Background
Samuel Gladding was born on October 5, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He is the son of Russell Burton and Gertrude (Templeman) Gladding.
Samuel Gladding was born on October 5, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He is the son of Russell Burton and Gertrude (Templeman) Gladding.
Samuel holds a Bachelor of Arts (1967) from Wake Forest University, a Master of Arts (1970) from Yale University. In 1977 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Samuel Gladding began his career as a psychologist at Rockingham County Mental Health Center, Wentworth, North Carolina from 1971 to 1976. He then held a position as an instructor of psychology at Rockingham Community College, Wentworth from 1976 to 1981.
In 1981 Samuel was an assistant professor at Fairfield University and from 1984 to 1990 he served as an associate professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
He joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1990 as an assistant to then-President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. and later served as the University's associate provost before being named chair of the new counseling department in 1996. Since then, he has taught undergraduate classes on the Creative Arts and Counseling and graduate courses on family counseling.
Samuel's books including The Counseling Dictionary (2001), Becoming a Counselor: The Light, the Bright, and the Serious(2002), Family Therapy: History, Theory, & Process (2002), Group Work: A Counseling Specialty (2003), Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession (2004), Counseling Theories: Essential Concepts and Applications (2005), Counseling as an Art: The Creative Arts in Counseling (2005).
He is the former editor of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work.
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2002Samuel is a member of the Methodist church.
Gladding is a Democrat.
Gladding is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), and Chi Sigma Iota (international counseling honor society).
Samuel married Claire Tillson on May 24, 1986. The couple has three children: Benjamin, Nathaniel, and Timothy.
