Continuing Faculty & Capstone Coordinator, Victoria MC
Dr. Jill Taggart is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and an Approved Clinical Supervisor (RCC-ACS) with BCACC. She is also currently the Chair of the BCACC Registration Committee.
Dr. Taggart has been a counsellor for over 20 years working with individuals and couples. Her doctoral research focused on early attachment relationships particularly the intergenerational transmission of attachment models in caregiving relationships. She has also looked at the human/pet dog relationship as a predictor of attachment style. She has presented her research findings at several conferences including Sweden, Japan, and Scotland.
She has been part of the CityU Canada community since 2011, first as Director of the MEd School Counselling and Leadership program and then as Associate Dean. She moved to the Okanagan just prior to Covid to take on the role of Director of Clinical Services with OneSky Community Resources in Penticton. She was responsible for the counselling program at OneSky which was an internship training site as well as low-barrier community counselling program. She oversaw the provision of up to 400 client sessions per month during the peak of the pandemic.
She has taught courses in both the MC and MEd programs. She is currently coordinating the capstone process for the Master of Counselling Victoria campus students, and teaches Couples Counselling, Supervision, Research Methods, Psychology of Aging and Practicum.
She is a certified coder of the Adult Attachment Interview (Main, George & Kaplan, 1984) as an assessment tool that assesses attachment security. She has published articles on attachment in supervision (with colleague Dr. Maria Stella), and attachment style in the classroom.
Teaching Philosophy
Dr. Taggart employs Bloom’s taxonomy which uses a gradual cognitive approach beginning with knowledge acquisition, comprehension, a deeper application of learning through practice, analysis and self-reflection of the practice, synthesis of learning, and evaluation of the learning process.
Courses
- Practicum CPC 651, 652, 653
- Research Methods CPC 514
- Aging CPC 604
- Couples Counselling CPC 606
- Grief and Loss CPC 511
- Capstone Project CPC 680
- Clinical Supervision CPC 610
- School Counselling Practicum EGC 601, 602, 605, 607, 609
Education
- BA, University of Toronto, 1981
- MSc, Psychology (Applied Behaviour), University of Southampton, UK: 2005
- MSc, Psychological Research Methods & Statistics (Distinction), University of Southampton, 2006
- Ph.D., Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Southampton, 2010
Publications
- Stella, M. & Taggart, J. (2020). Attachment, Learning and Embodied Reflective Practices in Clinical Supervision. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 10.1080/17432979.2020.1783572; https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2020.1783572
- Taggart, J. (2016). Attachment Security in the Classroom. A Proposed Professional Development Framework for Teachers. In (Eds) Flores, K.A., Kirstein, K.D., Schieber, C. & Olswang, S.G., Supporting The Success of Adult and Online Students (pp. 169-183.), Seattle: Flores, Kirstein, Schieber, Olswang.
- Trauma-Informed Workplaces: understanding the impact of personal trauma in a corporate setting. Oops Solutions Respectful Workplace Seminars, 2016-2018.
- Langley School District: Taggart, J. (2016). What does it mean to be Securely Attached?
- Bringing attachment-based self-reflective practices to the classroom.
- Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference, 2015: Baker, S., & Taggart, J.
- (2015). Discussions of sexuality, and sexual-related issues in counselling: counsellor competencies in sexual and gender counselling.Taggart, J.M., McBride, E.A., Redhead, E. S. (2010). The Relationship Between Owner Behaviour and Dog Attachment Security in the Strange Situation Test. Journal of Veterinary