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Dr. Gibson's Resume
Professional Services Offered:
- Mentoring, coaching, counseling, training by telephone. Specialty with cancer patients and caretakers.
- Personal, marriage and family counseling and psychotherapy.
- Seminars on family living, on brief counseling techniques, and on parenting our own elderly parents, presented internationally.
- Retreat speaker alone and with wife.
Background:
Birthplace/Early Schooling: Chicago, IL
Wife: Ruth Flesvig Gibson
Sons: Steven, David, Scott (all adults)
College Education:
Ph.D. Degree, 1970
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
Major: Psychology
Minor: Educational Psychology
Thesis title: Prediction of verbal behavior of individuals in small counseling
groups.
(1960 – 1966)
Central Michigan University - Mt. Pleasant, MI
Courses in Psychology/Business Administration
B.S. degree 1960
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
Major: Chemical Engineering
Walter P. Murphy academic scholarship.
Honors in sports, fraternity and professional societies.
Work Experience:
(1974 – Present) Wheaton, IL
Private Practice - Clinical Psychologist
(1987) Chicago, IL.
Moody Bible Institute - Evening School Instructor
(1974 – 1975) Wheaton, IL
Wheaton College - Part-time teacher
(1973 – 1974) Warrenville, IL
Warrenville Clinic - Psychologist
(1971 – 1973) Wooster, OH
College of Wooster - Assistant Professor Of Psychology
(1960 – 1966) Midland, MI
The Dow Chemical Comoany - Chemical Engineer
Publications:
Book: (2002) What To Say When... Counseling manual available on-line at http://VitalityTherapy.com.
Paper: (1998) Socratic questions in Prochaska’s
early stages of change. APA Midwinter Convention, San Diego, CA.
Paper: (1996). Solution therapy with a dependent non-customer. American
Association of Counselors Regional Conference, Chicago area.
Paper: (1989, April). Vitality Therapy. Presented at the annual convention
of CAPS (Christian Association for Psychological Studies), Philadelphia,
PA.
Book: (1991). The Sandwich Years. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. (W/Ruth Gibson).
Available on-line at http://SandwichYears.com.
Book: (1989). Vitality Therapy. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. Available
on-line at http://VitalityTherapy.com.
Book: (1987). The Strong-Willed Adult. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.
Available on-line at http://selfdiscipline.vitalitytherapy.com.
Article: (1985, Summer) Doubting Thomas,
the Obsessive. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 4 (2), 34-36.
Articles: (1985). Adlerian Psychotherapy (pp. 23-25) Communication skills
training (193-194) Conjoint Family Therapy (219-220)Contracts, therapeutic
use (231) Family Communications Theory (391-394) In D.G. Benner (Ed.)
Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House
Article: (1983, Fall). The Obsessive
personality and the evangelical. Journal of Psychology and Christianity,
2(3), 30-35.
Articles: (1975 – Present). Various. Moody Monthly, Today’s
Christian Woman, and Power for Living.
Patent: U.S. #3,322,684. A Method of Generating Froth (W/D.S. Chisholm)
Additional Training:
Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago (Psychotherapy Program, 1979 - 1981)
Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee, WI (Extensive workshops and personal supervision in solution/focused brief therapy, 1989 - 1992)
Clinical training program in transactional analysis under William H. Holloway, M.D., Akron, OH (1972 - 1974)
Cognitive Behavior Modification (Workshop from Dr. Donald Meichenbaum, 1991)
Cognitive Therapy Winter Workshop (by Dr. Christine Padesky, Feb. 7-11, 1994)
Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (Level I & II Training, 1994, 1997)
Family Institute of Chicago (many seminars and workshops 1974 - present)
Masterson Institute, New York (workshops and personal supervision in psychotherapy of personality disorders, 1986 - 1990)
Minnesota Couples Communication Program (Instructor training, 1975)
Parent Effectiveness Training (Instructor training, 1972)
Postdoctoral internship in clinical psychology, Norfolk Regional Center, Nebraska (1970 - 1971)
Licensed clinical psychologist in state of Illinois #71-1808
