Are you planning a study in which you intend to assess the relationships among several variables? Are you confused as to which statistical design is best suited for the research you want to conduct? If you answered yes to either of these questions then this is the session for you! In this session participants will learn how to choose the appropriate multivariate regression analysis model based on their intended research design and accurately interpret the results of the chosen model.
This presentation will address how qualitative research enhances collaboration between counseling and other academic disciplines. Qualitative research emphasizes connection, making it a conduit for research collaboration. This presentation will highlight steps that qualitative researchers can take to collaborate effectively. The presenter will share personal experiences of cross-disciplinary research collaboration, including the researcher's successes and mistakes with the purpose of helping others engage in this form of research cooperation.
Mixed and multiple methods research (MMR) is the focus of this session, which highlights how problem-solving skills that are inherent in counselor identity align with an integrated MMR approach. Reflexivity is introduced as the active, foundational element for avoiding a "methods-centric" approach and for centering the research problem, embracing complexity, and enhancing credibility of evidence. Examples of decision-making processes and design elements of MMR will be discussed.
Publication in leading counseling journals requires researchers to have their work positively reviewed by editors and editorial boards. In this presentation, participants will learn about the philosophy and goals of the peer review process in the publication of counseling research. Strategies to prepare manuscripts for peer review in counseling journals will be covered. Presenters will highlight ways to "think like an editorial board reviewer" in the development and writing of research manuscripts.
In September 1989, then editor of Counselor Education and Supervision, Duane Brown, stated “we must accord the same status to research that chronicles the human experience using qualitative methodology that we do to the empirical research we have grown accustomed to seeing published in our journals.” Today I ask the question “Just how well have we accorded the same status to qualitative research in journals serving as outlets for our knowledge products?” I will explore possible answers and directions for the future of qualitative research in counselor education and supervision.
The increased use of action research in counseling training and professional publications provides an opportunity to bridge the research/practitioner gap that has plagued the profession for decades. In this presentation, action research is defined and special considerations that counselor researchers need to address when designing, conducting, and reporting action research are presented.
The use of qualitative research methods in counseling has gained popularity in the last five to ten years. However, incorrect application of method to research question results in inappropriate conclusions. For the purposes of this presentation, participants are encouraged to bring research questions they are planning to answer with qualitative research methods. The presenter and participants will explore how to determine appropriate research questions and design.
Dr. Donna M. Gibson is a professor of counselor education in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Counseling and Special Education in the School of Education. In her 22 years as a counselor educator, Dr. Gibson published multiple books... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2013 11:00am - 11:50am MDT
Agate B
Turning a 200-page dissertation into a 25-page manuscript can be a daunting task. However, the rewards are great for both authors and audiences alike. Come be encouraged and hear the lessons learned from a counselor who did turn a qualitative cross-cultural dissertation into a published manuscript.
Meta-analyses are a great way to get involved with outcome research, but unfortunately they can be too unfamiliar or scary to get involved with. This presentation aims to demystify the process, break the skill down into manageable steps, and help you survive your first one.
Content analysis methodology has frequently been referred to as qualitative in nature typically because it involves analyzing text and subjective responses. However, other fields have discussed and used content analysis more quantitatively, allowing statistical analysis with participant responses on other instruments. A description of content analysis and the process to conducting it will be provided.
Professor, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kelly L. Wester, PhD, NCC, LCMHC, klwester@uncg.edu, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Counseling and Educational Development, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Kelly has taught multiple courses in research methods for over 20 years, as well as has worked... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm MDT
Agate B
This presentation goes beyond an overview of mixed methods and single case research paradigms. Presenters examine specific configurations used when conducting mixed methods research designs, helping participants identify mixed methods sequences. Example studies using mixed methods designs including single case approaches are shared and critiqued. Participants are able to identify how mixed methods designs can be infused within current and future research investigations. Handouts are provided and discussion/research consultation opportunities are made available.
An essential aspect of evaluating counselor efficacy lies in the assessment of conceptualization and theoretical application. Historically, phenomenology has provided insights into how counselors experience and perceive their clients and their work. Phenomenography is an underutilized design that allows the researcher to infuse a variety of cultural elements to provide an interpretive and integrated research approach for counselor education. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of this methodology, as well as how they can utilize it in their own research.
Technology is increasingly being utilized through a myriad of media to collect qualitative data. It is important to think critically about how using various media impacts the nature and practice of qualitative research. Examples of various technological media being utilized in qualitative data collection will be explored, while potential ethical and epistemological implications for research will be discussed.
Through integrating research findings across studies, meta-analysts can systematically find overall treatment effectiveness, as well as the highly related factors attributed to the treatment effectiveness. By gaining a better understanding of meta-analysis, counselors will say goodbye to their fear of this advanced research methodology. More importantly, researchers, counselor educators, and supervisors who are interested in empirical evidence, please come and discuss the rigor of meta-analysis!
Counselors and counselor educators may find that their research necessarily involves dual relationships with their research participants, be they students, colleagues, or clients. Such situations often raise questions about ethics and about the trustworthiness of one's research, particularly in qualitative and practitioner action research. Attendees will learn about how using an interpretive community may facilitate insight into parallel processes that may arise during the course of their research, and how these might relate to trustworthiness and ethical considerations.
Counseling researchers often rely on survey methods or nonstandardized instruments to measure or explore a construct. The purpose of this session is to shed light on quantitative procedures that provide evidence of internal structure of the instrument (i.e., validity). Participants will understand the difference between principal component analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis for providing evidence of validity to self-made surveys or instruments.
New technology allows affordable in-vivo measurement of variables such as electrocardiogram, electrodermal activity, electromyography, and evoked brain potentials. Educators and students can participate in this exciting research frontier because the technology is inexpensive and portable, and training is readily available. Learn about psychophysiological measures, appropriate research designs, operational uses, data interpretation, and how to access technology and training. Data acquisition will be demonstrated, and attendees will get to examine resulting data.
This is an introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) for doctoral students and researchers in counseling. First, the basic concepts of SEM will be described. Then, by using a simple example, each step of SES will be illuminated, including how to build a graphic model based on a hypothesis, how to estimate the parameters, and how to evaluate the model once the analysis is run.
This advanced research training will provide attendees with practical information and guidance for submitting grant applications for research and clinical funding. The session will provide useful resources for first-time grant writers and will outline the application materials that are required for typical grant submissions. The majority of the session will focus on strategies for successfully drafting the key components of the scientific research plan and clinical significance sections of grant proposals. Practical examples will be utilized in the training session.
Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) provides a framework for rigorous research emphasizing participants' voices through use of research teams, and 4 stages of analysis based on consensus. Research teams and data management look slightly different for CQR dissertations. This presentation provides recommendations to implement a CQR dissertation based on real world challenges and successes related to research team roles and bias, analysis and consensus strategies, and data management.
Single-case experimental research is well-regarded as a design that can be utilized for determining evidence-based treatments in counseling. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to conduct a single-case experiment, utilize appropriate assessment tools, and analyze single case data.
Social Network Analysis allows researchers to analyze network environments (e.g., friends; program alumni) to determine shared characteristics (e.g., suicide risk; scholarly productivity), understand how ideas are shared, and assess the impact of the social environment on behavior. Learn how this approach can apply to your research interests. This program is designed to be a conceptual introduction to Social Network Analysis.
Work by laptop or follow along as presenters provide tips for organizing and creating scholarly literature reviews in less time. Presenters demonstrate how to install and use Zotero, a citation library, to quickly collect, organize, cite, and share literature review materials. Zotero automatically senses content, adding it to your personal library with a single click. Presenters also demonstrate how to use mind mapping in combination with search and find tools in Zotero to create annotated outlines and draft reviews.
This session's intent is to demystify the processes involved in case study research related to counseling. Case study approaches provide flexibility useful to researching diverse counseling experiences but lack a cohesive framework to assist researchers during design and implementation. Participants will understand the types of problems ideally researched using these methods, learn key concepts, and engage in decision-making related to real life case study projects.
In the thick of the evidence-based practice movement, it is important to investigate mechanisms that promote change to further our understanding of interventions. Mediators and Moderators are mechanisms of change that begin to explain why therapy works, with mediators describing the process of change and moderators describing characteristics that influence the level of change. Participants will gain knowledge of statistical analyses to investigate mechanisms of change and how to incorporate them into intervention methodologies.
In addition to using a comprehensive exam to measure counseling-students' counseling expertise at the culmination of the counseling program, Murray State University has adopted a qualitative experience to assess the application of counseling theory during their clinical field work. This program will discuss an innovative aspect to assessing the counseling skills of counseling students by utilizing a defense approach.
Persons with learning disabilities constitute a cultural group within American society that has not been extensively studied. This education session provides background information related to disability and various legislative acts and research findings related to counselors' cultural competency regarding clients with disabilities, specifically learning disabilities. Implications and recommendations for practice will be discussed.
Establishing self-care is essential to the wellbeing of counseling professionals as well as an ancillary ethical obligation to clients. This unique, experiential presentation encourages counselors, counselor educators, and supervisors to engage in regular self-care and introduces tablet technology and applications as a novel, fun instrument for accomplishing this goal. A visual demonstration of tablet and application self-care techniques will be shared with attendees as well as a discussion on the importance of self-care.
Counselor educators and supervisors are faced with the challenge of finding innovative ways to teach about social and cultural diversity. This interactive presentation will provide research findings on master's level students' knowledge and perceptions about the LGBTQ community after watching two films in a sexuality counseling course. Case examples, research-based recommendations, and open discussion will address the effectiveness of using films as an experiential learning method.
Mindfulness is a universal practice across cultures that promotes being aware of our experiences that awaken us to the inner world of our mind (Siegel, 2007). This presentation provides suggestions for integrating mindfulness into a counseling skills course. Specifically, participants will engage in a variety of experiential activities designed to bring mindfulness into the classroom. Recommendations will also be offered to help bridge the connection between mindfulness and therapeutic practice.
Neuroscience research validates and enhances the work of counseling through exciting new findings such as memory reconsolidation, the role of the amygdala in culture, and the neuroscience of emotion, attention, and cognition. This session gives practical guides for using this research to improve training, supervision, and advising, and maintain an up to date evidential basis. Get understandable digests of key neuroscience research areas you can immediately integrate into counseling theory, school counseling, cultural competence, basic techniques, and clinical supervision.
This program provides an overview of the many creative ways that iPads can be utilized in counselor education. Participants will be guided in the specifics of successfully executing iPad technology in the classroom. This program will also discuss challenges and successes associated with the implementation of iPads in the classroom. The program will also highlight a list of suggested apps for iPad utilization in counselor education.
Are your social emotional behavior interventions effective? This presentation is to provide information for practitioners interested in measuring and documenting students' responses to a range of behavioral, psychosocial, and therapeutic interventions, whether this is a school system, small group or an individual student. Case studies for all settings mentioned above will be presented and discussed.
This session will provide the results of a survey of past participants in the SACES/ACES Emerging Leaders' Initiative to evaluate their experience of the training, their involvement in professional associations and/or leadership since participation, and their perceptions on whether the primary goals of the initiative have been met. The session will also include recommendations from respondents concerning future workshops to assist both national and regional leaders as they plan for future conferences.
The focus of this presentation is to examine critical thinking while providing faculty supervisors and instructors an understanding of why critical thinking is necessary for counselor success. In addition, exploration for why it is imperative that counseling supervisors and faculty possess and implement critical thinking in their course development, teaching and supervisory execution will be examined.
The Director of WHO's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse challenged NBCC to work towards alleviating the unmet mental health needs of over 450 million people worldwide. NBCC is meeting this challenge through the MHF, a training program designed to teach basic mental health skills to lay persons, paraprofessionals, and professionals from outside mental health. Presenters will provide an overview of the MHF and how counselors can become involved in this dynamic international program.
This program will introduce Ken Wilber's Integral theory as a strategy for organizing the information that must be assessed to arrive at a unique understanding of a client's sexual difficulties. Key factors involved in the DSM sexual dysfunctions will be described and explained.
It is assumed that counselor development models that were developed using only clinical mental health counselors as study participants are equally appropriate for supervision and training of school counselors. This program presents the findings of a study that utilized school counselors as research participants that lead to a school counselor development model. This study utilized the same methods and questions as Skovholt and Ronnestad (1992). Supervision and training needs will be discussed.
Professor and Department Head, University of Wyoming
School counseling...let's support kids to be their best!
also researching spiritual development of children and adolescents as well as creating caring learning communities online.
Do you prepare school counseling graduate student for professional practice with the ASCA National Model? Implementing the ASCA National Model may have additional benefits for practice including decreasing overall levels of professional burnout. Hear how implementing the ASCA National Model and other strategies may safeguard your students against professional stress and burnout.
Professor and Department Head, University of Wyoming
School counseling...let's support kids to be their best!
also researching spiritual development of children and adolescents as well as creating caring learning communities online.
There is much research supporting the use of the ASCA National Model; however, an implementation gap still exists. This research explored various school and school counselor characteristics as they relate to a school counselors' readiness to implement the ASCA National Model. Come hear what significantly contributes to model implementation, as well as what should not hinder it. Research findings and implications for school counselors and counselor educators will be presented.
Counselors often encounter situations, such as diverse counseling relationships, which require complex clinical decision-making skills and tolerance for ambiguity. Counselors with an integrated belief system are more likely to have tools to respond to these situations. Developing a critical thinking ability and a strong internal locus of control are essential for counseling students. The presenters will discuss specific attitudes and classroom strategies for humanistic educators that promote the development of an internal locus of control and critical thinking in students.
