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Dr. Rachell Anderson
A licensed clinical psychologist in Mississippi and Tennessee and Illinois, a professor emeritus of University of Illinois at Springfield, and author of ten books, Dr. Anderson ran a private clinic...ver másA licensed clinical psychologist in Mississippi and Tennessee and Illinois, a professor emeritus of University of Illinois at Springfield, and author of ten books, Dr. Anderson ran a private clinical practice in Springfield, Illinois, from 1974 until she retired in July 2008. In the practice, she provided psychological assessments; individual, marriage, and family therapy; and psychological education programs to people with mental illnesses and emotional pain. She is credentialed by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
For twenty years, Dr. Anderson taught clinical courses to graduate students in the Department of Human Services (HMS) at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). She spearheaded the redevelopment and accreditation of the HMS program and served as its chair from 1999 until 2006. Before joining the faculty at UIS, Dr. Anderson taught at several community colleges in Rockford and Springfield, Illinois, and worked as a juvenile probation counselor in Oklahoma, as an intake and placement counselor in East Saint Louis (Illinois), and as a school counselor in an adult education center.
She received her doctorate of psychology in clinical psychology from the Adler University in Chicago, master’s degrees from Northern Illinois University and from the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a bachelor’s degree from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Throughout her career, she lectured widely and served as vice president and later chair of the publications committee for the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. She founded the Central Illinois Society of Adlerian Psychology, served as copresident of the Central Illinois Psychological Society. She is a member of the American Association of Black Psychologists, the National Organization of Human Services, the American Psychological Association, and North American Society of Adlerian Psychology.
Dr. Anderson has received many awards for learning, teaching, healing, and serving in her field. She was honored with awards from the Committee for Children for twenty-five years of dedicated services on the family stress consultation team. She was selected by her peers to receive the university’s Pearson Faculty Award for sustained excellence in teaching in 2006. This honor carried a substantial monetary award of which Dr. Anderson used a portion to donate books (Responsible Children in Today’s World) to fifty day care centers in her home state of Mississippi. Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and Who’s Who Among Outstanding Americans, and Who’s Who Among Outstanding Executives are among the many.
Dr. Anderson has authored ten books. Her most recent publications are Cultivating Cotton: From Field to Runway, Before Our Eyes (a chronicle of the healing advantages of watching psychotherapy between a client and a therapist in an open forum), The Legacy Continues: Writing Healing Stories.
Since retirement, Dr. Anderson served as the poet in residence at the B. B. King Museum and served on the boards of trustees for Northwest Mississippi Community College and the Mississippi Writers Guild. She volunteers clinical hours weekly at the Church Health Center in Memphis. She teaches the Writer’s Workshop for the Mississippi Writers Guild at the Tunica Museum, coled the Poetry Connection (a poetry writing group at the Unitarian Church in Memphis), and has served as president of the Alliance group at her church. She writes a Family Matters article that’s published in several newspapers, magazines, and on a website in the UK. She continues to study, write, and publish.
Dr. Anderson grew up in Tunica, Mississippi. She has a very large extended family in Tunica County. She is the mother of three grown children, has four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.ver menos