Check out our previous webinars!
Dr. Amanda Zelechoski and Dr. Edward Ewe
07.27.20
About the Webinar: Dr. Zelechoski & Dr. Ewe share their own stories of writing development, offer some tips and strategies for writing, and share their writing growth edges. Participants are invited to engage in the discussion and invite feedback on the current challenges they are experiencing within their own work.
About the Presenters:
Dr. Amanda Zelechoski joined the Valparaiso University faculty in 2011. She is a licensed attorney and clinical psychologist specializing in the areas of trauma and forensic psychology. She is board certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and has worked clinically with adults, children, and families in inpatient, outpatient, and forensic settings. Dr. Zelechoski directs the Psychology, Law, and Trauma lab and her primary research interests include forensic and mental health assessment, at-risk, delinquent, and traumatized youth, child custody and child welfare, and the intersection of psychology, law, and public policy. In addition to her roles at Valparaiso University, Dr. Zelechoski is a Risk Management Consultant for The Trust, providing legal, ethical, and risk consultation and training for mental health professionals, as well as an Associate Editor for Law and Human Behavior. Dr. Zelechoski also conducts forensic and psychological evaluations and has provided training and consultation to numerous mental health, law enforcement, and correctional agencies. Outside of the classroom and lab, Dr. Zelechoski and her husband enjoy trying to keep up with their three sons and feisty yellow lab.
Dr. Edward Ewe- Born and raised in Penang, Malaysia, Dr. Ewe came to the United States in 2000 to pursue his education. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees, both with honors, from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed mental health counselor in Oklahoma, Washington, and Oregon. He is a national certified counselor, and an approved Washington state clinical supervisor. He has provided counseling services to individuals and families in private and non-profit settings, and served as a site director for a community mental health clinic. In June 2018, he completed his doctoral studies in counseling at Oregon State University. His dissertation topic was in regard to the professional identity development of counseling students. His research interests include professional identity development, gatekeeping, resiliency and trauma, grief and loss, clinical supervision, and religiosity and spirituality. He has presented in various national and regional conferences for the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES), the Oklahoma School Counselor Association (OSCA), and the Western Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors (WACES).
Derek Salinas-Lazarski MA
07.20.20
About the Webinar: Writing can be difficult, not just due to all the thought and work required, but also because of all the non-cognitive aspects shaping the act: our writing history, our confidence, our skills, and our identity. Our relationship with writing is a life-long one: from tracing letters to composing paragraphs to receiving (sometimes difficult) feedback from peers and professors. For too many that relationship persists unanalyzed, which only compounds the difficulty. In this workshop, we’ll explore the many aspects of one’s writing identity in order to strengthen your confidence and reinvigorate your writing practice, adding gravity to your words and, quite possibly, increasing your enjoyment in creating them.
About the Presenter: Derek Salinas Lazarski is a writer, editor, and teacher. Some of the linguistic rabbit holes he nosedives into through his writing include the construction of meaning, the shapes and limits of consciousness, emotional intelligence, the pretzeling of human relationships, and the practical applications of all these explorations. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.
Dr. Linda Foster
06.01.19
About the Webinar: Single subject research design (SSRD) is contextualized and located within the ecosystem of research. Ethical, multicultural, and design considerations within SSRD are addressed.
About the Presenter: Linda Foster, Ph.D. NCC, NCSC, LPC is a core faculty member at Walden University. She completed her Ph.D. in Counselor Education from Mississippi University in 2003. Dr. Foster has served as a faculty member at Walden University, Troy University, Mercer University, and University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Foster has authored or contributed to twenty-four journal articles, and book chapters. Dr. Foster has fifty-nine presentations in regional, national, and international conferences. She has served as an Editor and Editorial Board member for numerous journals and is a former chair for the National Board of Certified Counselors. Dr. Foster is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Clinical Supervisor, National Certified Counselor, and National Certified School Counselor.