This presentation will discuss research regarding racial microaggressions, its impact on mental health, its impact on people of color in the work environment, and how people cope with racial microaggressions. Racial microaggressions cause considerable psychological distress among people of color and are manifested in nearly all interracial encounters. Thus, this program is designed for counselor educators and counselors in various settings and will discuss suggestions regarding education, training, and research in the helping profession to implement with people of color.
Low-income families move more often than higher income families. Unfortunately, factors such as unaffordable housing costs, loss of employment, and the lack of a safety net compels them to relocate. The children of these families often struggle in the new school environment where the rules and social norms are different. Through acculturation, these families, in order to establish a socially acceptable pattern of behavior, often experience conflict when trying to find a balance between the dominant culture and their own culture. Implications for school counselors will be provided.
This presentation will focus on the psychodynamics of acculturation and its inevitable psychological distresses. Participants will learn about the stark realities that co-existence of all different ethnic groups in every society remains a painful experience. The reasons for oppressive relationships, a high degree of alienation among different cultures, and learned helplessness among minority groups will also be explored. Various prevention and intervention strategies for counselors will be discussed.
This presentation explores the experiences of two students, one in Italy and one in America, engaged in international video counselor supervision and training using Skype and related technologies. The presentation discusses the multicultural benefits of this form of live, international supervision and training and suggests strategies to improve challenges to the learning environment of international video supervision and education for all those involved. Audience participation is encouraged.
Feminist supervision challenges traditional models of clinical supervision encompassing a hierarchical, individualistic approach because it examines the role of power and privilege within the supervisory and counseling relationships. The goal of this presentation is to define feminist supervision and review its process and dimensions, explore the role of power and privilege in relationships, and outline ways that counselor educators and supervisors can attend to diversity and engage in advocacy.
Counseling students need to be skilled in developing treatment plans that take into account clients' manifestations of culture and diversity. In this program, faculty members from Wake Forest University will share examples of how they use multiple approaches to infuse multiculturally-based treatment planning across the curriculum. Participants will have an opportunity to share ways that they teach treatment planning in their counselor education programs. We will compile ideas and activities discussed during the program and e-mail descriptions to all participants.
This session will focus on the personal faith journeys of three distinctly different women in counselor education who each ground their commitment to social justice in their spiritual and religious beliefs. Their personal journeys reflect the intersections of multiple identities related to not only religion and spiritual development but also race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and life experiences. These perspectives will provide a framework for considering the challenges and opportunities for exploring religion and spirituality in counselor education as well as an invitation to participants to engage in dialogue with each other regarding their own journeys and positions. The session will also provide opportunities for participants to reflect on bridging the ASERVIC Spirituality Competencies and the ACA Advocacy competencies in the preparation of the next generation of counselors.
This experiential presentation will demonstrate the use of Sandtray as a tool in the supervision process. Participants will be guided through the steps needed to utilize this playful and non-threatening technique as a tool for bringing counter-transference and cultural awareness to the surface.
Thursday October 17, 2013 12:00pm - 12:50pm MDT
Centennial D
Group dynamics can affect a class's ability to achieve its educational goals as well as a supervision group's overall efficacy. We conducted a phenomenological study of six Master's-level counseling students whose goal was to create a course. In the process of observing the students' behavior, we witnessed all six group members take on roles that affected the group dynamics and the learning environment. As counselor educators and supervisors, it is important that we recognize these dynamics, understand their effects, and know how to manage them appropriately.
Though our profession has made significant strides in the areas of multiculturalism and social justice embracing and affirming diversity in ethnicity, culture, gender and even sexual orientation, religion and spirituality have often remained an unspoken exception. This educational session will review our profession's spiritual competencies, summarize current research, present cutting edge practice, and facilitate an open discussion on the benefits and roadblocks to becoming more spiritually competent counselors.
Culturally competent clinical supervision is essential to counselor training. For counselors working with those living with HIV/AIDS, it can provide opportunities to explore their own attitudes about and relationship to HIV/AIDS issues and understand the cultural and social context in which they exist. This workshop will provide counselor supervisors guidelines for addressing the cultural implications of HIV/AIDS with counselors-in-training. A 4-stage developmental model designed to increase cultural responsiveness in supervisors will be introduced.
This "hands on" workshop will explore ways to teach diversity through experiential learning approaches. Workshop leaders will lead participants through a number of experiential activities designed to enhance diversity appreciation. Activities will focus on the eight categories of the "GARREACS" model (i.e., gender, ability, race, religion, ethnicity, age, class, sexual orientation). Participants will learn about various cultures through food, music, dance, rituals, cultural symbols, and travel.
Presenters will address the training needed for counselor educators to promote coursework in play therapy. Participants will learn how to develop a curriculum in play therapy, infuse issues of diversity into the curriculum, and discuss strategies for developing a Play Therapy Center.
This presentation addresses the need for counseling students to comfortably work with client dreams in a culturally appropriate manner and grounds dream work in an empirically based therapy. Clara Hill's cognitive experiential dream work and its integration into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) will be examined in depth. To increase understanding and applicability to clinical supervision and counselor training, case examples and demonstrations will be used to clarify steps and identify specific considerations in the approach.
Alwin E. Wagener, Ph.D., NCC is a passionate counselor educator who comes from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He believes in cultivating a rich classroom environment in which student experience, course information, and counseling approaches are integrated, and he looks... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2013 12:00pm - 12:50pm MDT
Granite B
Trauma survivors are a unique client population that requires specialized knowledge and multifaceted considerations, yet changing DSM definitions of trauma and PTSD have marked implications on training students to work with traumatized clients. Through lecture and discussion this presentation will explore the DSM-V definition of trauma and PTSD and elucidate implications of these changes on training students to effectively assess for, conceptualize, and work with trauma clients, as well as discuss potential ethical dilemmas engendered by such changes.
The purpose of this study was to examine how training, perceived competence and workability, and knowledge of referral resources impact how counselors work with male sexual assault survivors. It was hypothesized that counselors, by in large, would have minimal training, low perceived competence and workability, and minimal identifiable resources for heterosexual male assault survivors. The audience will have a chance to examine their own preparedness to work with male sexual assault survivors.
How does a counselor maintain their capacity for genuine empathy while working with trauma survivors without experiencing secondary trauma? Clients are experiencing traumas such as childhood sexual abuse, combat trauma, and home invasion to name a few. The purpose of this session is to discuss how to attend to one's empathic capacity. Program objectives include identifying empathic capacity, exploring the impact of clients' stories, recognition of early warning signs, and creation of a personal empathy care plan. A lecture/discussion format will be utilized.
The purpose of this presentation is to: (a) introduce the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, (b) review research investigating counselor education doctoral students' research competencies and scholarly productivity, and (c) offer practical implications to counselor education preparation programs to support their students' success.
Supervisors frequently report students' inability to conceptualize client issues from a theoretical perspective, and to articulate how that helped to inform the client's treatment plan. Students seem to have the pieces, but lack the ability to bridge them into conceptualization. What else besides practice integrating knowledge was missing? The answer seemed to be that students were not thinking critically. According to the classical philosophers, to know others we must first know ourselves (Levy, 1997). Discussion will prompt strategies to promote critical thought.
Professor & Director of Counselor Education & Supervision Program, Argosy University
I am passionate about the advancement of Counselor Education. To that end, I am actively involved in Doctoral training, including supervision and research. I oversee CACREP programming for CMHC & CES.
Diversity of childhood environments provides critical disparity in terms of attachment, neurodevelopment, and the ability to respond to life crises. Individuals struggling cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally often have experienced some form of childhood maltreatment. Counselors need to be aware of the prevalence and impact of developmental trauma and be able to implement effective strategies for positive change. This presentation will examine standards for training trauma-informed and trauma-competent counselors.
Assessments are frequently utilized in the counseling of individuals of diverse backgrounds and identities. Due to the need to cover a wide breadth of material in counseling assessment courses, there is often little opportunity to process effective implementation of assessments in counseling. Counseling supervisors are critical agents in the development of supervisees' skills in this area. Strategies for facilitating positive growth in supervisees will be the focus of this presentation.
Presenters will share their experiences participating in a hybrid cohort Counselor Education and Supervision PhD program and how cohesion was created despite diversity and separation by four time zones. Current PhD students will discuss how they created unity with each other and developed a sense of belongingness within their program. Faculty members participating in or considering a similar cohort structure, along with current and prospective students, are invited to join the discussion.
First year doctoral students share their global counseling experiences, from countries like Haiti, Turkey, Brazil, and the U.S. Sharing these experiences will bring about multicultural awareness for counselor educators on how counseling is viewed around the world. With the demand of multicultural awareness in counseling, and ACA's initiations in the area of global counseling, it is essential that we bring awareness and knowledge to how counseling is perceived in other countries.
National and international crisis events continue to elevate the need for an adequate response from the mental health community, especially among children and adolescents of all diverse identities and backgrounds. With the growing expectation for counselors to be trauma-informed, it is important for counselor educators and supervisors to promote core constructs with this review of the literature, and through discussion of personal experiences in the field.
Experiences of personal crises are not isolated to the clients served by counselors in training. Often times, students in counseling programs experience tragedies that challenge or block their professional and personal growth and extend beyond the individual to parts of the program. The presenters will share the results from their research study which investigated counselor educators' reports of student crises encountered, best practice interventions, and effective departmental approaches.
As the field of Counselor Education & Supervision grows and changes, trends in hiring practices can be identified. Some easily recognized practices are the requirement of applicants to provide a teaching philosophy and/or research statement as part of the application materials. Presenters will provide the rationale, developmental nature, and benefits of maintaining a teaching philosophy and research statement, as well as strategies for developing both.
Supervision has always been a crucial component of counselor training programs. This education session presents a unique supervision method being used in an accredited counseling program in Israel. Special emphasis is given to the ways this method implements counseling skills and facilitates students' self monitoring and self awareness.
This interactive presentation addresses the following needs of doctoral students and new professionals: managing a doctoral committee, choosing a dissertation topic, utilizing the support of the cohort model, and writing effectively. Participants will be provided with a summary of the presenters' fifty tips and tricks. The implicit and explicit demands of a doctoral program will be explored in relation to personal and professional growth.
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the important of assessing and understanding the individual personality differences between novice and experienced supervisors in triadic supervision. Two doctoral students and a faculty supervisor will share their triadic supervision experiences developed based on individual personality differences assessed through Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) that successfully deepened the supervisory working alliance. Participants will gain experience from cross-cultural perspectives on developing supervisory relationships.
By recognizing the importance of trauma education and its impact on counselor competency, we will include in curriculum development the aspects of trauma-focused treatment including awareness, knowledge, and skills. Counselor awareness will be heightened through didactic and experiential activities. Central to trauma-curriculum are a theoretical understanding of trauma and the components of trauma treatment. Additionally, as part of counselor competence and self-efficacy, trauma-focused supervision will be addressed.
College students often experience high stress and exposure to high risk behaviors often related to mental health issues. This roundtable discussion will address the need for increased awareness surrounding suicide and related mental health issues on college campuses. Real world experiences will be shared by grant awardees of the Garrett Smith Lee Campus Suicide Prevention Grant. Campus-wide data collection, building infrastructure, and prevention strategies on a four- year commuter oriented college campus will be discussed.
Presenters will highlight and provide examples of how psychodrama and role play (which will be used interchangeably) can be used in the pre-practicum setting to enhance counselor growth and development. This program will share how these modalities can provide a transformational growth experience for emerging counselors in training.
Recent court cases (Ward v. Wilbanks et al. & Keeton v. ASU) have highlighted the need for counselor educators to clearly articulate the difference between values and competence issues as well as what discrimination can look like in the referral process. This presentation will give a brief overview of the issues, review recent court cases, and discuss the concept of teaching bracketing values and the use of bracketing in ethical decision making.
We welcome all graduate students to attend the graduate student meeting, give your input, and share how graduate students can be served best through ACES. We need your voice to make ACES stronger for graduate students!
This program chronicles the development of a department based counselor education research team (CERT). Authors will discuss how to develop a research team, the benefits, and the potential contributions to the field. The presentation will include a review of the team's website, current projects, video feedback from research team members, and technology resources utilized. This program will be interactive and participants will have the opportunity to be added to a drop box folder that includes instructions for developing a CERT team, timelines, and recruitment documents.
Counselors are increasingly called upon to document evidence-based outcomes, and to be cognizant of the social justice implications of effective program evaluation. Counselor educators, in turn, are called upon to meet these training needs and at the same time, can and should become key players in critiquing service delivery models at local and national levels. In this program, we will demystify some of the key components of effective evaluation, provide case examples of grant-funded projects, and propose a transformative, advocacy-infused model of program evaluation.
While some counselor education programs still may use the venerable video cassette recorders in their training clinics, as technology moves ahead it is becoming more difficult to find and maintain these devices. In this program many of the current technologies appropriate to counseling supervision will be explored. Various strengths and weaknesses will be delineated as well as a clear articulation of some of the costs involved. Specific questions can be sent prior to the conference as well as asked during the program.
As counseling moves from the more traditional individual models of counseling it becomes important to find ways to find models of counseling that are more collective and holistic. The Collective Gestalt model is an approach that links three ideas. This model is based on an understanding of the embodied self and the importance of considering the relational complexities of Relational-Cultural Theory and how these impact and change brain connections. Techniques to promote this model will be discussed.
This education session will introduce the theory of using photo-journaling in the identity exploration and development of counselors-in-training around social and cultural issues and discuss techniques for application. Details of a qualitatively researched narrative inquiry will be presented as support for the use of photo-journaling in counseling programs.
Expressive art techniques, such as sandtray, can be helpful for supervisees who are visual learners. Sandtray techniques may enhance the supervision relationship in addition to modeling implementation. This interactive presentation is based on current research conducted by the presenter, which will describe the effectiveness of sandtray in the supervision process. Participants will learn creative sandtray techniques to integrate sandtray in the supervision process.
