John J. Horan received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Michigan
State University. He came to Arizona State University as Director of
the Counseling Psychology Program after earlier
career experiences that included Jr. High Math Teacher, Juvenile
Court Psychologist, and Professor at Penn State. John is a Fellow of
both the American Psychological Association and the American
Psychological Society. He was a Vice President of the American
Educational Research Association and received three AERA awards for
outstanding research. John is directing the construction of the
Virtual Counseling Center at ASU on funds primarily from the National
Science Foundation. As a board member of the Journal of Cognitive
Psychotherapy, John created its on-line edition in 1998, and has
served on the editorial boards or been a consulting reviewer for more
than 20 other journals. John says he built his career on the
experimental method. The first decade was spent randomly assigning
participants to experimental and control treatments in order to
determine if the counseling interventions had a beneficial impact. The
second decade focused on the experimental construct validity of those
effects. For example, did the treatments produce changes on measures
of high theoretical relevance while simultaneously failing to effect
changes on measures of low theoretical relevance? Now it is time to
achieve a broad impact. For the past decade John has focused on
developing empirically-supported counseling interventions to run on
the Internet. John reports a love of pizza and a loathing of exercise.
He jogs several 5-Ks each week to bring his overactive fork under
control and to keep his silhouette from swelling to the size of a
psychologist's ego. Running also gives him a chance to support a
variety of local charities. If John has your email address, count
on being hit up for a donation this year.
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