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April 22, 2006

CLAIRE H. USHER MINER

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1992, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Counselor Education.

M. A., 1979, Bowling Green State University, Sociology.

B. A., 1977, North Carolina State University, Sociology, High Honors.

CREDENTIALS

National Certified Counselor, October 1993.

Texas Licensed Professional Counselor, November 1996.

Texas Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, August 2002.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Gottman Certification Training Program for Couples Therapy, Gottman Institute, Seattle WA, ongoing.

Intercultural Training Program on Scotland, Tucker International, Boulder CO, May 8 - 10, 1996.

Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro NC, June 5 - 10, 1988.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

American Counseling Association

National Career Development Association

Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education

Texas Career Development Association

Capital of Texas Counseling Association

International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1989 - 1990 Member, Ethics Committee, North Carolina Association

for Counseling and Development.

1990 - 1991 Member, Testing Committee, American Association for Counseling and

Development.

1991 - 1992 External Reviewer, Career Development Quarterly.

1993 - 1994 Member, Faculty Graduate Assistant Committee, Department of

Educational Administration and Psychological Services, Southwest Texas State

University.

1993 - 1994 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Educational

Administration and Psychological Services, Southwest Texas State University.

1993 - 1994 Member, Summer Assignment Policy Committee, Department of

Educational Administration and Psychological Services, Southwest Texas State

University.

1993 - 1994 Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee, Department of Counseling

and Human Services, St. Mary's University.

1994 Member, Graduate Admissions Procedures Committee, Department of

Educational Administration and Psychological Services, Southwest Texas State

University.

1994 - 1995 Member, University Research Enhancement Fund Committee, Southwest

Texas State University.

1994 - 1995 Co-Chair, SACES Membership Committee.

1994 - 1995 Member, Search and Screen Committee, Department of Educational

Administration and Psychological Services, Southwest Texas State University.

1993 - 1996 SACES Representative, ACES Research Awards Committee.

1993 - 1996 Member, Editorial Board, Career Development Quarterly.

1993 - 1996 Member, National Career Development Association Research

Committee.

1995 Chair, Thesis Committee, Department of Educational Administration

and Psychological Services, Southwest Texas State University.

1995 - 1999 Secretary, Association for Assessment in Counseling.

1999 - 2000 Chair, Membership Development Committee, Austin Area Career

Counselors Association.

2002 Member, Program Selection Committee, American Counseling Association.

2003 Member, Program Selection Committee, American Counseling Association

2000 - 2003 Member-at-Large for Awards, Association for Assessment in Counseling.

2000 - 2003 Member, Editorial Board, TCA Journal.

HONORS

1988 Recipient, Excellence Foundation Scholarship, University of North Carolina

at Greensboro.

1990 Recipient, North Carolina Association for Research in Education Distinguished

Paper Award ("A Comparison of Multiattribute Utility Technology and Policy

Capturing for Weighting Components of School Quality" with Richard M. Jaeger).

1990 Member, Chi Sigma Iota (honorary counseling society).

1991 Nominated for the Glen Hubele Graduate Student Research Award, American

Association for Counseling and Development.

1992 Nominated for the Glen Hubele Graduate Student Research Award, American

Counseling Association.

1997 Nominated by the Association for Assessment in Counseling for the ACA

Research Award.

1998 Recipient, ACA Research Award (“The Ability of Career Maturity Indicators to

Predict Interest Score Differentiation, Consistency, and Elevation” with W. Larry Osborne and Richard M. Jaeger).

2002 Selected for inclusion in the International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women, Ninth Edition.

2003 Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, Texas Counseling Association.

GRANTS

"Using the Career Development Inventory to Understand and Explain the

Differentiation and Score Elevation of Strong Interest Inventory Profiles" (with

W. Larry Osborne), $3000, Strong Research Advisory Board, March 1991.

"Instrumentation and Scoring Services for the C-DAC Model with Ninth-Grade

Students," $17,000 (Grant-in-kind), Consulting Psychologists Press, September 1992.

"Using the Developmental Career Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC) Model with

Ninth Grade Students" (with Ann Carns, Michael Carns, Jeanne Wright, Lesley Jones,

and John Garcia), $5672, SWTSU Research Enhancement Fund, November

1992.

