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职称:Professor
所属学校:University of Utah
所属院系:College of Health
所属专业:Education, General
联系方式:801-582-1652
Karol L. Kumpfer, Ph.D., is an American Indian psychologist (Pawnee) and a Professor of Health Promotion and Education at the University of Utah, who specializes in cross-cultural research and dissemination of evidence-based family strengthening interventions to prevent substance abuse, delinquency, child maltreatment, and improve child outcomes. She is the original developer of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP), www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org which is a 7- to 14-session family skills training program proven in multiple RCTs with independent researchers to improve parenting skills, family relations, and improve children’s outcomes. From 1997 to 2000, she served as the Director of the DHHS/SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in Washington, D.C. for which she was honored with a White House Distinguished Service Award. For 15 years, she also directed OJJDP’s Strengthening America’s Families Initiative to locate and disseminate evidence-based family interventions nationwide. Currently she is a United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) consultant and has conducted a global search on evidence-based parenting and family interventions for dissemination to developing countries on their website. She was awarded in June 2008 the prestigious Community and Cultural Research award by the Society for Prevention Research and was also the first woman president in 1998. In 2010, the University of Utah awarded her their Diversity Award. She has published and presented widely and internationally. She is a Board Member of the Indian Walk-in Center. She and her husband, Dr. Henry Whiteside, enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, rafting, skiing, and traveling. They live in Emigration canyon in a home Karol design, being thwarted in her first academic goal to become an architect. She did serve as the UU Long-range Planner in the Park Building. Currently she serves as the Director of International Education for her department.
Summer 1965 Assistant Counselor, Upward Bound Project, Colorado Women's College. 9/65 - 9/66 Research Assistant for Dr. John McCollough, Psychology Professor, Colorado Women's College on Human Learning Project for US Department of Defense. Research Assistant, San Jose State University. Spent summer meeting with professors and research assistants from five colleges and universities to summarize everything known in research literature about human learning. 10/66 - 6/71 Research Assistant for Psychology Department Chair and Social and Behavioral Sciences Dean, Dr. William Prokasy, University of Utah. Director of Psychophysiology Research Laboratory (supervised undergraduate and graduate students). 7/69 - 4/70 School Psychology Intern, Granite School District, Salt Lake City. 1/70 - 1/71 Co-Director, Salt Lake Drug Crisis Center (currently the Community Counseling Center). 7/70 - 6/71 Counseling Intern, University of Utah Counseling Center and Granite Mental Health Center (inpatient unit). 7/71 - 1/73 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (accepted temporary position for a tenure track faculty member on maternity leave). Group Psychotherapist, Counseling Center, Oberlin College. In-Residence Counselor, Special Programs Women's House, Oberlin College (developed a feminist women's residential house and was faculty residential advisor for first year).