Thursday October 17, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm MDT
Agate A
There have been presentations and publications that focus on the use of reflecting teams (RTs) in the group supervision of counselors in training. Yet little has been presented about the essential role that the interviewer plays in the RT process. The presenters will discuss how the interviewer can help a supervisee explore and articulate concerns in depth, while also setting the stage for a helpful, collaborative RT conversation. Video clips of actual RT interviews will be shown and discussed.
In this educational session, participants will engage in an experiential intervention using pictorial narratives as a means to open up the supervisory conversation to help supervisors facilitate trainees' skills, which can help to build a strong working alliance and promote positive therapeutic outcomes.
Narrative inquiry offers counselor educators insight into the lived experiences of individuals. Come listen, discuss, and react to the ways in which a group of African-American fathers of children with autism spectrum disorders describe their lived experience through their narratives, based on the results of a dissertation study. Using in-depth interviews and analysis of narratives, the findings can help guide future counselor outreach, engagement, and intervention with this understudied population.
Michael Hannon is a counselor with more than 10 years of experience counseling students in educational settings. He is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) in New Jersey, and a certified New Jersey School Counselor, and has the New Jersey Director... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm MDT
Agate B
In our diverse society, religion and spirituality is a vital entity shaping one's life. It gets challenging for counselors to explore the client's issues through a lens of genuineness, especially when their religious ideologies conflict. Though acceptance is not easy, supervisors can create a safe place that can serve as a catalyst for acceptance to be learned. Our purpose is for you to add to your repertoire of supervisory skills techniques from the Father of Acceptance, Carl Rogers. Other strategies to aid counselors in gaining insight into their own biases will be discussed.
Counselor educators are expected to conduct high quality research that results in publication and furthers the evidence-base for counseling. This workshop provides a step by step guide proven successful in developing a model university-school district partnership that allows counselor educators to conduct high-quality outcome research while providing service-learning opportunities for counseling interns to work with diverse and historically underserved populations of children. Summaries of over 30 studies resulting from this model partnership will be presented.
Learn about strategies and interventions which will help support your supervisee overcome challenges related to working with resistant adolescents. Areas discussed will include: brain development, counselor development, multicultural and diversity issues, and what to keep in your "tool box."
This presentation gives a brief review of Kagan's model of supervision and introduces a new step in Kagan's Supervision process. A second aspect of this presentation is based on a research model examining counselor responses, developed by Altekruse (1969). The presentation also discusses a revision of the Counselor Interaction Analysis (CIA) to assist supervisees to identify and develop their theoretical orientation.
Tackling the tenure-track can be a daunting task for students and new professionals. Our panel of presenters will discuss some of the strategies that have helped them to successfully balance teaching loads, requirements for publication and service, while maintaining a strong sense of collegiality and personal wellness. We hope you will join us for this open forum session and bring all the questions or concerns that you have about tackling a tenure-track position, because we had them too!
Minority women entering doctoral programs across the country do so with much enthusiasm, only to learn that they are in unfamiliar territories. Despite their drive and personal determination minority women struggle for multiple reasons to complete the process (for example family and funding matters). Further, when they recognize they are struggling, supports are not readily available. Minority women who have not only started the journey, but have completed their respective programs can be a source of support for those attempting to achieve the same.
Doctoral students in CACREP accredited Counselor Education and Supervision training programs progress through programs at a rigorous pace. The climate of cohorts can impact the ability to build collaborative cultures for learning. The purpose of this presentation is to explore ecological factors that contribute to collaborative cultures for learning in doctoral level cohorts. Tuckman's group development stages will be discussed, as well as how each of the five stages of group development hinge on the multicultural facets of co-horts.
Exposure to and discovery of new technologies by counselor educators and supervisors continues to be a solitary process. Counselor education techys need not be alone. This program will preview methods to find the best and newest technologies available on multiple platforms. A conversation on which types of tech gadgets provide the most flexibility, inside the classroom, during supervision, and via distance will be led. Walk away from this discussion loaded up with the most current technologies for counselor educators and supervisors.
Working on one's dissertation is a long and arduous process. It is important for individuals facing the stress of a dissertation to feel supported and connected, especially with others who are facing similar struggles. This roundtable discussion will highlight the importance of staying connected throughout the dissertation process and it will discuss an example of a cohort of counselor education doctoral students who created a dissertation social support group. Discussion about what other students are doing to stay connected during the dissertation process is encouraged!
Burnout prevention is commonly discussed and stressed within the counseling profession. Master's level and Doctoral counseling students are often under additional stress because of their workload and other life responsibilities, which may impact their academic performance, clinical supervision, and teaching. This presentation will discuss the importance of preventing burnout as a graduate level counseling student and share information on strategies and methods to incorporate to reduce and prevent burnout.
Learning to develop at least one fundable area of research/clinical expertise as a counselor educator; learning external grant writing tips to increase potential for external grant awards; learning how to manage an external grant program and sustain a grant program after funding ends.
Chances are if you develop a research mentoring relationship, your own research skills and competence will increase. Join this unique doctoral cohort to learn about their diverse experiences as research apprentices. The members will share their stories of how their mentoring relationship fostered their research and advocacy competencies. In addition, the cohort will share personal and research based suggestions on how to work with mentors and mentees to foster research development.
This program will discuss an innovative leadership course in which doctoral students developed individual learning contracts, based on self-assessments of their own leadership strengths and weaknesses. Students developed projects and products, selected evaluation strategies, and determined due dates. Projects were uploaded onto individual websites that function as e-portfolios. The presentation will overview the pedagogy behind learning contracts and their application to counselor education.
This session will provide insight from teaching assistants that have participated in the doctoral internship process. The presenters discuss mentorship with non-traditional collegiate populations, report the factors that increased their internship experience, and explore the research on attrition rates in the CES doctoral programs. Teaching assistant's will share diverse experiences of being mentored by various faculty and the process of finding their own teaching identity while practicing on varied platforms; online, blended, and on campus.
Entering the professoriate in counselor education often requires moving to a new location. Following this transition, it is not uncommon for challenges to arise. The goal of this session is to explore ways to adjust to the new setting and connect with others at the university and in the community. This session will explore resources for those in transition and provide suggestions for existing faculty who are welcoming newcomers. /
Whereas the increased focus and attention on social justice and advocacy for clients has become an integral part of CACREP-accredited masters programs, it is unclear whether such emphasis continues to be evidenced at the doctoral level. In this presentation, a research-based foundation will be established regarding the field's current initiatives concerning integrating social justice into counseling programs and how social justice knowledge and information is transmitted at the doctoral level.
First generation and ethnic minority student often navigate multiple identities. These students may feel they are in between two cultures: the culture of academia and the culture of their upbringing. These students also experience a lack of mentors who understand their intersecting identities. This session will give first generation and ethnic minority graduate students an opportunity to share their experiences. Non-minority counselor educators will have the opportunity to gain an awareness of the needs of these students.
This presentation will explore the process of obtaining a job as a Counselor Educator. Presenters will provide information for instructors who want to integrate this element into doctoral curricula as well as information for those on the job market. Depending on what session goers seek, areas discussed could include curricula inclusion; preparation; networking; search tips; cover letter; vitae; interviews; travel tips; and negotiation. Handouts and resources will be provided.
Therapeutic alliance has been heralded a major clinical tool advancing favorable therapeutic outcomes. Despite varied views, the ingredients of successful therapeutic alliance concern the interpersonal "bonds" between therapist and client. This round table discussion will highlight the literature on therapeutic alliance, consider whether clinical training can adopt new techniques to improve skills that support alliance-building approaches, and explore the nature of future research studies that would assist in moving the conversation on therapeutic alliance forward.
This presentation is designed to increase understanding of the dynamics that counselors working in rural environments face. Challenges such as isolation, multiple relationships, and high visibility in the community will be discussed. Strategies for coping with these challenges, as well as how counselor educators can better prepare future rural counselors will also be addressed. Participants will leave with specific examples of rural issues to integrate into their classrooms.
The academic performance of African American students has been examined by numerous studies and many researchers have partially attributed their underachievement to factors such as low academic self-efficacy, stereotype threat, test bias, and institutionalized racism. This presentation will discuss findings from a research study that examined the relationship between perceptions of standardized tests, academic self-efficacy, and academic performance for African American graduate students.
Facilitators will present both social cognitive variables (e.g., self-efficacy, locus of control) and status variables (e.g., emotional support, financial security) related to time-to-degree completion and dissertation completion. Assessment instruments related to dissertation self-efficacy, locus of control, and self-handicapping will be explored, and best practices related to dissertation advising for dissertation advisors will be identified. Doctoral students will be encouraged to explore these areas in detail as they relate to dissertation completion.
This session will highlight the findings of a recent study (funded by ASGW) that compared participant (counseling master's students) experiences in both videoconferencing and f2f groups on several measures including: group relationship, session rating, and the extent to which members felt connected. Results of the study along with implications for counselor educators will be provided.
Ever wonder how well online counselor education programs compare to their traditional counterparts? This session presents research examining the effect of the delivery method (e.g., online, hybrid, or face-to-face) on student learning outcomes, measured through the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examinations (CPCE) scores in one CACREP accredited counselor education program. Discussion will focus on the efficacy of onlne counselor education.
One challenge of online counselor education is integrating creativity in the classroom. This program explores findings from an online board game/survey study examining the extent faculty use creativity in their online classes and perceived barriers to employing creative options within their courses. The presentation will outline the game development, research methods, and findings and inspire faculty to employ creativity in online classes and research methodology.
This program presents research as related to STEM subjects of math and science.The third grade children involved in this investigation are of Hispanic origin. This creative program focuses on increasing young children's interest and knowledge in math and science. In addition, the treatment program emphasizes increasing young children's achievement motivation levels. Video clips and contents of sessions are provided and recommended for counselors to utilize.
Come join an exciting and dynamic presentation which unites a counselor educator, graduate student, and practicing school counselor to discuss evidence-based practices (EBPs). From the educator perspective, creative ideas for exploring EBPs in the graduate classroom will be explored. The student and counselor perspectives will share unique interventions designed to meet the needs of diverse populations. Attendees will gain a broader understanding of the EBP process and will be introduced to researched and evaluated EBPs, thus serving both theoretical and practical needs.
Counselors-in-training are sometimes ill-prepared to meet the writing standards for graduate school. Poor writing skills may be deleterious to students' overall performance in coursework and other professional pursuits. This session will provide a review of the most current research on enhancing writing skills and help counselor educators understand the obstacles that some students may face. Strategies for helping students toward improved performance will be reviewed.
School counselors often experience shifts in professional priorities based on political and social pressures. When following trends in school reform, it can feel like riding on the end of a pendulum swept from one extreme to another. In this presentation, we will present two case studies to illustrate how school counselors can claim a balanced identity. We will also discuss the role that counselor educators and supervisors play in preparing new counselors to seek a powerful sense of equilibrium.
School counselors are being held more accountable for student academic performance and for the college and career readiness of all students. School counselors, therefore, often report that their number one professional development need is learning how to motivate students. This education session will present information on the use of the Stages of Change and the Influencer model to indicate the motivational strategies school counselors can use to influence individual and system change.
Neuroscience is one of the most exciting and relevant fields of study for counselor educators and supervisors interested in incorporating a more holistic and integrated approach in their professional practices. This presentation describes the findings of numerous neuroscience researchers that are relevant for the work counselor educators and supervisors do in the field. To highlight the relevance of these research findings, the presenters will conduct a roleplay that demonstrates a neuroscientific approach to counseling supervision in this program.
The Millennial Generation is the largest generation since the Baby Boomers (Howe & Strauss, 2000), and they present unique characteristics that both enhance and present challenges in supervision. The presenters will address those characteristics, and encourage dialogue surrounding supervision strategies to connect with this generation. The goal of this presentation is not to broadly generalize, rather to promote understanding of this generation. With understanding supervisors and supervisees can have a meaningful and transformative supervisory experience.
One of the most replicated research findings in counseling is that the client's view of the therapeutic alliance is a strong predictor of client outcome. This hands-on training provides valid, reliable, and feasible tools to efficiently gather client feedback in internship/practicum courses that improves trainee effectiveness and addresses program accountability. Specific considerations for using formal client feedback in supervision will be addressed.
Play therapy is an empirically supported invention used to address a number of developmental issues faced in childhood. Through the natural language of play children and adolescents communicate feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Additionally, play therapy provides a culturally sensitive approach as it transcends boundaries such as language, ability, and socio-economic status. This presentation will present an overview of the current literature and history, various applications and techniques, strengths and challenges, and case studies of play therapy in school settings.
As public and legal pressure increases for schools to provide suicide prevention training to all teachers, administrators, and staff, school counselors are the logical choice to step up to the challenge of providing these trainings. Participants will learn how to train school counselors to provide suicide prevention gatekeeper trainings at their schools. The session will provide extensive resources and information as well as a discussion of each component of a typical training program.
This session describes the transformation of the University of North Florida counseling preparation program over a decade ago. Emphasis will be on sharing how the development of key school district partnerships, and integrated extensive field experiences have influenced preparing culturally competent professional school counselors, and responded to underserved youth in local schools. Presenters will present results data and testimonials from school counseling students, school district and building administrators, and practicing counseling from partner schools.
Doctoral students play an important role in the future of counseling research, yet little is known about how doctoral students develop a researcher identity. This study examined the experience of researcher identity development in counselor education doctoral students. Findings will be presented, including how researcher identity changes and how it differs from other identity development processes. Implications for faculty and students will be discussed.
