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RESUME  

 Counseling Experience and Teens  | Teaching  |  Research 

 Drug, Alcohol & Tobacco Education  | Presentations  |  Awards

Dawn Foster-Ogle                      

       Biography

     In 1997, Dawn Foster-Ogle, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist joined the office of Restored Hope Counseling in Fullerton, California. In her work, she has helped many in overcoming major issues including depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, post traumatic stress, eating disorders, self-harming behaviors including cutting, and substance abuse and dependence to name a few. 

      In addition, she has worked with couples to assist them in creating more productive methods of communicating, as well as identifying their roles, expectations and goals within the marriage so that they may work toward achieving a fulfilling relationship and partnership.  She works to create for her clients an understanding of how claiming responsibility for their actions and reactions leads to a sense of personal empowerment for regeneration and change.

      In her work, she has also helped hundreds of teens and their parents towards overcoming obstacles impeding school goals, family connections and communication, and parenting difficulties. She has also worked in numerous schools facilitating teen groups comprised of students referred by school staff. In addition to her private practice, where she works with teens individually and in groups, she has worked for Hacienda/La Puente School District facilitating teen groups at Workman High School for four years. She has also worked with many teens at La Mirada and El Camino High Schools facilitating groups and conducting parenting classes for parents of teens.

Education:

M. S.   California State University, Fullerton, 1997

        Major: Psychology

B. A.   California State University, Long Beach, 1993

       Major: Psychology

A.A.    Rio Hondo College, Whittier, 1991

       Major: Psychology

• Certified Bereavement Facilitator. Training and Certificate obtained at Glendale Adventist Hospital, Glendale,  1997

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     Professional Counseling Experience

1996 - Present     Restored Hope Counseling

Currently in private practice at the office of Restored Hope Counseling. I work with individuals, couples, families, teens and children. I have extensive experience working with individuals and families on the issues of family problems including improving communication and relational patterns; parenting difficulties; depression; anxiety including panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder; bi-polar disorder; eating disorder; self-harming behavior; substance abuse and dependence; working through grief; elderly difficulties; adjustment disorders; sexual dysfunction; and personality disorders.

I also have extensive practice working with teens and their parents, both individually and in groups, helping them overcome many difficulties (listed above) and assisting them toward greater individuation and independence through acceptance of personal responsibility for themselves and their lives.

1996 - 1998      Straight Talk Clinic, La Mirada.

Responsibilities entailed counseling individuals, children, couples and families including diagnosis, developing treatment plans and treatment goals; teaching and facilitating a didactic and experiential co-facilitating parenting class; co-facilitating an on-site adolescent group; co-facilitating two adolescent groups at El Camino High School, two adolescent groups at La Mirada High School, preteen and adolescent groups at Hutchinson and Benton Middle Schools (see below); conducting didactic and experiential grief classes and groups; recording weekly case notes and updating treatment plans and goals as necessary; and attending weekly individual and group supervision.

1996 - 1998       High School and Jr. High Group Counselor

La Mirada High School, El Camino Continuation High School, Hutchinson Middle School, and Benton Middle School.

Duties included organizing and facilitating both time-limited closed groups and non time-limited open groups of four to ten teen or preteen members. Assisting teens in developing and maintaining ground rules; processing of individual issues including group exploration of options for resolving various interpersonal situations; assisting teens in obtaining greater self-awareness, as well as increased awareness and sensitivity to other's issues; and offering opportunities for teens to learn techniques for anger management and self-control. Occasionally assisted in crisis intervention assistance due to unexpected deaths of fellow students and friends.

1997 - 2002        Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education Interventionist,

 La Puente Unified School District, Hacienda Heights.

Position entailed caseload management, organization, and intervention counseling with individuals and groups identified as 'at risk' at Workman High School and three elementary schools. Responsibilities encompassed case and treatment conceptualizations including material compilation and assimilation for implementation of counseling and behavior modification interventions with 18 to 42 children, both individually and/or in groups. Primary interventions centered around self-esteem, social skills, conduct management, anger management, absenteeism, death of family members, drug and alcohol use in family, drug and alcohol education and prevention, and gang prevention. Also conducted frequent consultations with parents and teachers.

1993 - 1994        Elementary School Counselor,

1993                       Group Facilitator, Psychology of Women

California State University, Long Beach.

Professional Teaching Experience in Psychology

1997                       Graduate Teaching Assistant,

1996 - 1997       Graduate Teaching Assistant,

                                  Department of Psychology, Psychology 302-Learning and

 Memory, California State University, Fullerton.

Responsibilities entailed preparation and organization of Learning and Memory class syllabus, teaching outlines and materials; conducting and supervising class lab; instruction of class assignments, paper composition and format; instruction and guidance on researching and conducting a Paired-Associate experiment and a computer simulated lab rat experiment comparing effects reinforcement schedules and extinction rates on learning; instruction and guidance on statistical data analysis of experimental data; paper reviews; and grading oral presentations.

1994 - 1995       Graduate Teaching Assistant,          

                                  Department of Psychology, Psychology 563-Law and Ethics; and

Psychology 549-Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy,

California State University, Fullerton.

Responsibilities included preparation and organization of class materials for Law and Ethics, and Marriage, Family and Child Counseling courses; proctor and grade exams and miscellaneous clerical duties.

1993 - 1996       Teaching Assistant,

Department of Psychology,

California State University, Long Beach.

Responsibilities included preparation and organization of class materials; proctor and grade exams for Psychology of Women, Community Psychology and Women's Studies courses; and miscellaneous clerical duties.

Professional Research Experience in Psychology

1993 - 1997       Research Assistant,

Department of Psychology,

California State University, Long Beach.

Responsibilities included design conceptualization and planning; literature research, review, and summarization; data compilation and coding; statistical data analysis; paper composition; and presentation of research at professional conferences.

1994 - 1995       Research Assistant,

Department of Psychology,

California State University, Fullerton.

Responsibilities included literature research, review and summarization.

Professional Papers and Presentations

Foster-Ogle, D. (1997, August). Coping With Fear of Rape.

Thesis presented at CSU, Fullerton, CA.

Rozee, P., Wynne, C., Foster-Ogle, D., Compuesto, M., &

Hsiao, E. (1996, March). College Women's Fear of Rape.

Paper presented at the 1996 Women's conference 'Women in Action: Facing

the Challenges of the 21st Century,' Long Beach, CA.

Rozee, P., Wynne, C. Foster-Ogle, D., Compuesto, M., &

Hsiao, E. (1996, March). Fear of Rape Among Campus Women.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Women in

Current and Past Memberships and Awards

• American Psychological Association

• Division 35 of the American Psychological Association

• Association of Women in Psychology

• Psi Chi

• Phi Kappa Phi

Psi Chi Research Poster Competition (1994), CSU, Long Beach.

Kathleen D. Loly Award for Academic Excellence (1991), Rio Hondo College.

Faculty Association Scholarship Award (1991), Rio Hondo College.

Outstanding English Student Award (1991), Rio Hondo College.