Cheryl MacNeil, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy

The Sage Colleges Cheryl MacNeil
45 Ferry Street
Troy, NY 12180

Member of The Sage Colleges Faculty since 2004

Office: Troy Campus, Ricketts Hall Room 316

Phone: 518/ 244-2349

Email: macnec@sage.edu

Educational Background

  • 1999, PhD, Educational Psychology, University of New York at Albany
  • 1984, MA, Education, Johnson State College, VT
  • 1982, BA, Psychology, University of New York at Plattsburg

Current Teaching Responsibilities

  • OTH 567 Research Methods in the Health Professions
  • OTH 620 Community Occupational Therapy Practice
  • OTH 623 Fieldwork Supervision
  • OTH 669 Research Seminar I
  • OTH 670 Research Seminar II

Research Interests

  • Awarded a Broughton Fellowship to study the role of the occupational therapist in community-based settings
  • Conducting studies that explore evaluation as a democratic practice
  • Working with peer support communities in mental health to articulate standards of practice

Professional Activities

  • Evaluation consultant for educational and social programs
  • Completed a study with a colleague in the occupational therapy department on the meaning of spirituality within a seminar for graduate students - the study has been accepted for publication in 2006.
  • Chair of The Peer Support Collaborative of Rensselaer County
  • Provide organizational development seminars for local social service agencies

Selected Scholarly Activities

MacNeil, C. (2007). Review of the book Mad in America: Bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill by Robert Whitaker. The SRV Journal, 2(1), 49-52.

Mead, S. & MacNeil, C. (2006). Peer support: What makes it unique? International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 10(2), 29-37.

Thompson, B., & MacNeil, C. (2006). A phenomenological study exploring the meaning of a graduate seminar on spirituality for occupational therapy students. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60(5), 531-539.

MacNeil, C. (Fall, 2005). Democratic evaluation in practice. The Evaluation Exchange, 11(3), Harvard Family Research Project, MA: Harvard.

MacNeil, C., & Mead, S. (2005). A narrative approach to developing standards for trauma informed peer support. American Journal of Evaluation, 26(2), 231-244.

Mead, S., & MacNeil, C. (2005). Peer support: A systematic approach. Family Therapy Magazine, 4(5), 28-31.

MacNeil, C. (2004). Critical theory, deliberative forums, metaphor, and poetry. In S. Mathison (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Evaluation (pp. 92-94, 108, 251, 317). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

MacNeil, C. (2004). Getting the hospital out of us. Albany, NY: The New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services.

MacNeil, C. (2003). A community of support. Brunswick, ME: Sweetser Health Services.

MacNeil, C. (2002). Evaluator as steward of citizen deliberation. American Journal of Evaluation, 23, 45-53.

MacNeil, C. (2001). Working in partnership. Albany, NY: The New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services.

MacNeil, C. (2001). The power to change. Troy, NY: The Sally Catlin Resource Center at the Troy-Cohoes YWCA.

MacNeil, C. (2001). Developing a self-help training curriculum for service system staff. Albany, NY: The New York State Office of Mental Health, Bureau of Recipient Affairs.

MacNeil, C. (2000). The prose and cons of poetic representation in evaluation reporting. American Journal of Evaluation, 21, 359-367.

MacNeil, C. (2000). Surfacing the realpolitik: Democratic evaluation in an anti-democratic climate. In K. Ryan & L. DeStefano (Eds.), Evaluation in a democratic society: Deliberation, dialogue and inclusion. New Directions for Evaluation, No. 85. (pp. 51-62). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

MacNeil, C. (2000). Peer educator perceptions regarding the advance directive training project. Albany, NY: The Resource Center, Inc.

MacNeil, C. (2000). An evaluation of the peer specialist initiative. Albany, NY: the New York State Office of Mental Health, Bureau of Recipient Affairs.

Other Interests

  • Community activist within the City of Troy
  • Founding member of the Pottery District