I'm an associate professor in the Counseling and Counselor Education Program on the IUPUI campus.  I joined the faculty in 1987.

My professional interests include the following:  (1) assessment and diagnostic practice, including mental status examination techniques and pscyhoeducational testing;  (2) techniques and processes of small group counseling and classroom guidance, (3) the study of academic advising and class scheduling procedures at the high school level, and (4) gerontological assessment and counseling.

Up here in the city, I teach the professional orientation and ethics (G502), group counseling (G532), counseling assessment, (G505) and masters level counseling proseminar (G598) courses.  I also teach various specialty courses throughout the year, including an on-line class Managing Anger:  A Training Approach in the 2008 Summer in the City program.

I'm Appalachian, with direct linage in Kentucky and West Virginia.  I enjoy playing bluegrass music and, like most people who love bluegrass, my heroes are the Stanley Brothers.  I live two miles from the Bill Monroe Memorial Park in Bean Blossom with my wife, Beth and two of my three children:  Melissa, 18 and Chuck, 14.  My eldest, Paul, will return from his third tour with the Army in Iraq in the summer of 2008.

You can reach me most easily by email (flip@iupui.edu) or alternate office telephone (765.318.1225).