Richard Balkin

Richard Balkin is a p rofessor and Doctoral Program Coordinator at the University of Louisville. He is the editor of the Journal of Counseling & Development, the flagship journal for the American Counseling Association, and is past president of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. His primary research interests include counseling outcomes, research methods, counseling adolescents, and cultural differences in counseling. He is a past recipient of the ACA Best Practices Research Award and the ACES Counseling Vision and Innovation Award. Rick has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with the majority being quantitative in nature. He is the author of The Theory and Practice of Assessment in Counseling (Pearson) and has authored book chapters on research methods, as well as several articles related to research methods.