observation through additional one-way mirrors and audio/video systems, implemented a quality improvement system to improve accountability).

2000-present
Program Coordinator Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy (DMFT) program Designed and implemented a doctoral program in administration of social service programs
using systems concepts of Marriage and Family Therapy.

2003-2005
Elected President of Loma Linda University Interschool Faculty Advisory Committee (Faculty Senate) Facilitated policy revision in Rank Promotion and Tenure policy to include community service as part of “holistic contributions on behalf of the university” and community engaged scholarship as appropriate evidence of scholarly activity. (Still working on developing
university infrastructure to unify community engaged activities.)

1992-1999
Director of Program Development and Evaluation, Family Service Centers of Pinellas County, Florida .
Responsibilities: Designing wrap-around clinical, education, prevention and early intervention services into community settings for an $9 million dollar multi-service family agency; developing outcome and evaluation models for services; establishing quality improvement systems across
the agency; developing proposals to fund programs; establishing collaborations to implement programs; designing research and demonstration projects to determine effectiveness of interventions.

1984-1992
Director of the Family Institute, (conjointly, Director of Community and Educational Services) Family Service Centers of Pinellas County, Florida .
Responsibilities: Developing and promoting clinical training/ supervision program for interns
and licensed marriage and family therapists; developing and maintaining annual budget of $600,000; establishing referral network with community institutions, schools and agencies; developing live supervision program for therapists satisfying licensure requirements, and
increasing access to human services for residents in at-risk communities; developing evaluation procedures to ensure maintenance of instructional/supervision standards including supervision
of supervision; writing funding proposals to focus intervention strategies on specific presenting problems; designing research and demonstration projects to exhibit effectiveness of clinical interventions; training and supervising interns, private practitioners, and staff of other agencies
in competency-based marriage and family therapy practice.

1979 - 1984
Coordinator of Clinical Training, Family Service Centers of Pinellas County, Florida . Responsibilities: Designing, recruiting, and training community professionals in techniques of marriage and family therapy; establishing supervision schedules for live and videotape group supervision; collecting and tabulating evaluation data, supervising teaching and supervision.

1975 - 1979
Marriage and Family Therapist/Family Life Educator, Family Service Centers of Pinellas County, FL.
Responsibilities: Maintaining an active marriage and family therapy caseload, presenting
clinical training workshops throughout the region, presenting family life education seminars to middle school, high school and adult populations, designing and evaluating prevention programs for at-risk youth and families.

1970 - 1975
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin , Madison : Department of Communication
Responsibilities: Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Non-verbal Communication, Quantitative Methods, and Communication of Emotional States. Additional responsibilities included directing dissertations
and theses, conducting research.

1967 - 1970
Instructor/Assistant Professor, Queens College, City University of New York : Department of Communication Arts and Sciences.
Responsibilities: Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Communication Theory, Nonverbal Communication, Methods of Interpersonal Influence, Communication of Emotional States, Group Process, and Quantitative Methods in Communication Research. Additional responsibilities included developing graduate program, undergraduate curricula, directing master’s theses, conducting research.

Funded Service Grants (principal author or co-author)

Pro-social Skill Development for At-risk Youth in Alternative Education: An 18-month project to create a pro-social skill development group-counseling module for youth in Riverside County ’s Alternative Education program.

Pinellas WORKS!: A 14-member collaboration to provide county residents with a complete array of work preparation, education, job development, and case management services for adults, youth, pregnant/parenting teens, and dislocated workers. Funded for the initial 20-month renewable contract for $15,259,067 by the Pinellas Workforce Development Board and Pinellas WAGES Coalition.

Time Out Homes: Redesign of short-term respite care for families in crisis. Funded by the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County for $81,433.

Safe Start Initiative: A 12-month planning grant to integrate services to children who have been victims or exposed to violence. If successful, the grant will provide for 5.5 years of funding to
implement the planned services. Initial funding is for $250,000 by the federal Department of Education and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Sexual Assault Victim Services: Funding for victims of sexual assault and rape. Funded for $96,389 by the Florida Office of the Attorney General.

