Shawn Spurgeon
College of Social and Behavioral Health
School of Counseling
Degree Program
M.S. Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
Dr. Shawn Spurgeon is licensed in the states of North Carolina and Tennessee to practice as a professional counselor (LPC). He completed his education with a Doctorate of Philosophy in Counseling and Counselor Education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and taught at two separate universities before taking a position as a faculty member in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2006. Dr. Spurgeon has taught at three separate CACREP-accredited programs and mainly focuses on Ethics, Assessment, and Psychopathology.
Courses Taught
COUN 6360 - Assessment in Counseling
COUN 6100 - Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
COUN 6730 - Counseling Addictive Disorders
Education
PhD, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Greensboro, NC United States
Awards / Honors
Alumni Excellence Award, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2017
Counselor Educator Advocacy Award, American Counseling Association, 2018
Susan Hammonds-White Leadership Award, Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, 2015
Vivian L. Haun Excellence in Service Award, Project GRAD, 2017
Publications
Spurgeon, S. L. (2016). AARC standards for multicultural research. . Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation.
Spurgeon, S. L. (2014). Challenges in educating students with highly disruptive behavior: Report from a large urban, high poverty elementary school. . Journal of At-Risk Issues.
Spurgeon, S. L. (2017). Evaluating the unintended consequences of assessment practices: Construct irrelevance and construct underrepresentation. . Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development.
Spurgeon, S. L. (2016). New concepts in the 2014 ACA code of ethics. . Journal of Counseling and Development.
Spurgeon, S. L. (2013). The human factor: Student reactions to the integration of personal dispositions into two counseling programs. . Journal of Humanistic Counseling and Education.
Presentations
Spurgeon, S. L. (2017). Assessment in Counselor Education: The use of Dispositions as a Gatekeeping tool. .
Spurgeon, S. L. (2013). Current trends in ethics: A discussion with the ACA Ethics Committee. .
Spurgeon, S. L. (2015). Dinner with a side of social justice: Navigating the boundaries of professional advocacy responsibilities in social relationships. .
Spurgeon, S. L. (2015). Teaching assessment across the curriculum: Challenges and opportunities. .
Spurgeon, S. L. (2016). Counselors and counselor educators responding to media requests. .
Spurgeon, S. L. (2013). Wellness, spirituality, and personal dispositions of practicing counselors: Implications for practice. .