Elena Amalia Stanciu

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1 Elena Amalia Stanciu EBCC Associação, Alameda das Linhas de Torres, 179, Edificio 27, 2º Andar, Gabinete 3, , Lisbon Portugal. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Counseling and Counselor Education Syracuse University Certificate of Advanced Study in Conflict Resolution Maxwell School of Syracuse University M.A. in Counseling Wake Forest University Winston Salem, NC, USA Master s Degree in Lifelong Education for Career Counseling Polytechnic University of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania Bachelor s Degree, Management Public Administration The Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania CLINICAL COUNSELING EXPERIENCE PERSONAL COACH: Student SUccess Initiative (SSUI) May August 2011 Syracuse University Duties included: providing coaching to undergraduate students directed towards their academic and personal development, collaborating with the other coaches, providing weekly reports and recommendations to the SSUI office. PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR CAREER COUNSELING ACTIVITIES April May 2011 Corcoran High-school Syracuse School City District Duties included: supervising counseling Master s students who were providing high school students with assistance in creating accounts in databases pertaining to career planning and development, working with students in interpreting the results of the instruments they were taken in the data base. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH THERAPIST May 2010 May 2011 Liberty Resources, Brownell Center for Behavior Health Services After serving at Brownell as a doctoral intern for two years, I was hired as a staff therapist. Clients served: adults with multiple Axis I and Axis II diagnoses, teenagers, and families. In this position, I collaborated with the social worker from an organization that was facilitating access to services for refugees. As a result, refugee clients were generally referred directly to me, within the limits of my availability. I provided both short-term counseling and long-term therapy (working from an object-relations perspective) based on the challenges and needs of the clients, and I collaborated with psychiatrists for treatment planning. GROUP COUNSELOR January 2009 May 2009 Levy School Syracuse School City District Duties included: co-facilitating weekly process group with high-risk 7th graders by focusing on empowerment, by examining issues of institutional and societal racism, sexism, classism, 1

2 heterosexism, and able-ism; collaborating with school administrators and school counselors; meeting for weekly group supervision with research team. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DOCTORAL INTERN August 2008 May 2010 Liberty Resources, Brownell Center for Behavior Health Services Population served: adults with multiple Axis I and Axis II diagnoses Responsibilities include individual counseling, crisis intervention, preventive interventions, and consultation with other staff (therapists, manage care specialists, psychiatrists) and external resources. COUNSELING INTERN August 2007 May 2008 Salem College & Academy Winston-Salem, NC, USA Duties included intakes, individual counseling, family counseling, crisis interventions, on-call duties, and consultation with other faculty members. COUNSELING PRACTICUM STUDENT January 2007 June 2007 Salem Academy - College preparatory day and boarding school for girls Winston-Salem, NC, USA Duties included individual counseling, crisis interventions, psycho-educational groups and consultation with other staff. I designed and implemented a counseling needs assessment to gain visibility among students and to raise awareness of the necessity of a full time counselor on site. The school hired a fulltime employee to fill this position in August, UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE TEACHING EXPERIENCE CO-INSTRUCTOR (with another doctoral candidate) SUMMER 2011 Psychopathology and Diagnosis in Counseling (COU 600, graduate course) Duties included course development, syllabus design, designing and implementing didactic and experiential teaching activities, designing course materials, formative evaluation, summative evaluation. Covered principles of the diagnostic process and the use of current diagnostic tools, including the DSM-IV-TR (major Axis I and II disorders), diagnosis explored within developmental and biopsychosocial contexts, diagnostic interviewing, dual diagnoses, the DSM-5. GUEST LECTURER FALL 2011 Seminar in Professional Issues in Counseling (COU 882, doctoral seminar) Duties included designing and delivering a lecture on Process and Outcome Research. INSTRUCTOR SPRING 2011 General Counseling Methods (COU 585, undergraduate & graduate course) Duties for this class include: ordering books, designing syllabus, designing and performing didactic and experiential teaching activities (role playing basic counseling skills), designing course materials, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, grading. CO-INSTRUCTOR (with another doctoral student) General Counseling Methods (COU 585, undergraduate & graduate course) SPRING 2010 Developmental Issues of College Age Adults (COU 101, undergraduate course) FALL