Families and Schools Together (FAST): Funding for a two-year family-strengthening program designed to build bridges between marginalized families and their children’s elementary schools. Funded for $193,473 for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative by the U.S. Department of Education and for $50,000 by the Governor’s Drug Free Communities Program.

Comprehensive Services: Annual United Way grant for multiple clinical, prevention, and community-grant for multiple clinical, prevention, and community- empowerment programs. Funded for $640,893.

Family Loan Program: Program to provide low-interest loans to families with no or low credit who are joining the workforce. Funded by the McKnight Foundation for $150,000. Matching funds were provided by another 17 organizations.

Community Empowerment: Grant to assist residents build assets and organize their community in a high-risk area of St. Petersburg (Campbell Park). Funding to be renewed annually for three years. Funded for $425,000 annually by the Allegany Franciscan Foundation.

Juvenile Sex Offender Day Treatment: Services for juveniles who have committed sex crimes against children. Funded by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice for $453,086.

Sexual Assault Victim Services:Funding for sexual abuse and rape recovery services. Funded for $96,479 by the Florida Office of the Attorney General and by the Florida Department of Children and Family Services for $70.28 per counseling session.

Healthy Start Counseling Services:Collaboration with the Pinellas County Health Department for a Marriage and Family Therapist position. Funded by the Department of Health and Human Services for $39,280.

Welfare to Work Services:Large collaboration to provide training to coaches assisting recipients of government benefits as they transition to the workforce. Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Labor to the Pinellas Workforce Development Board for a total of $1.5 million.

Prevention of Teenage Dating Violence and Sexual Assault:Funding for a primary prevention program to work with at-risk populations to prevent courtship and dating violence. Funded for three years by the Florida Department of Health for $96,738 per year and annually for $10,000 by Pinellas County Department of Social Services.

Family Loan Program:Funding for the initial operating expenses for a Loan Coordinator. Funding for three years at $185,259 by United Way of Pinellas County under a competitive new projects grant request.

Counseling, Education and Community Services:Funding for Marriage and Family Counseling, Family Life Education, Family Case Management, Sexual Assault Victim Services, Juvenile Sex Offender Services, Home-based Parent Education, Family Crisis Respite Care, and Families and Schools Together(FAST). Renewable funding by the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County for $1,445,664.

Comprehensive Services:Annual United Way grant for multiple clinical, prevention, grant for multiple clinical, prevention, and community-empowerment programs. Funded for $622,229.

Directed Research Projects (Principal Investigator)

Evaluation of Pro-social Skill-Development Groups for Alternative Education Youth in Riverside County (2000-2001): An 18-month investigation of the effectiveness of 12-week
pro-social skills groups conducted for the Riverside County Office of Education.

Youthful Sex Offenders (1987-1990): A three-year research project to demonstrate the utility of outpatient early intervention with youths charged with molestation of siblings and younger children, and comparison of two intervention models.

Systemic Video-Feedback as an Educational Tool with Couples Recovering from Father-figure Incest (1986-1989): A three-year research project demonstrating how video replay of affective communication in couples groups increases communication skills on seven communication variables affecting intimacy and ability to recover from father-figure incest.

Heart to Heart: Measuring the Outcome of Parent-Teen Sexuality Education Groups (1987-1988): A one-year pretest/posttest study of parents’ changes in perception of themselves and their teenager as correlated with changes of the teenagers' perception of self and parents on ten different sexuality variables.

Outcome Evaluation of Pregnancy Prevention Programs in the Schools (1982-1986): A four-year pretest/posttest study of middle and senior high-school students' responses to four-day programs on human sexuality.

Teaching Couples Communication Skills: Outcome of a Skills-Based Educational Program in a Private Agency Setting (1980-1981): A two-year study of the effectiveness of a program based on communication skill development for couples ready to divorce.

Measuring the Outcome of a Youth Service Bureau in a Chicago Mexican-American Community (1975): A three-month study of the increasing degree of parental influence exercised by Mexico-born parents on delinquent youth born in following parental participation in the program.

