Rick Reinkraut
Professional Title: Associate Professor of Counseling and Psychology; Supervisor of Academic Affairs
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Clinical Training, Empathy, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
• Clinical Skills and the Counseling Process
• Orientation to Professional Psychology
• Professional Integrative Seminar
Education: B.A., Rutgers College; M.A., University of Connecticut; C.A.G.S., Harvard University; Ed.D., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Connecticut; Licensed Psychologist/Health Service Provider
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
Reinkraut, R. (2010). (article in process) Context, content and reflexivity.
Training Issues in Counseling Psychology. Presenter. Community of Scholars Day. Lesley University, 31 March 2010.
Reinkraut, R., Motulsky, S., Ritchie, J. (2009). Developing a competent practitioner: use of self in counseling psychology training. Asian Journal of Counseling. Vol. 16 (1), 7-29.
Reinkraut, R. (2008). Moral awareness and therapist use of self. Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice, 13.
Dr. Reinkraut is a licensed psychologist/health service provider who has done psychotherapy with a wide range of persons across the lifespan. Dr. Reinkraut has an abiding interest in the obligations and challenges of the role of counselor educators as gate-keepers to the profession of mental health counseling. “My belief is that theories inform but relationships heal. A challenge of each therapeutic relationship is developing a relational engagement that responds to the particular needs of the particular client."
Dr. Reinkraut’s recent scholarly interests focus on identity as a narrative construction that emerges from within a cultural context and the impact of moral positionality on a therapist’s use of self.