Craig N. Shealy, Ph.D.
Craig N. Shealy, Ph.D. is Professor of Graduate Psychology and Executive Director of the International Beliefs and Values Institute (IBAVI) at James Madison University in Virginia (http://www.jmu.edu/ibavi). Dr. Shealy works with the IBAVI’s Executive Board, Advisory Board, and Advisory Council to lead and coordinate a wide range of grant-based, scholarly, and educational, projects, activities, and partnerships with individuals and organizations in the United States and internationally.
Current projects include an international conference—Sustainable Visions and Values: Calling the Global Academy to Action—to be held at James Madison University, May 14 – 17, 2009 (http://www.jmu.edu/ibavi/svvconference.pdf). This conference will bring together international participants from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences in order to 1) review the “visions and values” of recent and selected international conferences, 2) synthesize the findings of such conferences across a series of target goals and objectives, and 3) translate such findings into interdisciplinary programs of inquiry and policy development that are sustainable and relevant to the academy, policy makers, leaders from a wide range of relevant areas (e.g., non-governmental organizations, education, religion, business, media), and the public at large.
Selected aspects of the conference will also be filmed for Making Sense of Beliefs and Values: A World of Views, a video series produced by MacNeil Lehrer Productions (http://www.macneil-lehrer.com/about.html), regarding the nature, origins, and implications of beliefs and values—both historically and currently. In advance of the SVV conference, participants will also receive the inaugural copy of Beliefs and Values: Understanding the Global Implications of Human Nature, a new journal from Springer Publishing (http://www.springerpub.com), which will feature articles, interviews, and commentary by a wide range of distinguished contributors from around the world. Dr. Shealy serves as Editor-in-Chief of Beliefs and Values (for more information about these interrelated initiatives, see http://www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/general/ news/general9816.shtml).
Dr. Shealy’s research on the etiology, maintenance, and transformation of beliefs and values—explicated through Equilintegration Theory, the EI Self, and Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI)—has been featured in a variety of publications and scholarly forums in the United States and internationally, including Making Sense of Beliefs and Values (forthcoming, Springer Publishing) as well as invited presentations at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Bombay, India, Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University, in Melbourne, Australia, and Centre for the Sociology of Culture at Kazan State University, Russia. The BEVI was also selected as the quantitative measure for two grants through the U.S. Department of Education (total award, $582,784) as well as the Forum BEVI Project, which assesses the processes and outcomes of international learning through a consortium of ten leading international education universities, colleges, and study abroad providers in the United States (http://www.forumea.org/research-bevi.htm).
In addition to the May, 2009 Sustainable Visions and Values conference, Dr. Shealy has chaired several other national symposia and conferences, including the Consensus Conference on Combined and Integrated Doctoral Training in Professional Psychology, which culminated in two special issues of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in 2004 and an Essential Sciences Indicator “hot paper” (http://esi-topics.com/nhp/2005/may-05-CraigShealy.html). He is the founding chair of the Consortium of Combined-Integrated (C-I) Doctoral Programs in Psychology and former training director of the APA-Accredited C-I doctoral program at James Madison University. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Shealy received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Auburn University in 1992.
Dr. Shealy is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychotherapy (http://www.divisionofpsychotherapy.org/WallofHonors.php), a Madison Scholar (http://www.jmu.edu/acadaffairs/madisonsch.shtml) at James Madison University, and a National Register Legacy of Excellence Psychologist (http://www.nationalregister.org/ legacy.htm).
