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WICC Staff - Jim Ayers

Current Employment

October 1, 1988 to present (part time)
Clinic Director (80% time, 32 hours per week)
Walk-In Counseling Center

January, 1987 to present (approx 8 hours per week)

Outpatient Therapist, Licensed Psychologist
Alpha Human Services Telephone (612) 872-8218
2712 Fremont Ave. S.
Minneapolis, Minn. 55408

Education

Undergraduate
Sacred Heart Seminary, Oneida, Wisconsin, 1961­1963, Major: Liberal Arts

St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1963­1965, B.A.,
Major: Philosophy

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1968­1969,

Major: Psychology

Graduate
St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1965­1968, Major: Theology

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1969­1976, Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, Major: Clinical Psychology (adult), Minor: Personality Assessment 

Employment History:

Clinic Director, October, 1988 to present. Walk-In Counseling Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oversee all functions of a free community mental health clinic, including recruitment, training, and coordinating volunteer counselors and supervisors consisting of social workers, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses.

Licensed Psychologist, Jan 1987 to present. Private practice specializing in adult assessment, intervention, relationship therapies. Alpha Human Services work includes assessment and outpatient treatment of adult sexual offenders in individual and group settings. Specialization also includes assessment and treatment of elderly (over age 65) sex offenders.

Director of Program Development, 1982 to 1994 CoView Corporation (Formerly Health Information Resources, Inc.) 4000 18 Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407.

Adjunct faculty/consultant to Creativity Division, March, 1986 to October, 1988, Center for Creative Leadership Telephone (919) 288-7210, 5000 Laurinda Drive, P.O. Box P-1, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27402

Licensed Psychologist, 1984 - December, 1986 Partial Hospitalization Program, United Hospitals of St. Paul, 333 N. Smith St., St. Paul Work: Psychological assessment, treatment and research on CoView with psychiatric inpatients.

Assistant Professor, 1976­1984, Program in Health Psychology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Work: provided classes and conducted research on human interaction, supervised clinical psychology interns, provided clinical services as staff psychologist in the Health Psychology Clinic at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.

Instructor, 1973­1976 (part time), Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, U. of M. Work: established video tape services for faculty, students, and University Hospital staff.

Teaching Associate, 1972­1973 (part time) Clinical Psychology Training Program, Department of Psychology, U. of M., Work: taught clinical assessment to first­year clinical psychology graduate students, supervised their laboratory work, began using video tape techniques in therapy training.

Clinical Psychology Intern, 1971­1972, Hennepin County General Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn. Worked and received training in crisis intervention, day treatment services, and outpatient psychotherapy.

Teaching Associate, 1970­1971, (part time) Department of Psychology, U. of M. Work: directed graduate teaching assistants and undergraduate students in a experimental psychology laboratory course.

Instructor, 1970, 1971, (summers) Department of Psychology, U. of M. Work: Lectured to undergraduate students on sensation, perception, human and animal learning, directed their work in experimental psychology laboratory course.

Teaching Assistant, 1969­1970 (part time) Department of Psychology, U. of M. Work: Assisted in experimental psychology laboratory course.

Student Activities Director, 1968­1969 (part time) University Methodist Church, Minneapolis

Research Assistant, 1968­1969 (part time) Department of Clinical Psychology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Minneapolis, Work: Administered neuropsychological tests.

Psychiatric Orderly, 1968­1969, St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota

Warehouseman, 1967 (summer) Shurfine Foods, Inc., Kaukauna, Wis.

Volunteer Youth Worker, 1966, (summer) Martin De Porres House, Chicago, Illinois.

Truck Driver, 1965 (summer) Stokely VanCamps, Co., Appleton, Wisconsin

Camp Counselor, 1958­1964 (summers), Assistant Camp Director and Program Director in 1964, Gardner Dam Camps, Valley Council Boy Scouts of America, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Professional Experience

Clinical Psychology Clerkship

• Adolescent assessment, Summer, 1970, Assessment Center for Adolescent Offenders, Lino Lakes Diagnostic Center, Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Assessment of intellectual, social, and personality functioning of adolescents.
• Inpatient Adult Psychiatry, Fall, 1970, Hennepin County General Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Intellectual, neuropsychological, and personality assessment.
• Outpatient Mental Health Center, Winter, 1971, Hennepin County General Hospital, Minneapolis. Intellectual and personality evaluation for treatment, Aid to the Disabled or referral to other agencies.
• Inpatient Adult Psychiatry, Spring, 1971, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis. Intellectual, neuropsychological, and personality assessment.