In this experiential workshop, participants will engage in various aspects of a research-based intervention model designed to increase successful collaboration between school counselors and principals. By educating these school personnel about their respective roles, a partnership can be fused. Counselor educators and site supervisors will leave with specific activities to implement in their programs and work settings.
Professor and Department Head, University of Wyoming
School counseling...let's support kids to be their best!
also researching spiritual development of children and adolescents as well as creating caring learning communities online.
Student development issues challenge faculty and administrators to maintain a balance between student competence and professional standards. Training programs have the ethical responsibility to protect the public while promoting student development. Participants will gain understanding of ethical dilemmas encountered in the student development and remediation process as well as evaluate student remediation case studies and assess procedures addressing student issues, fair process, diversity, and interventions.
Dr. Kelly Coker has worked as an assistant and associate professor in CACREP-accredited counseling programs as well as a core faculty member and administrator in online CACREP-accredited counseling programs. Dr. Coker serves as a CACREP board member and site team reviewer. She has... Read More →
Serving the human service needs of our communities in a competent, professional manner is a positive reflection on the profession and programs preparing those professionals. This session will present and examine the Supplemental Standards process instituted by the University of Phoenix that is utilized as an assessment tool, an educational tool, and a gatekeeping tool to assuring that graduates form our programs perform ethically and competently when they enter their communities as professionals.
As Complementary and Alternative Modalities (CAM) honor client diversity by using time-honored, as well as indigenous approaches, counselors will not only need to understand how to introduce the tools to clients, they will need appropriate supervision. This presentation provides an overview and introduction of CAM in counseling & supervision, discusses ethical considerations in supervision, and demonstrates how to introduce a skill in session.
This presentation investigates what role personal values should play in the counseling process by reviewing how other professions have managed this issue, by considering ethical principles, and by assessing the consequences to the client and the profession of incorporating personal values into the counseling process. The importance of developing a statement about the values of the counseling profession to be given to all counseling program applicants will be emphasized.
Spirituality in counseling continues to become more popular. It is important for counselors to become aware of and examine their own spiritual constructions. Reframing spirituality from a theological/inspirational framework to an explanatory framework, inherent to the human structure, which gives meaning to the lives we live, will be explored. Potential impact on awareness of one's spirituality might have on counselors-in-training and subsequently, on their potential to remain client focused, able to affirm diversity without interference of personal bias, will be discussed.
Students often encounter blurred lines when receiving clinical supervision throughout their education. Counselor educators, doctoral students, master students, and post-graduate students may be providing or receiving supervision under indistinct boundaries. This program examines multiple relationships of supervisors that develop as student's work toward licensure. An emphasis from the supervisor's perspective will be provided and discussed along with ethical implications of such relationships.
I am serving as President Elect of the North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and will serve as President for 2014-2015.
I earned my Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of North Texas with a specialization in play and filial therapy. My thirteen... Read More →
Counselor educators and supervisors may use this standard format developed to ensure adherence to the ethics and training standards for group. Whether the counseling program favors the one-instructor or the two-instructor model, counselor educators may include these procedures to address informed consent, multicultural competencies, multiple relationships, group facilitator competencies, and other group ethics and training standards to develop the best group training for counseling students.
Please join us to discuss a creative case study activity that illuminates learning new perspective of laws and morality through comparison of different cultural worldviews. The scenarios are developed from one presenter's experience in Japan as a counseling professional. By using contemporary ethical decision models (Garcia, Cartwright, Winston, & Borzuchowska, 2003; Woody, 1990), you will learn a creative instructional strategy for sound ethical decision making with multicultural sensitivity.
Gatekeeping of the counseling profession is among the most critical ethical and legal concerns among counselor education faculty. In addition to existing research and literature, experience and professional discourse remains the best way to inform practices of gatekeeping and remediation in counselor preparation programs. This roundtable will provide a forum for exchanging practical, proactive, and innovative ideas related to the various stages of non-academic gatekeeping in counselor education.
Clinical work necessarily involves working with diverse client populations whose values and beliefs differ from those of the counselor. One task of the supervisor is to help supervisees accept clients' differences as they grapple with the potential value conflicts that may develop for them. Participants will have opportunities to discuss the challenges of working with supervisees around such conflicts. Upon completion of this session, participants will have new perspectives and ideas about supervision strategies.
As counselor educators strive to infuse material related to multicultluralism and diversity into all courses and workshops we face the double binds of promoting multicultural compentencies and the risk of perpetuating stereotypes. As counselor educators promoting unity while affirming diversity, it is crucial that we recognize the many different dimensions within diversity or the reality of diversity within diversity.
As gatekeepers, Counselor Educators are tasked with identifying and responding to issues that may make an individual unsuitable for the counseling profession. Gatekeeping is especially difficult when working with students who succeed academically but demonstrate deficits in intrapersonal, interpersonal, and clinical skills. This program highlights the challenges associated with non-academic gatekeeping, discusses relevant legal and ethical issues, and offers strategies for successfully identifying and responding to students of concern. Handouts will be provided.
So many times we find students who have committed some form of academic dishonesty have done so for unacademic reasons. When students misstep, we need to approach from a place of compassion, yet strong ethical intent to teach them why their act was inappropriate and how that might be reflected in practice later on. This program will attempt to explore these reasons behind academic misdeeds and the range of responses educators can have to promote learning from such mistakes and building a strong ethical base in these students.
Gatekeeping is an essential component in the counseling profession. At times, students may be in a better position to recognize peers' professional competence problems than faculty members. In those situations, it is important that faculty members respond both sensitively and ethically. In this discussion, presenters will outline a presenter-created model to include students in gatekeeping discussions and facilitate a discussion about how to respond to students' concerns about their peers.
Counselor educators face a complexity of issues related to remediating trainee deficiencies in current educational and cultural climates. Developing formal remediation processes and procedures, coupled with early-intervention strategies, are crucial components of competent gatekeeping. This program will provide attendees with a formal remediation model applicable for use within counselor education programs. Presenters will analyze and apply this remediation model to specific cases from their diverse perspectives as Program Chair, Clinical Coordinator, and Professor.
Limited student awareness of professional identity, potential breaches of client confidentiality, and vicarious liability has raised the potential for ethical violations, particularly in clinical experiences. A social media policy has been developed and implemented in a master's Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. The presenters will review the development, tenets, and implementation of the policy, and initial feedback from students, faculty, and administrators. An example of student remediation will be presented.
As our use of social media increases, we must explore the ways in which this medium impacts and influences the counseling profession. This presentation will present findings from a recent research study that investigated the perceptions and behaviors of counselors and counselor trainees on Facebook. Attendees will discuss the ways in which we use social media. The presenters will provide strategies to assist supervisors and educators in addressing issues related to social media.
This session will tell one counseling department's story of how they intentionally designed their curriculum and developed an assessment tool to address the essential self-awareness component of counselor training. Participants will explore the impact of a series of counselor laboratory courses on graduate students. Twenty-seven graduate students enrolled in Clinical Mental Health and School Counseling programs participated in a qualitative study to assess the impact of the labs.
Externally funded research plays an important role in scholarly and financial development for programs and faculty. However, obtaining and sustaining these funds can be daunting. Session participants will (a) learn strategies towards development of a fundable research agenda; (b) learn strategies to find and write successful grant proposals; and (c) identify and discuss strategies in developing and maintaining a small or large research institute that support sustainable research interests
Our theme "More than a Melting Pot" suggests that the future of the counseling profession depends on whether we can ensure development of diversity and individuality in training mental health professionals. In this interactive session, Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Complexity will serve as a model of measurement of the diverse supervision awareness to provide attendees with strategies to add to their toolkit to enhance their supervision strategies when working with minority counselor trainees.
The presenters provide a step by step guide to develop an Individual Development Plan (IDP) as a tool in supervision for promoting and monitoring growth in Professional Counselor Identity. Using CACREP Standards for Professional Identity, the presenters demonstrate how to use an IDP to successfully engage supervisees in their own personal and professional development. The presenters use IDPs in higher education, however, the tool is useful in any supervisory setting. Presenters will provide data directly from students and supervisors to show the success of using IDPs.
Students often view master's level research requirements as onerous chores divorced from the true work of counselors while also struggling to master academic writing skills. In this session we present a model for a master's level research and writing class that fosters skill development through experiential activities culminating in a literature review assignment. Participants will leave with a developmental model for teaching research and writing and ideas for experiential activities.
Service-learning provides opportunities for counseling students to practice social justice and advocacy approaches. This presentation will present the results of a study assessing the use of service-learning in counselor education, discuss barriers and successes to incorporating it into the curriculum, and suggest future directions for service learning in counselor education.
Ideally, the intern/supervisor relationship is a perfect match. But, what do you do if it gets off to a rocky start? Or, you don't even know where to begin? Learn strategies for building rewarding, reciprocal, supervisory relationships by uncovering and understanding the (un)conscious archetypes at work in supervisory dynamics. This interactive session will include role play and expressive arts activities aimed at promoting empathy, self-awareness, and a clearer sense of one's ideal supervisory relationship, with special attention for supervision issues in school counseling.
This presentation will examine the need, meaning, scope, and the challenges of the globalization trend in counseling. Based on the current literature, the purpose of this presentation is to provide a rationale and to inform the participants on the necessity of internationalizing counseling training and practice. The presentation also will provide recommendations for counselor educators, and a competency checklist for counseling programs that includes best practices and the direction of future research in this area for counselors and counselor educators.
Play therapy is a growing area of interest and is a specific type of intervention that requires training and supervision to be implemented effectively. Play therapy continues to grow out of a need to provide effective, age appropriate, and multicultural interventions to children. In response to the heightened interest, universities are offering courses and supervision experience in play therapy. The goal of this program is to provide participants with specific ideas and materials for planning and implementing their own successful play therapy training intensive.
Explore diverse teaching methods in counselor education during this workshop. We will look at how to accommodate teaching methods through both the traditional and online classrooms to reach an ever-increasing diverse body of students. Additionally, we will focus on how to affirm multiple voices in the educational process through empirically validated teaching methods. Last, we will also look at how counselor self-efficacy can be increased through teaching style.
Relational-cultural theory (RCT) is based on the premise that people grow through and toward relationships within an influential cultural context. An RCT approach to supervision emphasizes the centrality of the supervisor-supervisee relationship as a means by which growth and development are fostered. One central concept of RCT is mutual empathy, which has been shown to facilitate deep and resilient relationships. This core concept and strategies for implementation will be discussed.
The focus of this presentation is to examine how intentional and strategic course and curriculum development can contribute to promoting skill and dispositional character development in beginning counseling students.
School counselors are key components of providing services to students with physical disabilities. This presentation will provide counseling educators with knowledge about facilitating Master's level students' understanding of working with this special population. Presenters will outline the challenges of school counselors working with students with physical disabilities and provide resources for counseling educators to use within their multicultural or lifespan courses.
It is important for counselor educators to have access to current information. Particularly important in social and cultural issues in counseling courses is the use of up-to date information, innovative assignments and projects, and the use of advanced technology and resources. This interactive presentation will provide information from a mixed methods survey focused on pedagogical strategies in teaching social and cultural issues in counseling, information on the perceived most innovative projects and assignments, and information about technology to enhance your course.
Mindfulness offers an effective tool for the professor to enhance student understanding of the counseling relationship. Mindfulness skills help counselors-in-training develop by improving their listening skills, increasing affect tolerance, and enriching student acceptance and sensitivity to diverse clients while providing for a nonjudgmental framework. This workshop targets professors and teachers, however, students are welcome.
Clinical Training Coordinator & Assistant Professor, Regent University
I am the clinical training coordinator for our CACREP accredited Master's degree program (on campus and online). I am passionate about Mindfulness, clinical skills development, and assisting counselors-in-training develop effective methods to help alleviate the suffering of their... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2013 3:30pm - 4:20pm MDT
Agate C
Adhering to ethical standards can be complex when working with multiple children in a group format. Presenters will review ethical concerns related to group work with children, specifically attending to confidentiality and within-group relationships. Additionally, an ethical decision-making model will be taught that was specifically designed for working with children and adolescents. The presenters will encourage participation through discussion and application of ethical decision-making.
Delivering corrective feedback can be a challenge for clinical supervisors. Use of the Corrective Feedback Instrument-Revised can provide an effective tool for supervisors and supervisees to discuss factors that can contribute to their success as a counselor and overcome potential dispositional barriers. Discussion of self-assessment and pre-planning tools for supervisors will be included.
Counselor education training programs provide the personal and professional preparation foundation for counseling students. This program will disseminate five emergent themes from an interpretive case study on how the first year master's level counseling students learn, understand, experience, and apply counseling ethics education to their evolving professional identity and work in the program. The five emergent themes are: education foundation, education integration, education application, education assimilation, and education appreciation.
This presentation centers around the topic of burnout in Counselor Education, focused specifically on the impact of cynicism. Burnout can lead faculty to create mental distance from their work, colleagues, and students. Such disengagement can create an unhealthy environment for students and professional colleagues. Through group dialogue, this presentation will discuss ways to reduce burnout, to improve fit, and to identify and address cynicism through personal and professional connections.
Great clinical sites and on-site supervisors can truly enhance the trainees' professional development. Identifying suitable clinical sites can often be a challenge. This presentation will describe the development of two on-campus clinical sites working with diverse, high risk undergraduates and outline the trainee and client benefits of in-person faculty collaboration with on-site supervisors. Attendees will have the opportunity to dialogue about the barriers and resources for the creation of similar sites in their own institutions.
This program will feature a discussion of uncommon student development concerns and the personal reactions and professional responses faculty might experience in dealing with those concerns. University resources for students will also be identified. The presenters will share insights into their experiences with managing some very unique student issues and will invite participants to engage in a dialogue regarding student rights and counselor educator/supervisor responsibilities.
