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Book Review: Cfp Board Financial Planning Competency Handbook, Jorge Ruiz-Menjivar
Book Review: Cfp Board Financial Planning Competency Handbook, Jorge Ruiz-Menjivar
Journal of Financial Therapy
The CFP Board Financial Planning Competency Handbook (2013) is reviewed as a resource that extends beyond financial planning to other helping professionals who work with money related issues.
Practitioner Profile: An Interview With Andrea Vining, Andrea Vining
Practitioner Profile: An Interview With Andrea Vining, Andrea Vining
Journal of Financial Therapy
Andrea Vining is a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley in Pasadena, California who was named to the Firm’s Pacesetter’s Club in 2015, a global recognition program for Financial Advisors who, within their first five years, demonstrate the highest professional standards and first class client service. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her interest in the arts is personal and life-long. She studied Jewelry Design & Fabrication at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, CA and is also a certified bench jeweler. She and her colleagues are passionate …
Researcher Profile: An Interview With Axton Betz-Hamilton, Axton Betz-Hamilton
Researcher Profile: An Interview With Axton Betz-Hamilton, Axton Betz-Hamilton
Journal of Financial Therapy
Dr. Axton Betz-Hamilton teaches consumer studies courses at Eastern Illinois University, including Personal and Family Finance, Housing, and Consumer Issues. She conducts research on identity theft as well as financial abuse within families.
The Theory Of Planned Behavior And The Earned Income Tax Credit, Lloyd Zimmerman, Anthony Canale, Sonya L. Britt, Martin Seay
The Theory Of Planned Behavior And The Earned Income Tax Credit, Lloyd Zimmerman, Anthony Canale, Sonya L. Britt, Martin Seay
Journal of Financial Therapy
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) seeks to reduce poverty and provide the resources necessary for an individual to become self-sufficient. The EITC achieves this annually by lifting millions of households above the poverty level through income supplementation. However, recent evidence suggests that the long-term upward economic mobility provided by the EITC in practice is limited. To investigate the factors associated with achieving this financial independence, this study utilized the Theory of Planned Behavior to determine if (a) attitudes—as measured by time preference and self-esteem, (b) subjective norms—as measured by education, parents’ poverty level or work status, and religiosity, and/or …
Three Interventions For Financial Therapy: Fostering An Examination Of Financial Behaviors And Beliefs, Rebekah J. Nelson, Thomas E. Smith, Victoria M. Shelton, Kristin V. Richards
Three Interventions For Financial Therapy: Fostering An Examination Of Financial Behaviors And Beliefs, Rebekah J. Nelson, Thomas E. Smith, Victoria M. Shelton, Kristin V. Richards
Journal of Financial Therapy
Three interventions that address the emotional components of handling finances are proposed. Drawn from a stepwise model of financial therapy, the three interventions introduced here have the specific aim of incorporating the emotional attributes of traditional financial behaviors and beliefs. First, the Financial Genogram identifies family of origin issues that may affect financial behaviors; second, the Financial Landscape intervention is used when emotional stress occurs in collecting and examining financial documents; and third, the Financial Mirror broadens clients’ perspectives of their financial behaviors. Issues in future research and implementation of the Five Step model are addressed in treating financially distressed …
Editorial Volume 6, Issue 1, Martie Gillen
Editorial Volume 6, Issue 1, Martie Gillen
Journal of Financial Therapy
The editorial introduces Dr. Martie Gillen as the associate editor of book reviews and professional profiles for the Journal of Financial Therapy. The editorial overviews the empirical research and theoretical oriented manuscripts along with the professional profiles and book reviews featured in volume 6, issue 1 of the Journal of Financial Therapy.
Practitioner Profile: An Interview With April Benson, Ph.D., April Benson
Practitioner Profile: An Interview With April Benson, Ph.D., April Benson
Journal of Financial Therapy
Dr. April Lane Benson is a nationally known psychologist specializing in the study and treatment of compulsive buying disorder. Dr. Benson is the editor of “I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self” (2000), the first book in English for mental health professionals about compulsive buying disorder. Her second book, “To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop” (2008) presents the Stopping Overshopping model of treatment. A pilot randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of this treatment model was recently published in the Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery. Maintaining …
Researcher Profile: An Interview With Jodi Letkiewicz, Ph.D., Jodi Letkiewicz
Researcher Profile: An Interview With Jodi Letkiewicz, Ph.D., Jodi Letkiewicz
Journal of Financial Therapy
Jodi Letkiewicz, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of finance at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She teaches in the Certified Financial Planner® Core Curriculum program preparing undergraduate students for the Canadian CFP® certification and conducts research in several areas of personal finance and consumer decision-making, including behavioral aspects influencing the decision to seek financial help, how personality traits affect financial decision-making, and the financial state of young adults, including the impact student loans have on overall well-being and financial milestones early in their adult life. Dr. Letkiewicz’s goal is to increase financial well-being in the general public, which …
Editorial, Volume 5, Issue 2, Kristy L. Archuleta
Editorial, Volume 5, Issue 2, Kristy L. Archuleta
Journal of Financial Therapy
This issue’s editorial is inspired by the importance of practitioners’ involvement in the peer review process for a scholarly publication like the Journal of Financial Therapy.