The doctor is in the building... Dr. Mark Vogel has accepted the position as the new Director of Counseling following the semi-retirement of former director Susan Runge.
Mark P. Vogel, Ph.D., who has been a consulting psychologist at The Family Foundation School since 2007, has been named Director of Counseling. A veteran clinical psychologist, Dr. Vogel is a graduate of Rutgers University, and received an M.A. from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. from Duke University. He succeeds retiring director Susan J. Runge, LCSW-R, SSW, who has held the post since 1996, and who continues to counsel students on a part-time basis.
A skilled child, adolescent and family therapist, Dr. Vogel brings more than 30 years’ experience as a private practitioner to the position. His areas of expertise include teen alcohol and drug issues, parent/teenage relations, learning disabilities, diagnostic testing, and psychological and vocational assessment. He is a frequent consultant to attorneys, courts, and schools on psycho-educational issues, and is an authority on the relationship of adolescent alcohol and drug use to achievement motivation, future goal orientation, and parent supervision and control.
Under Dr. Vogel’s leadership, the FFS counseling program will continue to employ cognitive restructuring and other cognitive behavior techniques, which have been effective in helping students who struggle with ADHD, ODD and mood disorder, as well as those with addictive behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse.
