Professor
University of Iowa, Iowa
Susannah M. Wood, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education at the University of Iowa. She is also a faculty partner with the Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talented Development, where she provides professional development opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and practicing educators related to the social and emotional concerns of gifted students. Her research interests encompass preparing school counselors for practice, with a particular focus on serving the gifted population in collaboration with other educators and professionals. Dr Wood’s research has been published in such peer-reviewed publications as Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Journal of the Education of the Gifted, Journal of School Counseling. With Dr. Tamra Stambaugh, she co-edited the book Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings: A Framework for Bridging Gifted Education and Rural Classrooms (Prufrock Press). In 2018 she and Dr. Jean Sunde Peterson published Counseling Gifted Students: A Guide for School Counselors with Springer Publishing Company. She regularly presents at professional organizations conferences such as the American Counseling Association, the National Association for Gifted Children, and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) and various state conferences related to the topics of school counseling and/or gifted and talented, and counselor education. She has served as an editorial board member of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling and the Journal of Humanistic Counseling, and the Journal of School Counseling, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, and Roeper Review. In 2019 she was awarded the Deanna Hawes Outstanding Mentor Award, and the Presidential Award by NCACES. She became one of the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Fellows in 2020.
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From the Inside Out: Collaborating with School Counselors to Improve Students' Mental Health
Friday, November 10, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
Changing Your Fate: Co-constructing Career Development Plans with Gifted Students (Poster 18)
Saturday, November 11, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time