NCACES16: Full Schedule

North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision - Fall 2016 Conference
October 20-22 - Embassy Suites Minneapolis Airport

10:30am CDT

Infusing Disability Cultural Competence Across the Curriculum -#136

Counseling training commonly relegates disability training to rehabilitation counseling. Accordingly, disability related research and practice are predominantly addressed in rehabilitation field, which often adopts a medical model perspective. Besides, as other counseling specialties lack the competencies to serve people with disabilities (PWD), they may marginalize this group even further. In this training, we present a holistic approach from a minority model perspective across the all curriculum. PWD are a minority group experiencing discrimination and marginalization. Counseling curriculum needs to be dedicated to appropriately include PWD to prevent reproducing this marginalization. Participants will find concrete examples of incorporating the needs of PWD into several courses such as research, ethics, diagnosis and assessment.

Speakers

Deniz Aydemir-Doke

Michael D. Brubaker

Elif Emir-Oksuz

Thursday October 20, 2016 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Orchid

Educational Session, Multicultural, Teaching

2:15pm CDT

Race Matters: Empowering Counselor Educators to Engage in Critical Race Dialogues - #102

The goal of this session is to explore how critical race dialogues can be emancipating for both faculty and students in counselor education. The presenters will explore the impact of race, power, and privilege dialogues on students in counselor education classrooms. The presenters will explore the difficulties that both privileged-race groups and marginalized-race groups have when discussing race, and discuss learned experiences of race, power, and privilege from teaching in the college classroom.

Speakers

George R. Armitage

Dominique D. Burns

Thursday October 20, 2016 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
Willow 2

Educational Session, Multicultural

3:30pm CDT

Innovative Strategies to Address Racial Battle Fatigue: #BlackLivesMatter -#116

Counselors and counselor educators must demonstrate multicultural competence in professional activities such as counseling, teaching, and supervision. The current sociopolitical climate necessitates that counselors are attuned to racialized stress in students and in clients. Racial battle fatigue (RBF) is a concept that is useful in conceptualizing the cumulative impact of racism and microaggression on racially marginalized persons. This session will focus on understanding RBF and its manifestation in African American emerging adults. Through an interactive session, participants will learn and utilize strategies that may ameliorate RBF in the student and client populations that we serve. Additionally, counselor educators will consider pedagogical strategies that address RBF in the training and preparation of future counselors.

Speakers

Monica F. Boyd

Kesha S. Burch

Thursday October 20, 2016 3:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
Willow 2

Educational Session, Multicultural

4:45pm CDT

Exploited! How controlling images found in self-help books injure single African American women -#133

African American women are the least likely demographic to ever marry (Banks, 2011; Clarke, 2011). In response, relationship self-help books targeting this population are on the rise. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on three best-selling self-help books directed to single heterosexual African American women. This workshop will educate counseling professionals about the controlling images found within the sampled self-help books as well as how their clients might be impacted by the content.

Speakers

Kashunda McGriff

Thursday October 20, 2016 4:45pm - 5:45pm CDT
Azalea 1

Educational Session, Multicultural

6:00pm CDT

Defining College Readiness from the Inside Out: Black Female College Student Perspectives -#144

This presentation will present the findings of an exploratory qualitative study which investigates the college preparation experiences of low-income, high ability, Black female college freshmen. The purpose of this study was to identify the familial, peer, educational, and community factors that influence, positively or negatively, Black women's college readiness. This research is critical and groundbreaking because it supplies research data on the college readiness experiences of a sample of Black women, a population that is often marginalized and overlooked within the college readiness research literature and it explores college readiness from a qualitative perspective instead of quantitatively.

Speakers

Janice A. Byrd

Thursday October 20, 2016 6:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Gardenia

Educational Session, Multicultural

6:00pm CDT

Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward Disability in Counselors-in-Training -#110

The purpose of this workshop is to provide information to counselor educators about common attitudes toward disability that they and their students may possess that may need to be explored and confronted. These attitudes are often negative or stereotyped and may have a detrimental impact on the counseling process. Findings from a qualitative pilot study that examined gender differences in counselors-in-training related to attitudes toward disability will be described and critically examined.

