Jan B. Roosa, PH.D.

JAN B. ROOSA, PH.D.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois
Bachelor of Science
University of Denver Denver, Colorado
MA Master’s Thesis: The Use of Semiotic Descriptions of Group Therapy to Determine Interobserver Reliability and Descriptive Differences Between Written and Recorded Protocols.
University of Denver
Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation: Some Aspects in the Relationship of Personality and Intelligence

LICENSURE

State of Missouri, License #PY-00414
State of Kansas, License #LP-0179
National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
National Register of Neurofeedback Providers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Air Force Counseling and Guidance Program at The University of Denver.
Counselor, University of Denver
Coordinator and Clinical Psychologist, Child Research Council. Greater Kansas City Mental Health Foundation, 2200 McCoy, Kansas City, Missouri. Exclusive work with school children, teachers, principals, counselors, and parents.
Coordinator, Mattie Rhodes Group Therapy Project. Development of new group techniques in a Mexican-American Neighborhood Settlement House.
Lecturer, William Woods College, Fulton, Missouri
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at The University of Missouri.
Instructor, Kansas University Medical Center, supervising doctoral trainees from The University of Kansas.
Chief of Psychotherapy, Psychology Services, VA Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri.
Consultant, Mary Grove School for Girls, Kansas City, Missouri. Residential school for girls; worked with the girls. Instituted new program and trained staff.
Lecturer, Psychology and Education, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri campus.
Private Practice, Kansas City, Missouri and Overland Park, Kansas. Co-founder and Director, Gestalt and Social Competence Institute.
Consultant, County Children’s Institutions, Jackson County, Missouri. Directed program changes and development, trained staff.
Consultant, Linwood House, Kansas City, Missouri. Program innovation and implementation for a halfway house for mental patients.
Consultant, Training Corporation of America, Kansas City, Missouri. Staff Training in group techniques.
Consultant, National Welfare Rights Organization.
Consultant, Black Youth of America, Social Action Committee of Twenty, Black Panthers, Black Vigilantes (black social action groups).
Consultant, Southeast Organization, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, a community action organization for southeast Kansas City, a part of the community warding off resegregation.
Chairman, VISTA Task Force for Community Education Centers, Young Adult projects, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri. Responsible for 20 VISTA volunteers and the program. Training consultant VISTA volunteers, Midwest Region.
Consultant, Osawatomie State Hospital, Juvenile Program and Staff Development. Responsible as change agent for new program development (Social Competence).
Consultant, Young Adult Projects, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, a change agent project that developed drug, runaway, and alternative education and lifestyle programs and instituted community attitude change.
Director and Co-Founder, Learning Resource Center, 3700 West 83rd, Prairie Village, Kansas. This was a center for specialized learning approaches to educational difficulties and to enhance academic and accompanying social skills. This was the first of this kind in the metropolitan area and was attached to our psychology offices. Discontinued when model and services were picked up by public and private teaching institutions.
Consultant, Drug Intervention Group (DIG), Johnson County Council on Drug Abuse, Johnson County, Kansas, a drug program for youth involving agency and institutional change.
Vice-President, Interpersonal Dynamics, Inc., a non-profit corporation, Prairie Village, Kansas.
Consultant, Green Valley School, Orange City, Florida.
Consultant for program development for Renaissance West, a residential center for drug abusers.
Supervisor of graduate students of The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Department of Human Development and Family Life in research and techniques of teaching social interaction.
Preceptor and Supervisor of applied and research work with students at The University of Kansas, Department of Human Development, and The University of Missouri – Kansas City, Department of Psychology.
Project Supervisor, Harrisonville Crisis Intervention Team – community crisis precipitated by four killings. (See Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse, Joe Esztherhas, Random House, 1973.)
Field Faculty, Humanistic Psychology Institute of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, San Francisco, California.
Consultant, Author, Director of The Competence Based Program at Oakwood Hospital, Windsor, Missouri.
President, Institute for Psychological Competence and Learning, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Consultant, Author, Director of The Competence Based Program at The Kansas Institute, Overland Park, Kansas.
Staff Privileges, Cushing Memorial Hospital, Leavenworth, Kansas.
Founder of The Competence Group, Inc.
Staff Privileges at Baptist Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
Staff Privileges at Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri.
Program developer, Director, Consultant, Competence and Cooperation Project , Blenheim School-Neighborhood Project, Kansas City, Missouri.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

