Adler School of Professional Psychology A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE ADLER SCHOOL SUMMER 2012 BINDING CONVICTION Changing the criminal injustice system Applying new models for socially just criminal justice From incarceration to restoration Helping ex-offenders successfully re-enter society Expressing the traumatic truth Working with traumatic abuse survivors through creative arts therapies 70800_Gemein.indd 1 4/25/12 12:30 AM Adler School of Professional Psychology Board of Trustees Alumni Association Leadership Board Adler School Leadership Team Mary Cahillane, M.B.A., Board Chair Harold Mosak, Ph.D. Mark Bilkey, Psy.D. ’97, President Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D. Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, Co-Founder and Distinguished Professor, President Tim Devitt, Psy.D. ’06, Vice President The Spencer Foundation Adler School of Professional Psychology Larry Axelrod, Ph.D. Tom Lindquist, M.A. ’09, Betsy Brill, M.B.A. Audrey Peeples, M.M. Dean, Vancouver Campus Secretary President, Strategic Philanthropy, Ltd. Co-Chair, Chicago Foundation for Women Martha Casazza, Ed.D. Alumnae Council; Vilija Ball, Psy.D. ‘09 Janet Campbell, M.S.W. Vice President of Academic Affairs Retired, Former Chief Executive Officer, Coordinator of Child and Youth Mental Health, Erika Creydt, Psy.D. ‘05 YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago Anthony Chimera, M.B.A. Vancouver Coastal Region, Nancy Farina-Johnston, M.A. ‘06 Vice President for Institutional Advancement Ministry of Children and Family Development Juan Salgado, M.U.P. President and Chief Executive Officer, Chasidy Karpiuk, M.A. ‘06 Jo Beth Cup, M.S.M. Victoria Chou, Ph.D. Dean, College of Education, Instituto del Progreso Latino Tony LaBrosse, M.A. ‘10 Vice President of Administration University of Illinois at Chicago Lindsay Setzer Roger Peden, M.A. ‘01 Jeffrey Green, M.B.A. Retired, Former Director, Vice President of Finance Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D. Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre Michael Ryle, M.A. ‘08 and Technology President, Adler School of Professional Psychology Bernard Shulman, M.D. Nancy Ukpe, M.A. ‘07 Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D. Director of Psychiatric Services, Vice President of Community Ralph DeWitt, M.P.A. Diamond Headache Clinic; Engagement & Training Manager, Village of Homewood Co-Founder, Adler School of Lynn Todman, Ph.D. Michael Geller, B.Arch Professional Psychology Executive Director, President, The Geller Group David Sinski, M.A. Institute on Social Exclusion William W. Greaves, Ph.D. Chief Officer of Strategy & Innovation, Former Director/Community Liaison, After School Matters Chicago Campus Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues, Willa Taylor 17 North Dearborn Street City of Chicago Commission on Director of Education and Community Chicago, Illinois 60602 Human Relations Engagement, Goodman Theatre Vancouver Campus James M. Houlihan, Javier Ubarri, M.B.A., 1090 West Georgia Street, Suite 1200 Former Cook County (Illinois) Assessor President and Chief Executive Officer, Vancouver, BC V6E 3V7, Canada David J. Kreischer, M.A. The Federal Savings Bank Managing Partner, Eric C. Warner, P.T., M.S. Higgins Kreischer and Associates, LLC Chief Executive Officer, The Rev. Dr. Sid Mohn Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers President, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights ON THE COVER GEMEINSCHAFTSGEFÜHL (geh-MINE-shafts-geh-foohl) This “perpetrator net” is among the artwork by artist, psychologist, 1. (literally) “community engagement” or “social interest,” and co-director David R. Johnson, Ph.D., at the Post Traumatic this Adlerian term is used to describe one’s connectedness Stress Center in New Haven, Connecticut, where Marni Rosen, and interest in the well-being of others that enhances or Psy.D. ’11, specializes in providing psychotherapy and creative pre-conditions psychological health. arts therapies. “It acknowledges our desire to fight for our clients, and our wishes that justice will prevail,” she explains. Read 2. The revolutionary notion that Alfred Adler proposed in more about Rosen’s work with survivors of abuse, violence, turn-of-the-century Vienna that drives the ground-breaking and neglect on page 29, in this issue of Gemeinschaftsgefühl and far-reaching curricula and commitment to community exploring issues of criminal and social justice, and the lives engagement at the Adler School. affected. (Photo by Julie Bidwell) 70800_Gemein.indd 2 4/25/12 12:30 AM IN THIS ISSUE 03 Leading Social Change 20 From incarceration to restoration At the forefront in… child guidance and parenting, LGBTQ Helping ex-offenders successfully re-enter society mental health, advocacy and engagement 26 The Global