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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLET TER OF THE NCCA —Winter 2013 February 1, 2013 Newly Appointed Secretary of NCDHHS to Provide Special Keynote Address on State Issues Announcement Governor Pat McCrory appointed Dr. Aldona Zo- Dr. Jack Schmidt fia Wos to serve as Secretary of the North announced the release Carolina Department of Health and Human of the 6th edition of his Services (DHHS), effective January 5, 2013. text, Counseling in Schools, by Pearson Dr. Wos was born in Warsaw, Poland. She earned Publishers. The new her medical degree at the Warsaw Medical edition is in production Academy, and completed her internship and for publication in early residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship 2013. Schmidt is in Pulmonary Medicine in New York. professor emeritus of counselor education at East Carolina Her experiences include time as a physician in University and a past private practice, corporate medicine, attending president of NCCA. physician duties, clinical care, teaching and consulting for both hospitals and private industry. Inside this issue: Dr. Aldona Zofia Wos LETTER FROM THE NCCA 2 PRESIDENT 2013 Annual NCCA Conference: TIPS FOR WORKING A 3 Empowering Visionary Counselors for 2020 and Beyond CONFERENCE February 20-22, 2013 IMPACTS OF WHITE HOUSE 4 PROPOSALS Keynote Speakers: Conference Program Topics: Mindfulness RELEASE OF DSM-V 4 Trauma Grad Student Leadership PRESS RELEASE FOR SEE 5 Dr. Scott Hinkle Ethics Location: THE TRIUMPH st Thursday, February 21 Cultural Competency Grandover Resort & Conference A REFLECTION ON 6 11:45—1:30 Center — Greensboro, NC NETWORKING Supervision NCCA NEWS 7 School Counseling NCCA MEMBERSHIP FORM 8 Dr. Aldona Wos Substance Abuse 2013 NCCA CONFERENCE 9 Friday, February 22nd REGISTRATION FORM Careers 9:00—9:50 Counseling Education CONTACT INFORMATION 10 Carolina Counselor Letter From the President: Dear NCCA members, The annual conference is fast approaching! Have you registered? Is your room booked? If not, I encourage you to do so quickly. This is a conference you do not want to miss.... Just as NCCA is inclusive of ALL counselors, so is this conference! There is literally something for everyone! Pre-conference trainings on Wednesday are sure to please. For example, Art Terrazas, ACA Grassroots Advocacy Coordinator, will conduct a Dr. Jeff Warren (left) and Dr. training on public policy and advocacy while Dr. Edward Moody holds a Leadership Gary Mauk (right) with stu- dents (John Edwards and Institute for graduate students. Bruce Garris) at the 2012 NCCA Conference Educational sessions focusing on ethics, substance abuse, school counseling, trauma, mindfulness, career development, clinical supervision, and more are planned for Thursday and Friday. A business luncheon is scheduled for Thursday including an awards ceremony and keynote address by Dr. Scott Hinkle (NBCC). “THIS IS A CONFERENCE Friday offers a keynote address by Dr. Aldona Wos, the newly appointed Secretary YOU DO NOT of the NC Department of Health and Human Services. Her address is sure to be WANT TO enlightening! Friday also includes a state-wide meeting of NC CSI Chapters and a MISS...” networking lunch. What more could a counselor want? CEUs?? Yes, you can earn those too for every training and educational session attended. As you may be able to tell, I'm excited about the conference and hope you are too. Spread the word, share the news; this conference is slated to be the best one yet. I look forward to seeing you there! Jeff Warren NCCA President 2 —Winter 2013 Tips for Working a Conference: (1) The goal of a confer- (2) Read up on (3) Get there early. ence is to LEARN and to all the speakers. CONNECT with people. —Show up early, but —To start, that means —You should have at least show up on actively listening and an idea what you’d time. I know someone learning from your seat in say ask to each if who started a 30-year the audience. The goal is to you get the chance relationship because make a good impression, to to say hello. they both showed up on time for a conference learn something about and/or show you know something and were the first and about the topic and get only ones in the room. permission to follow up. The goal of a conference is to learn and connect. (4) Sit in the Front Row. (5)Don’t get buried in your iPhone “GOOD —Be in the present, and be —There is ALWAYS a seat in the front actively looking for opportunities row, and you should walk right up to to connect with people – that’s the front and take it. If you arrive late, LUCK the reason you’re there. you should walk past all the people standing around the wall in the back barely listening and head right up to AT THE the front. Sitting up there forces you to (7) Asking a question from pay attention and makes you less likely the audience – basic. to get buried in your iPhone. CONFERENCE!” (6) Stand where people pass by. —Most conference sessions