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Yvonne Barry, MSW, ED.D.
Virginia, U.S.A. |
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Yvonne has been in active private practice since 1980 and is a full professor at John Tyler Community College and Assistant to the Dean.
She established the first Bereavement Counseling Certificate in Virginia and is the instructor of the majority of courses in that certificate. She is a member of the Virginia Bereavement Coalition at the Children's Hospital in Richmond.
She established with her students the Melanie Ilene Rieger Annual Conference Against Violence in Connecticut in memory of one of her Human Services students who was murdered by her boyfriend and she continues to support her parents and this conference.
Her focus is on Sibling Grief and in the area of grief reaction in foster care placement.
She has been active in establishing conferences against violence with her students and in loss by suicide.
Membership in Educational / Professional Organizations:
National Association of Social Workers - Clinical Member
Council on Social Work Education - Member
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists - Clinical Member
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists - Virginia Chapter
Vice President - Central Region (1999 -2006)
Virginia State University, Student Counseling Center - Advisory Board
Virginia State University, Field Advisory Committee
Domestic Violence Task Force, Chesterfield Virginia member
American Humane Society - Member
United Animal Nations, EARS Trained Disaster Volunteer
Association of Death Education member
Virginia Children?s Hospital, Richmond Bereavement Committee
Forensic Psychology Association
Education / Credentials:
ED.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst; School of education, Counseling Psychology. (1994)
MSW. McGill University, Montreal, Canada, School of Social Work, 1978
BSW. McGill University, Montreal, Canada, School of Social Work, 1976
Completed Forensic Psychology training in June 2007 in Montreal,
Publications:
Exploring Child Welfare; A Practice Perspective.
Cynthia Crosson-Tower (ed.). Allyn and Bacon, N.Y.
1998
Sherwood Forest Literary Review; November. JTCC., Pub.
1998
Sherwood Forest Literary Review; Memories. JTCC., Pub. Human Service Education; A Journal of the National Organization for Human Service Education; Volume 15, Number 1, Fall
1997
Television Appearances:
Panelist for Virginia for the National Teleconference On Grief 2006 and for Children and Adolescent Grief, 2008.