View 06 Changing the criminal injustice system Partnering, presenting, and advocating socially Applying new models for socially just criminal justice responsible practice throughout the world 12 Leading Thought in the Field 28 Our Alumni: Leading Forward thinking and news from the Adler School Change in the World faculty, institutes and centers Expressing the traumatic truth through creative 18 Conversations on Social Change art therapies. A conversation with Karen Koch, Psy.D. Gemeinschaftsgefühl Summer 2012 © Adler School of Professional Psychology • All rights reserved • Produced by Adler School of Professional Psychology, Department of Marketing & Communications • 17 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 • Telephone: 312-662-4000 • E-mail: [email protected] • Associate Vice President of Marketing & Communications: Mark Branson • Director of Communications: Kim McCullough • Contributing Writer: Pat Nedeau • Design: Kym Abrams Design • Photography: Julie Bidwell, Charlie Simokaitis, Laura Stoecker Printing: UniqueActive 1 70800_Gemein.indd 1 4/25/12 12:31 AM FROM THE PRESIDENT Failing systems, bad public policy, wasted lives. There are solutions. There are paths to ensure socially just practice in criminal justice. The Adler School is guiding it in Billions in taxes spent, profits gleaned from ways that no other institution can. pain. Families and communities divided, the most We focus on socially responsible practice to enable systemic vulnerable the most affected. Social unrest change. We understand the social determinants of mental health and dis-ease. It is difficult to fully characterize and how those determinants impact marginalized populations the massive crisis of systemic injustice in the that are disproportionately populating American prisons and jails. As a result, our faculty, students, alumni, and Institutes United States’ criminal justice system. for Social Change are working with those involved with the The rate at which the U.S.A. incarcerates its population criminal justice system to produce socially just practices that remains the world’s highest. The U.S.A. has 5 percent of the create and sustain individual and systemic health. world’s population, yet 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. We From our Vancouver Campus, we draw on Canada’s progressive confine both violent and non-violent offenders, and we detain and restorative justice practices. From our Chicago Campus, we and deport immigrants at skyrocketing rates—overwhelming act to advance change with the U.S.A.’s largest county correc- an overburdened criminal justice system and the millions of tional system and its fastest-growing state prison population. people the system houses and employs. When incarcerated In this issue of Gemeinschaftsgefühl, you will learn about some individuals are released, the formerly incarcerated are almost of that work. never supported with the tools to successfully re-enter society. Across our 60 years, the Adler School has addressed society’s The system cycles them back into detention. most pressing challenges—rooted in Alfred Adler’s central And, rather than caring for or treating people with mental idea that our health resides in our community connections. How illness, the U.S.A.’s policies, practices, and budget decisions the criminal justice system handles those with mental illness have effectively criminalized the mentally ill and locked them is a central challenge for our communities—and socially away in prisons. A person with mental illness is three times responsible practitioners will make the difference. more likely to be incarcerated than hospitalized. As a result, among America’s incarcerated, the rate of reported mental ill- ness is five times greater than for the general adult population. Additionally, we push certain kinds of people into this unjust process: incarcerated youth, women, and ethnic minorities are significantly more likely to have serious mental health Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D. problems than, respectively, incarcerated adults, men, and President caucasian groups. 