"Career Development of Hispanic Ninth-Graders," $1000, SWTSU School of Education,

September 1993.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD

Counseling Experience:

November 1997 - present Licensed Professional Counselor, Assessment & Counseling

Services, Austin, Texas. Provide mental health counseling and career assessment and counseling to adults and college and high school students; provide couples therapy using the Gottman method; develop and conduct local workshops to facilitate the high school to college transition for students and parents; market counseling services to mental health providers, school counselors, and business professionals; supervise master’s-level counseling students from St. Edward’s University for practicum which includes individual and group counseling experiences.

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June 1993 - June 1996 Licensed Professional Counselor Intern, Southwest Texas State University Counseling Center, San Marcos, Texas and private practice, Austin, Texas. Conducted intakes; provided personal/mental health counseling, career assessment and counseling, and career development workshops to high school students, university students, and adults.

August 1991 - May 1992 Counseling Supervisor, Counselor Education Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Supervised master's-level counselor interns working in community mental health agency and school settings.

September 1989 - December 1989 Counselor Intern, Counseling Center, North Carolina

A & T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina. Provided individual career and personal counseling as well as psychological testing; utilized computer-based career guidance systems; made staff presentations.

January 1989 - May 1989 Doctoral Intern, Residence Life, University of North Carolina at

Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. Counseled students for alcohol-related and personal adjustment difficulties; administered staff development programs; conducted student development research.

September 1988 - December 1988 Counselor Intern, Career Planning and Placement

Center, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Provided individual career counseling; administered a job shadowing program;

presented in-service seminars to staff.

May 1984 - October 1984 Assistant Director, Peer Mentor Program, North Carolina

State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Supervised student

leaders; designed and coordinated workshops for students; conducted training

sessions; developed schedule of program activities; taught course in para-

professional counseling.

January 1984 - May 1984 Intern, Special Programs/Residence Life, North Carolina

State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Developed orientation

program for Study Abroad students; conducted orientation workshops for

American and international students; interviewed international students.

Research Experience:

January 1991 - May 1992 Statistical Consultant, Counselor Education Program,

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. Consulted with program faculty on statistical and data analytic problems on various research projects.

September 1988 - August 1989 Research Consultant, Center for Creative Leadership,

Greensboro, North Carolina. Designed and conducted studies of characteristics of effective managers; analyzed data and generated corporate reports; prepared an internal processing report of a computer-generated feedback program.

September 1985 - August 1988 Research Analyst, Center for Creative Leadership,

Greensboro, North Carolina. Co-authored computerized feedback report for

managers; supervised data entry; managed large data sets; conducted statistical

analyses; coordinated division Seminar Series; developed interview questions;

conducted interviews.

March 1985 - September 1985 Project Supervisor, Planning Department, City of Raleigh,

Raleigh, North Carolina. Designed and coordinated procedures for a major data collection effort, including scheduling of activities, supervision of

coders/data entry operators, data verification, and liaison between three

departments.

September 1979 - June 1981 Sociologist, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle

Park, North Carolina. Supervised coders and field interviewers; developed research design for family violence study; wrote book chapter and literature reviews for proposals and final reports; conducted statistical analyses using SPSS and SAS; designed questionnaires and codebooks.

Teaching Experience:

August 2005 – December 2005 Adjunct Professor, Counselor Education, Texas State

University, Round Rock, Texas. Taught master’s-level course in Research Methods.

May 2003 - August 2003 Adjunct Professor, Counseling, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. Taught master’s-level course in Career Development and Planning.

January 2000 - May 2000 Adjunct Professor, Counselor Education, Southwest Texas

State University, San Marcos, Texas. Taught master’s-level Career Counseling course.

June 1995 - May 1996 Adjunct Professor, Counseling, St. Mary's University, San Antonio,

Texas. Taught doctoral-level course in Advanced Assessment and master's-level

courses in Career Counseling.

September 1995 - December 1995 Adjunct Professor, Human Services, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. Taught master’s-level course in Assessment Techniques.

August 1992 - August 1995 Assistant Professor, Counselor Education, Southwest Texas

State University, San Marcos, Texas. Taught master's-level courses in Career

Counseling and Assessment; conducted research on career development issues for adolescents, minority and at-risk students, supervision experiences of family therapists, constructs of career maturity and locus of control, and perceptions of diversity among university faculty and students; served on department, university, regional, and national committees.

September 1988 - August 1991 Graduate/Teaching Assistant, Counselor Education

Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Taught undergraduate course in Career/Life Planning.

