William Snow

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About William Snow

William H. Snow, Ph.D. is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Counseling at Palo Alto University. He has over 40 years working in the fields of counseling, mental health, military behavioral medicine and higher education. During his academic career he has held all major academic leadership positions from Program Director, Department Chair and Vice-President for Academics. He founded three new undergraduate and graduate degree programs. His first major research was as Principal Investigator on a project, The Incidence of Mental Health Problems of Inmates in the Jail System funded by the National Institute of Corrections. After joining the Department of Social Work Research, Child Development and Mental Retardation Center at the University of Washington William Snow served on a variety of funded projects to include: statistician and research analyst for the Adolescent Smoking Prevention Project funded by the National Institute of Health; project manager, statistician and research analyst for the project Coping With Junior High School: A Skills Training Program (focused on stress, drugs and smoking prevention) funded by the William T. Grant Foundation; statistician and research analyst for the Family Stress Project funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. More recently William Snow has recently turned his focus on training the next generation of counselors and clinicians through exploring best practices in counselor education in both residential and online settings. These research studies include distance and residential learning pedagogy, educational cohort dynamics, methods to measure cohort organizational climates, and methods to optimize educational cohort group processes and functioning. Most recently served as Co-Director in receiving a SAMSHA grant for a project titled Addiction Education and Training Expansion at Palo Alto University. While working in academia Dr. Snow simultaneously completed a 34-year career in the Army as a Behavioral Science Officer culminating as Medical Commander and the rank of Colonel in the California Army National Guard where he ultimately supervised the physical and behavioral health assessment and health promotion of over National Guard Soldiers. Specialties: Online Education and Pedagogy, Organizational Leadership, Research, Statistics and Psychometrics