Lawrence B. Lennon, Ph.D. Professional Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Degree Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

All course work completed and comprehensive exams passed in clinical psychology in May 1973. Clinical internship consisted of: 690 hours of supervised testing of children in the elementary and high schools; 690 hours of supervised therapy with juvenile delinquents, convicted felons, and emotionally disturbed college students; and 384 hours of supervised therapy with adults, adolescents and children at a mental health clinic. Internship completed in November 1975. All internship hours were obtained at the schools, court and mental health clinic within Jasper County, Indiana.

Dissertation: “Covert Sensitization as a Treatment Method for Smoking Behavior.” Defense was successfully passed in June 1979.
Degree awarded in August 1979.

M.S. Degree

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
Major emphasis in Clinical Psychology. Degree awarded in 1970.
B.A. Degree Saint Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, Indiana.
Majored in philosophy with minors in psychology and sociology. Graduated in 1965.

Extra curricular activities:

Four years of football, wrestling, and track. Elected Vice-President of Sociology Club (member two years), Vice-President of the Monogram Club (member three years), and Chairman of the College Disciplinary Board (member two years). Elected to “Who’s Who in American College and Universities” and to the Sports Hall of Fame.

High School

Rex Mundi, Evansville, Indiana. Graduated 1961.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Clinical Director and Founder of Lennon & Associates, P.C.

In June 1985, I opened Lennon & Associates, P.C. L&A is an outpatient clinic specializing in bonding and attachment issues, adoption, and counseling for foster and adoptive parents. Additional services include: counseling for underachievers; individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults; family and marriage counseling; personality and intelligence testing; career counseling; sport psychology; forensic psychology; and custody evaluations.

Clinical Director and Founder of the Family Bonding and Attachment Center for Treatment and Research (FBAC)

In January 1995, six of my colleagues and I established the FBAC to provide an intensive family-oriented treatment program for children and adolescents with severe behavioral and emotional problems. The FBAC program is comparable to a partial hospitalization program and an acute inpatient program.

Clinical Director of Humana Hospital (The Women’s Hospital)-Indianapolis Child and Adolescent Program

From June 1991, until January 1, 1994, I was Clinical Director of Humana Hospital-Indianapolis, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Center. I developed an intensive inpatient program specializing in family bonding and attachment.

Director of Human Potential Associates

In June 1984, I created and directed Human Potential Associates within the Kennedy Adult and Child Guidance Clinic. HPA’s primary focus was to assist underachieving children and adolescents reach their potential. I left in June 1985, to open my own private practice.

Director of Institute for Motivational Development

In June 1982, I joined a national group of psychologists in private practice referred to as the Institute for Motivational Development (IMD). This group specializes in working with emotionally disturbed children and adolescents who are underachievers. After working as a clinical psychologist and senior staff member at the corporate office for six months, I became Director of the Salt Lake City office in March 1983. My duties included providing individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults. I supervised therapists and managed the Salt Lake City office and its satellite offices in Logan, Ogden, and Provo. In June 1984, I resigned to return my family to Indiana and to begin my private practice.

Clinical Psychologist & Manager of Child and Adolescent Services

In May 1980, I was hired to assist in the development of a specialized program, Child and Adolescent Services, at Four-County Comprehensive Mental Health Center in Logansport, Indiana. Duties included: Providing direct therapeutic treatment to children, adolescents and their parents; supervising and training child and adolescent therapists; chairing case conferences where diagnoses and treatment plans were developed; coordinating the child and adolescent services with other services within the mental health center and with community agencies; and administering psychological tests to children and adolescents. In June 1982, I resigned to join the Institute for Motivational Development (IMD).

College Professor

In September 1983, I was appointed assistant clinical professor at Utah State University where I taught graduate courses on a part-time basis. In August 1973, I was appointed assistant professor of psychology at Saint Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, Indiana. In 1977, I was granted tenure, and in 1978, I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. From 1975 to 1979, I was Chairman of the Psychology Department. Courses taught include: General Psychology, Human Growth and Development, Abnormal Psychology, Theories of Personality, Applied Psychology, Juvenile Delinquency, Psychology of the Deaf, Techniques of Psychotherapy, Industrial/Organization Psychology, Psychology of Sports, and Human Attachment. I initiated and supervised several clinical practica with the local probation department, welfare department, care center schools for handicapped children, mental health clinic and mental hospital.