August 1981 - December 1983 Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Taught undergraduate courses in Introductory Sociology, Social Problems, and Introductory Social Psychology.

March 1978 - May 1979 Graduate Assistant, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green

State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Taught undergraduate courses in Social Problems and Criminology.

PUBLICATIONS

Borders, L. D., & Usher, C. H. (1992). Post-degree supervision: Existing and

preferred practices. Journal of Counseling and Development, 70, 594-599.

Gressman, G. D., Usher, C. H., Sanders, S. E., Epstein, P. L., Brodowicz, M. S., &

Carbone, C. A. (1992). Female awareness of university sexual harassment

policy. Journal of College Student Development, 33, 370-371.

Hamilton, C. J., & Collins, J. J. (1980). The role of alcohol in wife-beating and child

abuse. In J. J. Collins (Ed.), Drinking and Crime, (pp. 253 - 287). New York: Guilford

Press.

Hess, S. M., Miner, C. U., & Wright, J. (1999). Supervision and other professional development activities of licensed therapists: Existing and preferred practices.

Journal of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 4 (1), 33-44.

Hill, G. D., Zingraff, M. T., Usher, C. H., & Hannah, T. S. (1987). Race and capital

commutations: Evidence from North Carolina, 1938-1961. Journal of Social and

Behavioral Sciences, 33, 105 - 117.

Lundberg, D. J., Osborne, W. L., & Miner, C. U. (1997). Career maturity and personality preferences of Mexican-American and Anglo-American adolescents.

Journal of Career Development, 23, 203-213.

McCauley, C., Lombardo, M., & Usher, C. (1989). Diagnosing management development needs: An instrument based on how managers develop. Journal of Management, 15, 389 - 403.

Miner, C. U., Osborne, W. L, & Jaeger, R. (1997). The ability of career maturity

indicators to predict interest score differentiation, consistency and elevation.

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 29, 187-201.

Miner, C. U., & Sellers, S. (2001). Review of The Career Assessment Inventory. The Counselor’s Guide to Career Assessment Instruments.

Niles, S., & Usher, C. H. (1993). Applying the Career Development Assessment

and Counseling Model to the case of Rosie. Career Development Quarterly, 42, 61-66.

Osborne, W. L., Brown, S., Niles, S., & Miner, C. U. (1997). Career development,

assessment & counseling: Applications of the Donald E. Super C-DAC approach.

Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Osborne, W. L., & Usher, C. H. (1994). A Super approach: Training career

educators, career counselors, and researchers. Journal of Career Development, 20,

219-225.

Ross, P., Poidevant, J. M., & Miner, C. U. (in press). Differential performance on

writing fluency probes between attention-deficit hyperactivity disordered and

normal children. Journal of Reading and Writing Quarterly.

Thompson, E. W., & Usher, C. H. (1986). The peer mentor program at North Carolina

State University: A description of the program and evaluation of the predictive

ability of student participation in the program on grade point average. Student

services: Enhancing student life (The fourth compendium of papers by student

services officers of the University of North Carolina). Chapel Hill: The University

of North Carolina General Administration.

Usher, C. H. (1989). Recognizing cultural bias in counseling theory and practice: The

case of Rogers. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 17, 62 - 71.

Usher, C. H., & Borders, L. D. (1993). Practicing counselors' preferences for

supervisor style and supervisory emphasis. Counselor Education and Supervision,

33, 66-79.

Usher, C. H., Carns, A. W., Carns, M. R., Jones, L., Wright, J., Garcia, J. L., & Wooten,

H. R. (1994). Highlights of a career assessment project with ninth grade students:

A collaborative effort between university and public school personnel. TCA Journal,

22(1), 29-34.

Vacc, N. A., Myers, J. E., Von Steen, P., & Usher, C. (1995). Members' views and

practices concerning the Association for Assessment in Counseling. Measurement

and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 27, 227 - 238.

Wooten, W. R., Usher, C. H., & Osborne, W. L. (1994). Developing career development profiles of student athletes: A comparison with nonathletes. Academic Athletic Journal, Spring, 11-17.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

"Developmental career counseling: An historical perspective," Austin Area Career

Counselors' Association, September 1993.

"Publishing in academic journals," SWTSU Counseling Graduate Students Association,

February 1994.

"Career counseling using the C-DAC Model," SWTSU Counseling Center, June 1995.

“Interviewing to Find the Job of Your Dreams,” Career Resources Club, February 1999.