Dr. April LaGue
06.08.19
About the Webinar: SSRD basics are reviewed from Dr. Foster’s webinar (hyperlink). SSRD as a robust research method for professional counselors in the field is considered using a case example with concurrent multiple baseline across subjects design.
About the Presenter: April LaGue, Ph.D. received her doctorate in Counseling from Oregon State University in 2014. April has been teaching in the higher education setting since 2008 and worked as a school counselor K-12 for several years in California. She is currently the newest addition to the Counseling Program at Oregon State University. Her research areas of interest are broad and include math anxiety, corpus linguistics, and integrating technology into pedagogy.
Dr. LaGue is a graduate of the OSU Ph.D. in Counseling program (2014, Cohort 62!) and LOVES that she is back at OSU to give back to a program that supported both her personal and professional development in counseling. We are thrilled to have Dr. LaGue present on her expertise, thoughts, and experience using single-subject research design.
Dr. Zaidy MohdZain
07.20.19
About the Webinar: This presentation is a sharing of a counselor educator’s professional and personal journey through academe. He first joined the professoriate, serving in various roles and raised through the academic ranks and accepted various administrative appointments of various capacities while remaining identified as a professional counselor. The sharing will include the links of professional preparation and career opportunities in higher education settings.
About the Presenter: Dr. Zaidy MohdZain is a long-standing member of the counseling profession when he first joined AACD before the organization morphed into today’s ACA. After several years of being a clinician in various settings, he decided to pursue his doctorate and graduated from Kent State University and accepted his first professoriate appointment at Delta State University in Mississippi. He also served at Southeast Missouri State University, Southern Arkansas University and now he is serving Texas A&M University – Commerce. He has been a full-time professor, coordinated and directed programs, a department chair and a college academic dean while at various universities.
Dr. Andreea Szilagyi
07.27.19
About the Webinar: The presentation focuses on the individual and community efforts in Romania, in an effort to establish a legal framework for the counseling services in the country. The elements of professionalization are taken into consideration and the challenges related to the current status of the counselors in the country are discussed. Global influences are also described.
About the Presenter: Andreea Szilagyi earned her PhD in Education at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iassy, Romania. Her doctoral program was the first in the country to have a counseling focus. Dr. Szilagyi is one of the first counselor educators in Eastern Europe, and her expertise is oriented toward the practice of career counseling, school counseling, counselor education, development of the counseling profession, supervision, and certification across borders.
Currently serving as a Director of NBCC International Capacity Building, Dr. Szilagyi has been heavily involved with the counseling professionalizing efforts in Europe and some parts of Asia. She founded NBCC Romania (2007) and the European Board for Certified Counselors (EBCC) in Lisbon, Portugal (2010) and served as Chair for both.
Dr. Szilagyi was an executive member of the International Association for Counseling. She is a founding member of the Association of Romanian Counselors (ACROM). She is also a visiting professor with the University of Bucharest, with a full teaching load in counseling.
Dr. Thom Field
08.10.19
About the Webinar: Doctoral-level professionals in the allied behavioral health fields have long been defined as scientist-practitioners and scholar-practitioners, despite the lack of grant-funded lab involvement for a majority of doctoral graduates and the lack of clinical training in some doctoral programs. This presentation will review the movement towards the scholar-leader model, and the relevance of this identity to professional work. Attendees will discuss the relationship between research and service, and how to integrate these activities into professional endeavors. The role of doctoral-level professionals in advocating for consumers and the profession will also be explored.
By the end of the presentation participants will...
- Understand the various models for conceptualizing their work as doctoral-level professionals
- Appraise the relevance of the scholar-leader model to their own work and professional orientation
- Discuss the relationship between research and service
About the Presenter: Dr. Thom Field is an Assistant Professor in the Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine program in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. He has worked as a counselor educator since 2011. He also currently sees clients in private practice. Since 2006, Dr. Field has worked with over 1,000 clients in a variety of settings, including schools, inpatient psychiatric units, and outpatient private practice. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling and Supervision from James Madison University. In 2019, he received the Linda Seligman Counselor Educator of the Year Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association. His primary areas of research are the integration of neuroscience into counseling practice, and professional advocacy issues. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Mental Health Counseling, the Co-Editor of Counseling Today’s Neurocounseling column, and is Chair of both the AMHCA Neuroscience Interest Network and Neuroscience Taskforce.
