Dr Randolph Bowers

University of New England, Australia

Founding Editor in Chief and Qualitative Editor, Reverend Randolph Bowers, PhD, Grad Cert Higher Edu, MEd Counselling, CPNLP, BA, HMACA, RSACA, comes from Nova Scotia, Canada. He identifies with Mi’Kmaq First Nations and Métis, and his Native name is ‘Kisiku Sa’qawei Paqtesm.’ The literal translation is ‘elder old man ancient wolf.’ Some people call him ‘Grey Wolf’. Others affectionately call him, ‘Doc’. And most people call him Randolph. He received a PhD in Counselling and Health from the University of New England (UNE 2002), and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (2005). His Master of Education (Counselling) is from Acadia University (1996). Randolph’s professional certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (CPNLP) is from the late Redge Craig in affiliation with NLP Colorado (1996). He received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in the Religious Studies and Philosophy from Mount Saint Vincent University (1990). His academic research and teaching interests include study of race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality, and ecology of place. He teaches as a Lecturer in Counselling & Health Sociology at the UNE (www.une.edu.au). He is a Certified Practicing Counsellor and Psychotherapist, and a Certified Supervisor of Counselling and Psychotherapy, with the Australian Counselling Association (www.theaca.net.au). During 2005, Randolph was named an Honorary Member of ACA in recognition of his outstanding contributions to counsellor education in Australia and in his role as Editor of the on-line journal Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health (www.cphjournal.com). Randolph maintains a consulting practice in public speaking, seminars, and workshops in Australia and internationally; and a private practice in counselling and psychotherapy focused in providing therapeutic intensives, retreats, and workshops (www.randolphbowers.com). He considers himself to be a wholistic, healing-oriented, and integrative practitioner whose interests include personal growth and healing, and trauma recovery; relational and communication issues; as well as spiritual, transpersonal and Indigenous/shamanic awareness and practice. He enjoys entertaining, gardening, and bush walking. Randolph is also a guitarist and singer/songwriter and he enjoys occasionally performing for the public.

Philip Armstrong

Australian Counselling Association, Australia

Managing Editor, Philip Armstrong, B Couns, Dip App Sci (Couns), Dip Psych, Dip Child Psych, holds a Bachelor of Counselling (a Fourth Year Award equivalent to a Graduate Diploma) from the University of New England (1999), a Diploma of Applied Science Counselling from Australian Counselling College (1994), a Diploma of Psychology from International Correspondence School, ICS (1995), and a Diploma of Child Psychology from ICS (1994). He is the National Manager of the Australian Counselling Association. Philip is the Clinical Director of the Clinical Counselling Centre, a seven room multi disciplinary mental health clinic. Philip has over tens years experience in private practice and working with funded agencies. Philip is a founding member of the University of Notre Dame School of Counselling and Behavioural Science’s External Advisory Board. Philip is in demand in regards to being an industry advisor in regards tertiary training boards and business building. He is the President of the Psychotherapist & Counselling Federation of Queensland Inc, who are co-hosting the 2006 International Counselling Conference in, Brisbane, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Counselling Association, Associate Fellow of the College of Australian Health Executives and a full member of the following associations: Clinical Counsellors Association Inc, Australian Institute of Management, Australian Society of Association Executives. Philip is the founder and editor of “Counselling Australia” a peer reviewed professional journal, which was first published during 2000.

Dr Nadine Pelling

University of South Australia, Australia

Associate Editor, Dr. Nadine Pelling, PhD, MA, BA (Hon Psych), is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling at the University of South Australia. She is both a registered psychologist and counsellor who received her main training in Canada and the United States of America in both clinical and counselling psychology. Her credentials include specialty training and experience in addiction counselling. Nadine concentrates her research and scholarship in exploring the development of counselling as a profession and various aspects of applied client work. Nadine has authored over 40 publications and serves on the editorial boards of various journals. Her most recent projects have included guest editing a special issue for the journal Counselling Psychology Quarterly on Counselling Psychology Across the Western World and guest editing a special issue for the International Journal of Psychology on Counselling in Australia.

