| Name: | Kenneth K. Ayouby, EdD, PsyD |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Saudi Aramco |
| Email: | ayoubyk@hotmail.com ayoubyk@gmail.com |
| Level of Specialization: | Individual, group, organization |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Individual, group, and organization change through educational practices |
| Description of competency: | I focus on individuals, groups/communities, and organizations, especially in educational and training organizations and settings. Utilizing understanding of behavior and organizational dynamics, I support individual and group performance change and adaptability, focusing on personal empowerment, change management, culture creation, and organizational transformation. Major areas of practice are intercultural mediation, student advising/personal counseling and support services at the organizational, group and personal levels. Specifically, at the individual level, I provide individual/group coaching, advising and counseling services, which include socio-cultural advising, intercultural mediation and group integration, working as an educational counselor and student services adviser. At the group, community or organizational levels, I provide support as an intercultural liaison, clinical and consulting practitioner related to intercultural educational issues, which include cultural brokering and due process facilitation, as well as management. |
| Name: | MaryJo Benton Lee, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | South Dakota State University Sociology and Rural Studies Department |
| Email: | mjblee@mchsi.com |
| Level of Specialization: | International |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Education |
| Description of competency: | My areas of specialization are race, ethnicity and education. For most of my career I have been the coordinator of a nationally recognized program helping American Indian students prepare for and succeed in college. During the past year, as a Fulbright U.S. scholar to China, I have been teaching at Yunnan University and doing research for my third book, which deals with ethnic minority teachers and social change in the |
| Name: | Sarah Brabant, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner Certified Family Life Educator FT Fellow in Thanatology
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| Organizational Affiliation: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette Professor of Sociology Emerita |
| Email: | sbrabant@bellsouth.net |
| Level of Specialization: | Community, organizational, small/large group, family, individual |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Education |
| Description of competency: | I am first and foremost an educator. As such I use sociological concepts and theories to educate persons so that they can effect change in their own lives. I primarily focus on loss, i.e., persons who are facing death themselves or persons who have lost someone to death. I see individuals as well as groups and in the past presented workshops to up to 200 at a time. My book, Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who want to Help Them uses the analogy of a torn fabric as a picture of what grief looks like in order to explore the steps necessary to be able to once more use the material. I was one of the founders of Healing House, a program for bereaved children and teens. At this time in my life (85 years) I focus on at-risk, e.g., just out of prison. rehab, mental hospitals, children living in poverty, gay persons whose partner died. |
| Name: | Stanley Clawar, Ph.D., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Walden Counseling and Therapy Center |
| Email: | sclawar@waldencounseling.org |
| Level of Specialization: | Individual/small group |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Wellness counseling |
| Description of competency: | |
| Name: | Gary David, Ph.D., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Bentley University Department of Sociology |
| Email: | gdavid@bentley.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Interventions in workplace settings |
| Description of competency: | Gary David conducts ethnographic studies of work and experience design. Projects include examining the nature of collaborative activity in multicultural worksites, the impact of speech recognition technology and electronic medical records on healthcare, the implementation of enterprise systems on workplaces, and how co-workers build a collaborative relationship through engaging in workplace practices and applying conversation analysis and forensic linguistics to the examination of police interviews, interrogations, and interactions. |
| Name: | Michael S. Fleischer, Ph.D., C.S.P. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Organizational Dynamics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-s-fleischer-ph-d-c-s-p-2739115 Commission on the Accreditation of Programs in Applied and Clinical Sociology (CAPACS) |
| Email: | MikeFleischer@cs.com |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Organizational Development |
| Description of competency: | Organizational Dynamics specializes in change management, culture creation, and organizational transformation in healthcare/behavioral healthcare and social service fields. Client projects include Structural Accountability; Values, Vision, and Employee Engagement; Corporate Divestitures; and Balanced Scorecards. Practice methods utilize interviews, surveys, and participant observations. Theoretical foundations draw on symbolic interactionism, structural-functionalism, occupational and administrative principles of organization, and bureaucratic-professional conflicts. |
