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Debra Pender
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Debra Pender, PhD. LCPC, NCC. ACS is an Assistant Professor in Counseling, Adult and Higher Ed at Northern Illinois University and serves as the coordinator of the Counseling lab, a counselor training facility.
Deb has served as the Clinical Director of the Southern IL CISM team for 20 years. Dr Pender served as a faculty liaison/crisis consultant during 2/14 incident at Northern Illinois University. She is also a member of the Blackhawk CISM team in the northern region. She received the 2008 "Group Practice Award" given by the Association for Specialists in Group Work, a division of the American Counseling Association, recognizing twenty years of group work service to emergency service personnel and as a leader for the IL Network of CISM teams. Dr. Pender is an approved instructor for International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and recently completed an international study on the effectiveness of CISD group process variables. Deb is an active researcher in the CISM field.
Dr. Pender was selected as an Emerging Leader in Group Work in 2004, while a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University. She was named co-chair of the Best Practices Committee, charged with revising the ethical guidelines that govern group work. She is currently serving on the ASGW bylaws committee and has been named interim president of IASGW, the Illinois chapter of the national association.
Deb was selected as an Emerging Leader in Group Work in 2004, while a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University. She was named co-chair of the Best Practices Committee, charged with revising the ethical guidelines that govern group work. She is currently serving on the ASGW bylaws committee and has been named interim president of IASGW, the Illinois chapter of the national association.
Deb is a member of the Illinois Dept of Mental Health Child and Adolescent task force on Evidence-Informed Practices. The task force is a collaborative effort between IDMH, community agencies, universities, clinicians and clients to improve the quality of the care for children and adolescents with serious emotional and behavioral problems
Pender, D.A. & Prichard, K.K. (2008). Group process research and emergence of therapeutic factors in critical incident stress debriefing. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 10, 1, 39-48
Pender, D.A. & Prichard, K.K. Group process research and emergence of best practices in group work during critical incident stress debriefing.
Thomas, V & Pender, D.A. (2008). Association for specialists in group work: Best practice guidelines 2007 Revisions. Journal for Specialists in Group Work
Anderton, C.A., Pender, D.A. & Asner-Self, K.A. From principle to practice: Using structured group discussion to promote cognitive complexity, religious and sexual identity awareness, and ethical decision-making.
Trippany, R., & Pender, D. (October, 2004). The case of Ellen. In K. P. Eriksen and V. E. Kress, Beyond the DSM story: Ethical quandaries, challenges, and best practices. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Crisis Curriculum Grant
HECA Illinois Homeland Security Education Alliance FY 07, 08 & 09
"The alliance represents a natural outgrowth of experience and expertise and NIU and WIU. In addition to developing the online Foundations of Homeland Security Disaster Preparedness course for statewide distribution, NIU has faculty in four colleges who are delivering multi-disciplinary homeland security courses and certificates. and the capacity to produce high quality online courses. WIU offers extensive training to emergency planners and responders and is developing an emergency management degree" (NIU Homeland Security committee statement, 2006). I am writing the disaster mental health curriculum for undergraduate and graduate level multidisciplinary human services professionals. Course is planned to go online in Summer of 2009.
Course taught: CAHC 493/593: Crisis Intervention for the Helping Professions
EIP Grant
Child & Adolescent Evidence Based Practice Certification Program FY 07, 08, & 09
Illinois Department of Mental Health grant to develop curriculum to enhance community agency counseling graduate's knowledge and utility of evidence based practices for children and adolescent populations. The project involves curriculum development for counselors in training as well as continuing education plans for current providers.