Dr. Brett Zyromski
11.02.19
About the Webinar: The Evidenced-based School Counseling Conference is a driving force in the development of more intentional practice and research-driven work within school counseling. This webinar will cover the history and development of the Conference as well as current factors affecting school counseling research. Attendees will have an opportunity to specifically discuss advocacy opportunities within the school counseling profession and potential leadership steps within their own practice.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss salient and systematic factors involved in contemporary school counseling research
- Articulate the history and development of the Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference
- Identify 2-3 professional advocacy issues impacting the school counseling profession, especially related to training and scholarship
- Describe 2-3 effective counseling leadership and reflective strategies to achieve professional goals
About the Presenter: Brett Zyromski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. His scholarship focuses on the impact of evidence-based interventions in school counseling, evidence-based school counselor education, and evaluation in school counseling. Dr. Zyromski is co-author of Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling: A Manual for Practice (Corwin, 2016). He is also co-founder and co-chair of the national Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference. Dr. Zyromski is involved with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) as a Lead Recognized-ASCA-Model-Program Reviewers (LRR’s) and has also served as a trainer of the ASCA National Model for the ASCA. He has successfully helped over twenty schools earn RAMP over the last five years.
Dr. Cass Dykeman
11.16.19
About the Webinar: The purpose of this session is to help researchers in the field of counseling acquire a new research methodology that is (1) efficient, (2) typically free from IRB review, and (3) able to answer research questions highly relevant to a language-based profession such as counseling. This hands-on session will allow attendees to gain experience using two Corpus Linguistics tools and leave with ideas for application to their own research.
Topics discussed during the session will include:
- How to set up research questions for studies using Corpus Linguistics.
- How the Corpus Linguistic research software works.
- Statistical methods for analyzing Corpus Linguistic results.
- Common pitfalls in conducting Corpus Linguistic research.
This presentation is grounded in the following three sources: (1) research on the psychological processes present in texts (print and online), (2) research on the linguistic processes that separate successful from unsuccessful academic writing, and (3) research on the psychological and linguistic processes that separate effective from ineffective counseling and supervision.
About the Presenter: Cass Dykeman received his master’s in Counseling from the University of Washington and his doctorate in Counseling from the University of Virginia. Dykeman is a cum laude graduate of Claremont McKenna College where he was an Army ROTC distinguished military graduate (top 10% of cadets nationwide). Prior to his work in higher education, he served as both an elementary school and high school counselor in Seattle. As a counselor educator, Dykeman has worked at the University of Virginia, Eastern Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, and Oregon State University. At the university level he has served in the following roles: School Counseling Program Lead, PhD Program Lead, Counseling Academic Unit Lead, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Program Assessment Coordinator, CACREP Liaison, Associate Dean for Research (ad interim) and Department Co-Chair (ad interim). Dykeman holds the rank of full professor and has published two books and 73 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. In addition, he has served as PI in two federally sponsored grants. He has held the following professional service roles: President- Washington Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, President- Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Member- Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Executive Board, Member- Journal for Counseling and Development Editorial Board, Member- ASCA National Program Standards Steering Committee, Member- CACREP On-site Accreditation Team, Guest Reviewer- Journal of Latinos and Education, Guest Reviewer- School Science and Mathematics, and Guest Reviewer- Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development.