2 SUMMER 2012 GEMEINSCHAFTSGEFÜHL 70800_Gemein.indd 2 4/25/12 12:31 AM LEADING SOCIAL CHANGE Adler School establishes new centers on child School earns national guidance and parenting, LGBTQ mental health recognitions for advocacy, community engagement The Adler School of Professional and others. Courses and workshops Psychology this year established two new are offered at the Adler School Chicago For the third consecutive year, the U.S. centers providing services and education Campus and a variety of satellite loca- Corporation for National and Community for students, mental health and health tions. For more information, visit adler. Service this spring named the Adler care practitioners, and the community: edu/acgc or email [email protected]. School to the President’s Higher Education the Adler Child-Guidance Center (ACGC), Meanwhile, LMHIC Community Service Honor Roll—the and the Adler School LGBTQ Mental focuses on educating highest federal acknowledgment that an Health and Inclusion Center (LMHIC). and training clinicians to institute of higher learning can receive ACGC was established to continue the be culturally competent for its dedication to service learning, vol- work of the School’s namesake, Alfred in service delivery unteerism, and community engagement. Adler, and founder Rudolf Dreikurs by Kevin Osten, Psy.D. for sexual orientation Meanwhile, the National Council of providing parent education and child- and gender-variant Schools and Programs in Professional guidance instruction to parents and other minorities. The center’s founding director, Psychology (NCSPP), last fall honored child-care providers—emphasizing Kevin Osten, Psy.D., came to the Adler the School with its 2011 Advocacy Award democratic leadership, encouragement, School in fall 2011. Under his direction, for significant contributions in education and reliance upon respectful, non- the new center has established new and training on advocacy and public oppressive, non-coercive methods of programs and opportunities for advancing interest issues. teaching discipline. social justice for marginalized sexual Among initiatives for which the Adler Paul Rasmussen, Ph.D., orientation and gender-variant groups, School was named to the Community Adler School Core Faculty, through community engagement, Service Honor Roll are its Youth Gun serves as ACGC’s founding advocacy, and clinical practice. Violence Prevention Program, its master’s director. The center offers For more information on LMHIC training program, and the School’s free parent and caregiver offerings for behavioral health clinicians, hallmark Community Service Practicum. Paul Rasmussen, education programs to physicians, nurses, and allied health- In awarding the Adler School with its Ph.D. targeted agencies, and care professionals, as well as students, Advocacy Award in Washington, D.C., a variety of workshops for parents, alumni, and the community, visit NCSSP highlighted the Community Service caregivers, teachers, child-care workers, adler.edu/lgbtq. Practicum as well as “Adler Action Days” for students, faculty, staff, and community partners to take action on issues of need for social change, and the work of the School’s Institute on Social Exclusion and the Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice. 3 70800_Gemein.indd 3 4/25/12 12:31 AM More than 200 people gathered to honor Adler School co-founder Harold Mosak (bottom left) and his late wife, Birdie, as the School dedicated its library in their name. Adler School announces five-year campaign for the Harold and Birdie Mosak Library More than 200 people gathered at the Harold and Birdie Mosak Library Mosak also continues teaching at the the Adler School Chicago Campus on is among the School’s strategic goals School. Oct. 27 to honor Harold Mosak, Ph.D., during fiscal 2012. In his remarks, referring to the School’s Distinguished Service Professor and Joining Adler School President Ray- founding and motioning to the library School co-founder, and his late wife by mond E. Crossman, Ph.D., to announce and school around him, Harold Mosak renaming the School’s library as the the campaign and pay tribute to the said, “In 1952, three people got together Harold and Birdie Mosak Library. Mosaks was another School founder, and we willed it. Today, it is no dream… Its dedication coincided with a cel- Bernard Shulman, M.D. In 1952, Shulman, Tonight, I pass this legacy on to you.” ebration of Dr. Mosak’s 90th birthday— Harold Mosak, and psychiatrist Rudolf For more information about the cam- and announcement of the Campaign for Dreikurs co-founded the Institute of paign, contact the Office for Institutional the Harold and Birdie Mosak Library, Adlerian Psychology in Chicago, today Advancement, adler.edu/giving a five-year initiative to raise $1 million the Adler School. Shulman and Mosak or 312-662-4032. for the library. Building the legacy of serve on the School’s Board of Trustees; 4 SUMMER 2012 GEMEINSCHAFTSGEFÜHL 70800_Gemein.indd 4 4/25/12 12:31 AM New online M.A. programs established in criminology, industrial and organizational psychology The Adler School is enrolling students racial disparity, and advances in tech- practitioners in applying psychological in two new online master of arts programs nology. James Whitmer, J.D., joined the methods to critical business and in 2012-13: in criminology focused on the Adler School faculty as director for the organizational issues including talent intersection of criminology, psychology, program; he brings 26 years of experience management, leadership