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Board of Directors
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Michaele P. Dunlap, PsyD.
Psychologist & Consultant
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Dr. Dunlap serves
Mentor Research Institute as President, Administrator and Director for
Education. Dr. Dunlap is a licensed psychologist who practices in
Portland OR. She has more than thirty
years experience in community non-profit and professional Board
service. Her undergraduate research at Reed College focused on evaluation of
mental health services delivery, her doctoral research focused on
developmental change processes of recovering chemically dependent
women.
Dunlap is President
of Mentor Professional Corporation and Director for National
Membership Development of AMHA-USA. She is Vice President and
Membership Chair of the National Coalition of Mental Health
Professionals and Consumers. As a Board member of the Oregon
Psychological Association (1993-96) she chaired development of OPA’s
Psychologist Support program. As a Board member and past president of
Lake Oswego’s community theatre and arts organization she spearheaded
re-organization and initial planning for the purchase and development
of Lakewood Center for the Arts. She is a past President of AMHA-Oregon.
Dunlap has organized and presented numerous training events: on
aspects of practitioner self-care; dealing with managed care; risks of
disclosure in mental health services; ethical practice in mental
health; identifying and dealing with nightmare clinical situations;
the pragmatics of dealing with HIPAA regulations; chemical dependence
and recovery; Internet marketing for mental health professionals and
on professional practice development. She has published articles on
these topics.
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Katherine M. Leonard, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Health Psychologist and Art Therapist
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Dr Leonard serves Mentor
Research Institute as a Director and Treasurer.
Dr Leonard is a Psychologist
and Family Therapist in private practice. She provides assessment and
treatment for adjustment to
cancer and other chronic and life
threatening illnesses, for individual adult anxiety, depression and
adjustment disorders, for psychosocial aspects of chronic pain and
stress management and for marital and family conflict resolution.
Dr Leonard is on the medical staff of
Legacy Portland Hospitals (Good Samaritan and Emanuel): Provide
consultation and psychological services in the Comprehensive Cancer
Program. for cancer patients and their families. She is also on
Allied Professional Staff member for Legacy Meridian Park Hospital’s
Cancer Rehabilitation Dept.
Since 1990, Dr. Leonard has been an
instructor. Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Oregon. Art Therapy
Masters Program. She teaches core courses, such as art therapy with
children, art therapy with adults, and family art therapy.
Dr. Leonard is a Credentialed
Professional Member of the American Art Therapy Association, a
Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family
Therapy, a member of the American Psychological Association, a Full
Member, certified Consultant and Trainer of the American Society of
Clinical Hypnosis, a Member Oregon Psychological Association which she
served as Secretary of Board 1994-6 and a Member-Owner of the American
Mental Health Alliance-Oregon, which she served as an organizing
committee and Board Member for more than seven years.
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Christine G. Glenn, Ph. D.
Psychologist , Teacher, Writer
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Dr. Glenn serves
MRI as Secretary and Director for Research Collaboration. Dr. Glenn is a Clinical
Psychologist Licensed in Oregon since 1982. She has been private
practice since 1987 in Portland with the exception of two years
(1988-1990) when she worked with expatriates in Katmandu, Nepal.
Dr. Glenn was
Assistant Professor, Adjunct Faculty, 1985-1987 Oregon Graduate School
of Professional Psychology, Forest Grove, OR, where she taught
Developmental Psychology and Statistics.
She was employed
as a research associate and program evaluation specialist, (1978-1983)
at the Neurological Sciences Center; Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, Oregon. Papers
published in Brain and Language, Brain and Cognition,
International Journal of Psychology. Book Publication: Edmund S.
Glenn & Christine G. Glenn, Man and Mankind; Communication and
Conflict between Cultures, Ablex Publishing; Norwood, N. J., 1981.
Dr. Glenn is a
Member of the American Psychological Association, a member of Oregon
Friends of C. G. Jung and a Member-owner of American Mental Health
Alliance which she serves as Oregon Board President
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Michael Conner, PsyD
Psychologist & Engineer
Clinical, Medical and Family Practice
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Dr.
Conner serves MRI as a Board Member and Director for Program
Development.
An
engineer and psychologist, Dr. Conner practices in clinical, family
and medical psychology. Dr. Conner is an expert in crisis
intervention, emergency psychiatric services, dangerous behavior,
residential treatment and outdoor behavioral health. He provides
professional training in ethics, crisis intervention, dangerousness,
parenting and a variety of mental health topics.
Dr.
Conner has worked in hospital, residential, primary medical care and
health education settings. At one point in his career, he worked
simultaneously in law enforcement, community crisis intervention and
emergency room psychiatry. These unique experiences allow Dr. Conner
to understand the needs of adults, parents, families, adolescents,
professionals and organizations facing the most challenging problems.
He currently maintains a private practice working primarily with
adults and families and provides consultation and training for law
enforcement and major airlines in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Conner
also consults with parents and mental health professionals nationally.
In
1989, Dr. Conner began pioneering research in the use of computers in
personality assessment and training. This included the development and
operation of computer-based test interpretation and the associated
ethical issues. He later developed a computer-based mental health
screening tool for primary medical care. This system accurately
evaluated and recommended medications based on the thought processes
of psychiatrists. Other projects included Internet-based screening
questionnaires for adolescents who were at risk.
In
1999, Dr. Conner began to research boarding schools, wilderness and
adventure programs for youth and young adults developing an extensive
database on such programs. He has promoted public and professional
awareness about emotional growth boarding schools and wilderness
therapy treatment and is actively involved in helping the public to
understand the difference between emotional growth, therapeutic,
residential, adventure and wilderness therapy programs and boot camps.
This research has allowed Dr. Conner to appreciate professional and
consumer needs for intervention, program safety and the importance of
follow-up programs as well as the importance of recognizing market
trends in mental health and family intervention services.
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Kevin Rea
Parent, Community
Builder
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Kevin
Rea serves Mentor Research Institute as a Director and as Parent
Advocate for the StepOne project.
Kevin
is a father of four and a grandfather of two. His professional career
has led him to be a local, regional and national proponent of
architecture and the significance of its importance in developing
human habitat. Throughout his 27 years in planning, educating,
building and developing he has created environments designed to
enhance and sustain the personal and community living experience. His
intuitive and creative spirit has been focused upon articulating and
developing the wonder of a truly great “sense of place.”
An
Oregonian since his family migrated to Bend from the Midwest in 1960, Kevin majored in
Fine Arts at the University of Oregon, worked for several years in
Alaska as an engineer on the Trans Alaska Pipeline. He started his
building and development business in 1977. Since then he has twice
studied Traditional Town Planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of
Design, produced several educational videos, given key note
presentations at development conferences and won many awards for his
efforts; including the Governors Livability Award for developing
Village Wiestoria in Bend Oregon. He has experienced the life of a
parent with children at-risk and served on the board of directors for
a wilderness school program.
While
most of his professional career has been in developing environments
with a “sense of place” he is now focused on helping InCrisis create
and fulfill a “sense of purpose.”
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