Eran Hanke
Clinical Coordinator of Mental Health Counseling
Assistant Professor of Counseling
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Eran Hanke
Clinical Coordinator of Mental Health Counseling
Assistant Professor of Counseling
Dr. Hanke is invested in teaching counselors about intervention and prevention across the lifespan and how to better serve older adults.
In addition to her teaching and administrative duties, Dr. Hanke is also the assistant director of the Dementia Simulation House, working closely with Dr. Elaine Eshbaugh, professor of Gerontology at UNI. Prior to her current position, Dr. Hanke began as a UNI as an adjunct instructor. She was also the director and senior staff counselor at the Medical Student Counseling Center at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She has taught counseling at Bradley University and Buena Vista University and has taught student affairs administration at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She was an instructor and academic advisor at Kirkwood Community College. She also counseled youth and their families at a nonprofit agency.
Dr. Hanke is interested in how theater improvisation principles and skills can be integrated with experiential approaches to counseling to assist clients and to train and supervise counselors. She participates in a weekly improvisation with other therapists through Improv Therapy Group.
PhD—Counselor Education and Supervision, University of Iowa
MA—Counseling, University of Minnesota-Duluth
BA—Psychology, Baldwin Wallace University
- counseling skills
- intervention and prevention in lifespan development
- family counseling
- counseling older adults
- addiction
- advanced psychopathology
- practicum and internship supervision
- counseling older adults
- supporting college students in recovery from addictions
- access to mental health care and education across the lifespan
- mental health and wellbeing of professional helpers, family caregivers, graduate and professional students
- applied improvisation in counseling and counselor education
Awards
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, University of Northern Iowa, 2023
Professional Publications
Hanke, E. (2020). Alcohol use among today's college students. New Directions for Student Services, 2020(170), 9–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20350
Hanke, E. (2020). When drinking becomes a problem: Alcohol misuse and abuse in college. New Directions for Student Services, 2020(170), 23–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20351
Elkins, B., & Hanke, E. (2018). Code-switching to navigate social class in higher education and student affairs. New Directions for Student Services, 2018(162), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20260
Professional Presentations
Elkins, B., & Hanke, E. (2023, March). Creating a future: Constructing recovery and career change in college. ACPA Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Hanke, E., Elkins, B., Davis-Gage, D., White, B., & Dentzau, A. (2022, June). We want to better ourselves: Constructing career and recovery in college [Conference presentation]. National Career Development Association Conference [Virtual].
Hanke, E., & Fineup, B. (2020, September). Enhancing counseling support for older clients through the application of a wellness framework and theories of aging [Conference presentation]. Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association Conference, West Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
Elkins, B., Hanke, E., & Hawkins, B. (2020, March). Resilience and belonging: Students in recovery from substance abuse [Conference presentation]. ACPA Annual Convention, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Wagstaff, J., & Hanke, E. (2017, May). Expanding your tool kit with four essential screening instruments [Conference presentation]. Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
Smith, C. K., & Hanke, E. (2009, October). Preparing school counselors to address emotional and behavioral problems of youth [Conference presentation]. Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, San Diego, California, United States.