Speakers

Susan Bray

Jody J. Fiorini

Thursday October 20, 2016 6:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Palm 2

Educational Session, Multicultural

8:00am CDT

"You can't sit with us!": The influence of the gay community on body image -#128

The following presentation will review the current literature on body image perception in the gay male community. We will examine the experiences of gay men within American culture and discuss how the media influences the gay community which then reinforces an "ideal" body image for gay men. Current models utilized with sexual minorities will be examined with a focus on the strengths and weaknesses in regards to gay men. Counselors attending this session will be made aware of how body shaming occurs within the gay male community, and how involvement with the gay community can influence gay male clients struggling with body image concerns.

Speakers

Brady Sullivan

Friday October 21, 2016 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Azalea 2

Educational Session, Multicultural

8:00am CDT

Illuminating and Educating on Intrapersonal Spiritual Conflict with Gay Males -#121

It is believed that many men who identify as gay and with a Christian affiliation may experience a felt dichotomy within their lives over these two distinctive identities. In what ways might this potential spiritual conflict be exhibited and how might it be overcome? This interactive presentation will explore this topic through an innovative CBT model designed to explore intrapersonal spiritual conflict experienced by gay males. This presentation will invite attendees to understand the history of previous counseling techniques within this area, recognize possible intrapersonal spiritual conflict areas, and learn an innovative CBT model that can be introduced in the classroom or to student supervisees in order to assist gay males in overcoming their potential intrapersonal spiritual conflict.

Speakers

Rob McKinney

Cassandra Storlie

Friday October 21, 2016 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Azalea 1

Educational Session, Counseling, Multicultural

9:30am CDT

Assessment-based classroom strategies for increasing counselor trainees' intercultural competence -#152

This presentation will explain the process of assessing counselor trainees' intercultural competence with instruments such as the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). A sample inventory will be used by attendees to suggest educational experiences needed to advance counselor trainees' intercultural competence. Discussion will include program implementation, obstacles, and unique findings by the presenters in implementing this assessment-based competency building process.

Speakers

Eric R. Baltrinic

Marty Jencius

Associate Professor, Kent State University

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 →

Friday October 21, 2016 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Azalea 2

Educational Session, Multicultural, Teaching

4:15pm CDT

Illuminating the Supervisory Practice Through Culturally Responsive Supervision -#148

The counselor education and supervision field strives to incorporate culturally responsiveness into all aspects of training, including supervision. This is especially important for supervisees of color who can face challenges at their internships. Unfortunately, not all supervisors understand the unique challenges faced by these students and therefore may not know how to support them. This interactive program discusses an innovative approach to supervision by making culture explicit, and a keystone of the supervisory process. It describes how supervisors can facilitate supervisee development by exploring challenges within a cultural context. Participants will engage in activities and discussions about culturally responsive supervision strategies that can promote the growth of supervisees of color. Training implications will be discussed.

Speakers

Rachel Awoyemi

Dharshini Goonetileke

Cha Her

Jacqueline Lewis

Sherrise Truesdale

Sylvia Vue

Carolyn Vue

Bruce Yang

Friday October 21, 2016 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
Orchid

Educational Session, Multicultural, Supervision

5:30pm CDT

Lighting up the Counselor's Brain: Igniting Cultural Consciousness through Neurocounseling -#154

This engaging didactic and audience-participation presentation is designed to increase knowledge and skills related to interpersonal neurocounseling and implicit bias, and to increase cultural consciousness by linking those biases to frameworks of interpretation of current events. By constructing new frameworks, counselors are more likely to empathically relate to the experiences of others, without the clouds of implicit bias. Research results of changes in students' colorblind racial attitudes after a semester of study including interpersonal neurobiology will be presented.