| Name: | James Frazier, M.A./Ed.S, CSOTP, C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | |
| Email: | jfrazierccs@gmail.com |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational, large/small group, individual |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Organizational development, Mental Health Counseling, Forensic Counseling |
| Description of competency: | Trainer; Grief and bereavement counseling; Sex offender treatment, evaluations, and assessment |
| Name: | Jan Fritz, Ph.D., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | University of Cincinnati |
| Email: | Jan.fritz@uc.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Small group/organizational/community |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Consultant/mediator |
| Description of competency: | Academic program review; dispute/conflict analysis and intervention (including coaching and mediation); organizational development; gender mainstreaming; research (policy, action, participatory, qualitative, historical) |
| Name: | C. Margaret Hall, Ph.D., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Georgetown University |
| Email: | hallcm1@georgetown.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Individual/family |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Individual/family therapy; life coaching. |
| Description of competency: | Services offered: individual/family therapy; life coaching. |
| Name: | Joan Hiller, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | The Development Office |
| Email: | j.hiller@comcast.net |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational/community |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Organizational development |
| Description of competency: | Joan Hiller works with state agencies, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations focusing on effective and efficient use of resources, fund raising, program evaluation. |
| Name: | Melodye Lehnerer, Ph.D., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | College of Southern Nevada |
| Email: | melodye.lehnerer@csn.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Small group; organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Rights based interventions |
| Description of competency: | Melodye Lehnerer focuses on small group and organizational interventions that address issues of inclusiveness. Currently, conducting LGBTQ safe zone training. Also qualified as a program reviewer including sociological practice programs accreditation. As AACS Certification Chair advises and evaluates certification applicants. |
| Name: | Christa Jane Moore, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | The University of Virginia’s College at Wise |
| Email: | cjm4vx@uvawise.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Family and Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Family Violence |
| Description of competency: | Focus on family violence, child maltreatment prevention strategies, interagency collaboration among multidisciplinary human service organizations, consulting and training |
| Name: | C. Eddie Palmer, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Professor Emeritus) |
| Email: | palmer@louisiana.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Community and Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Organizational development Applied social research |
| Description of competency: | Assisting organizations with research strategies from conceptualization stage, through operationalization, data gathering, analysis, and application. Construction of survey questionnaires, interview schedules, and interpretation of resulting data. When applicable, encouragement of use of triangulated research strategies including a variety of quantitative and qualitative research techniques. |
| Name: | Deborah Phelps, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Fontbonne University |
| Email: | dphelps@fontbonne.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Group and family/individual |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Family/mental health |
| Description of competency: | Certified as a clinical sociologist with SPA in 1995 (CCS). Later designated as CSP. Qualified to do sociotherapy, particularly those with anxiety disorders or children of alcoholics. Not practicing. Work full-time as an academic. |
| Name: | Lubomir Popov, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Institute for High Performance Planning (IHPP), Member of the Board of Directors; Bowling Green State University, School of Family and Consumer Sciences. http://www.ihpp.org/ihpp_leadership.html ;http://www.bgsu.edu/education-and-human-development/family-and-consumer-sciences/id/faculty.html |
| Email: | Lspopov@bgsu.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | |
| Description of competency: | Facilities planning with emphasis of user needs and activities programming |
| Name: | Tina A. Quartaroli, Ph.D., C.S.P., C.P.G. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner/Credentialed Professional Gerontologist
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| Organizational Affiliation: | Future Age Consulting Inc.