Peer-Reviewed Academic Papers

"Mutual Eye-gaze Ratio as an Index of Interpersonal Synchrony in Marital Therapy," paper presented at the conference Clinical Applications of Interaction Research; University of Minnesota , April 1973 in Minneapolis, Minnesota .

"Time--the Neglected Variable in Nonverbal Research: A Critique of Research Designs Employed in the Study of Human Interaction," paper presented at the Central States Speech-Communication Convention, April, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio.

"Relationship of Spatio-temporal Essentic Form to Facial Communication of Affect," paper presented at the 138th Meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science on the symposium Sentics, Brain Function and Sources of Human Values, December, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"Micro-momentary Facial Expressions as Perceivable Signs of Deception," paper selected for presentation at the Speech-Communication Convention, December, 1969 in New York City, New York.

"Nonverbal Constellations in the Family Interview: A Procedure for Validating Change," paper presented at a continuing seminar of the Family Studies Section, Bronx State Hospital , March, 1969 in Bronx, New York.

"Effects of Nonverbal Listener Feedback on Communicator Attitudes," paper selected for presentation at the Speech-Communication Convention, December 1967 in Los Angeles, California.

Training and Supervision

Process-focused, Competency-based Family Therapy (1990-97): Weekly two-hour intensive training for clinicians working with multi-problem families, including those recovering from sexual abuse.

Competency-based Supervision (1997): Four-hour workshop on methods of conducting supervision from a competency perspective that facilitates therapist strength-based clinical work.

Five-Part Series: Building Competencies in Home-based Settings (1995-96): Five three-hour workshops to train therapists adapting to home-based clinical work, sponsored by the Juvenile Welfare Board.

Seeing Clients through the Lens of Competency (1992-95): 15 six-hour workshops to train and supervise Family Support Workers so that they respond to clients from a competency perspective.

Process-focused Family Therapy with Sexual Assault Cases (1990): Six two-hour workshops with the Sexual Assault Treatment Center.

Introduction to Family Therapy from an Empowerment Model - Finding Strengths (June, 1990): Ten hours of lecture and role-play to teach clinicians how to help clients attach to their strengths.

Benign Challenge: The Key to Empowering Individuals, Couples and Families through In-session Enactment. (1988-1989): Weekly two-hour seminar in family systems/therapy concepts, techniques and practice (30 sessions, total).

Incest Recovery: Empowering Couples through Intensive Affective Communication Groups (Nov., 1988): Special three-hour presentation to the Pinellas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy on clinical methods and statistical findings of a three-year study on the usefulness of communication groups for couples wishing to reconcile following father-figure incest.

Questioning : The Heart of the Clinical Session (1987‑1988): Eight-month in-service training sessions for clinical staff of Suncost Community Mental Health.

Heart To Heart: Training Parents and Teens to Talk to Each Other about Sex (1987): Three two-day presentations to therapists, school social workers, school psychologists and guidance counselors responsible for implementing the Heart to Heart model.

Recontextualizing Families, Couples and Individuals: The Family Therapy Practice Center Model of Empowerment (1985‑1986): Nine three-hour training sessions for therapists in the Tampa Bay area.

Strategies for Approaching Sexual Issues with Acting-out Adolescents (Sept. 1982): Three-hour workshop for Tampa Bay area school psychologists, guidance counselors, and health educators.

Advanced Techniques of Existential Family Therapy (June 1982): Three-hour workshop sponsored by Juvenile Welfare Board Training Unit.

Interactional Approaches to Pregnancy Prevention (Nov. 1981): Three-hour in-service training for Pinellas County school psychologists, guidance counselors, and school social workers.

Models for Working with Adolescents on Human Sexuality: Teen Pregnancy Prevention (1980- 81): One-day workshop presented at 15 locations throughout Florida , CEU's offered to school psychologists, guidance counselors, and teachers.

Existential Approaches to Family Therapy (March 1980): Three-hour workshop sponsored by Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County.

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