Krupali Michaels, Danielle Render, and Yun Shi
12.07.19
About the Webinar: Cross-cultural immersion experiences have been found to enhance counselor education training in cross-cultural competencies, leadership, advocacy, and cultural humility. Counselor education doctoral students’ training is increasingly becoming an area of scholarship and focus within the development of the profession’s future leaders. In this webinar, three counselor education doctoral students from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds will discuss a recent cross-cultural immersion internship experience in Malaysia, how it has enhanced their training as counselors and counselor educators, and identify areas for future scholarship. Presenters will reflect on their experiences and highlight their personal meaning-making process interacting with the larger, global CES community.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the key elements of cross-cultural experiences in counselor education training.
- Understand how cross-cultural immersion experiences enhance and focus effective leadership development.
- Describe three (3) effective strategies to enhance leadership identity development within a cross-cultural immersion experience.
- Identify three (3) cross-cultural or international concerns that require further attention within counseling scholarship for professional development.
About the Presenters:
Krupali Michaels is a PhD student in the counselor education program at Oregon State University. Krupali has a passion for multicultural counseling, cultural comfort, and social justice in the counseling field.
Danielle Render Turmaud, M.S., NCC, is a PhD student in the counselor education program at Oregon State University. Danielle has a passion for participating in advocacy efforts towards the de-stigmatization of trauma and its effects.
Yun Shi LMFT (CA, OR) is a PhD student in the counselor education program at Oregon State University. Yun has extensive experiences working with children and family, immigrants and refugees, and trauma survivors, and has supervised/trained over 20 clinicians. Yun is interested in internationalization of counseling, especially in the area of across-cultural supervision and mentoring.
Dr. Kok-Mun Ng
01.18.20
About the Webinar: Web-based learning (WBL) is rapidly growing in the field of education (Means, 2014), including counselor education (CE; Watson, 2012). Its proponents believe that it has the power to provide better learning experiences (Means, 2014). Current trends indicate that WBL will play a major role in CE in near future. As such, counselor Educators trained in WBL will be able to play a significant role in helping the counseling profession shape its future where information technology will be indispensable to CE. This webinar engages counselor educators in a focused, in-depth experience in applying adult learning theory and some current best practices to design WBL activities (e.g., student-instructor interaction, students-student interaction) that facilitate achievement of student learning outcomes. The presenter shares lessons he has learned and examples in courses he has designed.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss major elements of WBL activities that reflect application of adult learning theory.
- Discuss web-based learning activities that promote learner presence and engagement and instructor presence.
- Apply adult learning theory and WBL learning best practices to facilitate deep learning in counseling trainees.
About the Presenter: Dr. Kok-Mun Ng is Professor of Counselor Education in the counseling academic unit at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Dr. Ng teaches master’s and doctoral counseling courses. He has experience designing and teaching both traditional, in-person courses and hybrid courses. His professional credentials include Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor. Dr. Ng has conducted counseling-related training in the U.S., Malaysia, China, and Turkey. His research interests include professional issues in counselor training, clinical supervision, couples and family counseling, cross-cultural counseling, postmodern therapies, and diversity and social justice issues in counseling. His counseling expertise includes clinical mental health counseling and couples and family counseling. He is the initiator of CRLL at OSU.
Dr. Christian Chan
01.25.20
About the Webinar: This is the first webinar of a three-part series exploring critical methodologies within qualitative research practices. This presentation focuses on principles of critical theory that are key for qualitative research, the role of centering positionality within critical qualitative work, and an overview of critical paradigms (e.g., critical race theory, intersectionality, queer theory, postcolonial frameworks). Attendees can expect to identify areas for future growth in deepening their own scholarship and strategies with critical paradigms to increase the theoretical and methodological rigor of their qualitative research.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe three (3) principles of critical theory applied to qualitative research
- Discuss the importance of positionality, intersectionality, reflexivity, and researcher subjectivity
- Identify at least three (3) critical paradigms, their underlying principles, relationships to critical methodologies, and key figures for future qualitative research
About the Presenter: Christian D. Chan (he, him, his), PhD, NCC is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Idaho State University and President-Elect of the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). His interests revolve around intersectionality; multiculturalism in counseling, supervision, and counselor education; social justice and activism; career development; critical research methodologies; intergenerational conflict in families; and couple, family, and group modalities with socialization/communication of culture and social identities. His prior professional experiences include case management with foster care adolescents, career development, higher education administration, and individual, couples, parent-child, group, and family counseling services. As a recent recipient of the AADA President’s Outstanding Service Award and ALGBTIC Ned Farley Service Award, he actively contributes to peer-reviewed publications in journals, books, and edited volumes and has conducted over 115 refereed presentations at the national, regional, and state levels.