futureageconsulting.com |
| Email: | tq@futureageconsulting.com |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | |
| Description of competency: | Program evaluation, organizational/community development, research design and project management, organizational/community gerontological consulting and educational programming. |
| Name: | Joshua D. Reichard, Ph.D., Ed.S., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | C.C.S. |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Omega Graduate School (American Centre for Religion & Society Studies), http://www.ogs.edu/ Parable Consulting, LLC |
| Email: | jreichard@ogs.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Organizational Development
Applied Social Research |
| Description of competency: | Dr. Reichard specializes in designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions related to Organizational Change, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Educational Leadership and Public Policy, Urban School Leadership, Religious Sociology, and Applied Social Research, as well as issues addressing racial, socioeconomic, and ability diversity in education. |
| Name: | Beverly Ross, Ph.D., C.S.P. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | California University of Pennsylvania https://www.calu.edu/inside/faculty-staff/profiles/beverly-ross.aspx https://www.beverlyrossmediationandconsulting.org/ |
| Email: | ross@calu.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Community, organizational, family |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Mediation and consulting |
| Description of competency: | I am a court appointed mediator for the family divisions of both Washington and Allegheny Counties. I work directly with Officers of the Court in specialized areas including appropriateness of reunification and co-parenting mediation. Application of conflict resolution and theory is essential to successful outcomes for clients who have been ordered to engage. |
| Name: | Christina Ryder, M.A., C.S.P. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Missouri State University, Department of Sociology www.missouristate.edu |
| Email: | cryder@missouristate.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | National, inter community, community
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| Major content of sociological practice: | Community Development, Social Inequality, Demography and Social Analysis |
| Description of competency: | Christina Ryder is the CEO of The Grantwell, LLC and is also an Instructor of Sociology at Missouri State University, GO LEAD Coordinator at Missouri State, and Adjunct Sociology Instructor at Drury University and NorthEast College. She is the author of two books and numerous academic and community-based reports. |
| Name: | Kathy Smith, M.A., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Kathy Smith Associates |
| Email: | ksmith@vallnet.com |
| Level of Specialization: | Small group, family and/or individual |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Alcohol/drug counseling/conflict resolution |
| Description of competency: | As a professional, I provide services (individual, small group) utilizing techniques that meet the standards that are recognized by our organization. I take confidentiality seriously and safeguard information gained while working with these clients. My instruction/teaching is accurate, current, and scholarly. |
| Name: | Roger Straus, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Blackstone Group, Inc. |
| Email: | dr.rogerstraus@yahoo.com |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Consulting |
| Description of competency: | Marketing research, focus groups/interviews, consulting |
| Name: | Alberto Testa, Ph.D., C.S.P. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | School of Law and Criminology , University of West London (UK) http://www.alberto-testa.co.uk/ |
| Email: | at@alberto-testa.com |
| Level of Specialization: | International, Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Criminology |
| Description of competency: | Focus Evaluation of De-radicalization/Exit programs (Far-Right Activism, Violence); Behavioural Analysis Consultant (Credibility and Deception assessments) |
| Name: | Tina Uys, Ph.D., C.C.S. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Clinical Sociologist |
| Organizational Affiliation: | University of Johannesburg |
| Email: | tuys@uj.ac.za |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Organizational development |
| Description of competency: | Tina Uys focuses on organizational development with an emphasis on improving organizational capacity and teamwork. In addition, she conducts applied social research, social impact assessments, and social policy analysis. |
| Name: | Dennis P. Watson, Ph.D. |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis https://fsph.iupui.edu/ |
| Email: | dpwatson@iu.edu |
| Level of Specialization: | Organizational |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Program evaluation and consulting |
| Description of competency: | Health Focused program evaluation and consulting |
| Name: | James H. Wiest |
| Certification Designation: | Certified Sociological Practitioner |
| Organizational Affiliation: | Hastings College (Retired) |
| Email: | jwiest@hastings.edu |
| Level of specialization: | Community, organizational, large group |
| Major content of sociological practice: | Youth substance use, community development, law enforcement-community relations, organizational development, evaluation of community health programs.
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| Description of competency: | Competencies include designing and implementing survey research, conducting focus group interviews, and presentation of data. |
