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CAREER OBJECTIVES:Use calm effective confronting in enthusiastic, well-organized psychological presentations to individuals or groups.Work with families and program implementors to clarify their goals and assure the gentle, firm achievement of those goals. SUMMARY:Feel free to skim my resume for more information about my professional background. If you're feeling mouse-impaired, I'll summarize here: Bill Harding directs Clearwater Counseling, a for-profit counseling practice in the Fox Valley of Illinois. He graduated from Illinois State University, and holds a master's degree in School Psychology from ISU. He has received many educational certificates in the United States and abroad. Bill Harding has 20 years as National Register Health Provider #13447. He holds Illinois School Psychology Certificate #883963 and Illinois Clinical Psychologist #71001554. He is a first-generation monolingual farm boy and middle child of five. He has a broad and lengthy set of employment skills throughout community mental health. In his spare time, when not repairing or upgrading 100+ year-old homes, he looks forward to more time yarding, a broader version of gardening, intimatizing with the Quiet Fox (River). He also plans to return to New Orleans and Veracruz. His farm boy's years left the heritage of Universal Handyman skills with ample strength in muddling through. He is on The Board of Suicide Prevention Services and a general member of the American Association of Suicidology. He meets by chance with the SLIMs, the SuperLuminary Internet Masters, to re-perk www.spsfv.org. He does serve on the Midday Wednesday Wizards' repast whose august members have not adopted a formal name. He is married for the second time. The father of two children, "poppa" to four more, and the grandfather of five grandchildren. His father, a veteran of the Boer War, died of his third (known) heart attack at age 66 when Bill was 14 years old. Bill is an admitted Law & Order junkie with constant switching during blurb breaks to the International News or All News channel. He regrets that reruns of H.R. Pufnstuf are not more evident. He looks forward to S.P.S. Board emeritus status, full time pension and part time Chair of the Stone Manor Historical Counsel. Bill Harding has a wide range of clinical experiences. He does give focus to family, child, couple, and adolescent difficulties, work -related problems and depression. He still takes on new clients. ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION:
1983 Medicare Participating Provider 1978 Illinois Due Process Hearing Officer 1979 National Register OF Health Providers 1978 System of Multicultural Assessment 1976 Registered Psychologist in Illinois 1967 Certified School Psychologist 1962 Supervision of School Counseling 1957 History & Social Sciences - Teaching 1957 Biological Sciences - Teaching PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION:Bill Harding of Clearwater is a professional health service enterprise. It provides individual and family therapy and specialised forms of psychological evaluations. Bill Harding of Clearwater supplies health care and wellness services via contract to a variety of individuals, employers and health plans.EXPERIENCE:
Offers individual and family therapy, psychological testing, parent-child intervention and management, with a wide variety of conflict and pain management techniques. Founding officer of this for-profit corporation with psychological activity. Incorporate computerized reporting and sales into procedures.
Child Mental Health consultation with trans-disciplinary teams. Supervision of psychologists and evaluation of regular and special education programs. Individual interviewing of disabled children then write reports with commendations for parents.
Establish and implement a guidance program with an individual emphasis. Personal, vocational and academic counseling. Standardized testing for every child. Serve all ages 5-19 and staff with counseling skills to meet any possible need or situation. CONCURRENT POSITIONS:
Supply on-site monthly meetings to clarify the goals of school teams and to assure that a child-centered problem-solving impact becomes the highlight of the Building team.
A 24 hour on-call risk assessment and deflection procedure for psychiatric hospital bound adolescents and adults in ER's or jail. Substance abuse, violence de-escalation crisis and DSM IIIR differentiation.
Conduct, analyze and report special education conflicts. Elucidate the prevailing applicable law and clarify the available evidence as to each child's situation.
Evaluate and report severe disabilities or pain. Provide evidence to decide if client needs Social Security Disability. Recommend either worker's compensation or disability claim.
Instruct and train veteran 'on-line' teachers about Behavior and Emotions in children from age 3 to 19.
Individual and family evaluations, interventions and reports. Referral and linking to therapeutic professionals with follow-up.
Diagnosis of individuals and families. Community mental health services. Evaluation and therapy of complex mental health agency clients. Write reports of tests, interviews and therapy for staff. Consultation and training to state workers about commendations for chronicity of client.
Evaluate patients, conduct milieu therapy, patient training and implement projects about diagnostic intake staffings and testing. PRESENTATIONS:
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EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science Degree from Illinois State University with state certifiable course work in Social Science and the Biological Sciences. August 1957 Graduate work from the University of Illinois for a Title IV workshop in Geneva, Illinois of the "Emotionally Disturbed Child" for "on-line" veteran staff by Dr. Levi Lathen in 1968. Course of Behavior Modification, Observation and Recording from Northwestern Illinois Association and James Nicholson of Project Advocate for the Behaviorally Disordered. A 12 hour intensive seminar. In 1972. Post-masters class work from Bradley University in Program Evaluation, Improvement, and Design as well as staff supervision and in-service training. Summer 1970. Certificate of Completion - Management by Objective with Paul Gamely, PhD - a 20 hour seminar for middle managers in Oakbrook, Illinois in 1973. Certificate of completion of a course of study by Dr. Noble Butler. Course from The Family Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University. Included the dynamics and development of marital pairs in 1976. Graduate work from Southern Illinois University for courses in the Psychological Assessment of the Culturally Different and the limited English proficient, as well as test interpretation and styles of cognition. In 1979. Graduate work from the University of California for courses in the psychological Testing For The Culturally Different and the limited English proficient, as well as test interpretation and styles of cognition. In 1978. Graduate work at the post-Masters level in Administration and Supervision from Northern Illinois University during the school years 1979 and 1980. Graduate work at the post-Masters level in Behavior Modification, Systematic Observation and Setting Objectives from Northern Illinois University during the school years 1978 and 1979. Certificate of Completion of Total Immersion in the Spanish Language and the Hispanic Culture, Universidad de Veracruzana, Xalapa, Estado de Veracruz, Mexico in June, July, and August of 1981. Course of Divorce and Family Mediation from the Haynes Mediation Institute with John Haynes, PhD of Mediation Associates, Inc., New York, NY for a 40 hour intensive seminar. August 1986 Certificate of Completion - Clinical Practice and the Million: Diagnostic and Treatment Issues by James Choca, PhD in Wheaton, Illinois in 1992. Certificate of Completion - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Clinical workers in 1992 by Donald Meichenbaum, PhD in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. CLEARWATER COUNSELING
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