Dr. Javier Casado Pérez
02.29.20
About the Webinar: This presentation reviews the methodology and application of critical in-depth phenomenological interviewing (CIPI). Intersecting the principles of Critical Qualitative Inquiry (CQI) with Seidman’s in-depth phenomenological interviewing, CIPI facilitates an deeper exploration of experience that contends with the sociocultural everyday experience of minoritized participants. The presenter highlights their investigation into the everyday resistance strategies by minoritized faculty as an example of this methodology. CQI works to center the lives and voices of oppressed peoples through counter-storytelling. Seidman’s in-depth phenomenological interviewing procedures structures this story-telling by providing a scaffold through which construct detailed profiles alongside participants.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to identify the principles of critical qualitative inquiry (CQI) and its impact on anti-oppressive research.
- Participants will learn the method surrounding critical in-depth phenomenological interviewing for use in their own work.
- Participants will practice contextual and generative analysis of qualitative data through the use of previously constructed participant profiles.
About the Presenter: Javier F. Casado Pérez, PhD, LPC, NCC, serves as Assistant Professor of Counselor Education, Director of the Community Counseling Clinic, and co-coordinator of the Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling program at Portland State University. They earned their Doctor of Philosophy in counselor education and supervision from The Pennsylvania State University, with a doctoral specialty in teaching and higher education. They received their Master of Science in mental health counseling from Monmouth University, with specialty in relationship and family counseling. Dr. Casado Pérez focuses their scholarship on equity and justice in higher education, with special emphasis on faculty diversification and minoritized faculty life, child welfare systems and family socioemotional health, mental health justice and social activism, and teaching and learning in counselor education and supervision.
Dr. Adrienne Erby
03.07.20
About the Webinar: This is the last webinar of a three-part series exploring critical methodologies within qualitative research practices. This presentation includes an overview of the presenter’s journey into critical qualitative methodology, a review of mixed methods designs and practical strategies for designing critical research. Attendees will discuss positionality, reflexivity and researcher subjectivity in mixed methods design, addressing both quantitative and qualitative aspects. Attendees will also explore their own identity and development as critical researchers.
Learning Objectives:
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Attendees will be able to discuss the importance of positionality, reflexivity and researcher subjectivity in mixed methods designs.
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Attendees will be able to identify critical qualitative methodology features in mixed methods research.
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Attendees will be able to describe practical strategies for designing critical research.
About the Presenter: Adrienne N. Erby, PhD, LPC, NCC serves as an Assistant Professor of Counselor Education at Ohio University. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a cognate in multicultural counseling. She received a Master of Science in Counseling with a community counseling specialization from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Erby’s research and scholarship focuses on multicultural and social justice issues in counseling and counselor education, including racial-cultural and LGBTQ issues, intersectionality, identity development, and educational practices fostering cultural competence.
with Dr. Dan Li
04.25.20
About the Webinar: In this webinar, Dr. Dan Li will introduce the Markov chain model as an innovative, useful means to study supervisory interactions. She will use one of her studies to demonstrate how to conceptualize the supervision process with observable, measurable, and meaningful units of analysis, and how to perform the Markov chain analysis step by step. Implications for clinical supervisors and counselor educators will be provided.
Learning Objectives:
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Conceptualize the ongoing supervisory interactions with observable, measurable, and meaningful units of analysis;
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Understand the Markov chain model as an innovative, useful means to detect underlying patterns, if any, behind a sequence of supervisory interaction events;
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Identify other interactional dynamics where the Markov chain model may be applied.
