Counseling Psychology Faculty Woodhouse, Susan S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology ssw10@psu.edu EDUCATION University of Maryland at College Park, Ph.D. Counseling Psycholgoy California State University, Hayward, M.S. Counseling, with Concentration in Marriage, Family, & Child Counseling New College of the University of South Florida, B.A. Comparative Literature University of Delaware Pre-doctoral Internship in Psychology University of Maryland, College Park Postdoctoral Fellowship in Development Psychology & Counseling Psychology NRSA Individual Post-doctoral Fellowship

RESEARCH INTERESTS I am interested in attachment in both families and within the counseling relationship, including examining caregiver behaviors that lead to greater attachment security and trying to better understand attachment-related internal representations of self and others. I am also very interested in research on the process and outcome of treatment in (a) preventive intervention with families who have infants or children, as well as in (b) individual counseling with adults. Emotion regulation processes fascinate me, whether in children or in adults. Some of my research looks at affect regulation within the family (e.g., maternal responses to infant distress, maternal representations of infant distress), and some of my research examines affect regulation within the context of counseling (e.g., memory for in-session emotion). In addition, I am very interested in the psychotherapy relationship. RECENT PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles Woodhouse, S. S., Schlosser, L. Z., Crook, R. E., Ligiéro, D. P., & Gelso, C. J. (2003). Client attachment to therapist: Relations to transference and client recollections of parental caregiving. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 50, 395-408. Knox, S., Goldberg, J. L., Woodhouse, S. S., & Hill, C. E. (1999). Clients' internal representations of their therapists. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 46, 244-256. Abstracts Woodhouse, S. S., Schlosser, L. Z., Crook, R. E., Ligiéro, D. P., & Gelso, C. J. (2002). Attachment and psychotherapy relationship: Client attachment to the therapist and transference. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 37, 37-38. Mohr, J. J., & Woodhouse, S. S. (2001). Looking inside the therapeutic alliance: Assessing clients' visions of helpful and harmful psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 36, 15-16. Book Chapters Cassidy, J., Woodhouse, S. S., Cooper, G., Hoffman, K., Powell, B., & Rodenberg, M. (2005). Examination of the precursors of infant attachment security: Implications for early intervention and intervention research. In L. J. Berlin, Y. Ziv, L. M. Amaya-Jackson, & M. T. Greenberg (Eds.), Enhancing early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy. New York: Guilford Press. Gelso, C. J., & Woodhouse, S. S. (2003). Toward a positive psychotherapy: Focus on human strengths. In W. B. Walsh (Ed.), Counseling psychology and optimal human functioning. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum. Gelso, C. J., & Woodhouse, S. S. (2002). The termination of psychotherapy: What research tells us about the process of ending treatment. In G. S. Tryon (Ed.), Counseling based on process research: Applying what we know. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. PRESENTATIONS Woodhouse, S. S., Rodenberg, M. S., Halcrow, S., & Cassidy, J. (2005, April). Maternal representations of infant distress: Relations with maternal self-efficacy and perceptions of infant temperament. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia. Cassidy, J., Woodhouse, S. S., Dykas, M. J., Steinberg, S., Waters, H. S. (2005, April). Narrative assessment of attachment representations: Links between secure base scripts and adolescent attachment. In H. Steele & R. Thompson (Co-chairs), Narrative methods and understanding children’s social and emotional development. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia. Cassidy, J., Dykas, M. J., Woodhouse, S. S., & Boldebuck, K. M. (April, 2005). The experience of loneliness in adolescence: Connections with social behavior, social acceptance, sociometric status, and friendship. In J. Cassidy and S. Asher (Co-chairs), The emotional consequences of adverse peer relations in childhood and adolescence. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia. Warner, S. C. & Woodhouse, S. S. (2004, March). The relation between parental functioning and adolescents’ representations of their parents. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, Maryland. Woodhouse, S. S. (2003, August). Adult attachment, mood awareness, and memory for in-session emotions. In Mallinckrodt, B. (Chair), Expanding applications of adult attachment theory: Coping assets and deficits. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario. Cassidy, J., Ziv, Y., Rodenberg, M., & Woodhouse, S. S. (2003, April). Adolescent perceptions of parents: Associations with adolescent attachment (AAI) and interactions with parents. Paper session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Florida. Woodhouse, S. S. (2002, October). Adult attachment, memory for in-session emotion, and mood awareness: Preliminary data on client affect regulation in counseling. In Skowron, E. A. (Chair), Attachment theory and psychotherapy. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, State College, Pennsylvania. Woodhouse, S. S., & Cassidy, J. (2000, December). The Baby Statements Questionnaire: Development of a measure of the meaning parents make of their infants' crying.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Zero to Three National Training Institute, Washington, D.C. Woodhouse, S. S., Schlosser, L. Z., Crook, R. E., Ligiéro, D. P., & Gelso, C. J. (2000, August). Client attachment to therapist and therapist perceptions of transference: New data.  In C. J. Gelso (Chair), Exploration of attachment phenomena and the psychotherapy relationship.  Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. Mohr, J. J., & Woodhouse, S. S. (2000, June). Clients' visions of helpful and harmful psychotherapy:  An approach to measuring individual differences in therapy priorities. In Elliot, R. (Chair), Patients' perceptions of helpful and harmful aspects of therapy. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Chicago, IL. Woodhouse, S. S., Schlosser, L. Z., Crook, R. E., Ligiéro, D. P., Gill, S. M., & Gelso, C. J. (1999, November). Client attachment to therapist and therapist perceptions of transference. In C. J. Gelso (Chair), Exploration of attachment phenomena in the psychotherapy relationship. Symposium conducted at the Mid-Atlantic conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, College Park, Maryland.  Woodhouse, S. S., Schlosser, L. Z., Crook, R. E., Ligiéro, D. P., Gill, S. M., & Gelso, C. J.  (1999, August). Client attachment to therapist and therapist perceptions of transference. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA. CURRENT COURSE CNED 526 Research in Counseling PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Psychological Association (APA) Division 17 (Counseling Psychology), APA Division 17 Section for the Advancement of Women, APA Division 29 (Psychotherapy), APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), APA Society for Psychotherapy Research Society for Research in Child Development Graduate Fellow, ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families AD HOC REVIEWER Journal of Counseling Psychology Psychotherapy Research Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Journal of Development Psychology Social Development Infant Mental Health Journal Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences Attachment and Human Development Zero to Three Natioinal Training Institute Proposal Reviewer Guilford Press Elsevier Press

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