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Counselor Education Prof Named 'Regents' Professor'

Nov. 17, 2014
SHSU Media Contact: Romney Thomas

 

Sam Houston State University Distinguished Professor of Counselor Education Richard E. Watts has been honored this year with the Regents’ Professor Award.

Each year, the Texas State University System Board of Regents honors professors whose performance and contributions to the educational community have been exemplary. Recipients of the Regents’ Professor Award maintain this title for the duration of their service within the university system, receive a monetary award and a commemorative medallion.

“I am both honored and humbled by being named a TSUS Regents’ Professor, and I am particularly pleased to be a Regents’ Professor from Sam Houston State University,” Watts said. “I received my undergraduate degree from SHSU (December 1980), and as both a SHSU alumnus and a faculty member, I am very proud of my university.

“I am grateful for the education I received here and grateful for the opportunities that returning to SHSU have afforded me, both personally and professionally.”

Watts’s 25-year career in counseling has been filled with accolades and recognitions.

During his tenure at SHSU, he has been named a Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology, North American Society for Adlerian Psychology; received the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Robert O. Stripling Excellence in Standards Award; the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling’s “Meritorious Service Award;” the American Counseling Association’s “Fellow Award” and their David K. Brooks, Jr. Distinguished Mentor Award; the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s’ “Outstanding Counselor Educator Award;” and the Texas Counseling Association’s “Outstanding Writing Award” and “Presidential Award.”

He also received the 2012 University Research Award from SHSU and the 2008 Outstanding Researcher Award from the College of Education at SHSU.

Watts’s accomplishments have allowed him to share his knowledge of counseling and Adlerian Psychology worldwide, through his over 130 scholarly publications that include 87 peer-reviewed journal articles, 27 book chapters, and six books, and his invited lectures and workshops have taken him abroad to such countries as England, Lithuania, Romania, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and Turkey.

Adlerian Psychology, originally developed by Alfred Adler, is a comprehensive theory of human behavior that has had broad impact on the fields of education, social sciences, family life, psychology, and psychotherapy. Adlerian psychology stresses the need to understand individuals within their social context, according to the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology website, which says the group is dedicated to fostering and promoting the research, knowledge, training, and application of Adlerian Psychology, maintaining its principles and encouraging its growth.

Watts served as president of this society from 2012-2014 and is currently immediate past-president.

Watts has also shown a great dedication to SHSU as a school. He has taught in the College of Education’s educational leadership and counseling department and has served as director of the doctoral program in counselor education since 2005.

He directed the effort to obtain Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs accreditation for the doctoral program in counselor education and was the primary author of the council’s doctoral program self-study. The program received accreditation, without conditions or stipulations, in January 2010.

To qualify for the Regents' Professor Award, faculty members must hold the rank of professor for a period of at least five years; demonstrate a record of distinguished teaching along with accomplishments in research and other scholarly activities; demonstrate an outstanding record of service at the local, state and national levels; and demonstrate a record of commitment to the college or university.

 

 

 

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