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Allen Ottens
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Allen J. Ottens, Ph.D., is a Professor and graduate of the University of Illinois. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine and on the staffs of three university counseling centers---Cornell, Villanova, and NIU. He worked in managed mental health care. He is a licensed psychologist in Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania and holds Type 73 and 75 certificates in Illinois.
In 2001 he received the Governor's Unique Achievement Award from the Illinois Department on Aging. In fall 2002 he was appointed to the Mid-American Public Health Leadership Training Center's Committee on Rural Affairs in order to bring public health services and leadership skills into the rural Midwest. He was appointed to the Careers in Health Task Force which was convened at the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine at Rockford to address the shortage of health care professionals in northern Illinois. He was also a member of the Minority Faculty Development Expert Panel convened by the Health Resources Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Currently he has been on the editorial review board of two journals, Counselor Education & Supervision and Crisis Intervention and Brief Therapy. He co-edited the book, Sexual violence on campus: Policies, programs, and perspectives recently published in the Springer Series on Family Violence.
Dr. Ottens served as faculty chair or coordinator of counseling for six years, coordinator of internship for two years, and three years as Counseling Lab director. He is a Faculty Associate in NIU's gerontology program.
Some of his professional interests include counseling theory, crisis intervention, counseling older persons, and counseling's role in primary health care. He received training in cognitive therapy at the University of Pennsylvania and teaches a course in cognitive therapy during the summer session at Johns Hopkins University.