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Kristin Schaefer

Professor

B.S., Cornell UniversityM.S.Ed., Fordham UniversityPh.D., Fordham University

Description

Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo teaches graduate applied and theoretical courses in the Department of Counseling and Development’s mental health and school counseling programs.  She facilitates outreach, program development and presentations in the areas of wellness, the mind/body connection, crisis and trauma treatment and positive psychology.  She collaborates in inter-departmental establishment of new programs and actively participates in the development of courses for the school and clinical mental health counseling programs delivered in mixed methods and face-to-face formats.  Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo received the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, LIU in 2007.  Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo’s current areas of original research focus on development of best treatment practices for those struggling with prolonged, complicated grief and factors influencing college student’s perceptions of physical dating violence on college campuses.  In addition, Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo is collaboratively seeking grant funding in support of enhancing counselor trainee’s implementation of primary prevention programs in school and mental health settings.  

Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo works with adolescents and adults working to overcome challenges such as anxiety, depression, social anxiety and trauma.  In her work, she integrates a collaborative, strengths-based, evidence-based approach, incorporating approaches including mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, brainspotting, EMDR, and trauma informed treatments.  Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo is committed to serving those in the larger community not only through her own service but through mentorship of adolescents and young adults in the larger community.  She serves as a member of Outreach for the Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer, providing women diagnosed with varying stages of breast cancer with local resources available to strengthen their physical and emotional well-being during the treatment and recovery phases.  She offers counseling services to women in treatment and recovery, and mentors young women in high school in relevant program development, marketing and implementation, and procurement of local small grants in support of program implementation.  

Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo serves on the Editorial Review Board for the American Counseling Association Journal of Counseling and Values.  As a member of the Research Committee, Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer, Dr. Schaefer-Schiumo reviews grant applications in support of research focusing on improving breast cancer treatments and, ultimately, a cure.  She participates in site and lab visits in support of grant selection and decision on awardees.  Applicants for research funding have previously included Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYU Langone, and Mount Sinai.  This committee awards research grants totaling several hundred thousand dollars annually.

Specialties

Clinical Mental Health Counseling - children, adolescents, and adults
Auditory Information Processing Disorders
Trauma Informed Interventions

Publications

Atwood, J., Schaefer-Schiumo, K., & Russo, A. (2023). The ultimate trauma: A murdered child counseling considerations.  The Family Journal: Therapy for Couples and Families, 3(3) 406-416.  
  

Atwood, J., Schaefer-Schiumo, K., & Russo, A. (2022). Family relationships and children’s sports: Therapeutic considerations.  The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families,31(1), 121-127.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10664807221124132 

Bordan, T., & Schaefer, K.  (2013). Life Lessons: Hold “Em Poker Style.  Tate Publishing: Mustang, OK.  

Schaefer-Schiumo, K., Atwood, J. (2009).  A psychological journey through breast cancer: The humanistic relationship.  The American Journal of Family Therapy.  

Schaefer-Schiumo, K., Colangelo, J., & Bordan, T.  (2009).  Hold ‘Em Poker: A metaphorical intervention for the prevention of problem gambling among adolescents and young adults.  The Alabama Counseling Association Journal.  

Schaefer-Schiumo, K., & Rodriguez, K.  (2008).  Meeting ethical and moral obligations in the evaluation of counseling students: Assessing academic, interpersonal, and psychological functioning.  The New York Journal for the Professional Counselor, 23(1), 59-70.  

Schaefer-Schiumo, K.  (2008).  A journey through breast cancer treatment: A search for meaning.  Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, 44(2), 31-45.  

Schaefer-Schiumo, K., & Kempton, T.  (2005).  Survey of exit methods employed by CACREP accredited school counseling programs.  The Alabama Counseling Association Journal, 31(2), 28-35.  

Schaefer-Schiumo, K., & Ginsberg, A.  (2003). Students’ knowledge of the warning signs of violence: Personal, family, school and social indicators.  Professional School Counseling, 7(1) 1-9.  

Schaefer, K., & Hennessy, J.  (2002).  Intrinsic and environmental vulnerabilities among executed capital offenders: The bio-psycho-social model of aggression revisited.  Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 34 (2), 22-40.

Ponterotto, J.G., Rao, V. P., Zweig, J., Rieger, B. P., Schaefer, K., Miehelakou, S., Armenia, C., & Goldstein, H.  (2001).  The relationship of acculturation and gender to attitudes toward counseling among Italian-and Greek-American college students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 7(4), 362-375. 

Schaefer, K., Hennessy, J., & Ponterotto., J.  (2000).  Race as a variable in imposing and carrying out the death penalty in the U.S.  In N. J. Pallone (Ed.).  Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, violent crime: The realities and the myths.  New York: Haworth.

Schaefer, K., Hennessy, J., & Ponterotto., J.  (1999).  Race as a variable in imposing and carrying out the death penalty in the U.S.  In. N. J. Pallone (Ed.).  Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, violent crime: The realities and the myths [Special issue].  Journal of 
Offender Rehabilitation, 30 (1-2), 35-45.

Schaefer, K.  (1993).  Organizational, sociological, and psychological perspectives on battered women. Excerpts published in Shaw, L.  (1993).  Writing ethnographic fieldnotes.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.