In addition to serving on numerous committees, I served as Director of Guidance for one year, Acting Director of Placement for one semester, and Clinical Psychologist for six years.

In 1976, I was elected “Professor of the Year” by the student body.
From September 1972, to June 1973, I was employed as a part-time instructor of Psychology at Miami University, Middletown Campus, Middletown, Ohio. During this period, I was completing my Ph.D. program at Miami University.

From September 1968, to June 1972, I was employed as an instructor in Psychology at Western College in Oxford, Ohio. During the first three years I was employed full-time, and the last year I taught part-time while I went back to school for my Ph.D. From September 1970, to June 1971, I was Acting Chairman of the Psychology Department.

Chief Probation Officer

From September 1973, until June 1977, I served as Chief Probation Officer for Jasper County under the Honorable Michael S. Kanne, Judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court. My duties included writing pre-sentence reports for all convicted felons and supervising all adults and juveniles placed on probation. I developed an active state-awarded volunteer program for delinquents and pre-delinquents and a community-based youth service bureau made up of the local welfare department, probation department, mental health clinic and schools. During my tenure, I obtained and supervised several grants from the LEAA.

Psychologist

When I accepted a teaching position at Saint Joseph’s College in August 1973, I was also appointed clinical psychologist for the school and spent approximately ten hours per week seeing students for counseling and psychotherapy.

During the summer of 1972, I was employed full-time at Butler County Mental Health Clinic as a clinical psychologist. My duties centered primarily on conducting individual therapy and diagnostic interviews with adults and children.

While working on my Ph.D. at Miami University from September 1969, to June 1973, I worked part-time as a psychologist for the Psychology Clinic at the University. I was primarily involved in individual therapy with college students and occasionally with children from the community.

Prison Psychologist

During the summers of 1969, 1970 and 1971, I was employed full-time as a psychologist/social worker at Lebanon Correctional Institute in Lebanon, Ohio. My duties included giving intake and pre-parole interviews, writing case histories, conducting individual and group therapy and teaching psychology courses.

Child Care Worker

From August 1967, to August 1968, I was employed full-time as a childcare worker at Chicago State Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. My main responsibility was to coordinate the various programs (education, activities, speech and hearing, and volunteer groups) for the children’s ward. The ward consisted of 50 profoundly retarded and/or psychotic children. I also conducted group therapy sessions and individual play therapy for the higher functioning children.

Houseparent

From June 1966, to June 1967, my wife and I were houseparent at a home for children in Elgin, Illinois. We supervised and implemented treatment programs for nine emotionally disturbed boys, ages nine to eleven.

Research Assistant

From March 1966, to August 1967, I was a part-time research assistant for the Institute of Juvenile Research in Chicago, Illinois. I worked at a preschool for culturally deprived four and five year old black children. My duties included administering and scoring tests, collaborating in the design of therapeutic programs for some of the more emotionally disturbed children, library research and coding interview data.

Interpreter for the Deaf

From September 1966, to December 1967, I was employed part-time for the State of Illinois, Department of Rehabilitation, as a sign language interpreter for a deaf graduate student at DePaul University.

Camp Counselor

For the summer of 1964, I was a camp counselor at a camp counselor at a camp near Peoria, Illinois, which provided recreational activities weekly for groups of lower socio-economic class children, developmentally handicapped children and physically handicapped children. I was Program Director during the summer of 1965.

LICENSES

Health Service Provider in Psychology, State of Indiana
20010358

Licensed Clinical Psychologist, State Board of Psychology Ohio
4397

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association for Treatment and Training in Attachment of Children (ATTACh)

SELECTIVE PRESENTATIONS

I have averaged 10 major talks, seminars, or workshops a year on a variety of topics. I have given presentations throughout the State of Indiana but also in Utah, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Washington, D.C. For approximately six years I wrote a monthly column entitled “For the love of children…” for Indy’s Child, a locally published parenting magazine.

General titles of my presentation include:

• “Changing Anger to Love: Help for the Unbonded Child”
• “The Unbonded Child: Child Without A Conscience”
• “Learned Helplessness in Children”
• “Assessing and Motivating the Underachiever”
• “Attaining the Psychological Edge”
• “Psychological Autopsies of Two Teenage Suicides”

HOBBIES

Chess, golf, tennis, table tennis, jogging
Scrabble, reading, photography and writing.