Background
Kovach, Joseph William Son of William Charles and Florence (Miotka) Kovach.
educator psychologist management consultant
Kovach, Joseph William Son of William Charles and Florence (Miotka) Kovach.
Bachelor in Speech, St. Joseph College, Whiting, Indiana, 1969. Master of Arts in Psychology, Roosevelt University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1981.
Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, Chicago School Professional Psychology, 1986.
Assistant corporation merchandising manager Kroch's & Brentano's, Chicago, 1965—1970. Regional operations manager Interstate Department Stores, Inc., Highland, Indiana, 1971—1973. Professor, chair psychology, chair department natural and social science general education Calumet College St. Joseph, Whiting, since 1984.
Director Educational Research Exchange, Calumet City, Illinois, since 1988. President Joseph W. Kovach and Associates, Ltd., since 1969. Director Buzan Centre Ltd.
Chicago, 1992—2005
Senior consultant Calumet City Youth Service Bureau, 1973-1975. Supervisor Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, 1980-1983, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 1973-1983, research associate, 1979-1981. Pre-doctoral intern Chicago Read Mental Health Center, 1983-1984, assistant program director, 1988-1989.
School psychologist intern School District 163, Park Forest, Illinois, 1986. Graduate assistant Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1970-1971. Research associate Northwestern University Medical School, 1974-1976, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, 1976-1978.
Adjunct faculty Thornton Community College (now South Suburban College), South Holland, Illinois, 1976, 97-98, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, 1976-1989. Presenter International Conference of The Role of Social Science in the Development of Education, Business and Government Entering the 21st Century, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1998, 24th International Congress on Arts and Communications, Oxford, England. Co-organizer United States of America Memory Championships.
Organizer Midwest Memory Championships. Chief psychologist establishing nonmil. support services for military and families, United States 8th Army, Korea, 2001. Oxford Round Table: Women's Rights, Lincoln College, Oxford University, England, 2004.
Member American Psychological Association, Midwest Psychological Association, Illinois School Psychologists Association, International Conference Police Chaplains.