Foundations of Group Counseling

About David CapuzziMark Stauffer

About our Authors Editor David Capuzzi PhD NCC LPC is a counselor educator and member of the core faculty in mental health counseling at Walden University and professor emeritus at Portland State University. Previously he served as an affiliate professor in the Department of Counselor Education Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Services at Pennsylvania State University and scholar in residence in counselor education at Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA) formerly the American Association for Counseling and Development and past chair of both the ACA Foundation and the ACA Insurance Trust. From 1980 to 1984 Dr. Capuzzi was editor of The School Counselor. He has authored several textbook chapters and monographs on the topic of preventing adolescent suicide and is coeditor and author with Dr. Larry Golden of Helping Families Help Children: Family Interventions with School Related Problems (1986) and Preventing Adolescent Suicide (1988). He coauthored and edited with Douglas R. Gross Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors Teachers and Parents (1989 1996 2000 2004 2008 and 2014); Introduction to the Counseling Profession (1991 1997 2001 2005 2009 and 2013); Introduction to Group Work (1992 1998 2002 2006 and 2010); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (1995 1999 2003 2007 and 2011). His other texts are Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners (2003) Suicide Across the Life Span (2006) and Sexuality Issues in Counseling the last coauthored and edited with Larry Burlew. He has authored or coauthored articles in several ACA-related journals. A frequent speaker and keynoter at professional conferences and institutes Dr. Capuzzi has also consulted with a variety of school districts and community agencies interested in initiating prevention and intervention strategies for adolescents at risk for suicide. He has facilitated the development of suicide prevention crisis management and postvention programs in communities throughout the United States; provides training on the topics of youth at risk and grief and loss; and serves as an invited adjunct faculty member at other universities as time permits. An ACA fellow he is the first recipient of ACAs Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and a recipient of the Leona Tyler Award in Oregon. In 2010 he received ACAs Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person. In 2011 he was named a distinguished alumni of the College of Education at Florida State University and in 2016 he received the Locke/Paisley Mentorship award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. Editor Mark D. Stauffer PhD NCC is a core faculty member in the clinical mental health counseling program at Walden University. He specialized in couples marriage and family counseling at Portland State University and in counselor education and Supervision at Oregon State University. He has worked in the Portland area in Oregon at crisis centers and other nonprofit organizations working with individuals couples families and groups often with homeless and at-risk populations. Dr. Stauffer has worked with groups and group work in the realm of mental health counseling counselor education and supervision at the associate bachelor master and doctoral levels of higher education. Dr. Stauffer was a Chi Sigma Iota International Leaders in Counselor Education fellow and was also awarded the Emerging Leaders Training Grant by the American Counseling Association. Dr. Stauffer has served as cochair of the American Counseling Association International Committee and serves as president of the Association for Humanistic Counseling during 2018 to 2019. In addition to this textbook on group counseling with Dr. Capuzzi Dr. Stauffer has coedited several other textbooks in the counseling field: Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (2017); Career Counseling: Foundations Perspectives and Applications (2006 2012); Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008 2012 2016); Foundations of Couples Marriage and Family Counseling (2015); and Human Growth and Development Across the Life Span: Applications for Counselors (2016).