Dr Brian Sullivan

University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Brian Sullivan is a lecturer in the School of Social Work and Applied Human Services at The University of Queensland, St. Lucia. He teaches in the new Master of Counselling program which he has designed and developed over the past 3 years. One of the features of this new program is that it is the result of a collaborative initiative between Social Work and Psychology. It has strong links to professional counselling services so as to benefit students and the organizations themselves. He completed his doctorate (CACREP program) in counselling and mental health at the College of Health and Human Services, University of Toledo, Ohio in 2000. Since then, he has taught at the tertiary level in the USA, Hong Kong, and Australia. He has presented at national and international conferences in the areas of counselling and mental health, family therapy, domestic violence, and cultural competencies. As well as his doctoral studies, Brian has undertaken advanced family therapy training with Dr. Maurizio Andolfi at his Family Therapy Academy in Rome, Italy. Through these meta-practicums, Brian has a group of international family therapists and counsellors with whom he keeps in ‘therapeutic’ contact. His research includes collaborative community responses to domestic violence and interventions with court-ordered male perpetrators. He is presently researching the experiences of and the effects on human service workers working with domestic violence survivors and/or perpetrators. He has a supervisory role with a group of counsellors who facilitate men’s domestic violence intervention groups. Other research interests include personal development as an integral component of the professional education of counsellors; and knowledge of and attitudes to counsellors and counselling in Australia.

Distinguished Professor Arthur (Andy) Horne

University of Georgia, USA

Honorary Advisor to the Board, and Distinguished Research Professor Arthur M. (Andy) Horne, University of Georgia. Andy completed his Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1971. He taught at Indiana State University from 1971 until 1989, during which time he served as a member of the faculty and Director of Training of the APA-Accredited Counseling Psychology Program. He also was a member of the AAMFT-Accredited Marriage and Family Therapy Program and he twice served as Acting Department Head. During that time he also was a visiting professor for the Boston University Overseas Program (Germany, Belgium), and a summer visiting professor to several university programs in the U.S. He completed a post-doctoral clinical research experience 1977-1978. In 1989 he accepted a position at the University of Georgia where he served as department head (four years) and as Director of Training of the APA-Accredited Counseling Psychology Program (eight years), as well as Coordinator of a Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy (thirteen years). Andy has been active in the American Psychological Association where he is a fellow of four divisions (Counseling Psychology, Family Psychology, Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy, Psychology of Men), and the American Counseling Association where he is involved with the Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors and the Association for Specialists in Group Work. In the Association for Specialists in Group Work, he is a fellow and is Past President, and he is the former editor of the organization’s Journal For Specialists in Group Work. In the American Psychological Association he is the past-president of Division 49, Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy. He has co-authored five books and co-edited five, and has served on editorial boards of seven journals, and he is the former editor of the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. Andy has been principal investigator of grants for more than two decades. Recently he was the co-investigator of ACT EARLY – a 7-year program funded by the U.S. Department Office of Education Institute for At-Risk Children. ACT Early was developed to identify children at risk for emotional and behavioral problems and facilitate educational prevention and early intervention programs to attempt to direct students into a healthier developmental pathway. Andy is a principal investigator of The Multisite Violence Prevention Project GREAT Schools and Families, a program designed to reduce violence in schools, funded by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. This project provides teacher, student, and family prevention and early intervention programs developed to impact the educational ecosystem, leading to reduced bullying and aggression. The project is now in its sixth year. Total grant/contract funding exceeds ten million dollars. Andy has conducted the Bully Project in Athens for nine years. The project has resulted in working with schools in several states, the publication of two books, Bully Busting (Newman, Horne, and Bartolomucci, 2000, Research Press) and Bully Busting in the Elementary School (Horne, Bartolomucci, and Newman, 2003), as well as several research and educational publications. The Bully Project is currently being evaluated in several elementary and middle schools. Andy co-edited the Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males (1999) and he has conducted research and training on working with boys and male adolescents and with men in groups for more than a decade. He has conducted workshops and classes on men’s issues in the U. S., New Zealand, and Germany, and has been a trainer for the U. S. Army on addressing male issues of violence and aggression.