Greetings from Dr. Juleen K. Buser

2010-2011 IAAOC President

I am honored and excited to begin my year as IAAOC president! In my time with IAAOC thus far, I have been impressed and inspired by our members, who evidence commitment to the organization and communicate their passion and experience regarding addictions and offender issues. I hope that, during this year, IAAOC can fully draw on the enthusiasm and resources of our members in addition to providing increasingly useful and innovative member services.

Our Scholar website is a phenomenal resource for IAAOC and I hope to work with Simone Lambert (the 2007-2008 IAAOC President), who created and maintains this website, in increasing its offerings. Specifically, we hope to offer educational services such as podcasts on an array of topics. Optimally, members will be able to access a range of resources on a variety of addiction and offender topics throughout the course of this year.

In coming to this IAAOC presidency position, I bring a professional research interest in process addictions (specifically eating disorders), and I hope to promote an increased focus on process addiction issues within our organization. IAAOC has already done an excellent job of bringing attention to issues such as eating disorders, sex addiction, and internet addiction, and I hope to continue and expand on this focus throughout the year.

Finally, I want to mention that, this year at the American Counseling Association Convention, IAAOC is hosting its first Day of Learning! More details will be coming as the date approaches, but plan to come to the 2011 ACA Convention in New Orleans in March (details about the conference can be found on ACA’s website: http://www.counseling.org/). In addition to a Day of Learning (where IAAOC will host five presentations on timely and intriguing addictions and offender topics), we hope to see you all at our annual breakfast, our joint reception, and our membership meeting!

Sincerely,

Juleen K. Buser, Ph.D.

Rider University

Department of Graduate Education, Leadership, and Counseling

Memorial 202

2083 Lawrenceville Road

Lawrenceville, NJ 08648           

President (2010-2011), International Association of Addiction and Offender Counselors, a division of the American Counseling Association