Counseling Commons^™

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Does Family Matter? A Phenomenological Inquiry Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Women Persisting In Distance Education, Professional Doctoral Programs, Lisa S. Sosin, Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw, Lucinda S, Spaulding

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The qualitative study aims to examine the lived experiences of women persisting in the distance; professional doctoral degrees as they seek to integrate and balance their family of origin and current family system with their development as scholars.

This qualitative study employed Moustakas’ (1994) transcendental phenomeno-logical approach through a purposive sampling of eleven women who are en-rolled in distance education, professional doctoral programs at two universities in the southern United States.

This study furthers the existing research by demonstrating that family is inti-mately tied to the scholarly identity development and persistence of women enrolled in distance education, professional doctorate programs. …

Ethical Dilemmas? Are You Appropriately Following The 2014 Aca Code Of Ethics?, Patti Hinkley

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This session will review the changes made in the 2014 Code of Ethics. The presentation will cover the background to the changes made in 2014 along with pointing out the specific changes made for both counselors as well as counselor educators. The presenter was trained at the 2018 ACA Conference to provide presentations or workshops on the Code of Ethics.

Worrywarts: Alleviating Anxiety Through School Counselor Interventions, Summer Kuba

Faculty Publications and Presentations

If unaddressed, childhood and adolescent anxiety can have a lasting negative impact on students’ social/emotional development, academic success and college/career readiness. School counselors play an integral role in addressing students’ mental health needs. Through evidenced-based interventions, school counselors can effectively promote the skills and attitudes necessary to cope and even overcome childhood anxiety disorders.

The Stages Of Change And The Stages Of Group Counseling, Karin Mcpeak Dumont

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This program will seek to enhance’ knowledge and use of the Stages of Change within each of the stages of group counseling. It will examine how to integrate appropriate Motivational Interviewing techniques within each stage of the group process.

Getting Unstuck: Using The Conceptual Mapping Task As A Dynamic Supervision Tool For Trainees And Seasoned Counselors, John King

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Conceptual Mapping Task (CMT) originated as a tool in qualitative counseling research. It has also been used in counseling supervision. In this session, the presenter will provide a real-life demonstration of the CMT with a supervisee, and then provide additional strategies utilizing the CMT as a counseling intervention.

The Opioid Crisis: What Counselors Need To Know, David Jenkins, Jonna Byars

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The opioid epidemic has been declared a national emergency that resulted in nearly 50,000 opioid overdose deaths last year alone. Counselors can and should be meaningfully involved in response. This session will present current information about the opioid crisis and the addictive process generally, and then specifically focus on opioid addiction, treatment and recovery. The session will explore how counselors can effectively respond to clients who use opioids, including for pain management, and how education, prevention, and treatment are important ways counselors can respond to the opioid crisis.

Child Centered Play Therapy, Christina Villarreal-Davis

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This session will provide a summary of Child Centered Play Therapy and highlight the meaning of play, tenets for relating to children, child-centered theoretical concepts, therapeutic relationship, characteristics of facilitative responses, and therapeutic limit setting. This creative and informative presentation will engage participants through case examples and previously recorded sessions.

Approaching Grief Counseling From A Perspective Of Diversity, Deborah A. Braboy

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Understanding how society, race, culture, age, and developmental levels impact grief is key to being able to process grief and loss in a healthy manner. Contemporary grief models give clinicians a roadmap to assist them as they walk with their clients through their grief journey

Addressing Crisis In K-12 Schools, Rita Cantrell Schellenberg, Richard Justin Silvey, Kerry Bowles

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The session will provide research-supported information needed to identify and respond appropriately to the needs of minors in crisis situations prevailing in our schools today such as self-harm (including eating disorders), suicide, and homicide ideation. Case studies will engage participants in interactive discussions that include ethical, legal, cultural, and professional aspects of decision making.

Using Hofstede’S Axes Of Cultural Values As A New Way Of Understanding Culturally Diverse Clients, Jerry Vuncannon, Angelia Dickens

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Today’s multicultural focus utilizes many prescriptive approaches based on cultural groups and client preferences. However, these approaches may not account for individual differences within these groups. This presentation will introduce Hofstede’s Axes of Cultural Values which empower therapists, supervisors, and educators to understand culturally diverse clients in a new way

Courageous Conversations: Cultural Humility - Being Comfortable With The Uncomfortable, Arleezah Marrah, Brandi Janee' Chamberlin

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This round table discussion will be a courageous conversation for counselors, counselor educators, site supervisors, and graduate students. How can we be comfortable having uncomfortable conversations? This round table will explore the topic of cultural humility in the counseling relationship.

Technology, Counseling, And The Autism Spectrum: Using Tech To Promote Growth And Healing With Autism Spectrum Clients, Kevin Boyd Hull

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Autism spectrum clients in counseling are challenging due to limitations in perspective taking as well as emotional/cognitive delays. Many autism spectrum clients use technology as a way to feel safe and relate to the world around them. Computer/tablet/video games have rich metaphors and themes that can help these young people understand themselves and the world around them and can be used to enhance self-representation and social, emotional, and cognitive growth.

Integrating Motivational Interviewing Into Counseling Techniques And The Helping Relationship, Karin Mcpeak Dumont

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This program will provide a demonstration of how to integrate Motivational Interviewing techniques into the use of the helping Skills of active listening, paraphrasing, reflection of feelings, reflection of meaning, and summarizing. Through the use of both didactic and experiential learning, attendees will apply these techniques effectively in the process of counseling

Successful College Transition: Supporting Students With Learning Differences, Laura Daniel

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of this presentation is to provide information on support strategies to ensure high school seniors with diagnosed learning differences have a successful transition to the college setting. Information will include helping students to secure academic and mental health support, and ways to advocate for students beyond high school.