Speakers

A. Leslie Anderson

Taryne M. Mingo

Friday October 21, 2016 5:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
Azalea 2

Educational Session, Multicultural

8:00am CDT

International Students in Transition: Facilitating Resilience and Coping -#114

As international students transition to furthering their education in the United States, they face a unique set of challenges and opportunities. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a theoretical framework and practical strategies for working with international students within counselor education programs. Presenters will discuss the usefulness of Schlossberg's transition model (Anderson, Goodman & Schlossberg, 2012), with an emphasis on resilience, well-being and coping. The presenters will also share from their unique experiences as international students and how they continue to navigate their own transitions.

Speakers

Mary L. Anderson

Associate Professor, Western Michigan University

I am passionate about my profession, and am a member of several professional organizations, including ACES, North Central ACES, ACA, ASCA, NCDA, ASGW, and ASERVIC. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor. Professional interests include counselor... Read More →

Damon D. Chambers

Cheruba Daniel

Reuben Maina Mwangi

Saturday October 22, 2016 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Gardenia

Educational Session, Multicultural

9:15am CDT

Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health: Training Counselors to Treat This Dual Diagnosis -#135

As counselor educators, it is our role to prepare our students to be able to work with a wide variety of clients, including those with developmental disabilities, appropriately. This presentation will give a brief overview of developmental disabilities and mental illness as well as specific ways in which counselor educators can integrate working with this population into already established courses, such as psychopathology and multicultural. Ideas for lecture, experiential activities, peer teaching, and others tools will be discussed in order to help students prepare to work with this population. By adding these learning opportunities into the curriculum, counselor educators can better prepare their students to work with this growing and challenging population.

Speakers

Allisha Berendts

Saturday October 22, 2016 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Palm 2

Educational Session, Multicultural, Teaching

9:15am CDT

Multicultural Competence: Putting Theory in to Action -#165

Multicultural competence in counseling and related fields is an essential component of ethical practice. Despite a wealth of literature outlining general and profession-specific competencies, there is a lack of instruction as to how to put those in to action. The multicultural counseling competencies outline myriad attitudes, knowledge and skill that are based in action-oriented outcomes; however, there lacks instruction as to how to put those in to action. This presentation will focus on the development of individualized action plans based on individual and systemic assessments that counselor educators can utilize as tools in training culturally competent counselors, as well as strategies for teaching trainees to develop and implement their personal action plans.

Speakers

Ann McCaughan

Saturday October 22, 2016 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Willow 1

Educational Session, Multicultural, Teaching

10:45am CDT

LEGO Bricks as Creative Pedagogy: Building Awareness in a Multicultural Social Justice Counseling -#139

In a course on multicultural and social justice counseling, the presenters designed an experience using LEGO bricks to allow students to experience the constructs of privilege and oppression based on world population statistics. The context, structure, and outcomes of this experience will be discussed, along with the pedagogical implications.

Speakers

Yahyahan Aras

Lisa D. Longo

J. P. Oehrtman

Krista S. Predragovich

Saturday October 22, 2016 10:45am - 11:45am CDT
Orchid

Educational Session, Multicultural, Social Justice, Teaching

10:45am CDT

Training Counselors to Advocate for Men who have Sex with Men and come from a Conservative Faith -#147

Sexuality and spirituality are two very large dimensions in a person's life, and often the LGBT population feel compelled or resigned to choose one or the other in their personal journey. Many LGBT clients report that they feel the paucity of training associated with issues around their status as sexual minorities. As a result of this paucity in training and the professional edict that warns counselors about the dangers of bringing spirituality into session, LGBT clients who struggle with sexual identity and spirituality face a very narrow pool of counselors who feel equipped to provide service. Learn the skills needed to help clients who struggle reconciling these two warring aspects of self. Develop strategies in training counselors to develop the skills, and learn how to developing meaningful advocacy for sexual minorities of faith.

Speakers

Brad Hinman

Assistant Professor, Andrews University

I am a full time, tenure track professor in the Department of Graduate Psychology and Counseling at Andrews University. I also have a private practice where I specialize in Out of Control Sexual Behavior with men. I am also quite interested in the intersection of sexuality and... Read More →

Christopher Lacefield

Saturday October 22, 2016 10:45am - 11:45am CDT
Azalea 2

Educational Session, Multicultural