Susan Jacob Ph.D.

susan jacob

Address:
Sloan Hall 104
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859

Email: jacob1s@cmich.edu

Vita
Bio:

Susan Jacob, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and faculty member of the School Psychology program. She earned an M.S.Ed. from City College of New York in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (emphasis School Psychology) from Michigan State University in 1981. Prior to receiving her doctorate, she completed over five years of experience working in the public schools and hospital settings as a school psychologist. She has been teaching at Central Michigan University since 1980. She is currently Director of CMU's Center for Research, Training, and Consultation on GLBTQ Youth Issues.

Research Interest:

My areas of research interests include ethics and law in school psychology, GLBTQ youth issues.

Recent Research:

Dailor, A.N., & Jacob, S. (in press). Ethical and legal challenges: Negotiating change. Book chapter to appear in J. Kaufman & T.L. Hughes (Eds.), The Handbook of Education, Training and Supervision of School Psychologists in School and Community. NY: Taylor Francis/Routledge.

Jacob, S., Drevon, D., Abbuhl, C.M., & Taton, J. (in press). Preparing school psychologists to address the needs of gay, lesbian, biattractional, transgender, and questioning youth. Book chapter to appear in J. Kaufman & T.L. Hughes (Eds.), The Handbook of Education, Training and Supervision of School Psychologists in School and Community. NY: Taylor Francis/Routledge.

Jacob, S., & Powers, K. E. (in press). Privileged communication in the school psychologist-client relationship. Psychology in the Schools.

Syrek, A. L., Hixson, M. D., Jacob, S. & Morgan, S. (in press). A comparison of error correction procedures on word reading. Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration.

Jacob, S. (2008). Best practices in developing ethical school psychological practice. In A. Thomas and B. Grimes (Eds.), Best Practices in School Psychology V, Vol. 6 (pp. 1921-1932). Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.

Burns, M.K., Jacob, S., & Wagner, A. (2008). Ethical and legal issues associated with using responsiveness-to-intervention to assess learning disabilities. Journal of School Psychology,46, 263-279.

Williams, B., Armistead, Leigh, & Jacob, S. (2008). Professional ethics for school psychologists: A problem-solving model casebook. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists, Bethesda, MD.