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Academic Writing Productivity: Evidence Based Strategies, Lisa S. Sosin Oct 2019

Academic Writing Productivity: Evidence Based Strategies, Lisa S. Sosin

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Metaphors Be With You, And Other Tricks For Improving Library Instruction, Roriebeth Fredrich, Jacquelyn C. Matthews Oct 2019

Metaphors Be With You, And Other Tricks For Improving Library Instruction, Roriebeth Fredrich, Jacquelyn C. Matthews

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Are your first-year college students on the Dark Side when it comes to understanding how to use the library? In this session, two teacher-turned-librarians will share research-supported instructional strategies that you can employ to equip your students to conduct research like Jedis.


Spiritual Direction & Soul Care: Embracing God's Presence In Your Practice, John C. Thomas Sep 2019

Spiritual Direction & Soul Care: Embracing God's Presence In Your Practice, John C. Thomas

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Perfectionism And The Eating Disorder: Harnessing One’S Desire For High Achievement While Quieting Their Inner Critic, Andrea Barbian-Shimberg Aug 2019

Perfectionism And The Eating Disorder: Harnessing One’S Desire For High Achievement While Quieting Their Inner Critic, Andrea Barbian-Shimberg

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Often with eating disorders, an underlying aspect of perfectionism is seen. While there are benefits of being a high achiever, it can be detrimental. This session will build upon the basic understanding of eating disorders and specific treatment strategies focused on the multidimensional constructs seen with perfectionism and disordered eating.


Digital Harassment: Online Threats To Counselor, Educator, Client, And Student Well-Being, David Brown, David Jones Aug 2019

Digital Harassment: Online Threats To Counselor, Educator, Client, And Student Well-Being, David Brown, David Jones

Faculty Publications and Presentations

As digital threats become increasingly commonplace, the potential for harm also increases. Newer types of cyberbullying and digital harassment have the potential to negatively affect anyone at any time in any location. This presentation will identify emerging digital threats and their impact and discuss recommendations for prevention and intervention.


Re-Evaluating Learning Styles: Practical Implications For School Counselors, Vasti Holstun Aug 2019

Re-Evaluating Learning Styles: Practical Implications For School Counselors, Vasti Holstun

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recent research has found little evidence to justify the actual effectiveness of learning styles into the classrooms. To improve student academic success, school counselors need to provide evidence-based support. This presentation will consider different factors that impact student success while providing alternative practical skills that can be used to support students’ learning.


Building Hope In Students Affected By Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces), Summer Kuba, Capri Brooks, Kristy Ford Aug 2019

Building Hope In Students Affected By Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces), Summer Kuba, Capri Brooks, Kristy Ford

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are experienced by many of our students throughout the country. Come learn about the prevalence of these unfortunate situations, what a trauma-sensitive school counseling program looks like, and how to instill a sense of action-oriented hope for students across the K-12 environment.


Playing Tag: Strategies To Help Close The Trauma Achievement Gap (Tag), Richard Albright Aug 2019

Playing Tag: Strategies To Help Close The Trauma Achievement Gap (Tag), Richard Albright

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation will review research which reveals that students who have experienced trauma are particularly at-risk for poor school performance. The session will then review empirically supported interventions, which can be used by school counselors to support students developing the strength and resiliency to overcome their academic disadvantages


Not A Client But Still Vulnerable: Ethical & Legal Responsibilities With Non-Clients, Robyn Simmons, Jama L. Davis, David Brown, Deborah A. Braboy, Yulanda Tyre Aug 2019

Not A Client But Still Vulnerable: Ethical & Legal Responsibilities With Non-Clients, Robyn Simmons, Jama L. Davis, David Brown, Deborah A. Braboy, Yulanda Tyre

Faculty Publications and Presentations

All states have mandatory reporting of abuse of vulnerable populations for mental health professionals. However, the procedures are clear only when working with the client and having direct knowledge and information of the situation. This session will explore professional responsibilities with no direct knowledge of the situation or identifiable information


Father Presence: Enhancing Counseling By Advocating For And Including Dads, Jeffrey Boatner, Holly Johnson, Diamond Sciequan Aug 2019

Father Presence: Enhancing Counseling By Advocating For And Including Dads, Jeffrey Boatner, Holly Johnson, Diamond Sciequan

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Research reveals that paternal involvement in counseling is vital for children (Panter-Brick, Burgess, Eggerman, McAllister, Pruett, & Leckerman, 2014). In this presentation, attendees will learn the importance of involving fathers and how to do it effectively, based on best practices. Participants will engage in activities and discussion applying presentation content.


