University of Oregon College of Education

Linda Forrest is a full professor and serves as the department head of the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services. As department head, she sits on the COE Area Head Council. Forrest also teaches courses on professional ethics in the Counseling Psychology program and Marriage and Family Therapy program.

Linda Forrest's scholarship focuses on ethics and professional training issues, specifically, educators' responsibility for addressing and working with trainees who are struggling to develop adequate professional competencies.

Forrest currently serves as president of the American Psychological Association’s Division 17, Society of Counseling Psychology and as the co-coordinator of the 2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference. Previously, she has served a six year term on the APA Council of Representatives and as a member of the APA Board of Educational Affairs. She served as the associate editor of The Counseling Psychologist, and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Before coming to the University of Oregon in 2002, Forrest was a professor in Counseling Psychology program at Michigan State University, where she served as assistant chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, area head, program director, and director of training of Counseling Psychology program.

Forrest is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), in three divisions: Division 17, the Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women, and Division 44, The Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues.