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11/6/06

SLU PROF CLARK TO DISCUSS BOOK ON EMPATHY IN THERAPY

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Professor of Education Arthur J. Clark will discuss his new book, Empathy in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Perspectives and Practices, on Friday, November 17, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. The event, organized by the Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries, is open to the public, free of charge.

Clark's book was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in July, and according to the publishers, "comprehensively examines the function of empathy as it introduces students and practitioners to the potential effectiveness of utilizing empathic understanding in the treatment process."

The text looks at historical and contemporary perspectives and practices in counseling and psychotherapy, as well as theoretical orientations, and offers a multiple-perspective model.

Clark, coordinator of the University's program in counseling and human development, is also the author of the books Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process and Early Recollections: Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy. He is a graduate of Eastern Nazarene College, with a master's degree from Boston College and the Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University. A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1990, Clark was named Counselor of the Year by the Northern Zone Counselors Association in 1999.

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