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About the Authors

Samuel T. Gladding, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His academic degrees are from Wake Forest (BA, MA Ed), Yale (MA), and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (PhD).

Before assuming his current position, he held academic appointments at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Fairfield University (Connecticut). He was also an instructor of psychology at a community college and director of children’s services at a rural mental health center, both of which were in Rockingham County, North Carolina. He is a licensed mental health counselor in North Carolina, a national certified counselor, a certified clinical mental health counselor, and a former member of the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling and the North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors.

Dr. Gladding is the author of a number of publications on counseling, including Becoming a Counselor: The Light, the Bright, and the Serious (2021), Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession (2018), Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice (2019), and Groups: A Counseling Specialty (2020). He is the former editor of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work. He has served as president of the American Counseling Association (ACA) as well as three of its divisions: the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the Association for Specialists in Group Work, and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. He has also been president of the American Association of State Counseling Boards and Chi Sigma Iota (Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society International) as well as chair of the American Counseling Association Foundation.

Dr. Gladding has received numerous recognitions and honors. He is a Fellow in ACA and the recipient of ACA’s Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person and Arthur A. Hitchcock Distinguished Professional Service Award. He has also received the Chi Sigma Iota Thomas J. Sweeney Professional Leadership Award and the Association for Humanistic Counseling Joseph W. and Lucille U. Hollis Outstanding Publication Award. In addition, Dr. Gladding is a recipient of the ACES Outstanding Publication Award as well as the ACES Leadership Award. Furthermore, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Creativity in Counseling and the Research Award from the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. He is also a Fellow in the Association for Specialists in Group Work and received this association’s Eminent Career Award.

In 2008, the Association for Creativity in Counseling named its Inspiration and Motivation award after Dr. Gladding. In 2015, ACA named its Unsung Heroes award after him.

Dr. Gladding has worked with counseling colleagues in Malaysia, Estonia, Australia, Singapore, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Sweden, Austria, the West Indies, and South Africa and was a Fulbright Specialist to Turkey and China. He is married to the former Claire Tillson and is the father of three adult children. He enjoys the arts, creativity, and humor on a daily basis.