About the Presenter: Dan Li is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at the University of North Texas (UNT). She received her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation and Counselor Education and a minor in Applied Statistics from the University of Iowa in 2018. She received her master’s in Professional School Counseling at Appalachian State University in 2014 and has been a National Certified Counselor and a Licensed School Counselor in North Carolina since then. Before she joined UNT, Li was an Assistant Professor of Counselor Education at State University of New York at New Paltz.
Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji
06.30.20
About the Webinar: This workshop is designed for graduate students, early career faculty, and practitioners at all professional levels. The session will focus on the 10 most common misconceptions and submission errors that authors make in submitting their papers to a peer-reviewed journal. Participants will learn about their own pre-submission attitudes and misinformation about the publishing process as well as acquire useful knowledge about the editorial process of a peer-reviewed journal.
Learning Objectives:
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increase awareness of authors’ predispositions about the publishing process
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increase knowledge about preparing a manuscript for submission and successful acceptance to a journal
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increase authors’ ability to advocate for themselves and their scholarship
About the Presenter: Cirecie A. West-Olatunji serves as full professor at Xavier University of Louisiana and director of the Center for Traumatic Stress Research. She is also a past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD). Nationally, Dr. West-Olatunji has initiated several clinical research projects that focus on culture-centered community collaborations designed to address issues rooted in systemic oppression, such as transgenerational trauma and traumatic stress. Cirecie West-Olatunji has conducted commissioned research under the auspices of the: National Science Foundation, ACA Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, federal Witness Assistance Program, Spencer Foundation, American Educational Research Association, and the African-American Success Foundation. Her publications include two co-authored books, numerous book chapters, and over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Cirecie West-Olatunji currenlty serves as editor-in-chief for the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (JMCD).
Drs. Megan Speciale and Christian Chan
07.13.20
About the Webinar: Dr. Speciale & Dr. Chan share their own stories of writing development, offer some tips and strategies for effective academic writing both individually and in groups, and how to identify writing challenges all from the identity of a counselor educator.
Learning objectives:
- Discuss the importance of self-learning and growth mindset in building research agendas
- Identify common writing challenges and the context of writing while being a counselor educator
- Discuss emotional difficulties associated with writing difficulties and/or working in groups
- Identify strengths and resources for addressing writing growth edges
- Discuss developmental plan of actions for addressing writing growth edges.
About the Presenters:
Dr. Megan Speciale is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Palo Alto University. Megan has worked as a professional counselor and advocate in a variety of community settings, focusing primarily on sexuality health and wellness and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) children, adolescents, adults, and their families. Her research includes feminist and queer perspectives of counseling and counselor education, sexuality counseling and education, issues related to intersectional LGBTQIA populations, and community-based and participatory action research. Megan is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Counseling Sexology and Sexual Wellness, the Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, Women and Language, and the Journal of Humanistic Counseling. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has led over 40 presentations at national and international conferences. Megan has also produced the Sex Series on The Thoughtful Counselor Podcast since 2016.
Dr. Christian D. Chan (he, him, his), PhD, NCC is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, President of the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA), and a proud Queer Person of Color. As a scholar-activist, his interests revolve around intersectionality; multiculturalism in counseling practice, supervision, and counselor education; social justice and activism; career development; critical research methodologies; and couple, family, and group modalities with socialization/communication of culture and social identities. As a recent recipient of the AADA President’s Outstanding Service Award and Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC, now SAIGE) Ned Farley Service Award, he has actively contributed to over 43 peer-reviewed publications in journals, books, and edited volumes and has conducted over 120 refereed presentations at the national, regional, and state levels.
Dr. Sylvia Fernandez
07.18.20
About the Webinar: The ferocity and scope of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on counselor education required a thoughtful and measured response from CACREP and its leadership. The short-term response was tempered by considerations of long-term impacts. The interventions and the opportunities it presents calls for thoughtful leadership and skillful leaders.
