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Derek Seward
Assistant Professor
Counseling and Human Services
E-mail: dxseward@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 257 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-2266
Seward comes to the School of Education from the University of Rochester, where he taught group counseling and advocacy/systems consultation courses and advised master’s degree students in counseling and human development. He also has worked as a group facilitator for Syracuse University on National Institutes of Health-funded projects and for the Health Improvement Project – Rochester on HIV prevention.
Seward earned a B.A. degree in psychology from the University of Rochester, ED.M. and M.A degrees in psychological counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. degree in counselor education and supervision from the University of Rochester. Steward’s dissertation focused on understanding racial minority students in multicultural counselor training courses. His research interests include diversity training, racial minority student cultural development and HIV/STD prevention.