EDUCATION
 
 

Pennsylvania Licensed Psychologist June, 1997	License #PS-008521-L
Ph.D. Counseling Psychology (APA-accredited program) August, 1993	Department of Psychology Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
M.S. Counseling Psychology August, 1990	Department of Psychology Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
B.A., with honors Psychology May, 1988	Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio

                                                                     EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

January, 2005                                                    Psychologist
to present                                                          KidsPeace
                                                                         Orefield, Pennsylvania

• Providing psychological assessment of adolescent inpatients at an intensive psychiatric residential treatment facility
• Providing psychological assessment of child and adolescent inpatients at an acute care psychiatric hospital
• Conducting clinical consultations with social workers
• Conducting individual, group, and family therapy as needed
• Conducting staff training
• Serving on various committees (e.g., suicide prevention, prevention and treatment of self-injury, Institutional Review Board)

• Designing, conducting, writing, and publishing research studies on various aspects of intellectual giftedness in

school-age children

• Teaching:  Abnormal Psychology, Introduction to Psychological Science, Introduction to Psychological Science

Laboratory, Educational Psychology
• Academic advising of psychology and neuroscience majors

Updating and maintaining Psychology Department's website

Providing psychological assessment to inpatients at a child/adolescent psychiatric hospital

• Conducting data analyses and writing reports for institutional research studies conducted through the Counseling Center

• Designing, conducting, and writing research studies on various aspects of intellectual giftedness in school-age children
• Writing and submitting proposals for funding
• Contributing to the C-MITES semi-annual newsletter and other C-MITES publications
• Providing continuing education workshops for teachers
• Providing parent workshops on issues related to giftedness
• Assisting with the supervision of programs for gifted students

• Teaching:  Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Psychology Lab, Abnormal Psychology, Educational Psychology,

hild Psychopathology, Advanced Applied Psychology, Counseling Psychology
• Supervising independent study, advanced research, and honors students
• Academic advising of psychology majors
• Maintaining an active research program
• Serving the department and College  though individual and committee-based work

• Teaching:  Introductory Psychology, Child Psychology, Child Psychopathology, Social Psychology, Senior Honors

Seminar (Issues in Intellectual Giftedness)
• Directing undergraduate internship program
• Supervising independent study students
• Maintaining an active research program
• Serving the department and College through individual and committee-based work

• APA-accredited clinical psychology internship with rotations in a children's day-treatment center, an adolescent outpatient clinic,

and an adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit
• Providing play therapy, individual and group psychotherapy, family therapy, and psychological assessment
• Participating in seminars (e.g., Ethics, Individual Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, Psychological Assessment, and Family

Therapy)

• Teaching Introductory Psychology to a class of approximately 35 students

 August, 1988                                                   Graduate Research Assistant
 to August, 1992                                               Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY)
                                                                         Iowa State University
                                                                        Ames, Iowa

• Conducting research:  data collection, coding, and entry;  statistical analysis of data;  manuscript writing
• Planning and executing a major organizational overhaul of longitudinal data files (in both hardcopy and computer file forms)
• Documenting existing data
• Supervising undergraduate researchers and work-study students

 June, 1991                                                       Predoctoral Fellow
 to August, 1991                                               Educational Testing Service (ETS)
                                                                         Princeton, New Jersey

• Participating in a nationally competitive, selective summer fellowship
• Utilizing a longitudinal database to study the relationship between satisfaction with and retention in graduate school among

Black, Hispanic, and White students
• Using factor analysis to form scales from pools of items contained in a number of surveys
• Participating in seminars series

                                                           SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Journal publications

Swiatek, M. A., & Cross, T. L. (in press).  Longitudinal change in social coping over one year of enrollment
     at a residential high school for gifted students. Gifted Child Quarterly.

Swiatek, M. A. (2007).  The talent search model: Past, present, and future.  Gifted Child Quarterly, 51(4),
     320-329.