development, and social justice; and in industrial and as a former special agent with the Chicago program evaluation, training, organiza- organizational psychology, one of the field office of the U.S. Federal Bureau tional change, team building, and fastest growing specialties in the field of Investigations (FBI), as an undercover work-life balance. Uniquely emphasizing of psychology. agent, criminal profiling coordinator, socially responsible practice, the program The M.A. in Criminology Program general police instructor, foreign police meets the education and training will train mental health practitioners to instructor, and case agent for major guidelines of the Society of Industrial address challenges facing the contem- investigations. & Organizational Psychology. For more porary criminal justice system—including The M.A. in Industrial and Organiza- information, visit adler.edu. issues of mental illness, terrorism, gangs, tional Psychology Program will train More Adler School news Margot Adler, Ph.D., at Chicago Campus Commencement in October • The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC) this spring granted the Adler School a 10-year reaccreditation—the maximum possible authorization—following comprehensive site visits in Chicago and Vancouver. In its report, the HLC site visit team highlighted the School’s alignment with and clarity of mission, faculty and staff focus on students, and student engage- ment on campus and in the community. • The Adler School Chicago campus military service members and veterans Public Radio correspondent and the in January was awarded the U.S. Green as students. granddaughter of School namesake Building Council’s LEED Gold certifica- • The School’s M.A. in Counseling Alfred Adler, as its Commencement tion—the internationally recognized Psychology, Specialization in Rehabilitation speaker. accreditation that represents the highest Counseling Program was named the Adler also visited both campuses in standards in indoor environmental first program in a professional school of April to join students, faculty and staff quality and resource stewardship. psychology to receive CORE – The Council in discussion of Octavia Butler’s • G.I. Jobs, a leading magazine for mil- on Rehabilitation Education accreditation. “Fledgling,” the School’s 2011-12 Common itary personnel transitioning into civilian • Martin Brokenleg, Ph.D., Native Book Program selection. An author life, awarded the Adler School its 2012 American scholar and advocate, ad- and Wiccan priestess, she presented on Military Friendly School designation. The dressed the graduates at the Vancouver the socio-cultural factors influencing recognition honors the top 20 percent of Campus Commencement in October. vampires in American literature. colleges, universities, and trade schools Meanwhile, the Chicago Campus For more on these and ongoing School doing the most to embrace America’s welcomed Margot Adler, Ph.D., National news, stories visit adler.edu/news. 5 70800_Gemein.indd 5 4/25/12 12:31 AM Changing the criminal injustice system 6 SUMMER 2012 GEMEINSCHAFTSGEFÜHL 70800_Gemein.indd 6 4/25/12 12:31 AM On this February Wednesday, a dozen or so inmates fill the chairs of a fluorescent-lit classroom at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, part of a sprawling complex on Chicago’s West Side that is courthouse, jail, school, infirmary, and—until their cases are adjudicated—home to about 260 boys, ages 10 to 17. The boys are here to talk with Elena Quintana, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Adler School’s Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice [IPSSJ], about their lives and violence: why they think people become violent, why they think violence becomes a norm in some communities and not in others. “I remember the day I became a criminal,” one 11-year-old Reports on jail and prison populations and those re-entering boy says. “It was the day my stepdaddy hit this girl over the the community after incarceration show that double-digit head with a hammer.” percentages of these populations suffer from mental illness— His story comes tumbling out: A girl broke into their house. and systems are not equipped to help them. In Illinois in February, In trying to get out, she pushed the boy’s sister out the door. The for example, cuts to public mental health led Cook County boy’s stepfather grabbed the intruder, took her to the basement, Sheriff Tom Dart to publicly decry that the county jail now duct-taped her to a chair, and hit her with a hammer. The first serves as the state’s largest mental health services provider— blow dislocated her jaw. The second and subsequent blows with an estimated 20 percent of its detainees and those jailed bashed her skull. suffering serious mental health problems. The boy saw it all. The complexity of