Case-and-problem-based examinations have been established evaluation tools in many professional schools (law, medicine, business). CACREP accreditation standards increasingly emphasize the generation of competence-based evidence of student performance in core areas. In addition, counselor competency can manifest in multiple and diverse ways. This presentation offers case-and-problem-based suggestions for student examinations from ethics and addictions courses. Specific examples are provided with accompanied rubrics for instructor grading.
Designing a cultural experience abroad is a journey. Presenters will share their experiences and describe an emergent program evaluation model. The model provides insight into basic program design, effective evaluation, and ongoing enhancement of study abroad programs intended to develop cultural competence. Discussion will be generated to reflect on the impact of cultural immersion experiences on individual participants, as well as on the internationalization of the counseling profession.
During this roundtable, presenters will engage attendees in a discussion of attachment dynamics inherent in counselor supervision relationships. An integration of current attachment research that suggests supervisees change their attachments during the process of supervision will be introduced. The understanding of how these changing attachments can be assimilated into a variety of supervision models will be central to the discussion. Implications for counselor training and supervision will also be addressed.
Are you interested in broadening your world view of international students? If so this presentation is for you! Moreover, this presentation will aid counselor educators in applying their multicultural competencies to create international student-friendly classrooms. The participants will learn the overarching understanding of being an international student in counseling departments and possible interventions to help international students overcome some of the barriers.
Effective self care and personal wellness is paramount to being and staying an effective counselor educator and supervisor. We are models for and our intentional practice promotes student learning. The means to this end are as diverse as we are; unity is found in the unequivocal need to practice what we teach regarding self care. This interactive session invites participants to self reflect about current self care, engage in 3 short experiential self care journeys, and gain insight into how others combat the pitfalls of not practicing self care, challenges of practice, and successes.
This interactive workshop will share adaptations of empirically-based, best practices in teaching to the field of counseling education. Specifically, the presenters will share how educational taxonomies and empirical research on effective teaching can support counselor educators with the task of preparing students to achieve high levels of cognitive, relational, and affective competence. Presenters will also share gaps in the current knowledge base in effective teaching in counselor education, as well as the diversity inherent in the processes of teaching and learning.
Tenured, women, counselor educators navigate abundant multiple roles, including professional and family responsibilities. This session explores the navigation of multiple professional and family roles, and its impact on overall sense of well-being for tenured, women, counselor educators working at research universities. The literature review, methodology, data collection, analysis, and findings of a qualitative doctoral dissertation focused on women counselor educators' experiences will be presented.
Do you sometimes feel like a dinosaur when it comes to surviving in the fast-paced digital community where you work? Come join us for a program which explores the challenges of unifying counseling education students, faculty, and supervisors in a digitally diverse community. We will explore together how the terms "digital dinosaur," "digital immigrant," "digital native," and "digital savant" apply to the practice of counselor education as well as the challenges and rewards inherent in working in such a rapidly changing environment.
We are told there is no right way to grieve. When a Counseling Department loses a beloved faculty member, rarely is there even time to spend dealing with the loss before moving forward with filling the open faculty line or finding adjuncts to cover classes. The absence of the former faculty can feel like the proverbial "elephant in the room" for both faculty and students. Faculty need time to process the loss and help students adapt to changes in their programs and faculty relationships. Challenges and experiences will be discussed and general strategies for effectiveness will be proposed.
In light of some very public court cases related to dismissal of students from programs based upon personal values that conflict with counseling ethics, how do we work with students in a manner that increases positive outcomes? This session will present information on admission contracts, assignments intended to identify bias, remediation plans, and interventions strategies. Participants are encouraged to interact and share their experiences.
Research in higher education literature suggests that faculty advising is critical in student retention, academic success, and student satisfaction. Surprisingly, there is little reference to the nature of the faculty advisory role in either the CACREP standards or the ACA ethical code (Choate & Granello, 2006). In this session, presenters will provide an overview of the literature related to doctoral advising and engage participants in a discussion related to their doctoral advising experiences.
Third year Doctoral Student/Intern; Doctoral Associate, Graduate College, Western Michigan Uni
My passion for counseling directed me to come to the U.S. from China six years ago. After completing my masters program in counseling at Governors State Uni, I followed my passion to pursue my PhD degree in counselor education at Western Michigan Uni. I love what I have been doing... Read More →
What drives your teaching of master's level school counseling students? How much of what you teach is rooted in CACREP, ASCA, NOSCA, and/or the Education Trust? How much is based on outcome data? Come explore with us what drives your teaching, and how we might navigate the beliefs versus outcome data conversation. Presenters will review results of two recently completed studies that have prompted their thinking about this topic.
An enduring and useful outcome of an introductory counseling class is a sense of cohesion, trust, and mutual respect between students. This program emphasizes ways to help students build their own sense of community from their first course. We discuss how to include experiential activities, process work, and discussion of relational issues in coursework, while covering the required material. We present how such an approach leads to active engagement in other aspects of graduate school, including service , professional engagement, and participation in future classes.
The practices of counseling and counselor education typically involve a number of visual elements (e.g., reading nonverbal cues; PowerPoint presentations; fishbowl exercises). Although these common practices enrich counseling and teaching, they can provide challenges for counselors-in-training with visual impairments (VIs). The purpose of this interactive session is to examine ways counselor educators can adapt elements of their teaching to better meet the unique needs of students with VIs.
With the high cost of textbooks and pressure on universities to reduce student expenses, digital publishing provides an alternative to traditional press in practical and pedagogical ways. This session describes process of producing two eBooks including how the eBooks were conceived, designed, edited, reviewed, produced, and distributed. Attendees will be able to review the project's eBooks and receive a list of low-cost tools with workflow that can be used for producing ePublications.
I am Past-President of NCACES (2012-2013) and Past-President of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (2014-2015). I served as ACA Governing Council Representative from ACES(2016-2022). My scholarly interest includes counselor training with the use of technology... Read More →
Associate Professor, Marshall University Counseling Program
Carol M. Smith is a nationally board certified Licensed Professional Counselor. She is an Associate Professor of Counseling at Marshall University. She holds a Master’s and PhD in Counseling from Kent State University, and a Master’s in Biomedical Ethics from the University... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2013 4:30pm - 5:20pm MDT
Centennial B
Are your trainees prepared to serve the growing population of young children (0-5) and their caregivers who need counseling? We will share the compelling case for why training in Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) is a critical area for counselor education, and why counseling is a perfect fit for the new field. We will outline the key knowledge and skills counselors will need, and will engage in a collaborative discussion of how counselor educators can prepare students for effective ECMH work.
The role of scholar in the professional identity of counselors is gaining increasing attention. Counselor educators are in a unique position to shed light on enhancing practice-based evidence within the counseling profession. This experiential session will review the results of a qualitative study exploring how counselor educators promote scholarship among counselors-in-training.
A difficulty for counselor educators involves teaching effective active listening skills for accurate emotional recognition. Songs can allow for the exploration of emotional content within a diverse cultural context of music. Participants will be provided with results from a qualitative study as well as application and implication information related to this learning tool.
In an effort to provide direction and structure regarding peer feedback, as well as to include supervision in internship curriculum, this counselor educator developed a peer-to-peer approach for applying Bernard's Discrimination Model. Included is a worksheet developed by the presenter, for students to utilize in structuring their peer feedback. In addition to sharing the rationale and process of developing this tool, the presenter will include feedback data collected from multiple internship sections.
Counselors regularly encounter strong client affect and must able to manage their own emotions. Knowledge of emotion regulation (ER) and interventions to build ER may inform the practice of supervisors who work with counselors in training. Join us as we introduce the concepts of emotion regulation, the cultural implications of ER, and evidence-based emotion regulation interventions and then work with us to apply them to supervision.
Although sexism is present in most aspects of our culture due to a masculinist society, of particular concern is how it is expressed within counselor education. Professional counseling literature that examines sexism's influence on women counselor educators is absent. To fill this gap, a panel of women counselor educators link personal narratives of sexism to the examination of sexism in counselor education, and provide action steps to promote gender equality in counselor education. A moderator will facilitate interactive discourse and questions between panel and attendees.
Participants will consider the results of a qualitative study that explored the experience of transformation in counselor training. Participants will consider the merits of seeking a deeper understanding of what individuals experience when their training takes on a transformative quality and significant interpersonal and interpersonal growth occurs. Additionally, strategies of enhancing the transformative potential of counselor preparation will be discussed.
Teaching students to be theoretically consistent counselors while practicing from a technically eclectic ideology can be difficult. Counselors need to act intentionally with outcome-based and theoretically oriented decision making. Interventions used in session must also consider the needs of the client, the therapeutic alliance, client goals, strengths, and readiness for change among other influences. Educators will be presented with teaching activities that will assist in the instruction of students as they work towards becoming competent counselors and supervisors.
School counselors actively engaging in counseling core curriculum allows them to meet the need to work with and positively influence all students. Through the use of an interactive lecture format, this session will explore current experiences in training methods related to core counseling curriculum. Additionally, recent unpublished research will be shared, both qualitative and quantitative, that provides important insight into how to most effectively train school counselors in the various aspects of functioning in a classroom setting.
To develop students' self-efficacy for conducting research, the presenter developed a model to teach a research design course in which students completed a research study. The presenter will share the model with attendees and show images of students in various stages of the process. Examples will be shown of graduate students as co-investigators. After the model is shown, participants will engage in discourse about ways in which components of the course project may also be used toward the tenure and promotion expectations of teaching, research and service requirements of faculty.
Dawnette Cigrand, Ph.D. is an professor and a coordinator of the school counseling program at Winona State University. She earned her M.A. in School Counseling (2000), and her Ph.D. in Counselor Education (2011) from the University of Iowa. She was a school counselor and teacher in... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2013 4:30pm - 5:20pm MDT
Mineral B
As educators, it's our responsibility to provide meaningful coursework and to assess the helpfulness of specific courses. This presentation will share survey results collected to examine how an elective course, titled, "Creativity in Counseling," impacted students' personal creative process and their perceived ability to use creative counseling techniques with clients. In addition, a sample syllabus, examples of students' creative work, and student feedback on the course will also be presented.
Counselor educators have a responsibility to gatekeep for the counseling profession beginning with the screening of applicants for the counseling program. The presenters will discuss data from a recent study regarding the prevalence of admission procedures for master's and doctoral level counselor education programs across the country. Additionally, the presenters will facilitate a discussion about screening strategies and methods for rating applicants.
School counseling students who enter graduate school without a teaching background may be surprised to learn that they are expected to be educators as well as counselors. Additionally, the focus of many counselor preparation programs is on developing clinical skills, not necessarily skills in the classroom. This session will begin to explore the question: "How can we best prepare these students to be effective educators as well as counselors?"
Within recent times, governments have begun focusing on the social-emotional and career development of their students in government operated schools. The effects of globalization are widening the chasm between traditional Caribbean values and contemporary prevention/intervention strategies. Prior to augmenting student support services there needs to be a transformation of the mindset of the peoples of the Caribbean regarding the importance of social-emotional issues as a part of normal human development and school success.
Individuals with disabilities come into contact with stressors that can be compounded through day-to-day interactions with the majority population. The impact for counselor educators, supervisors, and advisees will be discussed in relation to social conditioning, the use of microaggressions, the myth of meritocracy, and ability privilege. The counselor educator and supervisor can assist supervisees in becoming more effective in ethical and culturally competent practices in working with this population.
Counselor educators should serve as healthy and effective role models for their trainees. Well-rounded counselor educators may be more likely to produce well-rounded counselors. Definitions and research of the healthy, respectful, and culturally sensitive counselor educator and supervisor will be reviewed. Participants will be presented with the challenges and misperceptions related to role-modeling healthy interpersonal interactions as counselor educators. Methods for promoting wellness and diversity in counselor training programs will be explored.
Learn about counselor training settings implementing biopsychosocial approaches to patient care within medical settings. The presenters include educators who have developed mental health counseling programs in three distinct hospital-based medical settings: an Alzheimer's clinic, a trauma unit, and a family practice residency program clinic. The challenges, benefits, and feasibility of creating unique opportunities for counselors-in-training in medical settings will be discussed.
The theme of "Promoting Unity While Affirming Diversity" is particularly relevant to the purpose of this roundtable presentation: to provide a forum for dialogue about the benefits and challenges related to effectively integrating varied faculty backgrounds in counselor education programs. The presenters represent four different fields of doctoral study and strive to utilize diverse perspectives to better inform student preparation practices, embodying the cooperation that is possible in a sometimes warring professional arena.
Engaging in ethical gatekeeping can be emotional for counselor educators and supervisors. Because they want to be empathic with students and their struggles, they may become reluctant to engage in gatekeeping and remediation interventions which create an Empathy Veil. This presentation will provide information on the latest research regarding this issue, as well as addressing how diversity confounds this process, and provide participants an opportunity to engage in insightful dialogue regarding the concept of the Empathy Veil.
For early-career counselor educators who did not have much prior teaching experience, the instructor role requires a lot of time, energy, and attention. Experiential learning encompasses an approach where the instructor engages learners in direct experience and then reflects on what occurred. In this roundtable, participants will explore how this teaching approach can help address some common challenges of early-career educators and share ideas for creating a more experiential classroom.
Counselor educators are responsible for introducing their students to the social injustices that have a daily impact on the populations we serve. But facilitating social justice dialogue can be a challenge in either smaller programs or minimally diverse programs for a multitude of reasons. During this roundtable, participants will have a chance to learn from the presenters and one another in how they face the challenges of smaller, less ethnically diverse counselor education programs.