Military Family Overseas Relocation And Resilience Factor, Cassondra Ferreira Aug 2019

Military Family Overseas Relocation And Resilience Factor, Cassondra Ferreira

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Poster Presentation


Acknowledgment And Treatment Of Racial Microaggressions In The Therapeutic Environment, Tamatha M. Borkcom, Kimberly Harris, Nivishchi Edwards Aug 2019

Acknowledgment And Treatment Of Racial Microaggressions In The Therapeutic Environment, Tamatha M. Borkcom, Kimberly Harris, Nivishchi Edwards

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Poster Presentation


Career & Lifestyle Balance: Making The Case For Self-Care, Cynthia Doney Aug 2019

Career & Lifestyle Balance: Making The Case For Self-Care, Cynthia Doney

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Self-care is not a luxury. Self-care is not a waste of time. Professional self-care in the helping profession is an ethical necessity and must be pursued intentionally by practitioners. Additionally, the concepts must be modeled and taught to emerging professionals in the field.


Parallel Process: Experiences Of First Semester Practicum And Doctoral Students In The Supervision Relationship, Sharon Lewis, Nivischi Edwards, Joy Mwendwa Aug 2019

Parallel Process: Experiences Of First Semester Practicum And Doctoral Students In The Supervision Relationship, Sharon Lewis, Nivischi Edwards, Joy Mwendwa

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Poster Presentation


Using Debono’S Six Hats In University Internship Supervision – Online, Jacqueline Wirth, Summer Kuba Aug 2019

Using Debono’S Six Hats In University Internship Supervision – Online, Jacqueline Wirth, Summer Kuba

Faculty Publications and Presentations

DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats problem-solving technique was used in several online internship courses in order to facilitate case presentations by counselor trainees. The process and results of this method will be presented along with student testimony of their use of Six Hats during group supervision. Counselor educators will be introduced to this technique and will practice its implementation in order to support counselor interns as they think through each facet of case conceptualization.


Integrating Stress Management, Wellness, And Spirituality In Therapy, Holly Johnson, Jeffrey Boatner Aug 2019

Integrating Stress Management, Wellness, And Spirituality In Therapy, Holly Johnson, Jeffrey Boatner

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Integrative psychotherapy considers the unique needs of the client including preferences, motivation, physical ability, personal characteristics, and spiritual beliefs. This session will impart knowledge and provide insights for managing stress, promoting healthy living, and practicing spirituality in a way that best fits the individual’s personal worldview


Responding To The Mental Health Crisis In Schools: Implications For Counselor Education Programs, Jose Maldonado, Vasti Holstun Aug 2019

Responding To The Mental Health Crisis In Schools: Implications For Counselor Education Programs, Jose Maldonado, Vasti Holstun

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The significant rise in mental health issues among students is alarming and challenges school counselors’ preparation and professional identity. This mental health crisis in schools establishes the need for counselor education programs to revamp curriculum training methods, teaching pedagogy, and dual field experiences for counseling students.


Ethical And Legal Considerations In Addiction Counseling, Karin Mcpeak Dumont Aug 2019

Ethical And Legal Considerations In Addiction Counseling, Karin Mcpeak Dumont

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Ethical and legal issues of addiction counseling will be examined: lack of communication and continuity between research and clinical practice, lack of agreement over necessary professional credentials, questionable propensity of group work, special issues of confidentiality and privileged communication, boundary issues of professional practice, unusual circumstances of informed consent.


Intersection Of Post-Traumatic Growth And Forgiveness: A Catalyst For Healing, Jama L. Davis, Robyn Simmons, Kristy Ford Aug 2019

Intersection Of Post-Traumatic Growth And Forgiveness: A Catalyst For Healing, Jama L. Davis, Robyn Simmons, Kristy Ford

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation will connect the experience of post traumatic growth with the empirical support of forgiveness as an intervention with survivors of trauma. Research specific to the link between Post-Traumatic Growth and Forgiveness will be examined with the formulation of a tool-kit appropriate to this therapy.


Exploring The Myths And Actualities Of The Sex Trafficking Of Vulnerable Populations, Victim Behavioral Risks, And Common Recruitment Tactics, Cynthia Doney, Dave Hollis, Vivian France, Susan Kovoka Aug 2019

Exploring The Myths And Actualities Of The Sex Trafficking Of Vulnerable Populations, Victim Behavioral Risks, And Common Recruitment Tactics, Cynthia Doney, Dave Hollis, Vivian France, Susan Kovoka

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Sex trafficking recruitment takes place through manipulation, exploitation, and coercion. Counselors must know who is vulnerable to recruitment, and how targets are selected. It is vital to learn methods of assessment for discerning if victims are being groomed by pimps through boyfriending or other techniques, and why she allows it.


Infusing Social Advocacy Training Into Counselor Education Programs: Challenges And Best Practices, Jerry Vuncannon Aug 2019

Infusing Social Advocacy Training Into Counselor Education Programs: Challenges And Best Practices, Jerry Vuncannon

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Counselor educators are tasked with training future counselors with social justice advocacy competencies; however, it has been unclear what this advocacy role entailed or how to put advocacy concepts into practice. This roundtable discussion will focus on social justice advocacy competencies and its infusion into counselor education curriculum.