have a Q&A section at the end, and most of the time there is silence —There is usually an obvious choke for a few moments before the point of people, where every speaker first question. Assume there will and attendee will converge or pass be Q&A and have a great through, and it’s a good place to stand question ready, and state your to get to meet the people you want to name and affiliation so that oth- connect with. It might be the er attendees know you’re there registration desk, it might be the too. entrance to the main room – but you have to stand/chat somewhere and that’s as good a place as any. Adapted from How to Work a Conference (1/27/2013), by Chris Fralic (Chris can be followed at www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfralic/ ) 3 Carolina Counselor White House Proposals May Impact School and Mental Health Counselors On January 16, 2013, President also calls for $50 million to help Barack Obama released a set of train counselors, social workers, proposals to reduce the impact of psychologists, and other mental gun violence, following the tragic health professionals. shootings at Sandy Hook Ele- mentary School in Newtown, These are only two of the many Connecticut. In addition to components of the proposal that provisions to restrict access to could impact school counselors and certain weapons and ammuni- mental health counselors. The full tion, the president’s proposal text of the proposal can be found January 16, 2013—President Obama details his plan to includes several initiatives to here, and presidential memoranda curb gun violence. improve school safety and issued as part of the initiative can increase access to mental health be found here. services. ACA applauds the president’s focus One of these includes something on school safety and climate, as that has long been recommended well as mental health access and “ACA APPLAUDS by ACA: increasing the number service delivery. We will work with THE PRESIDENT’S of school counselors available to both the Administration and FOCUS ON SCHOOL students. The president’s Congress in these areas. We SAFETY AND initiative calls for $150 million welcome your involvement in this CLIMATE, AS WELL AS MENTAL for helping school districts and effort. To share your thoughts or HEALTH ACCESS law enforcement agencies hire learn how you can help promote AND SERVICE 1,000 new staff, including school counseling services as part of the DELIVERY.” counselors, school social workers, response to the recent shootings, school psychologists, and “school send an email to resource officers.” The initiative [email protected]. DSM V DSM-V is scheduled to and implement the new DSM-V be released in May conceptualizations and diagnoses, ACA is 2013. working on a number of professional development opportunities, including: In order to help counselor educators A six-segment webinar on DSM-V and professional DSM-V updates in Counseling Today and counselors understand Counseling Today Online An ACA DSM-V workbook 4 —Winter 2013 January 11, 2013 Contact: NCCA member Allison Press Release for See the Triumph Crowe, [email protected] ECU and UNCG Counseling Faculty Members Launch “See the Triumph” Social Media Campaign to Highlight Survivors Overcoming Domestic Violence Dr. Allison Crowe & Dr. Christine Murray Domestic violence remains a professional help – law enforcement, pressing public health problem medical doctors, attorneys, and mental in virtually every community health professionals. As difficult as it across the world. For the was to hear about the stigma, we knew example, the US Center for Dis- it was important to get these stories out ease Control and Prevention’s to a wide audience. As challenging as 2010 National Intimate Partner their situations were, still participants and Sexual Violence Survey had managed to overcome and achieve “AS showed that nearly 36% of wom- triumph in so many ways. We want to en and 29% of men in the United share this resource with professional CHALLENGING AS States experience counselors who can pass this along to THEIR SITUATIONS physical or sexual assault and/or their clients who might be in need of a stalking within an intimate resource.” WERE, STILL relationship at some point in their lives. Rates of psychologi- Murray and Crowe have launched the PARTICIPANTS cal abuse are even higher, “See the Triumph” social media affecting nearly one-half of all campaign to share the empowering HAD MANAGED women and men. messages and stories shared by the TO OVERCOME participants in their studies. “By using Although domestic violence is so these social media channels, we hope to AND ACHIEVE widespread, victims and be able to disseminate the findings of survivors continue to experience our research more directly to the people TRIUMPH IN SO many forms of stigma and who these messages impact, survivors various challenges even after and the professionals who work with MANY WAYS.” their abusive relationships have them, than we could ever do through ended.