3 Duties for these two classes include: ordering books, designing syllabus, designing and performing didactic and experiential teaching activities, designing course materials, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, grading. TEACHING ASSISTANT SPRING 2009 Counseling Pre-Practicum (COU 644, graduate course) Duties included co-teaching counseling skills, participating in the design of class activities, participating in the formative evaluation of students (listening to tapes, live supervision), participating in the grading process. GUEST INSTRUCTOR SPRING 2008 Salem College & Academy Winston-Salem, NC, USA Human Development (undergraduate course) Duties included designing and teaching two classes on physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development in adolescence. GUEST LECTURER SPRING 2008 Salem College & Academy Winston-Salem, NC, USA Values and Leadership for Life (undergraduate course) Duties included designing and delivering a workshop on stress management. SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE CLINICAL SUPERVISOR SPRING 2009 SPRING 2011 Professors: Janine Bernard, PhD, Dennis Gilbride, PhD, Susan Snyder, PhD, Paul Pickett, PhD Responsibilities included conducting weekly dyadic clinical supervision with Master s students in Practicum and Internship placements, communication with Practicum or Internship instructor, providing feedback and assessment, participating in mid-term and final evaluations of the student. CLINICAL PLACEMENT COORDINATION CLINICAL PLACEMENT CO-COORDINATOR SPRING 2009 SPRING 2011 Clinical Mental Health, Rehabilitation and Student Affairs Counseling programs Duties included: - Collaborating with faculty and another doctoral student to create timelines and departmental procedures for clinical placement of students; - Meeting with school counseling students individually to discuss goals, professional behavior, strategies for achieving placement; Identifying multiple appropriate sites for each student; provided on-going support and guidance to students throughout process; - Consulting with potential site supervisors regarding their duties and responsibilities - Coordinating correspondence and contracts between students, supervisors, sites, and the School of Education; - Maintaining detailed records of process for each student. 3

4 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR SPRING 2011 SPRING 2012 Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling and Counselor Education Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Romania: Training Evaluation and Job Analysis This quantitative study had two purposes: to evaluate the GCDF Romania training program and, concurrently, to conduct a job analysis of the Romanian GCDF career consultants. GCDF is a paraprofessional certification program in the field of career counseling and development that was created in the US by the Center for Credentialing of Education (CCE), and was adapted to Romanian needs with the intention of preparing career specialists and of developing a national certification system. Duties included: literature review, research design, meetings with dissertation committee chair, Dr. Dennis Gilbride, and the committee members, Dr. Melissa Luke and Dr. Andreea Szilagyi, application for Institutional Review Board, instrument development, collaboration with a group of Romanian GCDF experts, translation and cross translation, data collection, data analysis. RESEARCH ASSISTANT SPRING, 2011 College Access Challenge Grant (Principal Investigators: Dr. Melissa Luke and Robert Wilson; grant value: $49,990) Duties include: implementing and evaluating college access programming for 9th -11th grade students in Syracuse City School District and 5 rural school districts in northern NY who are first in their families to attend college. RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR SPRING FALL, 2010 Research Apprenticeship Project (RAP): Trait Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Competence among Counseling Master s Students The study explores the relationship between self-reported trait EI of mental health counseling students and their clinical competency perceived by their professors. Duties included: literature review, research design, meetings with RAP advisor, Dr. Dennis Gilbride, application for Institutional Review Board, data collection (from professors and students), data analysis. RESEARCH ASSISTANT SPRING, 2009 Syracuse University - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Partnership (Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Shin) Duties included: instructing 9-12 year old students about the research project, answering to their questions, monitoring the administration of surveys and collecting the data. RESEARCH ASSISTANT SPRING, 2009 Syracuse University-Levy School Partnership (principal investigator: Dr. Richard Shin) Duties included: collaborating with school administrators and school counselors, co-leading empowerment groups for year old minority students, participating in weekly group supervision with the research team. 4