poverty, housing, conflict, violence, and “How did you feel when you saw that?” Quintana asks. other social determinants of mental health that drive these He pauses. problems drives Quintana and the IPSSJ’s focus on changing “You know, I laughed at first, but then I felt sad, and I stayed them—through programs focused on juvenile justice, adult sad for a very long time.” corrections, violence prevention, re-entry mental health Conversations like this are all too common in Quintana’s services and restorative justice (see sidebar, page 11). All are work with detained youth and adults, their families, correctional directed toward meeting public safety challenges with socially officers, social service and mental health professionals, and just solutions—through building public safety systems that all those involved with the burgeoning criminal justice system. address trauma rather than recreating it, through supporting a That system burgeons today like never before. The U.S. Bureau cultural shift away from punishment and towards accountability, of Justice Statistics reports more than 2.3 million people are and through helping organizations develop safety strategies incarcerated in the United States, and more than 4.9 million that promote functionality and wellness. remain in the system under supervised probation or parole. (continued on next page) 7 70800_Gemein.indd 7 4/25/12 12:31 AM The IPSSJ has worked with the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center to develop a Volunteer Visitors Program for trained Adler School student volunteers to visit weekly with detained juveniles—many of whom receive no visitors. Programs that IPSSJ is putting to work in Cook County, Together, they provide programming for up to 60 juvenile Illinois—the state that has been leading the United States in detainees each week—on confronting violence, changing violent prison population growth—are intended to impact individual thinking and behavior, and facing fallout of the “no snitching” lives and systems, as models of public safety and social justice rule in many urban neighborhoods that perpetuates the behavior for detention facilities and communities around the country that leads youth to juvenile detention and jail. and world. Working closely with the detention center, IPSSJ has also “Public safety deals with criminality,” Quintana says. “But implemented a Volunteer Visitors Program that brings trained criminality itself is a construct—as a society, we decide what Adler School student volunteers to the detention center for once- behavior is criminal and what is not, just as we decide how a-week visits with detainees, many of whom receive no visitors. we will respond to crime, and what the goal of that response “The longer a child is held in a correctional facility, the should be, retribution or rehabilitation. And each of our decisions greater his or her chance for recidivism,” Quintana says. “The carries consequences. fewer visits a child has while he or she is in detention, the “We need to begin to ask ourselves: Why do so many of our greater chance for recidivism. We’re taking children who have policies effectively create a permanent underclass, debilitating already been traumatized and making things worse.” families and neighborhoods, and leaving children without Philippe Magloire, Executive Director of Programs and emotional, social, or economic supports? How is it that we sanction, Professional Services at the detention center, agrees. “Clearly in the name of public safety, a system that imprisons 11-year-olds? there are structural issues. There are economic issues. There “If we want to make a more functional society, we need to are educational issues. start rehabilitating our citizens. We have to stop legislating failure, “But when there is such disproportionate minority confinement, and start implementing policies and systems that work.” there’s something wrong,” he says, referring to recent analysis showing that 96 percent of the 5,800 juveniles admitted to Offering detained youth a connection Cook County detention each year are minorities. “We’re failing The IPSSJ Violence Prevention Seminar Series that Quintana these kids.” holds every Wednesday with the boys detained at the Cook Magloire sees both short- and long-term value in the programs County Juvenile Detention Center takes place with a group that IPSSJ has implemented. The visitation program gives kids of Adler School students and volunteers from CeaseFire, the who would otherwise be disconnected a connection, he says. globally recognized violence prevention organization recently “They realize that there are people out there who care for profiled in the acclaimed 2011 documentary “The Interrupters.” them. Feeling disconnected and disenfranchised leads 8 SUMMER 2012 GEMEINSCHAFTSGEFÜHL 70800_Gemein.indd 8 4/25/12 12:31 AM