Barbara S. Alexander, Social Work Consultant and Clinical Advisory Board for ContinuedLearning

Barbara Alexander is the Founder and Program Director of ON GOOD AUTHORITY, Inc. Her duties there include development, management, production, promotion, and administration of training programs for use in the continuing education of mental health professionals nationally.

She has also maintained her own private practice since 1973. Her practice consists of evaluation and psychotherapy of children and adults, including individual and marital therapy. She is a consultant to private child welfare agencies, performs tutoring programs, and is involved in the State of Illinois Status Offenders Project. In addition, she performs custody evaluations, vocational assessments for Federal Disability Determination and forensic psychosocial evaluations and research.

Licenses and Certifications

State of Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker (#149-000439).

American Board of Examiners: Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (#000177).

National Association of Social Workers, Academy of Certified Social Workers.

Scott C. Strader, Ph. D., Licensed Psychologist, State of Florida

Dr. Strader serves on the advisory committee that reviews course evaluations and course needs assessments in order to direct future planning.  His real life experience with clinical management, university level instruction and MIS and outcome consulting help drive quality and course products.

Areas of Expertise

Licensed as psychologist in Florida since 1995 (#PY5328)

Over fifteen years experience in mental health and substance abuse treatment with a wide variety of client populations

Proven leadership skills as a manager of family-centered services agency

Knowledge of accreditation standards and process

Clinical and administrative managed care experience

Supervision and training of clinicians

Proficiency in many computer software packages

A. Sheree Graves, Director of ContinuedLearning, a Division of Netsmart

Published in several industry magazines, Sheree has authored best-practice briefs on the topics of technology implementation, computer-based training, and staff competency development. She is currently working with the ContinuedLearning Training User Group (CTUG) to develop a standard library of core competencies that an organization can use as a foundation for organization-wide competency management in the areas of accreditation, regulatory and market achievement. This library will comprise multiple modalities and is the first of its kind nationally.

Sheree Graves serves on several industry advisory boards and committees including a recent work-group for the Center for Mental Health Services national data standards DS2K+. She is also a member of ASTD, the national training association, and SATVA, the national technology association for behavioral health care. In the past several years, she has been a presenter at numerous state and national association meetings and conferences, including Mental Health Corporations of America, Virginia Providers Association, Florida Council for Mental Health, Pennsylvania Providers Association, Texas MH/MR Council, Michigan Association for Community Mental Health Boards, and the CMHC systems National User Group.

Genie Skypek, Ph.D.

Dr. Skypek, is a licensed clinical psychologist. She also serves as a surveyor for the Joint Commission. Dr. Skypek brings clinical experience as well as experience in national consulting with behavioral organizations. This consultation includes JCAHO readiness, quality improvement and clinical technology implementation. 

Areas of Expertise

Performance/quality improvement in mental health, accreditation preparation and evaluation

Outcome evaluation, “real-time”

Behavioral healthcare automated clinical records

Assessment and treatment planning

Automated data collection technology, user-friendly data collection, staff-automation interface

Communication skills, problem-solving

Maria Teresa Aranda, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist (#PY 5983)

Clinical Experience

Pinellas County School District
• Bilingual evaluations and multicultural consultation services for all Pinellas County Schools
• Provide individual and group counseling services to Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) children and their families
• Provide supervision to psychological residents and school psychology interns
• Part itinerant psychologist for two elementary schools

Pediatric Private Practice, Tampa Bay Area
• Provide evaluations for learning disabilities, gifted and talented and emotional behavioral difficulties
• Provide individual and family therapy for children and their families

Supervisory Experience
• Provide individual supervision to Florida Psychological Residents
• Provide group supervision to doctoral school psychology students and Psy.D. interns
• Teaching Assistant, Clinical Assessment II – Intellectual Assessment of first year graduate students administering intellectual assessment batteries to clinical child referrals