Craig N. Shealy, Ph.D., Task Force Co-Chair (Level IV)

Craig N. Shealy, Ph.D., is Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University and Executive Director of the International Beliefs and Values Institute (IBAVI).  Dr. Shealy works with the IBAVI’s Executive and Advisory Boards to lead and coordinate a wide range of scholarly, educational, and service projects, activities, and partnerships with individuals and organizations in the United States and internationally (www.ibavi.org).

Dr. Shealy is the author of Making Sense of Beliefs and Values: A World of Views – a proposal for a documentary series which examines the nature, origins, and implications of beliefs and values both historically and currently – and has served as Senior Advisor to MacNeil/Lehrer Productions on the development of this project.  He also is founding Editor-in-Chief of Beliefs and Values: Understanding the Global Implications of Human Nature, an international and interdisciplinary journal with Springer Publishing, which features refereed articles by a wide range of contributors from around the world (www.springerpub.com/bv).

Dr. Shealy’s research on the etiology, maintenance, and transformation of beliefs and values – explicated through Equilintegration Theory, the EI Self, and Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI) – has been featured in a variety of publications and scholarly forums in the United States and internationally including Making Sense of Beliefs and Values (forthcoming, Springer Publishing) as well as invited presentations at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Bombay, India, Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University, in Melbourne, Australia, and Centre for the Sociology of Culture at Kazan State University, Russia. The BEVI also was selected as the quantitative measure for two grants through the U.S. Department of Education (total award, $582,784) as well as the Forum BEVI Project, which assesses the processes and outcomes of international learning through a consortium of universities, colleges, and study abroad providers in the United States (www.thebevi.com/). 

Dr. Shealy has chaired a number of national symposia and conferences, including the Consensus Conference on Combined and Integrated Doctoral Training in Professional Psychology, which culminated in two special issues of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in 2004 and an Essential Sciences Indicator “hot paper.” He is the founding chair of the Consortium of Combined-Integrated (C-I) Doctoral Programs in Psychology and former training director of the APA-Accredited C-I doctoral program at James Madison University. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Shealy received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Auburn University’s APA Accredited program in 1992.  Dr. Shealy is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychotherapy, a Madison Scholar at James Madison University, a Nehru Chair at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and a National Register Legacy of Excellence Psychologist.  

Selected Publications:

Shealy, C. N. (in press).  Making sense of beliefs and values.  New York: Springer Publishing. 

Shealy, C.N. (2010).  Editorial:  “The moon had forgotten us,” and other reflections on beliefs, values, and human nature.  Beliefs and Values, 2(1), 3-7. 

 Shealy, C.N. (2010).  Women’s rights are human rights: An interview with Pinar Ikkaracan. Beliefs and Values, 2(1), 8-15. 

Shealy, C. N. (2009).  Editorial:  The value of allocating intellectual capital.  Beliefs and Values, 1(2), 131-134.

Shealy, C. N. (2009).  An interview with Education for Sustainable Development “Young Voices”: Beliefs and values from the next generation of ESD leaders. Beliefs and Values, 1(2), 135-141. 

Shealy, C. N.  (2009). Editorial:  Beliefs and values: Understanding the global implications of human nature.  Beliefs and Values, 1(1), 3-5.    

Shealy, C.N. (2009).  An interview with Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne: Founder and president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.  Beliefs and Values, 1(1), 6-10. 

Shealy, C.N. (2009) (Rapporteur).  Media as partners for education for sustainable development. Bonn, German: UNESCO. 

Shealy, C. N. & Bhuyan, D. (2009). The value of value based education.  In M. Mukhopadhyay (Ed.), Quality school education for all (pp. 94-113). New Delhi, India: Education Technology and Management Academy. 

Shealy, C. N. (2007).  Giving away a world of psychology.  Psychology International,18(4), 6-8.

Shealy, C. N. (2006).  The Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI):  Overview,implications, and guidelines.  Test manual.  Harrisonburg, VA: Author.

Shealy, C. N. (2005).  Justifying the Justification Hypothesis: Scientific-Humanism, Equilintegration (EI) Theory, and the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI).  [Special Series].  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 81-106.

Shealy, C. N. (2004).  A model and method for “making” a C-I psychologist: Equilintegration (EI) Theory and the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI).  [Special Series].  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(10), 1065-1090.

Shealy, C. N. (2004).  The Consensus Conference and combined-integrated (C-I) model of doctoral training in professional psychology.  Overview of Part I:  Nature  and scope of the C-I Model. [Special Series].  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(9), 889-892 

Shealy, C. N. (2004).  The Consensus Conference and combined-integrated (C-I) model of doctoral training in professional psychology.  Overview of Part II:  Broader  implications and potential applications of the C-I model.   [Special Series].  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(10), 991-994. 

Shealy, C. N., Cobb, H. C., Crowley, S. L., Nelson, P. D., & Peterson, G. W. (2004).  Back to our future?  The Consensus Conference and combined-integrated (C-I) model of doctoral training in professional psychology.  [Special Series].  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(9), 893-909. 

Shealy, C. N., Cobb, H. C., Crowley, S. L., Nelson, P. D., & Peterson, G. W. (2004).   Beyond consensus:  A summary of the special series and future of the C-I model. [Special Series].  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(10), 1109-1125. 

Shealy, C. N.  (1996).  To be and not to be, to know and to do?  That is the question (and the therapeutic parent model has an answer).  In Symposium: Shealy’s therapeutic parent model—Responses from the field.  Child & Youth Care Forum, 25(5), 277-348.

Shealy, C. N.  (1996).  The “therapeutic parent”:  A model for the child and youth care profession [Special feature].  Child & Youth Care Forum, 25(4), 211-271.

Shealy, C. N.  (1995).  From Boys Town to Oliver Twist.  Separating fact from fiction in welfare reform and out-of-home placement of children and youth.  American Psychologist, 50 (8), 565-580.