“Creating Effective Resumes,” Career Resources Club, May 1999.

“Spirituality and Work,” Good Life Magazine Career Group, November 1999.

“Utilizing Career Counseling Services,” Texas Evening MBA Students, February 2002.

“Networking for Different Personality Types,” Round Rock Job Club, October 2003.

“Survival Techniques for Parents of College-Bound Students: Choosing Majors,

Selecting Colleges, and Avoiding Bankruptcy!” Freescale’s Hispanic Education and

Awareness Team, February 2005.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

"Applying Super's career development and assessment model (C-DAC) in career

counseling," with Spencer Niles and Steve Brown, American Counseling

Association, April 1995.

"When a spiritual issue comes up . . .," with Deanna Engber, Wimberley Counselors'

Conference, February 1995.

"Integrating personal and career counseling in counselor education courses," with

Lesley Jones, Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision,

November 1994.

"Using the C-DAC Model to examine career developmental differences in two client

populations," with Spencer Niles, Larry Osborne, Steven Brown, and Edwin Herr,

American Counseling Association, April 1994.

"Color your rainbow," with H. Ray Wooten, Texas Counseling Association, November

1993.

"Family complexities and family stresses," with Byron Medler, Wimberley Counselors'

Conference, February 1993.

"A national survey of school counselor preparation programs," with Robert Erk and Al Smith, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, September 1992.

"The ability of career maturity indicators to predict interest score differentiation,

consistency, and elevation in a university student sample," with W. Larry Osborne and Donald E. Super, International Symposium on Career Development,

July 1992.

"Using the Career Development Inventory to understand "flat" profiles on the

Strong Interest Inventory," American Association for Counseling and

Development, March 1992.

"Training counselor educators, career counselors, and researchers using Super's

battery of career assessment inventories," with W. Larry Osborne, Southern

Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, October 1991.

"How student athletes compare with nonathletes on Super's battery of career

assessment inventories: An update," with H. Ray Wooten, Southern Association for

Counselor Education and Supervision, October 1991.

"A Super approach: Training career educators, career counselors and researchers," with

W. Larry Osborne, North Carolina Career Development Association, October 1991.

"Supervision preferences of practicing counselors," with L. DiAnne Borders,

American Association for Counseling and Development, April 1991.

"Let's do it!: School counselors and leadership," with W. Larry Osborne and David

Bergen, American Association for Counseling and Development, April 1991.

“Alternative procedures for integrating multidimensional evaluations of schools:

An experimental comparison," with Richard M. Jaeger, American Educational

Research Association, April 1991.

"Is there supervision after graduation? Results of a national survey of NCCs," with

L. DiAnne Borders, Southern Association for Counselor Education and

Supervision, November 1990.

"Using the Career Development Inventory as a tool for counseling students with flat

profiles on the Strong Interest Inventory," with Larry Osborne, Virginia Kelly, and

Marie Sumerel, Southern Association for Counselor Education and

Supervision, November 1990.

"A comparison of MAUT and policy capturing for weighting components of school

quality," with Richard Jaeger, North Carolina Association for Research in

Education, March 1990.

"Post-degree supervision: Existing and preferred practices," with L. DiAnne Borders,

American Association for Counseling and Development, March 1990.

"SACES award recipient report," with L. DiAnne Borders, Southern Association for

Counselor Education and Supervision, October 1989.

"Career development of student athletes: How they compare with non-athletes on the

Super battery of career inventories," with Ray Wooten, Southern Association for

Counselor Education and Supervision, October 1989.

WORKSHOPS

"Finding Your Niche in the Work World," Texas Union Informal Classes, Austin, TX, October 1993, February 1994, June 1994.

"Personality Types," Oak Hill United Methodist Church, Austin, TX, February 1994.

"Spirituality in Work," Oak Hill United Methodist Church, Austin, TX, February 1994.

“Easing the Transition from High School to College: Survival Techniques for Parents and Students,” with Dr. Rebecca Stadtner, Private Practice, Austin, TX, September 2003.

“Choosing College Majors,” with Dr. Rebecca Stadtner, Private Practice, Austin, TX, February 2004.

“Selecting Colleges,” with Dr. Rebecca Stadtner, Private Practice, Austin, TX, February 2004.

“Surviving the Freshman Year,” with Dr. Rebecca Stadtner, Private Practice, Austin, TX, April 2004.

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