Kathryn Dardeck
Adjunct Faculty in Boston, MA, US
A licensed psychologist with over three decades of experience in clinical practice and academia, Kathryn “Kathy” Dardeck, EdD, currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at William James College (the former Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology) in Massachusetts. In this capacity, she teaches introductory courses in family therapy and family systems. Prior to this, Dr. Kathryn Dardeck served for eight years as a full time, Core Clinical Psychology Doctoral Faculty in the Walden University College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Before that (and from where the Clinical Psychology Program recruited her), she was an adjunct faculty in the Graduate School of Psychology's Counseling Psychology Program at Walden University for six years. She also taught courses in trauma and community crisis response as an adjunct faculty for three years at Lesley University's Graduate School of Psychology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Early in her teaching career, she was an adjunct faculty teaching psychology in the clinical nursing program at Greenfield Community College.
One of Dr. Dardeck's areas of great interest, training and specialization over her decades of practice is the role of disaster mental health and psychology in mitigating traumatic stress subsequent to both natural and man-made disasters, including terrorism. Dr. Dardeck has provided leadership and services in the area of disaster response for over 25 years at both the state and national level. Through the Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA), she provided training to licensed psychologists in disaster mental health response, including psychological first aid. Dr. Dardeck is the former state chairperson and co-chairperson of the MPA Disaster Response Network. In these leadership capacities, she developed and led many professional conferences and trainings on trauma and disaster mental health response.
Volunteering for many years with the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services as a trained responder to critical incident events, Dr. Dardeck was deployed by the International Association of Fire Fighters to support the firefighters working on the rubble at Ground Zero, and to provide requested consultation to the Employee Assistance Program of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) following 9/11.