Author: Julia Whisenhunt

RICK A. MYER, Ph D, licensed psychologist, is a full professor and chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Services of the University of Texas at El Paso. He obtained his bachelor”s degree in sociology from Union University in Jackson, Tennessee; a master”s of divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky; and a Ph D in counseling psychology from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis). He has taught at Northern Illinois and Duquesne Universities and has 34 years of experience as a counselor educator. JULIA L. WHISENHUNT, Ph D, LPC, NCC, CPCS, is an associate professor at the University of West Georgia (UWG) and is director of the Ed D in Professional Counseling and Supervision program. Julia entered college while still a high school student and obtained her BA and MA in psychology from UWG. She also completed her Ed S in guidance and counseling at UWG and obtained her Ph D in counselor education and practice from Georgia State University. Julia has worked as a counselor educator since 2012 and developed the crisis intervention course at UWG in 2013. RICHARD “DICK” K. JAMES, Ph D, NCC, NCSC, LPC supervisor, is in his 55th year of active counseling, writing, and consulting and recently retired as a full professor after teaching for 40 years at the University of Memphis. Dick received both his bachelor”s degree and a master”s degree in school guidance from Eastern Illinois University. He received a Ph D in counseling psychology from Indiana State University in 1974 and was one of the first counseling psychology students to do his fieldwork at a federal correctional facility in Terre Haute. This introduction to corrections counseling gave him valuable insights into criminal behavior and a lifelong empathy for people who are incarcerated.