A Model for Describing Relationships Between Clinic Personnel and School Personnel. Presented to Annual meeting of AAPPC.
Relationships Between Clinics and Schools. Presented to Park College Annual Meeting on Advances in Education.
Group Psychotherapy Within a Neighborhood Milieu. Presented to Inter-American Society of Psychology.
Psychotherapy With Twins Seen Together. Presented to Annual Meeting of American Orthopsychiatric Association.
Report on the Mattie Rhodes Project: New Concepts and Findings on Group Psychotherapy in a Lower Class Mexican-Negro Neighborhood. 68 pages. Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations.
Report and Recommendations Based on a Survey of Institutional Settings for Emotionally Disturbed and Delinquent Children and Youth. 68 pages. Missouri Committee. White House Conference on Children and Youth.
School Boards and Such: Major Contributors to Emotional Maladjustment and Delinquency. Presented to Annual Meeting of Missouri Association of Social Welfare.
The Devaluation of the Opinion. Presented to Annual Meeting of the Association of Community Councils, Kansas City, Missouri.
A Program for Re-Education of Delinquent Youth with Emphasis on Communication Skills, Alternative Mode of Behavior, and Reshaping the Community Image of the Institution. 75 pages. Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations.
Co-author with Lee Bohannon, President, Black Youth of America, Operation Plug-In.
Situations, Options, Consequences, Simulations, (SOCS), a Social Learning Model.
A Negotiation Model.
SOCS: A Method for Teaching Social Skills. Innovators Exchange, Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association Convention, Montreal, Canada.
Chairman of Symposium: Teaching Social Interaction: SOCS: Situations, Options, Consequences and Simulation – A technique for Teaching Social Interaction and Negotiation Component. American Psychological Association Convention, Montreal, Canada.
Competence: A Point of Focus for Psychology, presented at the Missouri-Kansas Psychology Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri.
Competence: A Useful Paradigm, and An Approach to Applied Behavior Development. Midwest Association of Behavior Analysis, Chicago, Illinois.
A Psycho-Naturalist Practicing Psychologist Looks at a Few Uses of Some Models of Competence-Applied Settings. The Vermont Conference For Prevention of Psychopathology, Burlington, Vermont.
Curriculum Model and Techniques For Teaching Personal and Social Competencies of Living and Learning. 85 pages. Powell Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City School District.
Some Applications of Competence in Clinical and Other Settings. Spring Meeting of Missouri Psychological Association.
Increasing Childrens’ Self-Esteem Through Psychological and Biological Competence. With Paul R. Epp, MD, Kansas Association of Licensed Private Child Care Agencies Annual Meeting, Manhattan, Kansas.
Building Super Competent Parents: Rise Above The Stereotype. International Conference of National Pro-VOCAL, St. Louis, Missouri.
Competency Model of Substance Abuse Counseling – Incorporating the SOCS Model, to NCADA/MIPS staff.
Building Psychological Competence in Kids. University of Oklahoma National Resource Center for Youth Services Training Conference, “Working With America’s Youth,” Chicago, Illinois.
SOCCSS™ (Situations, Options, Consequences, Choices, Strategies, Simulation), A Technique for Teaching Social Interaction.
The Competence and Cooperation Based Program©, 20 pages.
With Danny Cox, Horace Washington, Lee Bohannon. Doing it Right, A song about Competence and Cooperation. Recorded.
With Sue Davis and Allen Phillips, Doing it Right In School, Home and Community, Developing a Competence and Cooperation Culture. Works in Progress.
With Gerard Perusse, Barry Pyle, Lee A. Bohannon, SOCCSS™ (Situations, Options, Consequences, Choices, Strategies, Simulation, for Decision -making), Computer Interactive Learning Software Program. Rock Creek, Inc. Lansing, KS. Works in Progress.
NAFC/ACCFC National Conference, Becoming Psychological for Loving, Learning, Working, & Playing

WORKSHOPS

Programs I have managed independently and as part of a team include training in new kinds of programs for social competence, community change strategies, interpersonal communications, conflict management, behavior modification techniques, decision-making skills and techniques, and family negotiation skills. In these workshops and training sessions, I have worked with blacks, Mexican-Americans, VISTA volunteers, Indian tribal councils, executive groups, Junior League, women’s groups, drug abusers, teachers and school administrators, family service agencies, alcoholic treatment agencies, probation officers, correctional officers, residential correctional staff, counterculture groups, and staffs of mental health agencies.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Former:

Inter-American Society of Psychology

Missouri Psychological Association

Greater Kansas City Psychological Association

Current:

American Psychological Association

International Association of Counselors and Therapists

National Association of Forensic Counselors

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Phi Delta Kappa

COMMITTEE SERVICE

Missouri Committee, White House Conference on Children and Youth.
Board of Examiners, Missouri Psychological Association.
Co-chairman, Citizens Concerned for the Urban Crisis. Instrumental in revising United Fund procedures for funding and evaluating programs.
President-elect, Greater Kansas City Psychological Association.
Drug Intervention Group Program, Johnson County Council on Drug Abuse.
President, Greater Kansas City Psychological Association.
LINC (Local Investment Commission), Committee on Education

LISTED IN

National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
Who’s Who in America
Who’s Who in American Education
Who’s Who in the Midwest

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Military Service: United States Navy

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