Clinical Psychology Internship, 1971­1972, Hennepin County General Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the following training areas:

• Crisis Intervention Center, Fall, 1971. Psychological assessment, intervention and referral of psychiatric emergencies as part of a multidisciplinary team, individual psychotherapy.
• Day Treatment Program, January­June, 1972. Intensive group therapy, treatment planning, supervision of paraprofessionals, medical personnel, individual psychotherapy.
• Outpatient Mental Health Center, June­September, 1972. Assessment of patients applying for county services or for psychotherapy, intake,interviewing, supervision of clerks, behavior modification, individual psychotherapy.

Post Internship Experiences

Crisis Intervention Center, 1973 (part time), Hennepin County Crisis Intervention Center, Minneapolis. Psychological assessment, intervention, referral for psychiatric emergencies.

Walk­In Counseling Center, 1972 (volunteer, part time). Crisis intervention, individual and marital/family therapy, drug abuse counseling.

Clinical Psychologist (Ph.D. candidate level), 1974 (summer) Inpatient Adult Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis. Intellectual and personality assessment, supervision of interns, clerks. Psychiatric training of psychiatry residents and nursing staff, using video tape technology in psychiatric setting.

Psychotherapy, 1974 to 1984 Supervision at Hennepin County Mental Health Center and at University of Minnesota Hospitals.

Inpatient Adult Psychiatry, 1976, University of Minnesota Hospitals. Staff psychologist working with multi­disciplinary teams. 

Licensed Psychologist

Licensed with State of Minnesota, December 1, 1978, License number LP1724. Professional Competencies identified as:

• Psychological assessment: intellectual and personality
• Psychotherapy: adult, individual and group, marital, relationship therapies.
• Application of audio­visual technology to psychological assessment and treatment.
• Psychotherapy Supervision of psychology, social work students/interns
• Organizational Development, team building

Outpatient Adult psychotherapy, Health Psychology Clinic, U.of M. Hospital, 1976­1984, Center for Psychiatric Services, United Hospital, 1984 to 1986, Alpha Human Services 1987 to present, Growth Dynamics, Inc. 1988 to present, Walk-In Counseling Center 1988 to present. 

Teaching Experience

Program in Health Psychology Courses, University of Minnesota:

• Human Interaction Laboratory, Instructor, 1976­1984
  A laboratory course on face­to­face human relations, in which students make extensive use of video tape feedback. Initially based on the Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) method of Dr. Norman Kagan, the course was modified in 1981 to incorporate the CoView, an automated computerized audio­video system which I developed from my research.
• Psychosocial Problems of Human Development, Instructor and course coordinator, 1980­1983. Application of psychological principles to life cycle transitions of normal human development.

School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

• Interdisciplinary Team Training, Co­instructor, 1979­1982. A course on interdisciplinary collaboration theory and skills for allied health professionals.
• Human Relationship skills for students in Public Health Nursing, 1980­1982.

• Organizational Behavior, 1983. Applied CoView procedure to in laboratory sessions for students in hospital administration class.

Medical School, University of Minnesota

• Small Groups for Medical Students 1979­1982. Group leader and coordinator of 24 small support groups for 240 1st year medical students.
• Interviewing skills in Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for 1st year medical students.

Psychotherapy supervision, University of Minnesota Hospital Clinical Psychology interns 1976­1984

Consultation services on the use of video tape in health to programs in the School of Public Health and various community service centers in the Twin Cities area.

Metro State University St. Paul, Minnesota, December 1987 to 1991, Community Faculty member, specializing in human interaction training with CoView technology.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Clinical Psychology Training Program, September, 1988 to present. Clinical Faculty member, coteaching a course on crisis intervention and brief therapy to graduate students.

St. Mary's College of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Adjunct Professor. September 1992 to March, 1995. Instructor for graduate level course on Ethics and Professional Issues in Psychology.

