title: Your Career in Psychology: Clinical and Counseling Psychology
author:  Tara L. Kuther 
description: Tara L. Kuther, Ph.D., studied developmental psychology at Fordham University. Dr. Kuther is Professor of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University, where she teaches courses in child, adolescent, and adult psychology. She is a Fellow of the Society for Teaching of Psychology, Division Two of the American Psychological Association, and is active in the Society for Research in Child Development and the Society for Research on Adolescence. Dr. Kuther is the author of over a dozen books in addition to THE PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR'S HANDBOOK.
zlib_text: THE GENERALIST’S CORNER
  Lessons in Teaching Hope: An Interview With C. R. Snyder
  Lorie Ritschel
  University of Kansas
  Lorie Ritschel received her undergraduate degrees in French and
  psychology from the University of Georgia in 1999. In 2002, she
  received her MA in clinical psychology from the University of Kan-
  sas, where she currently is pursuing a doctoral degree. Lorie is the
  clinic systems coordinator and a therapist at the University of Kan-
  sas Psychological Clinic. She also has taught undergraduate
  courses in abnormal psychology. Lorie’s research examines the
  roles of mindfulness and hope in psychotherapy.
  C. R. (Rick) Snyder received his PhD in clinical psychology
  from Vanderbilt University in 1971. His entire career has been at
  the Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
  where he was promoted to full professor in 1980. Director of the
  Kansas Clinical Program from 1974 to 2001, he became the
  Wright Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology in 2002.
  Editor 