CVTheo A. Cope, PhD
Dalian, Liaoning, China
FORMAL EDUCATION & TRAINING
-- PhD in Applied Psychology: South China Normal University, 2007
-- Certified Family Consultant: Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy
-- Employee Assistant Training: BeijingPsychcn-Chestnut Global Partners; Beijing, May 2007
-- Sandplay Therapy Training: 48 hours completed towards training program, International Society of Sandplay therapists (ISST); Guangzhou, China (2004 and 2006, two sessions)
-- Masters of Arts in Psychology: Landegg International University, Switzerland, 2003
-- Graduate Fellowship in Psychology: Landegg International University, Switzerland, 2000
-- Coursework and training for M.A. in Community Counseling (emphasis on family and group counseling; completed one academic year and training) Kent State University, Ohio, USA, 1997
-- Bachelor of Arts in Gerontology: minor Public Administration Policy; University of Oregon, Eugene, Or., USA, 1981
-- Associates of Arts: Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, Or. USA, 1979
-- Instructor & Teachers Training Certificate: U.S. Air Force, 1974
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
-- Lecturer: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian; Courses: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Business Communication; Introduction to Psychology; Social Psychology; Sociology Current
-- Instructor: Overview of Medical Psychology; Dalian Medical University. Mar-May 2008
-- Foreign Expert: Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and Psychology: Dalian Jiaotong University. Sept. 2005 - June 2007
-- Lecturer: Graduate Courses--Introduction to Analytic Psychology; Analytic Psychology: Advanced Topics; Introduction to Psychotherapy
-- Lecturer: Undergraduate course--Introduction to Western Psychology; South China Normal University. Sept. 2004 - July 2005
-- Counselor: South China Normal University Sept. 2004 - July 2005
-- Private practice counselor/therapist: Haikou, Hainan; Guangzhou, Guangdong; Dalian, Liaoning
-- ESL Foreign Expert: Kunming; Hainan; Shaoxing China. 1998 - 2004
-- Licensed Nursing Home Administrator: Admin-in-Training, 1981 - 1983
-- Instructor in Aerospace Physiology: United States Air Force, 1973 - 1976
PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
-- Article: “Heaven in China without ‘Religion’ and Manifestation”; Bahá'í Studies Review, Singapore, 2000 Vol. 5:1, pp. 33-61
-- Unpublished thesis: Summoning the Courage: Jungian Psychology, Spiritual Psychology, and the Bahá’í Teachings, for Graduate Fellowship Diploma at Landegg International University, Switzerland, 2000
-- Book: Re-Thinking, Re-Visioning, Re-Placing. George Ronald Press, UK, Feb. 2001
-- Plenary Lecture: “Dialogue Among Civilizations,” delivered at the 4th Annual Association for Baha'i Studies Conference, Singapore, in recognition of the U.N. Year of International Dialogue; April, 2001
-- Article: “Dialogue Among Civilizations: Ancient and Future, Transitions and Potentials”; Baha'i Studies Review, Singapore, 2001, Vol. 6:1, pp. 39-85
-- Plenary Lecture: “The Search for Methods: English as a Second Language in the Context of a Modernizing China”; delivered at the 7th Annual Conference of the Foreign Language Teaching Association of Central-South China, Nov. 2001
-- Plenary Lecture: “Sandplay: Attention, Emotions and the choice of miniatures”, delivered at the Second International Conference of Sandplay Therapy. Guangzhou, China, Nov. 1, 2004
-- Article: “Using Zubiri to re-think Carl Jung on ‘Emotional reality”; Xavier Zubiri Review, 2004: Vol. 6, pp. 5-28
-- Plenary Lecture: “Jung’s Method of Dream Work: A brief Overview,” delivered at the 1st Encounter Psyche: Conference of Dreamwork. South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Mar. 28, 2005
-- Article: “Psyche Encountered 2003 & 2004”. Journal of Sandplay Therapy Vol. XIV: No. 1, 2005. pp. 49-55.(translated into German and published as “Der Seele begegnen” in Zeitschrift Für Sandspiel-Therapie, Heft Mai 2006, pp. 66-70. Trans. by Linde von Keyserlingk)
-- Article: “I Ching’s Psychology of Heart, and Jungian Analysis”; co-author with Dr. Shen Heyong and Dr. Gao Lan. Psychological Perspectives. Vol. 49: No. 1, Jan-June 2006, p. 61-78
-- Book: Fear of Jung: The Complex Doctrine and Emotional Sciences, UK: Karnac Press, Oct., 2006
-- Article: “Some thoughts on metaphor in Cognitive Psychology and Zubiri’s Sentient Intelligence; Xavier Zubiri Review, Vol. 9, 2007, pp. 133-154
-- Article: “A psychological application of Xavier Zubiri’s notion of ‘projection”; Xavier Zubiri Review; in Press.
-- Article: “Positive Psychotherapy’s Theory of the Capacity to Know as Explication of Unconscious Contents,” Journal of Religion and Health: Volume 48:1, 2009, pp. 79-89
U.S. CITIZEN, born 1956