In 2001, the presenters authored "High Tech / High Touch: Distance Learning in Counselor Preparation" for ACES. Over the past 12 years, much has changed in relation to the availability of new technologies and the role of distance learning in many counselor preparation programs. In this interactive session, the presenters will assist participants in considering important issues related to distance learning in the counselor preparation process.
This round table discussion is targeted for new counselor educators employed in positions that involve promotion and tenure. This discussion will provide clarity of the promotion and tenure process as well as provide resources on how to prepare.
While robust, models in counselor education often fail to account for the multiplicity of experience occurring between discrete, objectively defined parameters. This program facilitates discourse related to the ethical and efficacious practice of authentic "selves" as counselor educators. Roundtable discussion will center on utilizing unintended critical incidents in clinical interactions, multiple relationships, supervision, course instruction, self-disclosure, and administrative structures.
Dr. Jessica Lloyd-Hazlett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling at UTSA. She took her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the College of William & Mary. She is a licensed professional counselor supervisor, specializing... Read More →
Graduate education will substantially change by 2025. New pedagogies, advances in technology, and global environmental and social changes are already part of higher education planning and thought. What skills, knowledge and experiences will 2025 students have? What changes will we need to make and how will counselor education honor and strengthen the counseling's core values? How and what will we teach? This presentation will foster a discussion about the future context of counselor education, the students we will serve, and our clients' needs.
Join us for an interactive session discussing the intersection of expecting academic excellence and creating an atmosphere to support positive faculty evaluations. Facilitators and participants will dialog about the moral dilemma and anxiety of valuing academic rigor while balancing student receptiveness to high standards, hard work, and critical feedback.
Diversity continues to increase in college and university classrooms across the United States. This diversity is represented by the increased enrollment of international students and the hiring of an increasingly diverse faculty population. This workshop will explore the obstacles and the unique opportunities for effective learning between: (1) international students (whose first language is not English) and native English Faculty as well as; (2) non-native English speaking faculty and native English speaking students.
This presentation describes a Photovoice project in a Counseling Ethics course to provide pre-service counselors with practical experience in advocacy through the use of photographs and narratives. The presenter will share specific strategies that counselor educators can use to help promote their students' critical thinking development and motivation to engage in social action. Further, graduate students will share their experiences to demonstrate the impact the Photovice project had on each of them.
The release of the 2009 CACREP Standards represented the first time that addiction issues were integrated into the core curricular requirements for all counseling students. This poster presents the findings of a content analysis of key conferences and professional journals in the immediate years prior to and after the release of the 2009 CACREP Standards to examine the coverage of addiction issues. Findings and implications for counselor educators and supervisors will be presented.
Are you a counselor educator who would like to see your students be able to work with Medicare clients when they graduate? Are you concerned that many underserved populations who rely on Medicare cannot be seen by a counselor? This poster will help you learn how students can advocate individually and/or with a group (your classroom or CSI chapter) at the federal level so that counselors can be reimbursed directly for their work with Medicare clients.
Learn how to use comprehensive career counseling course assignments to assess student learning outcomes across multiple CACREP career development domains. Examples of two assignments which "do it all" and assess student knowledge and skills pertinent to standards such as career development theories, occupational information, program planning, multicultural issues, assessment, and career counseling skills will be discussed. Instructions and rubrics for the assignments will be provided.
This presentation will bring to light issues that professional counselors and counselors-in-training are experiencing on a daily basis with regards to the counseling profession in Greece. This presentation will not only shed light as far as the counseling profession in this country, but it is also hoped to open further discussion in regards to the counseling profession in Greece on an international scale.
Tragedies like those in Aurora and Newtown have associated mental health and violence in the national conversation. Some call for more involuntary treatment. Others argue that a focus on the mental health status of perpetrators further stigmatizes people with mental health diagnoses, most of whom are not violent. As leaders in the field, counselor educators need to be aware of the variety of perspectives on these issues. This presentation will provide an overview through a review of the empirical literature on forced treatment and offer suggestions for best practices.
The presenter will define moral injury as it relates to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. The presenter will also define Schema-focused Cognitive Therapy for participants. The goal of this presentation is to increase awareness about the use of Schema-focused Cognitive Therapy as a possible treatment for veterans returning from combat and deployment situations. The objective is to utilize this poster presentation to engage participants in discussion with regard to how counselor educators and clinical supervisors may introduce this approach to students and supervisees.
The K-8 Explorer Program at Lewis & Clark College was developed to invite K-8 schools to experience college life. Priority was placed on engaging students who were low-income, first-generation, students of color from elementary/middle schools in the Portland-metro area. Development included gathering stakeholders, curriculum development, involving undergraduate and graduate students as leaders, campus event coordination, budget development, and ongoing assessment. Details of development, outcomes, lessons learned ,and future goals will be presented.
In order to maintain the CACREP standards regarding educating students in prevention, advocacy, and neurodevelopment, it is vital that counselor educators be equipped to train students in the basics of neurodevelopment, brain health throughout the life span, and alternative treatments to medication. This presentation includes practical guidelines for brain health, and describes current research on alternative therapies and their effectiveness with various disorders in both adults and children.
Over one million Americans are currently living with HIV, and each individual experiences HIV/AIDS within some family context. Public policy has galvanized efforts to reduce infection rates and improve health outcomes; however, few of these efforts have targeted or incorporated families of HIV infected individuals. Family counselors can provide mental health support for individuals and families impacted by HIV/AIDS as well as serve in an advocacy role to both benefit families and address the goals of public policy.
Technology can play an important role in managing the program assessment process of counselor preparation programs. This session will review various tools that can be used throughout the assessment cycle in order to transform data into information that can be used for program improvement.
This presentation is relevant to increasing multicultural diversity and competence in the area of working with religious diversity as well as diversity in sexual orientation. In a broader sense, this seminar further strives to bring awareness of counselor's ethical responsibility in respecting and promoting the welfare of all clients regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or religion, and ways that we may foster these areas as counselor educators.
Training in multicultural education and social justice advocacy are integral to counselor preparation; however, counselors report they do not feel prepared to work with diverse populations upon graduation (Holcomb-McCoy & Myres, 1999). The goal of this program is to introduce an empirically supported service-learning model that engages counselors in-training in working with refugees in the local community. Additionally, the presentation addresses optimal timing for introducing such a challenging and potentially growth-oriented experience.
Understanding how African women transition into the US successfully is an important issue for counselors and counselor educators to explore. Focus on African women in particular is important due to the silenced nature of their voices in a variety of issues that continue to plague many African countries. African women in transition may need support in navigating a new culture, society, and possibilities for their place as women. As counselors, we are positioned to offer aid and guidance for these issues due to the nature of our training, ethical codes, and overall mission.
Counselor education programs are directly impacted by Title IX and the Clery Act's mandatory reporting requirements. Due to the Penn State scandal, these policies are being enforced more rigorously. Balancing reporting requirements with ethical expectations for informed consent and confidentially presents challenges in didactic and clinical coursework. Finding a balance that protects student/client privacy rights involves proactive advocacy with university officials to establish policies specific to counselor education. A sample policy will be presented.
The world of college is daunting for most students, but for African American males the challenges can seem insurmountable given multiple minority status in these environments. This program addresses the manner in which counselors in a college setting can help African American male students to overcome obstacles, particularly those presented by ADHD. You will learn the social, cultural, and neurobiological factors associated with ADHD, and leave with the tools necessary to help your students succeed.
Muscle Dysmorphia is a proposed DSM V specifier for body dysmorphic disorder. A research study was conducted to acquire current consensus regarding the perceptions of muscle dysmorphia among males and females as well as attitudes of weight-lifters.
This presentation will focus on providing career counseling and career development services to incarcerated high school students. This session will provide information and increase awareness on working with this population, as well as implications for career specialists, counselors, and counselor educators.
Some faith-based students and clients adhere to an ideology called "Giving it to the Lord." This belief provides clarity and stress relief to problems encountered in the person's life. Unfortunately, a number of counselor educators sometime struggle with understanding this conviction, and perceive it as a method of avoidance. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an understanding of the phenomenon and show similarities this ideal has with cognitive-behavioral strategies.
Supervisees are provided with opportunities to incorporate academic content, as well as learn something new about themselves, particularly through awareness of countertransference. This is a normal, yet often uncharted territory embarked on by supervisees and their supervisors. The program will include (a) a discussion about how participants have helped supervisees work through countertransference; (b) an EMDR-based activity meant to build intra-personal awareness; and (c) demonstration.
The Latina population suffers from high mortality rates of breast cancer and experience psychological and spiritual distress in comparison to other minority populations. This presentation reviews the cultural barriers and cultural norms to help Latina's diagnosed with breast cancer using an existential framework. The presenters will offer strategies for counselor educators and their students' on how to effectively provide psychoeducation and counseling services for Latinas with breast cancer and their families.
ACA, ACES, and other organizations call for exploring an understanding of how sex offenders are viewed, classified and understood, yet many of our peers, treatment providers, faculty, and supervisors have received minimal information and training on how to best understand a sex offender. Counselors and treatment providers can utilize this information to assist with their assessment, treatment, and classification of sex offenders. Thus, impacting how society views, labels, and places a stigma on sex offenders as a collective population.
A recent study on the relationship of breathing patterns and reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, and alexithymia will be desribed. In addition to breath patterns and symtpoms of distress, participants will learn about breath assessment, heart rate variability, and breath observation. Participants will also learn about the relevance of breath assessment and intervention in counseling and counselor education. Methodological challenges in breath related studies, limitations, implications for counseling, education, and future research will be discussed.
Several qualitative research studies exist on the experiences of Overeaters Anonymous (OA) members; however, males are vastly underrepresented in the literature. The purpose of this research presentation is to seek an understanding of how male OA members experience disordered eating. Potential similarities and gender differences are examined in the hopes of contributing to the current body of knowledge from a multicultural perspective.
Chronic pain is an emerging area of concern for children and adolescents that is often minimized in the healthcare profession. This session will provide a brief overview of chronic pain, its impact on children and adolescents, information about current treatment modalities for children and adolescents who suffer from chronic pain, cultural implications, and recommendations for using Integrative Play Therapy and Expressive Techniques to help this population cope with chronic pain.
This session includes an overview of the research project, Mothers in Fragile Families and Mental Health Counseling: Long Term Effects on Depression, Stress and Anxiety. Using data collected from the Fragile Families and Wellbeing Study (n=4,898), the researcher explores the long-term effects of depression, stress, and anxiety of single mothers who received counseling versus those who did not. Outcomes of the study as well as implications for counselors and future research are discussed.
The performance and advocacy of school counselors working with at-risk students from culturally diverse backgrounds are contentious. Therefore, this presentation serves to inspire the professional stamina and growth of school counselors by providing specific strategies, skills, and examples of how to support African-American and Latina female high school students from low income or first generation families.
Clinical supervision is a key component in the professional development of counselors and counseling interns. Understanding the meaning of supervision for supervisees provides insights into developing relevant education and training. Researchers used a phenomenological approach to examine the supervision experiences of mental health counseling internship students. Five themes, what I need, what I got, what my supervisor does, what I do, after internship, and one essence, who I am/what I am and how I find my way described the experiences of these interns.
This presentation will focus on the positive impact of service learning advocacy projects on counseling students' multicultural awareness during their master's counseling program. The presentation will also focus on the varying definitions of service learning/advocacy projects and will present several effective ways to create them for students. The presenter will discuss best practices when beginning to build connections with community support agencies and organizations located in neighborhoods in need.
Dr. Donna M. Gibson is a professor of counselor education in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Counseling and Special Education in the School of Education. In her 22 years as a counselor educator, Dr. Gibson published multiple books... Read More →
Students of color are not immune to the effects of racial trauma. Moreover, students of color can present with unique resistances to multicultural training. This presentation focuses on how counselor educators can identify student resistance and racial trauma. Recommendations for how educators can improve the multicultural learning space for students will be discussed.
A model of teaching and learning group counseling in a way that focuses on learning and practicing group skills as well as developing one's self-awareness will be presented. Students have opportunities to co-facilitate a group with supervision and to function as members of the group. Experiential approaches are emphasized as a way for students to become actively involved in learning how groups function. Ethical aspects of managing multiple roles and maintaining boundaries will be discussed.
With the release of the third edition of the ASCA National Model, counselor educators are reminded of the significance of helping students understand and implement the model in their practice. However, teaching the model can be challenging, especially when students do not see how it is implemented in the field. The purpose of this program is to better understand students' needs in understanding the National Model, as well as sharing successful pedagogical strategies for teaching the model.
Faculty from an existing 60-hour master's in school counseling will share the philosophy, development, and implementation of an online EdS in Counseling. Requiring students to be fulltime school counselors with 2 years experience, the program enhances counselor identity and practices through ASCA model implementation. Students research, create, implement, and evaluate projects to enhance services; engage in statewide networking and peer supervision, and advocate for their students and profession.
This presentation explores the supervision experience of Master's in counseling students and counselor educators in the online setting. The goal of this program is to equip counselor educators in the online environment with skills and strategies for effective supervision of online counseling practicum students and interns at the Masters level. Various techniques for distance counseling supervision will be discussed. The presenters will also discuss the findings of an empirical investigation on the effectiveness of online versus traditional Master's in Counseling programs
The development of a professional counselor identity is a central goal across counselor training programs. While this process is intense for all counselors-in-training, it is clear that trainees differ in their willingness to engage in it. This presentation will introduce Beronsky's (1989) identity style theory, and use it as a framework for both identifying different trainee approaches to counselor identity development, and developing interventions for fostering engagement in this process.
Online learning has been increasingly incorporated into many brick and mortar institutions, and in some cases becoming a viable alternative to traditional universities. However, online education is more than just doing everything an educator does in a classroom but online. In this presentation, participants will learn how to successfully design and implement an online counselor education course through cultivation of personal and professional characteristics which lead to successful education of neophyte counselors through online learning environments.
