Faculty
Ginger Clark
Professor of Clinical Education
Expertise
Trauma Work (Sexual Abuse in Particular)
Parenting
Women’s Issues
Men’s Issues
Education
BA, Psychology, Long Beach State University
MA, Psychology–Research Option, Long Beach State University
PhD, Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University
Dr. Ginger Clark, Professor of Clinical Education, now teaches one class in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program (EDUC 547–Career Development: Theory and Practice). She currently spends most of her time working in her role as an Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs and the Director of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. Ginger served as the MFT program lead from 2005-2015, and stepped down to serve as the President of the Faculty in USC’s Academic Senate in 2015-2016. In 2016, she joined the Executive Vice Provost’s office to help implement the resolutions passed by the Academic Senate under her leadership. During her time as MFT program lead, in addition to the careers course, she taught courses in the counseling process, theories in counseling, group counseling, and child and adolescent psychotherapy, while also providing supervision in practicum and fieldwork courses. Prior to joining the USC Rossier School of Education, Clark served four years as a faculty member in the Counseling Program at California State University, Long Beach. She is a licensed counseling psychologist, with a part-time private practice.
Distinguished Faculty Service Award
Undergraduate Student Government Campus Partner of the Year
Past President of the Academic Senate
Currently Teaching
- EDUC 547 Career Development: Theory and Practice
Previously Taught
- EDUC 500 The Counseling Process
- EDUC 541 Theories in Counseling
- EDUC 554 Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescence
- EDUC 637 Group Counseling: Theory and Practice
- EDUC 644 Practicum
- EDUC 645 Fieldwork a and b
- Clark, G. (2016). Traditional uses of technology in counseling education and supervision. In S. Gross, K. Anthony, L. Sykes Stretch, & D.M. Nagel (Eds.), Mental Health and the Impact of Technological Development (2nd ed., pp. 260-271). Charles C. Thomas Publisher: Springfield, IL.
- Clark, G. (2016). Using technology to enhance supervision at the University of Southern California. In S. Gross, K. Anthony, L. Sykes Stretch, & D.M. Nagel (Eds.), Mental Health and the Impact of Technological Development (2nd ed., pp. 368-376). Charles C. Thomas Publisher: Springfield, IL.
- Clark, G. & Swerling, J. (2012). Creating changes for NTT faculty within a decentralized university environment. In A. Kezar (Ed.), Embracing non-tenure track faculty: Changing campuses for the new faculty majority (pp. 162-177). Rutledge: NY.
- Clark, G. (2010). Traditional uses of technology in counseling education and supervision. In K. Anthony & D. Nagel (Eds.), Mental Health and the Impact of Technological Development. Charles Thomas Publisher: Springfield, IL.
- Clark, G. (2009, June). Striving for mediocrity: Accepting with gratitude the death of my dreams. Feminist Psychologist, 36(3), pp. 9, 35.
- Clark, G., Horan, J. J., Tompkins-Bjorkman, A., Kovalski, T. M., & Hackett, G. (2000). Interactive career counseling on the Internet. Journal of Career Assessment, 8 (1), 85-93.
- Hanish, C., Horan, J. J., Keen, B., & Clark, G. (1998). A note on the empirical futility of labor-intensive scoring permutations for assessing scholarly productivity: Implications for research, promotion/tenure, and mentoring. Education Policy Analysis Archive, 6, (15) ISSN 1068-2341.
- Clark, G. & McWhirter, J. J. (1997). Brief Note Review [Review of Mary-Joan Gerson’s book The Embedded Self: A psychoanalytic guide to family therapy]. Contemporary Psychology, 42, (7), p. 650.
American Psychological Association, Member
American Counseling Association, Member
Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, Member
Licensed Counseling Psychologist