EDUCATION

COUNSELING EXPERIENCE

• Provide short and long-term psychotherapy to couples and families.
• Participate in weekly multidisciplinary treatment team meetings and case conferences, including “live” case conferences and reflecting teams.
• Receive weekly individual and group supervision.
• Participate in weekly seminars, including Medical Family Therapy seminar and Integrative Family Therapy seminar.

• Provided individual psychotherapy to adults, children, and adolescents in multiple settings, including: outpatient department clinic, youth guidance center, schools, homes, and inpatient unit.
• Provided family therapy.
• Developed curriculum and led school groups for elementary and junior high students.
• Consulted with Family Stabilization Team, Department of Social Services, and Department of Mental Health regarding clients.
• Received weekly individual and group supervision, totaling 10 hours a week, by Harvard Medical School faculty.
• Participated in weekly multidisciplinary treatment teams and case conferences.
• Presented and led discussions in seminars and case conferences.
• Participated in weekly seminars, including: child psychotherapy/psychopathology seminar, clinical assessment/testing seminar, adult psychotherapy/psychopathology seminar, outpatient case conference, trauma and recovery seminar, and intern process group.

• Led group therapy for children and adolescents.
• Provided individual therapy to children and adolescents.
• Participated in multidisciplinary case conferences, clinical team meetings and supervisory seminar.
• Received weekly individual supervision.

• Provided school and home-based therapy for urban children, adolescents, and families.
• Developed and supervised implementation of treatment plan.
• Provided consultation to schools and professionals involved with client.
• Received weekly individual supervision and participated in clinical team meetings.

• Conducted initial clinical interviews with parents, school psychologist, and/or pediatrician.
• Made clinical decision as to appropriate developmental evaluation program.
• Conducted interview and counseled caregivers in regards to child’s bio-psychosocial functioning.
• Developed and co-led a six week social skills training program for school-aged children with behavioral, developmental, and learning problems.
• Conducted site visits to early intervention centers, collaborative programs, and classrooms in the greater Boston area to advocate for rights of special education students.
• Participated in weekly Pediatric Psychology Working Group meetings, topics including: infancy developmental assessment measures (Bayley, NBAS Scales); preschool and school-aged tests (NEPSY, VMI, WPPSI, SB-4, Woodcock-Johnson, WRAT, DIAL-R, First Step, WISC, ADOS, Boston Naming); autism training group.
• Compiled resource book for families, maintaining current and broad knowledge of community services for underrepresented and under served populations.
• Received supervision from Director of Pediatric Psychology.
• Attended weekly child and adolescent psychology seminars at Judge Baker Children’s Center.

• Counseled at-risk youth, intervening via individual, group, and family therapy.
• Implemented outreach strategies and therapeutic activities to promote successful school experience.
• Coordinated with school psychologist and teachers to cultivate positive youth development.
• Bereavement training; training in domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicide crisis intervention.

• Counseled and supervised psychiatric disabled adults.
• Developed individual planning programs for clients and presented to interdisciplinary staff team.
• Executed behavior management interventions.
• Developed, coordinated, and instructed therapeutic recreational activities.
• Provided 24-hour intervention as needed.

• Co-led adolescent group therapy sessions.
• Facilitated meetings in which children, adolescents, and families discussed conflicts and goals.
• Co-led expressive therapy sessions and facilitated group interactions for adults experiencing psychosocial problems.

EVALUATION EXPERIENCE

• Administered intellectual, neuropsychological, and projective test batteries to adults, children, and adolescents in outpatient services, schools, and inpatient units.
• Formulated diagnostic impression, composed test report, and provided feedback to referring clinician, treatment team, or school.
• Received weekly supervision, specific to testing cases.
• Attended weekly assessment / testing seminar.
• Administered: WISC-IV, WAIS, Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Design, Bender Gestalt, VMI, Rorschach, TAT, RAT, Sentence Completion, House-Tree-Person, Kinetic Family Drawing, & Diagnostic Interview.

• Administered psychological / intellectual test batteries to children and completed test reports.
• Participated in weekly multi-disciplinary case and planning conferences.
• Attended weekly training seminars.
• Received weekly supervision.
• Administered: WISC-IIIR, WPPSI, WAIS, Rorschach, Rey-Ostereith, Connors Continuous Performance Task, Wisconsin Card Sort, NEPSY subscales, WRAT, VMI, Diagnostic Reading Scale, Diagnostic Interview, & CAST.

• Performed psychological evaluation, including Roberts Apperception Test, Tasks of Emotional Development, Kinetic Family Drawing, Three Wishes, and Sentence Completion, with child.
• Presented clinical and behavioral observations and findings to multidisciplinary team of evaluators and generated a written report of findings for parents and school.
• Participated in case-specific multidisciplinary planning meetings.

• Administered psychological test batteries, including Roberts Apperception Test, Tasks of Emotional Development, and Kinetic Family Drawing.
• Generated written report of findings for parents and school.
• Observed neuropsychological and academic testing.
• Participated in weekly multidisciplinary case and planning conferences.
• Received weekly supervision.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Adapted coding system to be used with sample specific mother-child interactions.
• Implemented and organized coding system protocol for research assistants.
• Coded videotapes of mother-child interactions.
• Participated on research team under the direction of developmental psychologist.
  
