ACA -CCPA 2016 Conference & Expo

James Payne
Assistant Professor
South University


Dr. Payne joined the South University, Savannah Campus, as a member of the core Clinical Mental Health Counseling Faculty. He has more than 30 years of experience in both community mental health and residential treatment. He was one of the co-founders of a residential treatment group that provided a wide range of residential treatment options for children and adolescents working through complex and challenging problems. He worked in a variety of roles in this program including clinical, management, and administration; he continued to serve on this company’s board until his return to school. He has two masters’ degree (one in general and experimental psychology and the other in clinical mental health counseling). His Ed.D. was received from Argosy University, Sarasota, FL Campus, a Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accredited counselor education and supervision program. His dissertation explored the ability of supervisors to predict supervisees rating of the supervisory working alliance. The working alliance has multiple applications in supervision, as well as in counseling. The results supported a similar finding of the working alliance in therapy/counseling; where therapists’ predictive ability was low. The results of this dissertation extended that supervisors had similar predictive abilities as therapists. In addition, the research found that with practice and feedback that supervisors’ could more accurately predict supervisees’ ratings. This was an important exploratory study since it found that change occurred with practice over time; this improved the supervisory experience for the supervisees.

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