Kimberly A. S. Howard Assistant Professor

Dr. Kimberly A. S. Howard, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, received her M.A. in Counseling in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 2001, both from Boston College. She completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the Outpatient Behavioral Health Center at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Prior to joining the faculty in the Department of Counseling Psychology at UW-Madison in Fall 2003, she held a visiting assistant professor position in the department, ran a prevention program in a Milwaukee public high school, and was a lecturer in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Marquette University.

Dr. Howard's research interests include the examination of the career development process of diverse, low-income youth. She is interested in factors that promote vocational development and resilience, including the use of SOC (selection, optimization, compensation) strategies, as described by Paul Baltes (1997). Her early research explored the reasoning processes used by children and youth to understand career choice and career attainment. At present she is engaged in an international study of the environmental conditions under which the use of SOC strategies is related to positive academic, career, and life outcomes. Dr. Howard also has a professional interest in the roles that counseling psychologists can play in supporting and improving public education.

Dr. Howard's work has appeared in journals such as The Counseling Psychologist, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Professional School Counseling, Peabody Journal of Education, and Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice. She has written chapters in books such as Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families; Transforming Social Inquiry, Transforming Social Action: New Paradigms for Crossing the Theory/Practice Divide in Universities and Communities; and Conversations in Excellence: Providing for the Diverse Needs of Youth and Their Families.

 

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