Swiatek, M. A., & Cross, T. L. (2007).  Construct validity of the Social Coping Questionnaire.  Journal for the
    Education of the Gifted, 30(4), 427-449.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2005).  An evaluation of the Elementary Student Talent Search by
    families and schools.  Gifted Child Quarterly, 49, 247-259.

Swiatek, M. A. (2005).  Gifted students' self-perceptions of ability in specific subject domains: Factor structure
    and relationship with above-level test scores. Roeper Review, 27(2), 104-109.

Swiatek, M. A. (2003).  Social coping among gifted elementary school students.  Journal for the Education of
    the Gifted, 26, 65-86.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2003).  Elementary and middle school student participation in
     gifted programs:  Are gifted students underserved?  Gifted Child Quarterly, 47, 118-130..

Swiatek, M. A. (2001).  Social coping among gifted high school students and its relationship to self-concept.  Journal
     of Youth and Adolescence, 30(1), 19-39.

Swiatek, M. A., Lupkowski-Shoplik, A., & O’Donoghue, C. C.  (2000).  Gender differences in above-level
     EXPLORE scores of gifted third- through sixth-graders. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(4), 718-723.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2000).  Gender differences in academic attitudes among gifted elementary-
     school students.  Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 23(4), 360-377.

Lupkowski-Shoplik, A., & Swiatek, M. A. (1999).  Elementary student talent searches:  Establishing appropriate
     guidelines for qualifying test scores. Gifted Child Quarterly, 43(4), 265-272.

Swiatek, M. A., & Dorr, R. M. (1998).  Revision of the Social Coping Questionnaire:  Replication and extension of
     previous findings.  Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 10(1), 252-259.

Swiatek, M. A. (1995).  An empirical investigation of the social coping strategies used by gifted adolescents.
     [Special issue: Giftedness in the social context]. Gifted Child Quarterly, 39, 154-161.

Swiatek, M. A. (1994).  Accelerated students' self-esteem and self-perceived personality characteristics:  A
     five-year longitudinal study.  [Special issue:  Appropriate acceleration options for gifted and talented students].
     Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 5, 35-41.

Swiatek, M. A. (1993).  A decade of research on academic acceleration through the Study of Mathematically
     Precocious Youth.  Roeper Review, 15, 120-124.

Swiatek, M. A., & Benbow, C. P. (1992).  Nonintellectual correlates of satisfaction with acceleration:  A longitudinal
     study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 21, 699-723.

Swiatek, M. A., & Benbow, C. P. (1991).  Ten-year longitudinal follow-up of ability-matched accelerated and
     unaccelerated gifted students.  Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 528-538.

Swiatek, M. A., & Benbow, C. P. (1991).  A ten-year longitudinal study of students in a fast-paced mathematics
     program. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 22, 138-150.

Other publications

Swiatek, M. A. (invited, in progress).  Meta-analyses of gifted education.  In B. Kerr (Ed.), Encyclopedia
      of giftedness, creativity, and talent.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Swiatek, M. A. (invited, in progress).  Talent searches.  In B. Kerr (Ed.), Encyclopedia of giftedness,
     creativity, and talent.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Swiatek, M. A., & Ward, M. (contributors, in press).  Educational pressures.  In A. Radev (Ed.), I've got this
     friend who...Advice for teens and their friends on alcohol, drugs, eating disorders, risky behavior,
     and more.  Center City, MN: Hazelden.

Langman, P. F., & Swiatek, M. A. (contributors, 2007).  Cutting yourself down: The painful truth about
     self-injurious behavior.  In A. Radev (Ed.), I've got this friend who...Advice for teens and their friends
     on alcohol, drugs, eating disorders, risky behavior, and more (pp. 127-146).  Center City, MN: Hazelden.

Swiatek, M.A. (2006).  Social challenges for gifted adolescents: How they manage, and how we can help.
   Healing Magazine, 11(1), 6-7.  Reprinted with permission in Gifted Adolescents (information packet
   of the Tasmanian Association for the Gifted).

