Mary J Heppner

Mary J. Heppner, PhD, is a full professor of counseling psychology at the University of Missouri. She is also an associate director of the Career Center on campus. Dr. Heppner graduated from the University of Minnesota-Morris with her bachelor's, the University of Nebraska Lincoln with her master's, and the University of Missouri-Columbia with her doctorate. She has written in the areas of women's career development and adult career transitions. She is coauthor of the texts Career Counseling:...See more

Mary J. Heppner, PhD, is a full professor of counseling psychology at the University of Missouri. She is also an associate director of the Career Center on campus. Dr. Heppner graduated from the University of Minnesota-Morris with her bachelor's, the University of Nebraska Lincoln with her master's, and the University of Missouri-Columbia with her doctorate. She has written in the areas of women's career development and adult career transitions. She is coauthor of the texts Career Counseling: Process, Issues, and Techniques (1998, 2003), Career Planning for the Twenty-First Century (2000), and A Guide to Successful Theses, Dissertations, and Publishing Research (2004) and is coeditor of and contributor to the Handbook of Career Counseling for Women (2006). She is author of the Career Transitions Inventory and coauthor of the Career Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale. Her most recent research has been in the area of examining which aspects of the process of career counseling lead to effective outcomes. In addition, she has a programmatic line of research on the prevention of sexual assault in middle school, high school, and college populations. She has been a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. She is a Fellow in the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has won the John Holland Award for Research in Career Development and the Early Scientist Practitioner Award, both from the Society of Counseling Psychology. She was also awarded the National Career Development Association Merit Award. On the University of Missouri campus she has won the William T. Kemper Award for Outstanding Teaching, the Robert S. Daniel Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the College of Education Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, and the Graduate School's Outstanding Mentor Award. She was also awarded the Provost's Committee on the Status of Women's First Annual Tribute to Mizzou Women Award for contributions and commitment to the University and to the women who work and study at the University of Missouri. See less