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David Capuzzi

David Capuzzi PhD, NCC, LPC

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychology, Mental Health and Law
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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David Capuzzi, Ph.D., NCC, LPC, is a counselor educator and senior core faculty member in mental health counseling at Walden University and professor emeritus at Portland State University. Previously, he served as an affiliate professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services at Pennsylvania State University and Scholar in Residence in counselor education at Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), formerly the American Association for Counseling and Development, and past Chair of both the ACA Foundation and the ACA Insurance Trust.

He has authored a number of textbook chapters and monographs on the topic of preventing adolescent suicide and is co-editor and author with Dr. Larry Golden of Helping Families Help Children: Family Interventions with School-Related Problems (1986) and Preventing Adolescent Suicide (1988). He co-authored and edited with Douglas R. Gross Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents (1989, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2014); Introduction to the Counseling Profession (1991, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013); Introduction to Group Work (1992, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011). Other texts are Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners (2003), Suicide Across the Life Span (2006), and Sexuality Issues in Counseling, the last coauthored and edited with Larry Burlew. Three more of his books are Human Growth and Development Across the Life Span (2016), Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2016), and Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling (2015). He has authored or co-authored articles in a number of ACA-related journals.
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