E-mail: Linnea_Carlson-Sabelli@rush.edu Phone: 773-348-5679 "My passion is constructing innovative teaching-learning strategies to arouse curiosity, facilitate interaction and engender creativity" Community of Scholars Resume

Linnea Carlson-Sabelli, PhD, RN Associate Professor, Department of Community and Mental Health Nursing Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago Curriculum Vita APRN-BC, Certified Clinical Specialist in Adult and Mental Health Nursing; TEP, Certified Trainer, Educator & Practitioner of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy & Sociometry B.S. 1970 Special Education University of Oklahoma,  Norman, Oklahoma A.S. 1976 Nursing College of Dupage, Naperville, Illinois M.S. 1978 Psychiatric Nursing Rush University, Chicago, Illinois Ph.D. 1992 Nursing Science University of Illinois at Chicago Educator Practitioner Researcher As a nursing educator and psychodramatist for more than 20 years, I develop and use action methods to expand minds and to promote critical thinking in classroom, clinical and online courses. I have created a Faculty Development Web Site to provide ongoing information, resources, tutorials and other support for nursing educators as they conceive, construct, teach and evaluate online courses. As a member of the Evaluation Committee and Professional Nursing Staff restructuring task force, I contributed to continuous quality improvement and initiated evidenced based change in the college and the medical center. As a member of the Admissions and Progressions committee I contribute to decisions about admission and progression policies and participate in selecting applicants to to attend Rush College of Nursing Programs. My most recent innovation in the clinical arena is Children's Therapeutic Theater. Using puppets, adult facilitators engage in fantasy play with groups of traumatized children to broaden the range of expression of feelings and present options for new behavior. I also apply my psychodramatic skills to develop and facilitate new courses for online delivery. I direct courses in all of the programs in the college - the BSN degree program, the RN-BSN program, the Masters Program leading to certification as an advanced practice nurse in psychiatric and mental health nursing. I also teach in the ND program leading to a doctoral degree in nursing leadership and management, and the DNSc program which is the equivalent to the PhD, preparing nurses as researchers. The central theme of my research is the development of process theory and its application in nursing, education and psychodrama. My doctoral work resulted in the discovery of the "Diamond of Opposites" instrument which measures the extent to which opposites co-exist in processes. As a founding member of a long-standing research team (over 25 years) I am involved in constructing theory based methods to study patterns of change in complex and creative processes. Currently this group is developing a scientific theory of creation and preparing to publish a book with an accompanying CD of methods for studying creativity in time series data with World Scientific.