Dr. Dustin T. Shannon-Brady
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Alberta

Education

• Bachelor of Physical Education-1964
• Master’s of Art-Physical Education-1966
• Doctorate of Philosophy-Educational Psychology
• (specialization in health, counseling & developmental psychology)-1969

Awards

• University of Alberta Bursary-1965
• Teaching Assistantship 1966
• Research Assistantship 1967
• Province of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship
• Coach of the Year 1965 (for all football coaches college, junior and professional and high school teams)
• 1998 Heritage Award -PAA

Professional Memberships

• AASUA
• Psychologists Association of Alberta
• Canadian Psychologists Association
• Academy of Guided Imagery (San Francisco)

Employment History (postgraduate)

• University of Alberta 1969-1997. Retired as of Jan 1/98
• Courses taught:
  • Human Development and Education 1969-1995
  • Introduction to Counseling 1969-1997
  • Confluent Education-Holistic Perspectives in Human Development 1974-1989
  • Principles and Practices of Counseling (Graduate) 1969-Intermittent-1996
  • Applied Health Psychology and Education 1989-1997

Professional Activities

• Private practice 1969-1998
• President-Grail Institute-Counseling and Health Psychology Services
• Individual and family clients dealing with family of origin trauma and stress related illness.
• Numerous workshops on personal growth, stress management and guided imagery and healing over the years.
• Consultant and Associate of L. Block and Associates-Edmonton based group of psychologists.
• Shamballa Arabians- Owner-over the past twenty years I have raised world class Arabians and shown them to many championships throughout Canada and the United States.

Publications

• Strategies of Wellness (ten videos on wellness and health promotion). -1989
• Images of Empowerment (ten videos on counseling initiatives to promote student health and empowerment)-1990
• High Self Esteem In Adolescence- (joint author-educational video)-1990
• Fire and Grace-Audio tape1991
• Monograph on Men’s Health-Proceedings of the 1994 Conference on Men’s Health (joint author).
• Guided Imagery in Family of Origin Therapy-Canadian Journal of Counseling Psychology-1995 (joint author).
• Images of Wholeness: Guided Imagery for Awakening Healing, Creativity and Spirituality-includes eight audio tapes and journal for recording experiences. --1995

In press

• Images of Wholeness: Awakening Healing, Creativity and Spirituality (in press-312 pp-1998-expected.
• Phenomenology of Dissociative Experiences-joint author-1998 expected
• Treatment Programs for Men Who Batter: A Case for Compassion-joint author -1998 expected

Conference Presentations (recent)

• 1994 Conference on Men’s Health-Edmonton-1994
• Seventh Annual Conference on Guided Imagery-San Franscico--1994
• World Conference on Guided Imagery-Cleveland-1995
• Canadian Psychologist Association Conference-1998

Current research interests

• Men’s Attachment Style and Therapy Interventions
• Phenomenology of Spirituality
• Grieving Patterns in Males
• Abused Males
• Intimate Partner Abuse-Phenomenological Perspectives
• Phenomenology of Parent-Child boundary Violations
• Personality and Somatic Health
• Imagery and Stress Resiliency
• Native Mental Health-Counselor Training and Community Development
• Chronic Pain and Inflammatory Illness - Holistic Treatment Interventions
• Numerous master’s thesis and doctoral dissertations over a twenty-eight and one half year period.
• Graduate supervision of master’s and doctoral students in counseling over the years.
• Counseling Specialization: Health Psychology
• Internship Training and Supervision-1998

Educational and Therapeutic Approach

I utilize a health psychology perspective that adopts a model of stress resiliency, health promotion and disease prevention. This model focuses on psychoeducational and short term interventions to teach people how to become more active and effective agents in their own health promotion and healing processes. Four basic principles that are the foundation of health psychology (Hafen et al.,) are employed:

1. gaining a personal sense of empowerment and control
2. developing a sense of connectedness and acceptance (socially/spiritually)
3. discovering a sense of purpose and meaning
4. generating a sense of optimism and hope

These processes are engaged in a combination of psychoeducational and therapeutic/healing formats designed to help clients experience the support that enables them to make the cognitive/social /affective, behavioral and spiritual changes that result in personal well being and successful living.

Therapeutic Model

Therapeutic interventions utilizing integrative imagery based paradigm that is efficient and effective at promoting change and personal empowerment.

Supervision and development of therapeutic effectiveness through modeling and mentoring the therapeutic process for therapists in training or practice.

Professional References

Dr. Len Stewin Chair, Department of Educational Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.492.5245

Dr. Harvey Zingle Dean of Education (retired) University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.492.3751

Dr. John Osborne Professor Emeritus University of Alberta Resides in Victoria Ph: 250.658.4402

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