Swiatek, M. A. (2006, Spring).  Evaluating for giftedness with the WISC-IV.  PAGE Update
   (newsletter of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education), pp. 1, 6, 9.

Swiatek, M. A. (2003, Fall).  Academic acceleration.  Research bulletin published by the Pennsylvania
    Association for Gifted Education (PAGE).

Swiatek, M. A. (2003, April).  The social experiences of the gifted adolescent.  Gifted (journal of the New
    South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children, Australia), p. 30.  [Reprinted with permission
    from PG-Cybersource, a service of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development]

Swiatek, M. A. (2001, November).  Questions and answers about academic acceleration for talented students.
     PAGE Update (newsletter of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education), pp. 1, 8-9, 12.

Swiatek, M. A. (2001).  Average-age college students’ attitudes toward radically accelerated students.  In
     Talent development:  Proceedings from the 1998 Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research
     Symposium on Talent Development.

Swiatek, M. A. (2001, March).  Summer programs for gifted students. PAGE Update (newsletter of the
     Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education), pp. 4, 10-11.  [Reprinted with permission in A Different
     Drummer (newsletter of the Oregon Association of Talented and Gifted), Summer 2001.]

Swiatek, M. A. (1998). Helping gifted adolescents cope with social stigma. Gifted Child Today, 21(1), 42-46.
     (peer reviewed)

Various articles on topics related to giftedness for C-MITES News (the semiannual newsletter of the Carnegie
Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students)

Presentations

Swiatek, M. A., & Langman, P. F. (2007, December).  Understanding psychological testing.  Presented at the KidsPeace
    In-Focus Series, Orefield, PA.

Langman, P. F., & Swiatek, M. A. (2007, October).  Kids who hurt themselves.  Presented at the KidsPeace National
    Conference, Orefield, PA.

Swiatek, M. A. (2007, July).  Reactive attachment disorder.  Presented at the KidsPeace Case Cafe Series, Orefield, PA.

Swiatek, M. A. (2007, April).  Recognizing and responding to self-injurious behavior.  Presented at the Sacred Heart Hospital Current Trends in Psychiatry Conference, Bethlehem, PA.

Swiatek, M. A. (2006, October).  A charm and challenge: Developmental issues for gifted children and adolescents.
   Presented at the KidsPeace National Conference, Orefield, PA.

Swiatek, M. A., & Cross, T. L. (2006, May).  Social coping among gifted adolesents: Validity of the Social
   Coping Questionnaire and longitudinal changes after enrollment at a residential high school.  Presented
   at the Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City, IA.

Swiatek, M. A. (2006, April).  Encouraging girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
   Paper presented at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), Valley
   Forge, PA.

Swiatek, M. A. (2004, May).  Academic acceleration in elementary school:  A comparison between accelerated
    and matched comparison students.  Presented at the Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent
    Development, Iowa City, IA.

Swiatek, M. A. (2002, May).  Social coping among gifted adolescents and preadolescents.  Presented at the
   Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City, IA.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2001, November). How do gifted students meet their educational
     needs? Presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Gifted Children, Cincinnati, OH.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2000, May).  Predicting performance in a summer enrichment
     program from above-level EXPLORE scores.  Presented at the Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National
    Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City, IA.

Palmer, J. L., & Swiatek, M. A. (1999, April).  Cross-professional diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome/factitious
     disorder.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.

Swiatek, M. A., & Forbes, K. J. (1999, April).  Sensitivity to negative external feedback and its predictive
     value for eating disorders.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association,
     Providence, RI.

Swiatek, M. A. (1998, May).  Average-age college students’ attitudes toward radically accelerated students.
     Presented at the Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City,
     IA.

Swiatek, M. A. (1998, February).  Average-age college students’ attitudes toward radically accelerated
     students.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Swiatek, M. A. (1997, February).  Measuring the social coping strategies of gifted adolescents.  Presented
     to Sigma Xi, Lafayette College Chapter.

