Faculty

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - APA Accredited Counseling Psychology Program
University of Massachusetts: Amherst. Massachusetts. USA

CERTIFICATE OF ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDY (CAGS) - Counseling/Education
University of Massachusetts: Amherst, Massachusetts. USA

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT - Family Psychotherapy
Bristol Hospital Family Therapy Training Institute: Bristol, Connecticut. USA

MASTERS OF ARTS - Rehabilitation Counseling/ Education
University of Connecticut: Storrs, Connecticut. USA

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Human Development Summa Cum Laude
University of Massachusetts: Amherst. Massachusetts. USA

CONNECTICUT LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST
CONNECTICUT LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST APPROVED SUPERVISOR - American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy

BOOK

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., Ivey, A. E., Kunkler-Peck, K. P., and Grady, L T. (2005) Community genograms: Using individual, family and cultural narratives with clients. New York: Teacher's College Press, Columbia University.

ARTICLES

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2000). Relational Diagnosis: A constructive-developmental perspective for assessment and treatment [Special Edition: New Developments in Relational Therapy. M. Goldfried (Ed.) and J. Magnavita (Guest Ed.)]. Journal of Clinical Psychology/ In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice, 56, 1017-1036.

Anderson, S. A., Cochran. M. C., and Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2000). Family therapy trainees: Evaluations of their best and worst supervisory experiences. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 26, 79-91.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S A. (1998). Toward a reconstructed view of counselor supervision. Invited Commentary on Special Section: Reconstructing Counselor Education: Supervision, Teaching, and Clinical Training Revisited. T. Sexton (Section Coordinator). Counselor Education and Supervision, 38, 43-51.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., Ivey, A. E., and Locke, D. C. (1997). Continuing the post-modern dialogue: Enhancing and contextualizing multiple voices. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 19, 233-255.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (1996). Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy for partner and family treatment. Directions In Clinical and Counseling Psychology: National Program of Continuing Education and Certification Maintenance (pre-approved APA. NBCC CEU Lesson Plans). New York: The Hatherleigh Company, Ltd. 6, 3-1 to 3-18.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., Gonçalves, D. F, and Ivey, A. E. (1996). From cultural to existential diversity: The impossibility of an integrative psychotherapy within a traditional framework. Applied and Preventative Psychology: Current Scientific Perspectives. 5, 235-248.

Anderson. S. A., Rigazio-DiGilio S. A., and Kunkler, K. P. (1995). Training and supervision in marriage and family therapy: Current issues and future directions. Family Relations: Journal of Applied Family and Child Studies, 44, 489-500.
Rigazio-DiGilio. S. A., and Ivey. A. E. (1995). Individual and family issues in intercultural counselling and therapy, A culturally-centered perspective. Canadian Journal of Counseling, 29. 244-261.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (1994). A co-constructive-developmental approach to ecosystemic treatment. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 16, 43-74.
Rigazio-DiGilio. S. A., and Anderson. S. A. (1994). A Cognitive-Developmental Model for marital and family therapy supervision. The Clinical Supervisor, 11. 93-118.

Rigazio-DiGilio. S. A., and Ivey. A. E. (1993). Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy, An Integrative framework. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 1, 208-219.

CHAPTERS

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., and Rohner, R. P. (in press). Using PARTheory Questionnaires in Clinical Practice. Chapter for Conference Proceedings from the First International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, Turkish Psychological Association.

Ivey, E., Ivey, M. B., Myers, J. E., Sweeney, T.J., & Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2007). Developmental counseling and therapy. In Gregoire, J. & Jungers, C. (Eds.), Counselor’s companion: Handbook for professional helpers. Mahwah:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rigazio-DiGilio. S. A. (2007). Family counseling and therapy: Multicultural and theoretical foundations and issues of practice (pp. 429-468). Chapter in A. Ivey, M. D’Andrea, M. Ivey, and L. Simek-Morgan, Theories of Counseling and psychotherapy: A multicultural perspective, Sixth edition. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S., and McDowell, T. (2007) Systemic family therapy theories. Chapter in M. Spiegler and J. Frew (Eds.) Counseling and Psychotherapy for a World of Diversity: Theory and Practice. Lahaska Press/Houghton Mifflin.

INTERNATIONAL

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., and Rohner, R. P. (2007) Clinical applications of Parental acceptance-rejection theory questionnaires and microcounseling skills in relational therapy. Two invited Clinical Symposia for the 34th Annual Conference of the Indian Association Of Clinical Psychologists. Kolkata, India.
 
Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., and Mukhopadhyay, D. G. (2007). Chairpersons for scientific session on clinical case studies in Mental Health. 34th Annual Conference of the Indian Association Of Clinical Psychologists. Kolkata, India.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2007). Towards the Operationalization of Cultural and Contextual Competencies in Clinical Supervision: A Marriage and Family Therapy Model. Invited Plenary Session for the Third International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision. Sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the University of Buffalo. Amherst, New York.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2007). Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Supervision: Accessing and Extending Meaning and Options within the Supervisory Exchange. Invited workshop for the Third International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision. Sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the University of Buffalo. Amherst, New York. 

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., and Cramer-Benjamin, D. (2007). Adapting cultural and community genograms to supervision: Exploring culture and context. Part one of two Round Table Discussions for the Third International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision. Sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the University of Buffalo. Amherst, New York. 

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A., Rohner, R. P., and Servino, D. A. (2007). Clinical Application of PARTheory Measures in Relational Therapy. Two 90-minute symposia for the 65th International Council of Psychologists Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Fukuhara, M., Malikiosi-Loizos, M., Rigazio-DiGilio, S., Alina, S., and Leong, F. (2006) Clinical Symposium - Microcounseling and its application all through the world.  26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S.A. (Chair and presenter), Varan, A., Rising, D., Rohner, R. (2006) Clinical Practice Symposium: Applications of PARTheory to Clinical Practice.  Clinical Symposium for the First International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection.  Istanbul, Turkey.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S.A. (2006) Using PARTheory Questionnaires in Clinical Practice.  Post-Conference Workshop for the First International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection.  Istanbul, Turkey.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (1994). Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy: A therapeutic model and metatheoretical framework for working with partners and families. An invited and refereed paper presentation for the 1994 International Conference on Counseling and the Family, sponsored by The International Round Table for the Advancement of Counseling, The United Nations, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitat Munchen, and Deutschens Jugendinstitut Munchen, Munchen, Germany.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (1991). Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy. A refereed paper presentation for the Second Annual International Conference on Constructivism in Psychotherapy: Braga, Portugal.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2005) Community Genograms: Exploring culture and context in therapy. A refereed, three hour presentation for the 63rd Annual American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Conference: Kansa Coty. Missouri.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (2000). Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Supervision: Accessing and extending meaning and options within the supervisory triad. Invited pre-conference institute given at the Ninth Biennial Conference for the North American Personal Construct Network: State University of New York at New Paltz. NY. Approved for CE-credit by APA Division 32 - Humanistic Psychology.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (1999, 2000, 2001). AAMFT Supervisor-Designation Training Track. A required training track for MFTs working toward Supervisory Designation, offered at the 57th and 58th Annual American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Conferences: Chicago, Illinois and Denver, Colorado.

Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. (1999). Reconstructing psychological distress and disorder from a relational perspective. Paper presentation. Epting, J. (moderator), Efran, J. S., McNamee, S., Neimeyer, R. A., Raskin, J. D., and Rigazio-DiGilio, S. A. Self, disorder, and meaning: Postmodern perspectives in humanistic psychology. Symposium at the 1999 American Psychological Association Annual Convention (APA): Boston, Massachusetts.