Understanding the unique needs of diverse clients is critical for child counselors today. However, limited research exists on multicultural dimensions in child counseling. The presenters will discuss the methods and results of their systematic review of multicultural child counseling research literature including which dimensions of culture were addressed, the extent to which the dimensions were addressed, the methodology used to investigate the dimensions, and the historical trends in published studies. The presenters will outline recommendations for future researchers.
International immersion experiences increase the levels of empathy and multicultural awareness in counselors-in-training. The presenter offers a comparative analysis between the traditional multicultural courses offered in the classroom vis-a-vis multicultural courses taught abroad. The presenter establishes an argument in favor of the renovation of the multicultural curriculum and the mandate of international experiences as part of counselor education programs. A pedagogical implementation model of international initiatives will be provided.
This session will take a closer look at the counseling field and its need to increase diversity through recruitment and retention of African American faculty and students. The session will highlight the historical journey and how it plays a part in the challenges faced by African Americans in counselor education programs. By improved strategies, African Americans clients and students will be able to identify with professional counselors and brings inclusion and diversity, in hope for cohesion amongst the counseling profession. The presenters are equal contributors of this session.
Counselor educators have an opportunity to use emerging neuroscientific research to foster intentionality in their students as well as in their own clinical practice. The application of neuroscience to counselor training can lead to improvements in the effectiveness of counseling interventions, the therapeutic relationship, and the long-term benefits of counseling. Through lecture and group discussion attendees will be introduced to the neuroscience of counseling and effective ways of integrating this knowledge of the brain into their work with students and clients.
Counselor educators and supervisors help students and supervisees to get in touch with emotions and thoughts that are out of their purview or that they cannot share. Counselors access this information by paying attention, comparing verbal with nonverbal behavior, and through discernment, a form of knowing obtained through concerted attending and disciplined subjectivity. Participants will learn to understand and begin to practice discernment skills relevant to every culture so that they are able to assist students and supervisees to understand and practice discernment.
Participants will leave this session with an understanding of how sport can be a mechanism through which positive youth development and college readiness occurs for Black males. Specifically, participants will be better equipped to train pre-service school counselors to support the college readiness of Black male student-athletes. Future research will also be discussed.
This program reviews ongoing research on how Strength-Based Assessment can be used in experiential learning assignments for counseling students, including examples of its application in pre-practicum and family counseling coursework. Its potential to address the ethical and liability concerns involved with pre-internship students working with outside clients will also be discussed.
This program focuses on study abroad as a means to foster intercultural competence of counseling students and alumni. Through the findings of several research studies, participants will learn about international immersion experiences for counselors in training nationwide. Challenges and opportunities in integrating study abroad will be discussed. Counselor educators engaged in similar work and those who seek to introduce international experience will find the program relevant and informative.
As globalization increases, counselor educators need to teach and develop student's ICC (ability, attitude, awareness, behaviors, knowledge, skills, and values). Study abroad can enable future counselors to work with diverse clients around the world. Review of this study will: 1) validate the need of developing ICC; 2) develop, plan, and assess study abroad programs/courses; and 3) understand the developmental process of ICC in students.
The findings of a qualitative research study exploring the perceptions of Master's level counseling students who participated in the Project Learning Around The World (PLATW) trip to South Africa in 2011 will be presented. Five themes emerged: (a) Preconception: Until we went beyond; (b) Cultural Shock: Trying to wrap our heads around; (c) Assimilation: Putting things in perspective; (d) Readjustment: Returning home, and; (e) Multicultural Competency: Personal and professional growth.
CACREP requires that counseling students apply therapeutic skills to a wide variety of clientele. One important component of this is the ability to accurately assess and track the symptomatic and functional impairment of their clients. This poster will review the results of the utilization of the PCOMS system by graduate level counseling students at the University of Phoenix's Phoenix and Las Vegas campuses, with a particular emphasis on the differential outcomes for initial symptom severity, gender, ethnicity, and age for student and community member clientele.
This presentation will outline a proposed method for teaching an advanced techniques class which addresses students’ concerns regarding conceptualizing, treatment planning, and developing a theoretical orientation. We will discuss the outline of the syllabus, the rationale for the flow of the semester, proposed assignments, and resources to offer students. Finally, we will share student feedback about how the class impacted them.
This presentation will be both didactic and experiential. Participants will be presented with information on how Jamaicans conceptualize mental health, terms used to describe symptoms and behaviors, and culturally acceptable treatment methods. Participants will then engage in interactive learning with clinical scenarios.
Life in poverty is fraught with challenges that may negatively impact mental health, however, the field of counseling has yet to effectively equip counselors with tools for addressing financial health both in and out of the counseling session. This program will explore practical financial health strategies for helping clients cope with and overcome challenges related to poverty. Implications for counselor education and supervision and future research will also be presented and discussed.
If the words, "Let's Talk" are boring to you, then this session is for you! More and more the creative arts are being incorporated into counseling. This presentation will educate participants about the various types of creative arts therapies, how to easily incorporate the creative arts therapies in counseling or the classroom, including step by step guidelines for interventions, and how to carefully process interventions to ensure learning and goal achievement are the focus of using the creative arts. Interventions utilizing art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, sand tray, and bibliotherapy will be included in the handout.
This poster session gives resources for infusing chronic pain counseling into the curriculum in the areas of assessment, interventions, treatment planning, and diversity. These resources should assist counselor educators in quickly infusing chronic pain counseling into the curriculum at all levels (remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating).
For those counselors interested in working with military service members and their families, four unique Military Family Counseling post-graduate courses (12 credits) are being developed and will be offered online by a national university. An overview of the history behind the development of the courses, an in-depth review of the content of the courses, as well as availability and method of enrolling will be presented.
Children's interpretation of parental conflict determines the child's emotional response to the conflict. Children from aggressive homes tend to be more sensitized to conflict than children in less aggressive homes (Cummings et al., 2007). To date, few studies have explored the link between parental, non-verbal conflict and children under the age of seven. The purpose of the proposed hermeneutic phenomenological study is to explore individuals' lived experiences of parental, non-verbal conflict behavior during early childhood, specifically between the ages of five and seven.
Neuroscience offers counselors insight into promoting development and emotional wellbeing. Much of this scientific knowledge, however, has not been integrated into counselor education curriculum. The presenter will outline principles of interpersonal neurobiology and identify ways counselor educators can teach these concepts. Topics will include brain development, attachment styles, resonance circuitry, neuroplasticity, and emotional regulation. The presenter will also note anticipated outcomes of such instruction.
Limited research is published examining the impact of service learning in counseling programs. Therefore, this presentation reviews the findings from an investigation of the impact of service learning in master's level counseling students who have volunteered as intake specialists at a university clinic (N = 8). The investigation's research methodology and results will be presented in the context of assessing aspects of the intake specialists training and work experience.
An analysis of the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners adverse actions from 2005-2012 against licensed professional counselor applicants reveals patterns of problem behaviors. When compared with behaviors of the other 3 disciplines of behavioral health disciplines, analysis suggests counselor documentation and interpersonal behaviors with clients and co-workers constitute the majority of sanctioned actions. This poster will compare and contrast the outcome data. Based on the counselor data, implications for counselor education and supervision will be addressed.
As technologies continue to proliferate society, the impact of increased technology reliance on social relationships, particularly intimate couple relationships, is just beginning to be understood. This poster will summarize the findings of a survey of adults in intimate relationships that explored the ways in which technology both enhances and hinders intimacy. The implications of the findings for counseling and counselor education will be described.
The purpose of this presentation is to report the methodology and initial reliability and validity of the Counselor Intuition Scale (CIS), an instrument developed to measure the intuitive ability of counselors based upon pattern recognition theory of intuitive expertise (see Kahneman & Klein, 2009). The theoretical foundation of the instrument and the methodology of item selection and analysis will be discussed.
Underprepared college students are a growing population with specific career needs. Relational Career Theory provides a unique lens through which to better understand the impact of family on the career development of these students. The researcher used a quantitative approach to examine family influence, locus of control, and career decision-making self-efficacy of underprepared college students. The researcher will present the findings and the implications and limitations of these findings.
This program highlights the results of an empirical study investigating the utilization of an on-campus counselor training clinic. We will discuss the benefits of a training clinic for a counseling program and its students. Attendees will learn suggestions to enhance research design in counselor education by making methodological choices that may inform research of client outcomes, as well as, improve programmatic functioning.
This session presents some research findings related to group effectiveness in school and mental health settings and includes the role group work can play in the important task of acknowledging diversity issues in our society as a whole. The presentation is designed to help participants find ways around some of the challenges of conducting diversity-focused small groups. Attendees will be invited to participate in experiential activities and to share their ideas pertaining to this very important topic.
This program welcomes counseling professionals and students interested in the experiences of racially diverse school counselors and the idea of allyhood. The presenters will highlight a qualitative, grounded theory study that explored the experiences of school counselors of color in their school environments. Attendees will leave the program understanding the emergent Interaction theory, and will possess ideas and tools regarding allyhood, advocacy for systemic change, and ideas for future research.
Passions include school counseling, leadership, multicultural counseling, pedagogy, creativity -- I think I must be the posterchild for Research ADD (the newest diagnosis in the DSM-V).
Ever feel like you are drowning with student remediation issues? This session will explore a comprehensive framework to structure remediation processes. The presenters will introduce the rationale behind the developmental approach, define levels of intervention, and explore specific intervention strategies. The usefulness of this framework across diverse student learning styles will be explored through examples and discussion. Attendees will leave with additional remediation strategies.
The question of economic factors related to economic factors involved in a person's decision to apply to a counseling program have gone relatively unexamined. These factors are of increasing importance with growing student debt and longer graduate training. Initial research on this topic is described, and possible implications to counseling programs are discussed.
During this interactive and candid educational session participants will gain knowledge on the latest research on LGBTQIQA cultural competency, challenge their bias and increase their own self-awareness about working with LGBTQIQA clients or supervisees, and develop skills on how to infuse more cultural competency exercises into coursework and assignments as well as assessing students' competency about working with LGBTQIQIA clients.
Director Of Outpatient Services, Fellowship Health Resources
Jill M. Krahwinkel was born and raised in Owensboro, Kentucky; the barbeque capital of the world. Growing up she was actively involved in sports including basketball, cross country, volleyball, and track and field. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Murray State... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2013 12:00pm - 12:50pm MDT
Agate C
School counselors are charged to facilitate the academic, career, and personal/social development of all students and delivery of classroom lessons is a key process toward achieving this goal. There has been little focus on what programs can do to promote the essential skill of lesson planning. The goals of this presentation are to provide an overview of the essentials of lesson planning, and discuss methods to facilitate effective classroom instruction for pre- or in-service school counselors.
This interactive presentation is a call to action for stewardship in counselor education by capturing how mentoring is a critical mechanism for promoting the development of future leaders. Demographic trends in counselor education demand our attention on the next generation of leaders. The presenters will overview the hallmarks of successful, sustainable, and meaningful mentoring. The presentation will focus on strategies to enhance effective mentorship from a multidimensional perspective.
We all carry our personal struggles into our counseling encounters, and unless we are adept with managing them, they can color our thinking, emotional reactions, and behavior with our clients. Self reflexivity is a significant tool in becoming effective helpers. Here we present a model of a Person of the Counselor Training Group that emphasizes learning the intentional use of self as-is, focuses on a structured approach to exploring key issues of personal struggle, developing interpersonal skills at managing them, and connecting them to work with clients.
This presentation explores how counselor educators can use didactic teaching and experiential learning to help novice group counselors manage resistance in Asian clients. It uses the results of a dual-method qualitative study on the experiences of resistance and its management by 16 novice group counselors from four Asian nationalities and three Asian ethnicities, who participated in two supervised in-class face-to-face and on-line support groups, as the basis for discussion.
Ask students, clients, or supervisees what they remember most about our work and, more often than not, it will be a particular story we have offered (or one they shared) that impacted them profoundly and enduringly. We will focus on the function, uses, and applications of stories from varied media and how they lead to personal and professional changes. Suggestions are offered for how to more explicitly and strategically use stories to heighten the impact of our work.
Working with a diverse community of faculty and students can encourage unity and multicultural awareness among counselors-in-training. After reviewing research on diversity within counselor education programs, the presenters will share data from interviews with nine doctoral students who identify as racial or ethnic minorities. By hearing these students' perspectives, counselor educators will learn strategies for attracting more students from diverse backgrounds.
In this presentation, the contributors will share their insights from 80 years of experience on topics, such as: (a) specific illustrations and methods of dealing with challenging supervisees, (b) recommended supervision techniques and approaches, (c) essential skills for the repertoires of all counselors, (d) values and attitudes central to effective supervision, and (e) reflections on methods of sustaining high levels of enjoyment in the supervision process.
College campuses mirror the changing face of America. This presentation will focus on current diversity teaching techniques that prepare the professor for a class focused on multiculturalism based on the research literature and successful classroom application. Techniques are presented to facilitate the discovery of similarities within differences. Bringing the focus from external society to the internal world of the classroom allows for a 360 degree exploration of multiculturalism.
Counselor educators must have access to current information in our evolving field. Most important in courses teaching social and cultural issues are the use of current information, innovative projects, and advanced technology. This presentation offers results from a mixed methods study exploring pedagogical strategies for social and cultural issues in counseling, recommendations for innovative projects and assignments, and information on the newest forms of technology to enhance a course.
Supervision is a key component of professional development for counselor trainees and can foster critical thinking, reflecting, and multicultural counseling skills. This presentation will introduce attendees to the reflecting team model of supervision through a focus on the model's history and theoretical foundations and an experiential activity. Presenters will share best practice guidelines for using the model, particularly in group supervision settings.