5 PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING EXPERIENCE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER European Board for Certified Counselors September 2011 present Lisbon, Portugal Duties include: developing training and certification programs in the counseling field, supervising national offices and partners on the implementation of projects, creating and maintaining connections with partners interested in promoting the counseling profession in Europe, collaborating with these partners in applying for and working on EU grants in the domain of career development. I co-authored the training program Basics of Supervision in Helping Professions and delivered it as of July 24, 2013 in Portugal, Cyprus, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany and Hungary. I participated in the development of the certification program founded on this program. I held trainings in the countries in which the program was implemented for career specialists, school counselors, counseling psychologists, and psychologists. RESEARCH ASSISSTANT August 2006 August 2009 National Board for Certified Counselors International Greensboro, NC, USA Duties included: research on mental health projects (e.g., Mental Health Facilitator Curriculum and ATLAS developed in collaboration with World Health Organization), updating the Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Curriculum in both English and Romanian. I co-authored the Train the Trainer Manual for GCDF. I am listed as a contributor to the Mental Health Facilitator curriculum. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TEAM LEADER CUSTOMER SERVICE May 2004 June 2006 Vodafone Romania Bucharest, Romania Responsibilities included: coordinating a team of representatives, coordinating operational activities, implementing projects, recruiting personal, career counselor within the company s Career Counseling Program. I supervised the Quality Assurance for the first outsourcing project in Romania in the Telecom industry. TRAINING SPECIALIST January 2002 May 2004 Vodafone Romania Bucharest, Romania Duties included: identifying and analyzing operational tasks, writing procedures, updating and delivering course materials, coaching and evaluating trainees, evaluating training programs, and collaborating for teambuilding exercises. HONORS March 2010 Hans Hoxter Fellow Award offered by the Executive Committee of the International Association for Counseling (IAC). Bucharest, Romania: IAC Conference Member of the Sigma Upsilon Chapter executive board Chi Sigma Iota, Wake Forest University, Pi Alpha Chapter Full scholarship, Wake Forest University Graduate School of Art and Sciences, Department of Counseling Full Scholarship, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, Department of Education 5

6 Full Scholarship, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, Department of Management, Public Administration PUBLICATIONS MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS Stanciu, E. A., & Dennis, D. D., (2012, manuscript in progress). Trait Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Competence among Counseling Master s Students. Stanciu, E. A., & Dennis, D. D., (2012, manuscript in progress). Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Romania: Training Evaluation. Stanciu, E. A., & Dennis, D. D., (2012, manuscript in progress). Career Counseling in Romania: A Job Analysis of the Global Career Development Facilitator Career Consultants. Szilagyi, A., & Stanciu, E. A. (2012, manuscript in progress). The Opportunity of the Economic Crisis: Career versus Work. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Stanciu, E. A., & Rogers, J.L.. (2011). Survivors of Political Violence: Conceptualizations, Empirical Findings, and Ecological Interventions. International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling. Shin, R. Q., Rogers, J.L.., Stanciu, E. A., Silas, M. Brown-Smythe, C., & Austin, B. (2010). Advancing Social Justice in Urban Schools Through the Implementation of Transformative Groups for Youth of Color. The Journal for Specialists in Group Work. Sara, I. & Stanciu, A. (2008). Career development interventions in the Romanian business environment. Petrol & Gas University s Bulletin. Education Series. 15 (1C). Ploiesti: UPG, Stanciu, E.A. (May 2007). Assuring quality in education through school counseling programs. An analysis of an American model. Strategies for assuring and assessing quality in education. Bucharest: ASE, NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Stanciu, E.A. (Winter, 2013). Global Career Development Facilitator Romania: Training Evaluation and Job Analysis. CCE Connection, 2(2). Stanciu, E.A. (September, 2008). Applying counseling skills to executive coaching. Counseling Today,43. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Stanciu, E.A., Gilbride, D. G., Luke, M., & Szilagyi, A. (October 2013). Global Career Development Facilitator Romania: Program Evaluation in Career Counseling. Denver, CO, USA: Association for Counseling Education and Supervision National Conference. Plenary speakers: Szilagyi, A., & Stanciu, E. A. (October 2012). Group Career Counseling for Career Counselors. Sofia, Bulgaria: Euroguidance International Conference Motivation for Development. Plenary speakers: Szilagyi, A., & Stanciu, E. A. (May 2012). The Mental Health Facilitator Program. Lisbon, Portugal: The International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT). 6