Godfrey, J., Leenders, C., Mancuso, R., Mendaglio, S., Monks, F., Peters, W., Plucker, J., Pyryt, M., Stocking, V.,
     Swiatek, M. A., Taylor, J. W., Verbraak, C., Von Boxtel, H., & Wilson, J. (1996, April).  Self-concept:
     Contemporary perspectives on self-concept and giftedness.  In Programs for gifted students--What they are
     and what they are not. Roundtable session at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
     New York, NY.

Swiatek, M. A. (1995, May).  Accelerated students’ self-esteem and self-perceived personality characteristics.
     Presented at the Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City,
     IA.

Swiatek, M. A. (1994, October).  Accelerated students’ self-esteem and self-perceived personality characteristics.
     Presented to Sigma Xi, SUNY Fredonia Chapter.

Swiatek, M. A. (1994, May).  The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth:  Research and practice working
     together.  Invited address at the annual Psi Chi Initiation Banquet, SUNY College at Fredonia.

Swiatek, M. A. (1993, October).  Social coping among gifted adolescents.  Presented to Sigma Xi, SUNY Fredonia
     Chapter.

Swiatek, M. A. (1993, May).  Social coping among gifted adolescents.  Presented at the Henry B.and Jocelyn
    Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City, IA.

Swiatek, M. A. (1991, November).  Nonintellectual correlates of satisfaction with acceleration:  A longitudinal
     study. Presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Gifted Children, Kansas City, MO.

Swiatek, M. A. (1991, May).  A ten-year longitudinal follow-up of ability-matched accelerates and nonaccelerates.
     Presented at the Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Iowa City, IA.
 

Additionally, multiple presentations and/or workshops on each of the following topics:

Ability grouping:

• Project REAL State Conference on Rural Gifted Education, State College, PA (October 2004)
• State conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), Harrisburg, PA (April 2002)
• Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students (C-MITES) parent workshops (multiple dates)

• ARIN Intermediate Unit 28 Gifted Network workshop for educators, Indiana, PA (March 2005)
• Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network Special Education Conference, Hershey, PA

(February 2005)
• Project REAL State Conference on Rural Gifted Education, State College, PA (October 2004)
• Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19 Gifted Education Conference, Archbald, PA (September 2004)
• Appalachia Intermediate Unit 08 Gifted Education Conference, Johnstown, PA (August 2004)
• Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 Gifted Education Conference, Lancaster, PA (February 2004)
• Project REAL Conference on Rural Gifted Education, Williamsport, PA (October 2003)
• C-MITES continuing education workshop for educators, Pittsburgh, PA (September 2001 and March 2004)
• State conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), Pittsburgh or Harrisburg, PA

(April 2001, with A. Lupkowski-Shoplik;  April 2004-2006 as sole presenter)
• Annual convention of the National  Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), Little Rock, AK (November 1990)
• C-MITES parent workshops (multiple dates)
• Presentations to parents of gifted students in various Pennsylvania school districts (multiple dates)

• Annual convention of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), Indianapolis, IN (November 2003,

"Marketplace" session)
• State conference of the Pennsylvania  Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), Valley Forge, PA (March 2003)
• C-MITES parent workshops (multiple dates)

• State conferences of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), April 2005 and April 2008
• C-MITES parent workshop, November 2004

• State conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), Harrisburg, PA (April 2002, with

R. T. Budd & P. J. Piskurich; April 2007 as sole presenter)
• Presentations to parents of gifted students in various Pennsylvania school districts (multiple dates)

• State conferences of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), April 2006 and April 2007.
• Presentations to parents of gifted students in various Pennsylvania school districts (multiple dates)

• State conferences of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), April 2007 and April 2008
• Easton Area School District in-service, Easton, PA, February 2008
• Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 in-service, Wind Gap, PA, October 2007
• Affiliate Weekend of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), October 2006