Learning objectives:
- Define leadership and characteristics of a leader as applied in a time of crisis
- Identify short- and long-term impacts of Covid-19 on counselor education
- Classify data/evidence needed to inform best practices in counselor education
About the Presenters:
Dr. M. Sylvia Fernandez, CACREP President and CEO, was a counselor educator and administrator for 29 years. Dr. Fernandez has extensive professional service and leadership experience in state, national, and international counseling professional organizations including as Arkansas President of ACA and ACES. She has served as Chair of: the Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling, the Board of Directors of NBCC and NBCC-International, and the CACREP Board of Directors respectively. Dr. Fernandez's publications and presentations are in the areas of multicultural issues in counseling and related disciplines, counselor education and credentialing, professional identity and ethics, and clinical supervision.
Derek Salinas-Lazarski MA
07.20.20
About the Webinar: Writing can be difficult, not just due to all the thought and work required, but also because of all the non-cognitive aspects shaping the act: our writing history, our confidence, our skills, and our identity. Our relationship with writing is a life-long one: from tracing letters to composing paragraphs to receiving (sometimes difficult) feedback from peers and professors. For too many that relationship persists unanalyzed, which only compounds the difficulty. In this workshop, we’ll explore the many aspects of one’s writing identity in order to strengthen your confidence and reinvigorate your writing practice, adding gravity to your words and, quite possibly, increasing your enjoyment in creating them.
About the Presenter: Derek Salinas Lazarski is a writer, editor, and teacher. Some of the linguistic rabbit holes he nosedives into through his writing include the construction of meaning, the shapes and limits of consciousness, emotional intelligence, the pretzeling of human relationships, and the practical applications of all these explorations. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.
Dr. Amanda Zelechoski and Dr. Edward Ewe
07.27.20
About the Webinar: Dr. Zelechoski & Dr. Ewe share their own stories of writing development, offer some tips and strategies for writing, and share their writing growth edges. Participants are invited to engage in the discussion and invite feedback on the current challenges they are experiencing within their own work.
About the Presenters:
Dr. Amanda Zelechoski joined the Valparaiso University faculty in 2011. She is a licensed attorney and clinical psychologist specializing in the areas of trauma and forensic psychology. She is board certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and has worked clinically with adults, children, and families in inpatient, outpatient, and forensic settings. Dr. Zelechoski directs the Psychology, Law, and Trauma lab and her primary research interests include forensic and mental health assessment, at-risk, delinquent, and traumatized youth, child custody and child welfare, and the intersection of psychology, law, and public policy. In addition to her roles at Valparaiso University, Dr. Zelechoski is a Risk Management Consultant for The Trust, providing legal, ethical, and risk consultation and training for mental health professionals, as well as an Associate Editor for Law and Human Behavior. Dr. Zelechoski also conducts forensic and psychological evaluations and has provided training and consultation to numerous mental health, law enforcement, and correctional agencies. Outside of the classroom and lab, Dr. Zelechoski and her husband enjoy trying to keep up with their three sons and feisty yellow lab.
Dr. Edward Ewe- Born and raised in Penang, Malaysia, Dr. Ewe came to the United States in 2000 to pursue his education. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees, both with honors, from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed mental health counselor in Oklahoma, Washington, and Oregon. He is a national certified counselor, and an approved Washington state clinical supervisor. He has provided counseling services to individuals and families in private and non-profit settings, and served as a site director for a community mental health clinic. In June 2018, he completed his doctoral studies in counseling at Oregon State University. His dissertation topic was in regard to the professional identity development of counseling students. His research interests include professional identity development, gatekeeping, resiliency and trauma, grief and loss, clinical supervision, and religiosity and spirituality. He has presented in various national and regional conferences for the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES), the Oklahoma School Counselor Association (OSCA), and the Western Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors (WACES).
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