N 348 Lindquist Center
College of Education
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242 USA

Email:susannah-wood@uiowa.edu
Telephone:  319/335-5050

• Ph.D. Counselor Education, The College of William and Mary, VA (Emphasis in School Counseling and Gifted Education)
• M.Ed. Guidance and Counseling, The College of William and Mary, VA (K-12)
• B.A. Psychology and English, University of Richmond, VA

• Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Student Development

• National Certified Counselor
• Virginia Pupil Personnel Services License, School Counseling preK-12

• Instructor, The College of William and Mary School of Education: Special Topics in School Counseling: Program Development and Consultation 2006
• Professional School Counselor, Newport News, VA (Huntington Middle School) 2000-2003
• Counselor, The Governor's School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Humanities, Richmond, VA (2002-2005)
• Academic Counselor, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth (2000)

• American Counseling Association
• American School Counselor Association
• National Association for Gifted Children
• Association for Counselor Education and Supervision

• Day-Vines, N.L., Wood, S., Grothaus, T., Holman, A., Douglass, M., Craigen, L. & Dotson-Blake, K. (in press). Broaching the subject of race, ethnicity and culture during the counseling process. Journal of Counseling and Development.
• VanTassel-Baska, J. & Wood, S. (in press). Curriculum development in gifted education. In F. Karnes & K. Stephens (Eds.), Gifted Education. Columbus, OH: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
• VanTassel-Baska, J. & Wood, S. (in press). The Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM). In J. Renzulli (Ed.), Systems and models for developing programs for the gifted and talented. Mansfield, CT: Creative Learning Press, Inc.
• Day-Vines, N.L. & Wood, S. (2006). The application of Solution-Focused counseling with gifted students. Gifted Education Communicator, 137(1), 34-41.
• Wood, S. (2006). A guide to counseling gifted students: A manual for New Horizons Family Clinic. Williamsburg, VA: The College of William & Mary.

• Analysis of the effectiveness of counseling strategies and theories currently considered “best practice” with gifted students.
• Empirical testing of the effectiveness of different theoretical orientations and techniques currently employed with gifted students.
• Increase of the awareness of current counselors and counselors in training about gifted needs and teach and train future counselors to work with gifted students/families.
• Examination of current clinical supervision of practicing professional school counselors.

• 7C:457 Seminar Professional Orientation to Counselor Education & Supervision
• 07C:222 Counseling Children & Adolescents
• 07C:278 Applied Microcounseling