Fred Hanna, Ph.D.
Full Professor and Core Faculty
Counselor Education and Supervision
Chicago
When you stop learning your start dying
OVERVIEW
Dr. Hanna has achieved the rank of full professor at three universities, including Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise include advanced counseling and therapy techniques, integrative approaches to treatment, and strategies for achieving therapeutic change with difficult clients. He is the author of a book published by APA Press on facilitating change with challenging clients and has developed a comprehensive model of oppression, liberation, and the cognitive therapy of oppression.
Dr. Hanna’s scholarly interests also encompass phenomenology, Asian theories and techniques, and therapies derived from these approaches, as well as interventions for working with difficult and defiant adolescents. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and professional publications, and has delivered over 500 presentations, seminars, workshops, and trainings worldwide. He is currently working on an additional book.
In recognition of his contributions to teaching and scholarship, Dr. Hanna has received two teaching awards, a Faculty of the Year award, and the Humanistic Impact Award. He has also developed several post-master’s certificate programs and fostered collaborative partnerships with schools and community agencies.
MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS
- American Counseling Association (ACA).
- American Psychological Association (APA).
Publications + Presentations
Publications
Therapeutic change with difficult clients: Precursors and techniques in the CHANGES model. 2nd Edition.
Techniques in the Freedom-from Oppression Model: An Integrative Existential-Cognitive Therapy.
Epistemological issues in counselor preparation: An examination of constructivist and phenomenological assumptions.
Using the precursors model of change to facilitate engagement practices in family counseling.
Who owns psychopathology? The DSM, its flaws, its future, and the professional counselor.
Recovering the original phenomenological research method: An exploration of Husserl, Yoga, Buddhism, and new frontiers in humanistic counseling.
New horizons in counselor pedagogy: The intersection of constructivist concepts and phenomenological awareness.
Multicultural counseling beyond the relationship: Expanding the repertoire with techniques.
Counseling & psychotherapy with difficult clients/family members: An interview with Fred Hanna.
The refined and further defined freedom paradigm: A response to Ottens and MacCluskie.
Freedom: Toward an integration of the counseling profession.
Peculiar and queer: Spiritual and emotional salvation for the LGBTQ Mormon.
Asian shades of spirituality: Implications for multicultural counseling.
Incarcerated and court-involved adolescents: Counseling an at-risk population.
Intolerance and psychopathology: Toward a general diagnosis for racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Women and alcoholism: A biopsychosocial perspective and treatment approaches.
Coincidence, happenstance, serendipity, fate, or the hand of God: Case studies in synchronicity.
The power of perception: Toward a model of cultural oppression and liberation.
Disruptive behavior disorders in children and adolescents: How do girls differ from boys?
Fifty strategies for counseling defiant and aggressive adolescents: Reaching, accepting, and relating.
Techniques for psychotherapy with defiant, aggressive adolescents.
Toward a new paradigm for multicultural counseling.
Cognitive and existential therapies: Toward an integration.
Meeting the needs of women in counselling: Implications of a review of the literature.
Precursors of change: Pivotal points of involvement and resistance in psychotherapy.
Community feeling, empathy, and intersubjectivity: A phenomenological framework.
The role of wisdom in psychotherapy.
Husserl on the teachings of the Buddha.
Effects of early religious training: Implications for counseling and development.
The transpersonal consequences of Husserl’s phenomenological method.
Rigorous intuition: Consciousness, being, and the phenomenological method.
Processing mental objects directly: A therapeutic application of phenomenology.
When psychotherapy works: Pinpointing an element of change.
Opening the pod: A therapeutic application of Husserl’s phenomenology.
Presentations
Lying, blaming, anger, manipulation, explosive outbursts, drug dependence & violent impulses: Techniques for change.
a nationwide audience.
Lying, blaming, anger, manipulation, explosive outbursts, drug dependence & violent impulses: Techniques for change.
CE Learning Systems nationwide.
A new paradigm for psychotherapy: Freedom and fulfillment through internal control.
Events organization and delivered to a nationwide audience.
Countertransference, mindfulness, and the effective therapist.
for a nationwide audience.
The CHANGES model of change: An advanced model and techniques for change with difficult clients.
a nationwide audience.
Decolonization and liberation.
Counseling Association, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Association (DEIA) meeting.
Innovative techniques for dissolving resistance: The precursors model of change.
Conference, held by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
Advanced mindfulness and meditation techniques.
Make an Impact Conference, held by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
The prerequisites of change: Advanced techniques for positive change with difficult clients.
held by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
Countertransference, Mindfulness, and the Effective Therapist.
by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
Advanced mindfulness and meditation techniques.
Make an Impact Conference held by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
Moving Past the Impasse: Reversing Resistance and Dissolving Defiance.
Conference held by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
From oppression to liberation: Applying the cognitive therapy of oppression and other strategies.
held by CE Learning Systems for a nationwide audience.
Beyond Motivational Interviewing and CBT: Advanced Addictions Techniques for Teens.
Virtual Conference to a nationwide audience. Conducted via Zoom.
From resistance to resilience: Converting avoidance into alliance and compliance.
Services Spring Virtual Symposium. Conducted via Zoom.