Books by Jeana L. Magyar-Moe (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, USA)

Jeana L. Magyar-Moe received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas. She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP) where she is a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow and the recipient of the 2006 UWSP University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007 University Scholar Award, and 2007 and 2008 University Leadership Mentor Awards. She also served as the Distinguished Lecturer for the 2007 University Evening Celebration of Faculty Excellence. Dr. Magyar-Moe's research interests include positive psychology, diversity issues, therapy process and outcome, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She was an invited scholar and fellow at the 2002 and 2003 International Positive Psychology Summits and an Invited Speaker at the 2007 Gallup Global Well-Being Forum and she continues to focus her research primarily on the study of optimal human functioning. Her most recent publications on positive psychology topics appeared in the Major Contribution on Positive Aspects of Human Functioning in the March 2006 issue of The Counseling Psychologist. She has also co-authored book chapters in the Handbook of Positive Psychology (Snyder & Lopez), Positive Psychological Assessment: A Handbook of Models and Measures (Lopez & Snyder), Positive Psychology in Practice (Linley & Joseph), Counseling Psychology and Optimal Human Functioning (Walsh), The Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology (Walsh), and Wellness for Life: The Personal Dynamics of Living Well (Gentile & Gentile). Jeana's first full text entitled Therapist's Guide to Positive Psychological Interventions will be published by Elsevier Academic Press in 2009. In addition to teaching and scholarly work, Dr. Magyar-Moe, who is also a licensed psychologist in the state of Wisconsin, conducts psychological assessments and provides counseling and therapy to community clients, serves as a business consultant, and is a sport psychologist for athletes and a