7 Szilagyi, A., & Stanciu, E. A. (March 2012). Career Development Programs in Organizations. Lisbon, Portugal: Estados Gerais da Gestão nos Países de Expressão Latina (EGGPEL). Stanciu, E. A., & Gilbride, D. G. (October 2011). Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Competencies of Counseling Students. Nashville, TN, USA: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision National Conference. Gilbride, D. G., Rogers, J. L., Stanciu, E. A., Spieglehoff, S. F., & Brown-Smythe, C. (October 2010). The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Could an Ecological Approach Have Saved Him? New Brunswick, NJ, USA: North Atlantic Association of Counselor Education and Supervision Regional Conference. Stanciu, A. (July 6-7, 2010). Supervision Models and Techniques in Helping Professions. Bucharest, Romania. Training developed and delivered for Romanian professionals who are performing counseling related activities (e.g., school counseling, career counseling). Event sponsored by the National Board for Certified Counselors Romania. Stanciu, A. (March 2010). Survivors of Political Violence: Concepts and Interventions. Bucharest, Romania: International Association for Counseling Conference. Rogers, J. L. & Stanciu, E. A. (October 2009). Towards a New Understanding of Relational-Cultural Theory: Context, Content, Critiques, & Contributions. San Diego, CA, USA: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision National Conference. Shin, R., Rogers, J. L., & Stanciu, E. A. (October 2009). Advancing Social Justice in Urban Schools Through the Implementation of Transformative Groups for African American Youth. San Diego, CA, USA: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision National Conference. Stanciu, E.A., Ivers. N., Kemer, G., Koyama, C., & Paredes, D.M. (March 2009). Experiences in Counseling in a Second Language Lost in Translation? Charlotte, NC, USA: American Counseling Association National Conference. Rogers, J. L., Stanciu, E. A., & Veach, L. (September 2008). Co-creating Curriculum: Empowering Students to Shape the Future of Counseling. Portland, Maine, USA: NARACES Conference. Stanciu, E.A. (March 2008). The Use of Counseling Approaches and Skills to Enhance Leadership Performance through Executive Coaching. Honolulu, HI, USA: American Counseling Association National Conference. Stanciu, E.A. (May 2007). Assuring quality in education through school counseling programs. An analysis of an American model. Bucharest, Romania. International Session for Scientific Communications: Strategies for Assuring and Assessing Quality in Education. CERTIFICATIONS: Approved Clinical Supervisor ACS No National Board Certified Counselor NCC No International Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Master Trainer Certificate number GCDF00007-RO Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) Romania. Certificate number GCDF00007-RO 7

8 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR MFA THESIS DEFENSE SPRING 2011 Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts (student: Jinhee Park, theme: Seeing the Voice Unknown ) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES American Counseling Association Student Member Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Editorial Board Member for the Professional Counselor: Research and Practice, NBCC Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Counseling, ACROM Founding member of the Romanian Counseling Association International Association of Counseling LANGUAGES Romanian native language English fluent (speaking, writing, reading) French intermediate level (speaking, writing, reading) Portuguese intermediate level (speaking, writing, reading) Spanish beginner level (speaking, writing, reading) October 24, Elena Amalia Stanciu 8