  

• Conducted parent focus groups for families with developmentally delayed children.
• Co-led focus groups for Early Intervention Staff.
• Co-authored and submitted grant proposals.
• Co-presented workshop at Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium Conference, 2002.
• Compiled relevant training materials for teaching and distribution purposes.
• Participated in Harvard’s pediatric care conferences and in Touchpoints faculty meetings.
  
  

• Derived and constructed themes from qualitative interview data from Latino immigrant youth.
• Utilized emergent theme analysis to organize data from four hundred immigrant youth from five regions.
• Analyzed quantitative survey data from Latino, Chinese, and Haitian immigrant youth.
• Compiled reports based on findings of emergent themes.
  
  

• Served as a liaison between schools and parents and conducted site visits to various schools.
• Prepared and distributed assessment measures to Philadelphia schoolteachers.
• Directed data collection and entry.
• Administrative support to research team leader.
  
  

• Trained in cross-cultural interviewing skills.
• Assisted in developing research questionnaire for school teachers and parents.
• Participated in partnership building meetings with school administrators.
• children and adolescents.
• Administered and scored behavioral assessment measures (Achenbach’s Child Behavior Checklist Forms).
• Participated in multidisciplinary team conferences.
  
  

• Facilitated family interviewing sessions regarding psychosocial stressors and medical concerns of children and adolescents.
• Administered and scored behavioral assessment measures (Achenbach’s Child Behavior Checklist Forms).
• Participated in multidisciplinary team conferences.
  
  

• Literature review of cross-cultural assessment and treatment measures for youth experiencing various psychopathologies; updated journal library and files.
• Proctored and graded exams for introductory psychology courses.
• Student representative in department faculty meetings.
• Administrative support duties related to academic and scholarly activities of Department Chair.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Fundamentals of Clinical & Counseling Psychology, Child Development: Infancy to Adolescence, Capstone Senior Practicum in Psychology, & Abnormal Psychology.

• Presented family therapy case for Consultation Seminar to a team of consultants.
• Presented at Outpatient Department Conference on “Counter-Transference in Therapy”
• Presented case on “Early attachment and Trauma” in Trauma seminar.
• Facilitated discussion in Intern Seminar on Borderline Personality Disorder and Attachment.
• Invited to participate in panel discussion for incoming interns, fellows, and residents.

• Appeared as expert witness in mock trial at Ames Courtroom.
• Presented case before Supreme Court judges, District Attorneys, and Harvard Law Professors.
• Underwent cross-examination by Harvard Law student and Professor.

• Designed two undergraduate courses, Introduction to Counseling and Mental Health Counseling.
• Taught Introduction to Counseling for undergraduate students for three semesters.
• Advised students in Psychology and Human Services Program.
• Participated in department faculty meetings.

• Invited lecturer on topic of Human Relations Counseling Model in therapy.

• Taught English course to classroom of latency aged Indian children.
• Designed and conducted after-school English course for Indian teachers.

May 1996 – July 1996

PUBLICATIONS

Gurney, A. G. (2004). The Effect of Maternal Religiosity, Social Support, and Parenting Style on the Mother-Child Relationship in Black Families. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University, June 2004.

Thompson, N.E. & Gurney, A.G. (2003). He is Everything: Narratives from Chinese, Haitian, and Latino Immigrant Youth. New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth. Cambridge, MA: Jossey-Bass Press.

Rizzo, S. J., Varrin, P. H., Gurney, A. G. (2003). Working with families through intentional family interviewing. In T. Harrington (Ed.), Handbook of Career Planning for Special Needs Students. Pro-Ed Publishers.

Gurney, A. G. (2002). Reflections on the APA Convention: A Graduate Student’s Perspective. Massachusetts Psychological Association Quarterly. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Psychological Association.

Gugliotti, T. & Gurney, A. G. (2001). Surviving the Storm: A Closer Look at Practica Training and Internship Application. Massachusetts Psychological Association Quarterly, 45(2), Boston, MA: Massachusetts Psychological Association.

Gurney, A. G., Beeghly, M., Greenwald, D., Franko, D., Fhagen, L. & Tronick, E. Z. The Effect of Religiosity and Social Support on the Mother-Child Relationship in Black Families. Poster Presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005.

Gurney, A.G. & Thompson, N.E. (2003). Religion and Resiliency in the Lives of Immigrant Youth. Poster Presentation at the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Mysell Lecture and Research Day, Boston, MA .

Thompson, N. E, Gurney, A. G., & Suarez-Orozco, C. (2002). Religion and Resiliency: Narratives from Latino Immigrant Youth. Paper presentation at the American Psychological Association Summer Conference, Chicago, IL

Gurney, A.G. & Turiano, D. (2002). Touchpoints Disabilities Initiative: Joining with Families. Power Point presentation at the Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium, Sturbridge, MA.

Turiano, D. & Gurney, A. G. (2001). Disabilities Initiative: Where We Are Today. Power Point presentation at the Touchpoints Annual Meeting, Greenville, SC.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS