User:Jdcounselling

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Qualifications & Scope of Professional Scholarship
PhD Counselor Education & Supervision. (Ohio University) - Clinical Counselling, Psychometric Scale Design

M.Coun, Master of Counselling, (Australian Catholic University) - Professional Counselling

M.A (Applied Linguistics) University of Queensland, Electronic dictionaries in 2nd language acquisition and pedagogy

B.A. (Japanese Cultural Anthropology and Historiography, Japanese Language Studies) Nanzan University, Japan)

B.A (Modern Asian Studies), Griffith University (Culture, Japanese Language)

Selected Activities, Scholarship of Research and Professional Practice
Past Clinical Member of the Australian Counselling Association. (Australia)

Past General Committee Member of the Australian Counselling Association (Australia)

Certified Psychotherapist. (Japan Association of Clinical Counselling)

Clinical Practice, University Appointments, and Scholarship (Selected works and activities) Bilingual Bicultural Mental Health Consultant Confirmatory Factural Analysis, SEQ, Research Design, Statistics, Scale design, Research Design Publisher of scholarly works, Peer reviewed academic Journals. Books, Research articles, Presentations, Lectures) Senior Research Fellow in Public Health Vietnam

Other
Court Interpreter Japanese-English, English-Japanese, Japan and Australia. Consultant translator to scholarly publications.

Translator and Interpreter

Locally engaged special staff to the Embassy of Tokyo, Keating Govt

Member of the Loyd Mayor's Citizen's Advisory Committee, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, The Hon Lord Mayor, Ms. Sally-Anne Atkinson.

Research Interests & Specialization
Psychometrics and Scale Development

Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Acculturation Psychology

Clinical Supervision

Addictions & Chemical Dependency Counselling

Dual Diagnosis in Substance Abusing Populations

Approaches to Clinical Practice
Structured Relapse Prevention

Person-Centered Therapy

Existential Therapy

Motivational Interviewing

Solution Focused Therapy

Gestalt Therapy

[[Family Therapies

Wiki Interests
Acculturation

Psychotherapy

Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu

Japanese Translation

Mental health issues related to ethnic minorities

Best Practices in treatment of Dual Diagnosis/Comorbid substance abuse and dependency.

Memetics

Competency Based Standards