Titles

• Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
• Graduate Faculty, College of Graduate Studies
• Vice Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Biography

Paul J. Hartung, Ph.D., is professor and vice chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, where he directs the College of Medicine’s first-year course in the psychosocial foundations of clinical medicine.

He has over 60 articles, 38 book chapters, four edited books, and an h-index of 40, reflecting high productivity and impact of his work. He has 200 international, national, and state presentations, including keynote addresses and workshops delivered on four continents.

He is past editor for The Career Development Quarterly (2014-21) and past president, Division 16 (2022-26) of the International Association of Applied Psychology.

He currently serves on five journal editorial boards and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, IAAP, and the National Career Development Association.

For lifetime achievement, he received the NCDA Eminent Career Award and the APA Society for Vocational Psychology Distinguished Contributions Award.

Area of Expertise/Research Interests

Dr. Hartung studies work and career in human life, with emphases on physician careers and specialty choice, work-life balance, career decision-making, work values, and career construction theory and practice. He is interested in how people (a) explore, choose, and adjust to work over the life span, (b) use work to shape their identities and advance their life stories, and (c) navigate and balance work along with roles in non-work spheres of life, such as family, play, and community.

Education

• Ph.D., Counseling and Human Development Services, Cognate: Psychology, Kent State University, 1992.
• M.A., Community Counseling, Kent State University, 1986
• B.A., Psychology, The University of Toledo, 1984

Courses

• Introduction to Clinical Skills (Course Director)
• Patient, Physician, and Community 1-2 (Course Director)

Academic & Professional Activities

• Past-President, Division 16 (Counseling) International Association of Applied Psychology
• Editorial Boards: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Career Assessment, International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Australian Journal of Career Development
• Advisory Board, South African Career Development Association
• Course Director, Introduction to Clinical Skills (2020-present)
• Course Director, Patient, Physician, and Community 1-2 (2020-present)

Awards

• Distinguished Achievement Award, Society for Vocational Psychology section of the American Psychological Association Division 17 (2020)
• Eminent Career Award for lifetime achievement, National Career Development Association (2020)
• Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Northeast Ohio Medical University (2018)
• International Contribution Award, Japanese Industrial Counseling Association (2018)
• Robert A. Liebelt, M.D., Ph.D./E. Jay Wheeler, M.D., Ph.D., Award for Faculty Excellence, Northeast Ohio Medical University (2009)

Distinctions

• Past-President, Division 16 (Counseling) International Association of Applied Psychology (2022-2026)
• Eminent Career Award for lifetime achievement, NCDA (2020)
• Society for Vocational Psychology Distinguished Contributions Award (2020)
• Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Northeast Ohio Medical University (2018)
• Fellow of APA, IAAP, NCDA

Presentations

• Santilli, S., & Hartung, P. J. (August 2022). Using My Career Story to foster reflective capacity, hope, and narrative change. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association 130th Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN.
• Maree, J.G., Jordaan, J. & Hartung, P. J. (August 2022). Group career construction counseling with disadvantaged prospective university students. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association 130th Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN.
• Santilli, S., Savickas, S., Hartung, P., Ginevra, M., Di Maggio, I., Nota, L., & Soresi, S. (2021, July). My Career Story Universal: A life designing counseling for people with disabilities during COVID-19. Sixth Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Abstract in Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 34(5), 1202–1203.
• Hartung, P. J. (2021, June). Career construction counseling. Presented in P. J. Hartung (Chair), Constructing certainty amidst uncertainty through career construction counseling. National Career Development Association. Atlanta, GA (virtual).
• Hartung, P. J. (2021, March). Career construction: A creative synthesis for better career practice. Second Biennial African Congress of Career Practitioners. Pretoria, South Africa (virtual).

Publications

• Hartung, P. J. (in press). My Career Story: A career construction workbook. In M. Schreiber (Ed.), Narrative approaches in counseling and coaching: Examples and practical application. Springer-Verlag.
• Keramidas, N., Queener, J. E., & Hartung, P. J. (in press). Forming mentoring relationships in graduate education: The role of personality. Australian Journal of Career Development.
• Santilli, S. & Hartung, P. J. (2022). Using my career story to foster reflective capacity, hope, and narrative change. Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 17, 43-54.
• Maree, J.G., Jordaan, J., & Hartung, P. J. (2022). Group career construction counseling with disadvantaged prospective university students. The Career Development Quarterly,79-95.
• Hartung, P.J., Taylor, J.M., & Taber, B.J. (in press; published online July 2022). Affect as a predictor of occupational engagement, career adaptability and career decidedness. African Journal of Career Development, 4(1), a58.