Many school counselors are not adequately prepared to competently counsel students who are questioning their sexual identity. Stages of sexual identity formation during adolescence will be explained, and presenters will highlight effective counseling goals and strategies at each stage. The experiences of a 15 year old struggling with her sexual identity and her mother, who is a school counselor, will help to illustrate the complexity of working through these issues. The results of this qualitative case study, including interview videos, will be highlighted.
Over the past decades, supervision models have stabilized into three major approaches: psychotherapy-based, developmental, and process models. Further, these have spawned "second-generation" models. A training approach will be presented that assists supervisors-in-training to conceptualize their work across these categories. It will be demonstrated how supervision notes are utilized in a developmental fashion to assist supervisors-in-training to be more intentional in their practice in order to function in a more integrated and balanced approach in their supervision.
I am interested in the preparation of school counselors for work in a collaborative and diverse context. Through supervision and teaching, I aim to honor the development of counselors and work to enhance personal and professional development. I believe in the power of leadership... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2013 12:00pm - 12:50pm MDT
Mineral D
This program discusses the adjustment experiences of master's level counselor education graduate students at a public, urban university. Investigators used experiential growth groups in a group counseling procedures course to help participants explore their lived experiences adjusting to graduate school. Groups varied in format from support groups to psycho-educational groups, depending on group need. Information about these experiences has implications for counselor education programs.
CACREP requires counselor skill outcome measurements for counselor education programs, and ASGW has defined core competencies for leading small groups. This program is an interactive presentation that reduces those competencies to three rubrics and structures the classroom experience to allow each student opportunity to demonstrate their skills and faculty to provide them with feedback. Practical suggestions and materials to implement this structure will be offered, as well as student feedback that has been collected over the past 5 years.
The assessment of counselor competency is central to evidence-based counselor education and supervision. This presentation will present a review, analysis, and critique of quantitative instruments that have been used to measure counselor competence. These instruments will be presented and critiqued in terms of psychometrics, target constructs, format, and frequency of use in the literature. Recommendations will be provided in regard to counselor education program evaluation, counselor performance assessment, and large-scale counselor competence research.
This program will cover aspects of how one department offering three tracks (CMHC, School Counseling, and Addiction Counseling) incorporated CACREP Standards within common core syllabi. Examples of common core syllabi will be provided to demonstrate the incorporation of CACREP Standards across all three tracks, and to include NCATE Standards. Participants will engage in an open discussion of ways to integrating rubrics within syllabi to connect course assignments to SLOs.
During this roundtable session, we will share experiences and facilitate discussion regarding how counseling departments can provide support for international counseling students' experiences and cross-cultural perspectives. This roundtable session would help international and domestic students, faculty members, and supervisors understand the backgrounds, strengths, and needs of their international counseling students and help to create an inclusive environment.
The current "gold standard" in Counselor Education program accreditation is The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). This presentation examines this assumption based on counselor disciplinary data and licensee's training programs from state licensing boards. The presenters will share findings about the relationship between disciplinary actions imposed by the state regulatory board and the licensee's training program accreditation status.
What would it take to create a culture of socially and politically active counselors? This session will discuss advocacy strategies and provide resources to integrate experiential learning into the existing counselor education curriculum to emphasize this aspect of professional identity among new counseling graduates.
Gifted students are often perceived as a homogeneous group of bright students who can easily move through the educational system. However, this is an extremely diverse group, often misunderstood and misidentified, who face a variety of struggles within the school system. Twice exceptional students are at an even greater risk of being misunderstood or overlooked than their peers in gifted or special education settings. This presentation seeks to inform participants of the diversity and unique needs of this population.
More than 2.3 million U.S. service members have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since September 11, 2001. Traumatic Brain Injury is considered by many to be a "signature injury" of the current conflict. This roundtable discussion will explore TBI and the impact on service members and their families. Evidence-based strategies will be identified for counselors who work with this special population. Attendees will leave with specific advocacy tactics and treatment recommendations.
This Roundtable Session will focus on the implementation of the new CACREP 2009 standards with emphasis on developing and integrating Student Learning Outcomes into syllabi, providing data to close the assessment loop. Examples will be shared to accomplish an integration of SLO, assessment, and data collection, insuring successful student training and a strong evidence-based counselor education program. Additional standard related challenges will also be discussed.
Professional counseling is a relatively new discipline in the mental health field. In order to continue growing as a credible profession in the eyes of the public and other established mental health providers, it is imperative to develop a united professional identity. Attendees are invited to participate in this discussion in order to better understand the need for a professional identity, the current barriers to identity development, and ways to promote professional identity in counselor education, supervision, research, and advocacy.
As Counselor Educators, our professional identity is evolving. However, many counselor education faculties are struggling to develop and strengthen our collective identity. The goal of this program is to discuss the challenges as we attempt to move toward a coherent notion of what it means to be a "counselor educator," while respecting and valuing the diversity among our peers.
Current information regarding the current state of self-injury and treatment options will be provided with special focus on adolescents. Strategies to collaborate with clients who are currently self-injuring to help them reduce or abstain from engaging in self-injury will be examined through the use of case examples and role plays.
CACREP accredited training programs are now required to have relevant training in counseling supervision and to provide professional development opportunities to site supervisors. This presentation will overview needs assessment and focus group data from a pilot study to assess site supervisor self-efficacy and training needs. An overview of an online supervision training module being developed will also be showcased. Implications for counselor education and supervision will also be discussed.
A Relational-Cultural Model of Development raises awareness with the goal to introduce students, educators, and clinicians to the complexities of group interaction that is unfamiliar to them. The presenter will share an in depth description of this model; this presentation forum will offer information on using A Relational Model of Awareness Development adapted from A Relational Model of Gender Awareness Development to work with diverse population in various settings.
Classism is common in many cultures. Those individuals may experience social disconnect that could result in mental health issues. Understanding the social effects of classism among various cultures can help provide counselor educators and supervisors with a multicultural framework for teaching classism in multicultural competency training. Come join a discussion of the social effects of classism and learn ways to incorporate it into multicultural competency training.
Counselors expend mental, spiritual, and physical energy in order to provide services to the individuals they are committed to helping. Past studies have also examined how client issues can affect counselor burnout rates. There is a gap in the research with regards to Native American practitioner wellness and the wellness of non-Native practitioners working on reservations. The goal of this presentation is to guide participants through the specific issues surrounding practitioner self-care and wellbeing unique to those serving on Indian reservations in the United States.
The self-study process can be confusing, frustrating, and quite demanding. This round table is designed to discuss how faculty and students in one counseling department worked together on a successful self-study. They will share their perspectives on the collaborative process and building professional identity, as well as provide helpful tips in what to do and what not to do.
Doctoral Student; Research Assistant; LPC-Intern, St. Mary's University
I have a masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas and currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision. I have completed advanced clinical training in Gestalt therapy at The Gestalt Institute... Read More →
This poster session presents the results of a study of doctoral student supervisors-in-training who implemented multicultural supervision with their entry-level practicum students who were assigned to culturally diverse practicum sites. All the supervisors had supervisees who were culturally different from them and all the supervisees had clients who differed from them which made for fertile ground for multicultural training.
Counselors are expected to have significant knowledge regarding ethical and legal considerations for providing effective services to clients. This program will disseminate the findings from a study to measure changes in counseling ethical competencies among counseling students using Counseling Ethics Audit (CEA). The counseling ethics course appeared to support the changes in ethical competency and factors that contributed to the counseling ethics educational transformation will be discussed.
Little research exists regarding career choices counselor education (CE) doctoral students make after graduation. It is not addressed what factors influence their future career plans in academia. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce findings of a research study that explored career choices that CE doctoral students make after graduation and factors that impact their career intentions in academia. This presentation would provide counselor educators with insight on how to utilize information about variables on career intentions in academia among doctoral students.
This presentation will provide objective examination of the diversity between counseling and social work, discuss why each has a unique role in the helping professions, suggest ways that both professions can work together for the benefit of the clients, promote unity between the helping professions, and propose ideas on how counselors can advocate and promote social justice in a way that is unique to the counseling profession.
Recognizing unique needs of international students, emphasizing cultural diversity, and promoting developments of ethnic minority students are important issues of CES programs and faculty. In this presentation, in-depth content analysis of acculturation research, as well as results of qualitative research on international students' adaptation will be provided. Based on the results of this qualitative research, counselor educators and supervisors may gain insights on how their program can help international students grow as competent counselors and supervisors.
A counselor's work with clients includes complex interactions. In these interactions, ethical and legal issues arise that confound their work. However, there are limited methods to assess a counselor's confidence regarding these issues. This presentation describes the development of the ELICSES, including: (a) a description of the scale development and research methods, (b) a presentation of the results from the investigation, and (c) an explanation of implications for counselor education.
This poster session will focus on psychospiritual issues, including the changes in spirituality and meaning-making in Haitian survivors of the 2010 earthquake. Participants' own compelling narratives will create a deeper felt understanding of what it was like to live through a devastating natural disaster like this, as well as the role faith may play in offering coping and other resources. Some of the unique challenges and rewards of conducting research in a country where resources are still limited may be helpful to other researchers.
Preparing students to work with parenting issues from a systems perspective is integral to counselor preparation. This program provides an empirically supported parent training model where counseling students work with family members from a local elementary school to increase caregiver self-efficacy. Furthermore, we discuss service learning as an instructional model, and demonstrate how to empirically assess teaching methodology and apply this information to decision making within counselor education curriculum.
Underrepresented minorities face barriers in the pursuit of doctoral degrees and entering the professoriate. Mentoring models and professional systems of support are effective ways to overcome potential barriers. The presenters and audience participants will (a) discuss research regarding underrepresented minorities in doctoral programs and academia; (b) discuss a mentoring and support model that was developed to increase scholarly activities of underrepresented minorities, and (c) implications for counselor educators.
With suicide as a continuing concern, educators need to address gaps in counselor training to meet CACREP standards and prepare counselors to serve suicidal clients. A Curriculum Task Force defined 7 domains of 24 competencies for working with individuals at risk for suicide (AAS, 2006). Counselors were surveyed about suicide self-efficacy and instructional strategies in their graduate programs. A self-efficacy measure using the core competencies framework was developed and analyzed. This presentation presents findings from the exploratory factor analysis and the survey.
PhD Student, Counselor Education & Supervision, University of Northern Colorado
Five years into my first career in the business world, a set of life-changing events woke me up to the counseling field. In 2005, I completed a Master's in counseling while working in graduate education.After finishing my LPC in a college/university setting a few years later, I opened... Read More →
Doctoral students, University of Northern Colorado
Janessa is a third year doctoral student at the University of Northern Colorado. Janessa is specializing in Children and Adolescents, with a minor in research. Currently, Janessa is supervising masters students in both a clinical external Practicum and in an internal play therapy... Read More →
Counseling students must develop strong suicide assessment, prevention, and intervention skills. Counselor educators need credible resources and information. This cannot be done in a typical 50 minute educational session. Therefore, please come by and pick up a free CD with hundreds of resources, including the latest information on evidence-based suicide prevention programs, assessment methods, strategies for intervention, bilingual resources, and legal and ethical obligations for counselors.
This presentation will demonstrate how props can be used in counseling courses to enrich students' ability to counsel clients from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Props can be used to heighten client awareness, dramatize key points, make abstract concepts more concrete, and enhance learning through experiential activities. The presenters will describe various props, how props can be used with diverse populations, what can be accomplished with props, and how to make or purchase props.
Competent researchers are needed within counselor education to produce quality research and provide empirically-based counseling services for practitioners. This presentation introduces the Research Competencies Scale; an assessment designed for measuring doctoral students' and counselor educators' levels of research competencies (research inquiry, literature reviews, research methodology, processes, research ethics, dissemination of research, and scholarly writing).
When counseling students are identified as impaired, counselor educators are faced with the difficulties of review and retention. An overview will be provided of impaired students, the history of admissions procedures, and the importance of identifying impaired individuals during the application process. The presenter will discuss alternatives for admissions procedures focused on identifying personal characteristics of applicants to better recognize impaired students prior to admissions.
This session will illustrate the preliminary findings of a narrative inquiry into the current state of understanding of counselor educators in light of the ASERVIC Spiritual Competencies (2009). The attendants will gain understanding of the role that spiritual competency plays when instructing master's level students, and be exposed to narratives within counseling curriculum and counseling.
Data gathered from a longitudinal study of counseling students' cultural competence from Spring 2009 to Spring 2012 will be presented. Students completed pre-test and post-test using MAKSS (Multicultural Awareness Knowledge Skills Survey). Samples consistent of data from five classes. As the students completed her/his final internship at the end of her/his program she/he re-took the MAKSS again; preliminary results will be shared.
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are science fiction books based on two different main characters but the same events. Students were assigned a book, given discussion questions, and asked to apply stages of development, roles, key dynamics, and various concepts learned in class. The brilliance of these books is the students can discuss the same events from the different perspectives of the main characters. Discussion questions, student responses, and rubrics will be provided.
Teaching with technology through various formats is the key in today's ever changing educational systems. The need to integrate resources that not only use tradtional formats, but a combination of diverse and creative delivery formats and techniques to meet the needs of diverse learners is not only a thought, but a priority for many programs especially in the recruitment and retention of high quality scholars and future professionals. As the need for developing diverse teaching formats increases, so does the need for an increased awareness of global issues, critical thinking, and advocacy of the mental health profession. This session will overview the components of one university's efforts to enhance the development of higher level thinking skills, multidisciplinary interactions, and collaborations among diverse faculty, and the development of research and peer-reviewed texts through the use of state of the art technology and a intensive global learning seminar.