Enhancing Counselor Site Supervisor Self-Efficacy By Utilizing Modular Participation, Steve Johnson Aug 2019

Enhancing Counselor Site Supervisor Self-Efficacy By Utilizing Modular Participation, Steve Johnson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This program will focus on a curriculum designed to be used by counselor educators to enhance site supervisor sense of self-efficacy, competence, and effectiveness in the role as site supervisors. This program will achieve program learning outcomes by facilitating the transfer of knowledge to skill development through programmatic support of site supervisor’s professional development.


Forward Thinking: Creative Anagogical Strategies In Counselor Education, Anita Knight, Richard Justin Silvey Aug 2019

Forward Thinking: Creative Anagogical Strategies In Counselor Education, Anita Knight, Richard Justin Silvey

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This roundtable is designed for the exchange of ideas between educators who seek to utilize innovative and experimental strategies i.e. flipping the classroom, incentivizing participation with behaviorism, and incorporating social media and other technologies to stimulate a community of inquiry within the residential and online counselor ed learning space.


Bridging The Racial Divide With A Viable Demonstration, Melvin Pride, Mark Myers Aug 2019

Bridging The Racial Divide With A Viable Demonstration, Melvin Pride, Mark Myers

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using the Relational Cultural Theory, this presentation will explore the significance of intentional vulnerability, openness and communication on challenging long held cultural beliefs. The presentation consists of two men; one black, one white, exploring each other’s diverse cultural experiences posing a series of racially sensitive questions of each other.


Online Supervision Experiences Of Graduate Counselors-In-Training, Sonya M. Cheyne Aug 2019

Online Supervision Experiences Of Graduate Counselors-In-Training, Sonya M. Cheyne

Faculty Publications and Presentations

CITs from Liberty University’s online graduate counseling programs will share personal experiences of integrating graduate training into practice with clients. Through the process of fulfilling individual purpose in life during the initial stages of counseling, these CITs will share their unexpected self-discoveries of a meaningfulness while facilitating healing in others.


Grief Counseling From A Multicultural Perspective, Deborah A. Braboy Aug 2019

Grief Counseling From A Multicultural Perspective, Deborah A. Braboy

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Clinicians need to understand death and grief through a multicultural lens. The focus of this workshop will be on helping counselors understand societal and cultural implications that can be obstacles in grief work and to understand issues that can complicate grief as it relates to their ethnicity, race, and/or culture.


Encouraging A Better Practicum/Internship Experience By Developing And Implementing Learning Modules, Stacey Lilley, Steve Johnson, Mary Deacon, Patricia L. Kimball Aug 2019

Encouraging A Better Practicum/Internship Experience By Developing And Implementing Learning Modules, Stacey Lilley, Steve Johnson, Mary Deacon, Patricia L. Kimball

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The use of developmentally-based series of learning modules in practicum and internship courses will be discussed. These modules are designed to reinforce key knowledge and skills acquired in the program; allowing courses to incorporate their core and specialty area objectives more systematically into their clinical experiences and evaluate their program.


A Phoenix Rising Out Of The Ashes: Using Expressive Arts In Counseling Supervision, Christina Villarreal-Davis, Hughar Hartzenberg Aug 2019

A Phoenix Rising Out Of The Ashes: Using Expressive Arts In Counseling Supervision, Christina Villarreal-Davis, Hughar Hartzenberg

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Utilizing expressive arts in counseling supervision can be a transformative experience. Participants will benefit from this presentation as they learn effective strategies that build the supervisory relationship, increase their knowledge on the effectiveness of expressive arts in supervision, and gain understanding on how to implement an expressive art technique.


The New Adolescent: How Social Media Has Changed The Landscape And How Counselors Can Respond, Jonna Byars, Brad Imhoff, Daria Borislavova White Aug 2019

The New Adolescent: How Social Media Has Changed The Landscape And How Counselors Can Respond, Jonna Byars, Brad Imhoff, Daria Borislavova White

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Adolescents today occupy a different social space than any previous generation. Technology and social media have changed behavior and relationships, and there are many psychological consequences including rising levels of loneliness, depression, and suicide. As counselors we must recognize the changed world our children inhabit, and develop new strategies for helping teens and those who relate to them. How counselors can best respond to this new social space and original research on the impact of social media in several cultures will be covered.


Turabian Citations From The Theological Journal Library, Randy L. Miller May 2019

Turabian Citations From The Theological Journal Library, Randy L. Miller

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Theological Journal Library for Galaxie is a tremendous source for conservative scholarly theological and biblical journal articles. However, the database doesn’t provide suggested Turabian citations. This handout tells how to develop properly formatted bibliography and footnote entries, including determining the inclusive pages for the entire article.