Research Activities

Research interests

Face­to­face interaction. Over the past 12 years I have developed a procedure called CoView. (Previous names for this procedure include ITT Interpersonal Tracking Task and MAGIE, Minnesota Automated Guided Interaction Enhancement). CoView is a computer assisted video tape tool for assessing face­to­face interactions. Development has progressed from the basic research stage to pilot applications in education and relationship therapies. In order to ensure continued development, the stage of commercial marketing began in 1982, when Mr. Stewart Haight and I started Health Information Resources, Inc.

Impact of video tape feedback for psychiatric patients. Research projects began in 1982 and are continuing through 1986 at United Hospitals in St. Paul.

Couples counseling, 1982 to present. 

Awards

Graduate school, University of Minn. 1978, 1979 to research face­to­face interaction.

Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1978, Summer Fellow.

School of Public Health Biomedical Research Support Grant, 1983 for research project on couples learning program.

United Hospital Education and Research Fund, St. Paul 1984­1986, with Catherine Maloney, R.N. to apply CoView technology with psychiatric patients and staff.

Community Service

Y.E.S. and N.E.O.N (Youth Emergency Services and Nightime Emergency Outreach Network). Member, Board of Directors 1983­1984. Consultant (biweekly) to staff as Licensed Consulting Psychologist. 1983 to 1991.

Publications and Presentations

Ayers, J. (1988) Connecting with CoView, St. Paul, Minn.: Health Information Resources, Inc.

Ayers, J. (1985) Training of Family Therapists in Health. in J. Springer & R. Woody (Eds.) Health Promotion in Family Therapy (117­129). Aspen: Rockville, Maryland.

Ayers, J. (1981) Issues and methods for the empirical study of face­to­face interaction. paper presented at the International Communication Association, Annual Convention, Minneapolis, May 15, 1981.

Ayers, J. (1981) Empirical assessment of face­to­face interaction by means of the Interpersonal Tracking Task. Round table presentation at the American Educational Research Association, Annual Convention, Los Angeles, April 14, 1981.

Ayers, J. (1980) A preliminary report on the empirical assessment of face­to­face interaction by means of structured video stimulated recall: the Interpersonal Tracking Task. (unpublished paper available from author).

Ayers, J. (1976) An exploration on the utility of motion picture media in personality assessment. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota

Ayers, J. and Haight, S. (1983) A computer assisted human relations training tool for small group interaction. in Proceedings of the seventh annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Baltimore, October, 1983.

Ayers, J. and Haight, S.(1981) Computer assisted assessment of face­to­face interactions in health care settings. in Proceedings of the fifth annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Washington, D.C., November, 1981

Ayers, J. Maloney, C. and Nimlos, K. (1988) Video tape feedback on an inpatient psychiatric service, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 39, 7, 777-780.

Woodbury, P. and Ayers, J. (1984) Interpersonal skill development: a computer­assisted approach. Nurse Educator, 9, 30­36.

Filmography (professional 16mm motion picture film production)

The Behavioral Management of Chronic Pain (1980) A documentary film on a behaviorally oriented Chronic Pain Treatment Program at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Minnesota Hospital. (28 minutes, color)

Speak Out and Share (1976) Directed, filmed, scripted, edited this film for Intercultural Student Experiences, Minnetonka, Minnesota with assistance from the Department of Media Resources, of the University of Minnesota. This film documents activities of four European high school students in their visits with their American host families. It was released in four separate language versions (Spanish, French, German, English) for showing in Europe to inform students and parents about the experience of seeing America firsthand through close contact with American families. (25 minutes, color)

A Psychology of Intoxication (1975) A lecture by John Brantner, Ph.D. on psychological aspects of intoxication. It was filmed and edited for the producer, the Health Professionals Drug Abuse Education Project at the University of Minnesota (45 min)

Help: A Study of People in Progress (1973) Directed, partly filmed, scripted, and edited this film which was co­produced by the Departments of Psychology and Media Resources, University of Minnesota. This film presents four intertwined yet different stories of people in emotional distress and the attempts of others to assist them, presenting a multi­faceted view of the helping process. Another version of this film, 4 Studies presents the stories separately. (25 minutes)

Dare to Share (1973) Directed, filmed, scripted, and edited this film which was produced by Intercultural Student Experiences, Minnetonka, Minnesota with assistance from the Department of Media Resources, University of Minnesota. This film depicts activities of American high school students in France, Germany, and Spain during their two­week linguistic and cultural learning experiences.