Other scholarly activity

• Editorial review board: Journal of Advanced Academics
• Editorial review board: Gifted Child Quarterly
• Ad hoc reviewer:  Journal for the Education of the Gifted
• Ad hoc reviewer:  Roeper Review
• Chapter-to-chapter reviewer for O'Donnell's Educational psychology (2nd ed., Wiley), 2008.
• Facilitator of online seminar entitled Social Experiences of Gifted Adolescents, offered by the Davidson Institute

for Talent Development, 2002 and 2004-2007.
• Editorial review board, Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1998-2006
• Editorial board, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1996-2005
• External examiner of the doctoral dissertation ("thesis") written by Ms. K. O'Leary of the University of New

South Wales, Australia ("Development of Personal Strengths and Moral Reasoning in Gifted Adolescents"), 2004
• Facilitator of online seminar entitled Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students through Academic Acceleration,

offered by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, 2003
• Reviewer of Davison, Neale, & Kring's textbook Abnormal Psychology (9th ed., Wiley), 2003
• Facilitator of online seminar entitled The Social Experiences of Gifted Adolescents, offered by the Davidson

Institute for Talent Development, 2002 and 2004
• Reviewer for M. Raulin's textbook Abnormal Psychology:  Unraveling the Mysteries of Psychopathology

(Allyn & Bacon), 2001
• External examiner of the doctoral dissertation ("thesis") written by Ms. C. E. Muiznieks of the University of New

South Wales, Australia ("Psychosocial and Academic Outcomes for Selective High School Students Undertaking a
Program of Cohort Acceleration"), 2001
• External examiner of the doctoral dissertation ("thesis") written by Mr. K. A. Jaggar of the University of New South

Wales, Australia ("Student Perceptions of Subject Acceleration in New South Wales Secondary Schools"), 1999
• Reviewer of presentation proposals for the 1995 American Educational Research Association conference--Division C,

Section 4 (covering student characteristics and individual differences, learning, cognition, and motivational processes)

                                                                AWARDS AND HONORS

• Who's Who in America, 56th-58th Editions (2002-2005)
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 7th Edition (2003-2004)
• Who's Who of American Women, 23rd and 24th Editions (2002-2005)
• SUNY College at Fredonia Amy Everett Memorial Award, 1995
• SUNY College at Fredonia Scholarly Incentive Award, 1994-95
• New York State United University Professions Professional Development and Quality of Working Life Term Faculty

Development Award, 1994-95
• American Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research, 1992
• Iowa Psychological Association Scholarship Award, 1992
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1990-1992
• Oberlin College Alumni Scholarship Award, 1990-91
• Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Scholarship Award, 1990-91
• Premium for Academic Excellence (PACE), Iowa State University, 1988-90

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2003, September). Need-based Scholarships to the Carnegie Mellon Institute
     for Talented Elementary Students (C-MITES) Program.  The Fisher Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation:  $100,000 over
     3 years.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2003, June).  The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students
    (C-MITES):  Challenging Gifted Students in Mathematics and Science.  The Tyco Electronics Foundation:  $5,000.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2003, May).  The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students (C-MITES).
    Mr. Mark Gelfand, $66,000.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2003, February). The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students
    (C-MITES):  Breaking the Stereotype of "Boring" Math and Science.  The Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program:  $5,000.

Lupkowski-Shoplik, A., & Swiatek, M. A. (2003, January).  The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students
    (C-MITES):  Programs and Services for Gifted Students.  Mr. Mark Gelfand:  $40,000.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2002, November). Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students
    (C-MITES).  The Grable Foundation:  $60,000 over 3 years.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2001, June).  Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students (C-MITES).
    The W. I. Patterson Charitable Fund:  $4,000.

Swiatek, M. A., & Lupkowski-Shoplik, A. (2001, April).  Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students (C-MITES):
    Challenging Gifted Students in Mathematics and Science.  The AMP Foundation (Tyco Electronics):  $5,000.

Lupkowski-Shoplik, A., & Swiatek, M. A. (2001, February). Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students
    (C-MITES).  The Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation:  $5,000.

                                                           PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Association for Psychological Science
• National Association for Gifted Children
• Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education

(Board member, 2004-2007; Higher Education Liaison, 2004-2006)