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Teacher and Student Publish Article on Family Violence, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Resilience
What are the root causes of family violence? And how can therapists and communities work to help families transcend adversity so that they are able to realize post-traumatic growth and resilience? These are some of the questions asked in a pathbreaking new article by Dr. Stephen Southern of Antioch Los Angeles and Raymond D. Sullivan…
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Continuing Education for a New Generation of Working Adults
Terry Ratcliff, Dean of the School of Distance and Extended Education at Antioch University, was recently elected as a Director at Large to the Board of Directors of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE). This is exciting news for both ACHE and for Antioch! Ratcliff believes that higher education, training, and lifelong learning are…
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With New Workbook, Martha Straus Helps Parents and Children Manage Big Emotions
“It’s part of our job description as parents to remain reasonable—to have access to a rational adult brain—when our kids start falling apart,” writes Dr. Martha Straus in her latest publication. But, she says, “It’s a job that appears to take a lifetime of practice to get better at.” That’s precisely why Straus, a Professor…
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Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner Recipient of the 2021 NARACES Social Justice Award
When Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner, EdD accepted the 2021 NARACES Social Justice Award at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) conference on October 8th, she envisioned her accomplishment and her work as part of a lineage of many lifetimes of social justice work, activists and educators who came before her, and her ancestors. Stalnaker-Shofner…
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Democracy is Under Attack. Here’s What Higher Ed Must Do About It
Democracy is under attack globally. It is succumbing to the allure of fascism where the masses turn to a strong authoritarian leader to solve their problems. Unfortunately, this trend has reached the United States and India, one of the oldest democracies and the largest democracy in the world. The election of Donald Trump as president…
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Antioch PhD Candidate Clara Fang Receives Switzer Fellowship for Work in Equity and Inclusion in the Climate Movement
This past summer, heavy rains flooded the city of Detroit, Michigan, where Clara Fang lives with her partner, their dog, and two cats. Her basement was flooded with nine inches of sewage backup while other residents had as much as four feet. It took weeks for her home to be restored to a livable condition,…
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Joey Pierlioni: Love For Social Work Leads to Promising Career
Life’s journey isn’t always linear; sometimes, our passions and directions shift or grow fuzzy, before snapping back into clarity. This dynamic is clearly present in the life of Joey Pierlioni, a social worker and student in Antioch Online’s Master of Human Services Administration program. He overcame the difficult circumstances of his childhood to end up…
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NCSPP Students of Color Council
At the 2019 annual conference of the National Council of School and Programs of Professional Psychology (NCSPP), an organization that brings together psych educators from graduate programs in psychology across the country, Dr. Jude Bergkamp, Chair of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology program at Antioch Seattle, who serves as the organization’s Ethnic & Racial Diversity…
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Antioch GSLC Graduate Judith R. Ragsdale Creates Knowledge About Chaplaincy
Here’s a complex situation. A patient at Cincinnati Children’s is going through gender transition. Their father is open to this, but the patient is also Wiccan, which the father doesn’t know, and the patient is scared to tell. The patient consults a chaplain, and is happy to learn that the chaplain is not only open…
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