Mary Bradford Ivey

Dr. Mary Bradford Ivey is Courtesy Professor of Counselling, University of Florida, Tampa. She has three areas of expertise and experience - writing, independent consulting and school guidance. Her master's degree in counselling was earned at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She earned her doctoral degree in organizational development at the University of Massachusetts where she worked closely with Kenneth Blanchard, author of the well-known One-Minute Manager.<br/><br/>Dr. Ivey received national recognition in 1988 when her elementary counselling program at the Fort River School was named one of the ten best in the nation at the Christa MacAulliffe Conference. She was recently named one of the first 15 Fellows of the American Counselling Association. Recognized by and listed in Who's Who in American, she is co-author of 14 books, translated into several languages, plus several articles. In addition, she has produced a number of videotapes illustrating counselling and therapy strategies including the popular video Counselling Children, which includes ideas of how to include spirituality in counselling children of culturally diverse backgrounds.<br/><br/>Dr. Ivey has taught or held appointments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Keene State College, the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and Flinders University, Australia. She has lectured widely throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. Recently, she has applied the developmental model to the positive treatment of children with special attention to issues of child abuse. She is a Board Certified Counsellor (NBCC) and a licensed mental health counsellor. One of her specialties is applying consultation skills to school and management environments.<br/><br/>Spirituality and multicultural counselling is a recent extension of Mary and Allen Ivey's work on interviewing skills plus multicultural and developmental thinking. Mary Bradford Ivey's most recent writing has been on multicultural issues and a theoretical/practical approach for working in a positive developmental frame with so-called "pathology" and DSM-5.