Conference Program Will Highlight Depression in African Americans

Table of Contents EXPO PASS APP Instructions ...... 4

SCCA Committees and Chairs ...... 5

Thursday-at-glance ...... 6

Continuing Education Information ...... 6

Preconference Workshops ...... 7

THURSDAY PRECONFERENCE MORNING SESSIONS │9:00-12:00 ...... 7

THURSDAY PRECONFERENCE AFTERNOON SESSIONS │1:00-4:00 ...... 8

THURSDAY PRECONFERENCE EVENING SESSION │6:00-9:00 ...... 11

Friday at-a-glance ...... 12

FRIDAY SESSION I│8:00-8:55 AM ...... 12

FRIDAY SESSION II│9:10-10:05 AM ...... 14

FRIDAY SESSION III│10:15-11:10 AM ...... 17

KEYNOTE/AWARDS LUNCHEON│11:20-12:50 PM ...... 21

FRIDAY SESSION IV│1:00-1:55 PM ...... 21

FRIDAY SESSION V│2:05-3:00 PM ...... 24

POSTER SESSION & SNACK BREAK ...... 27

FRIDAY SESSION VI│3:35-4:30 PM ...... 31

FRIDAY SESSION VII│4:40-5:35 PM ...... 33

SATURDAY SESSION VIII│10:15-11:45 ...... 36

Post-conference workshop│1:00-4:00 ...... 40

CPGA/SCACD/SCCA Past Presidents ...... 40

NBCC Content Areas and Topics ...... 43

EXHIBITORS & SPONSORS ...... 44

President’s Welcome

Hello and welcome to the South Carolina Counseling Association conference! We hope that whether you’re here as a new counselor or a veteran in the field, or someone in the midst of a struggle looking for an answer that we’ll be able to help. Founded in 1964, the South Carolina Counseling Association (SCCA) is the official state branch of the American Counseling Association (ACA). We represent professional counselors from all divisions and specialty areas. The last few years have been full of hard work and significant changes to our association, but not necessarily the kind of changes that have been noticeable from the outside. Due to the tireless work of our Past President Dr. Tommy Vaughn, we have re-written our constitution and bylaws to receive the approval of the ACA. We have restructured our board in order to guarantee that all those in leadership have been voted into office and that their votes represent the needs of our members. Thanks to the hard work of Executive Council members Norma Colwell, Dr. Jennifer Jordan, and others, we have passed a recent audit of our professional development and continuing education records. This ensures our continued status as CE providers to professional counselors. Each of these accomplishments represents a stone laid in the foundation of our association. Our early members were key voices in advocating for licensure in our state, as well as the recognition of counselors as professional providers. As President for the 2019-2020 year I have challenged myself and our board with this year’s theme; “Finding Our Focus”. Completing the foundational work of the last few years has allowed us to now turn our time and attention to those things we have talked about and wished for but have not been able to bring to fruition. With a renewed focus on our mission and strategic initiatives, we will move forward with transparency and dedication to meeting the needs of our members. Through accessible and affordable continuing education, meaningful opportunities for networking and professional connections, and providing a unified voice for our members and all counselors across the state, we want to serve you with the same level of dedication you provide to those people who walk through your doors every day. Join us as we move forward, focused on the future and on the needs of our members and those they serve. Yours In Service,

Justin Brewer, SCCA President 2019-2020

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SCCA Committees and Chairs

THURSDAY PRECONFERENCE ever. This session will provide foundational MORNING SESSIONS │9:00-12:00 information about the sections of the Code as well as explore critical areas such as values- A Map of Couple Counseling: Using EFT to based conflicts, competence and referral, and Create Secure Connections the use of technology and social media. Presenter: Craig At the end of this session, participants will be Cashwell, Ph.D. able to: Location: Elliot  Understand the importance of the Code Program Description: of Ethics and the information contained This presentation will in the Code. focus on Emotionally  Understand how the Code directs and Focused Couple Therapy impacts practice; and (EFT) as an evidence-  Become knowledgeable about how to based approach to working with couples, make ethical decisions. including an overview of the model. At the end of this session, participants will be Ethics of Supervision in Play Therapy able to: Presenter: Charlton Hall,  Articulate the three stages and nine MFT, LMFTS steps of the EFT model. Location: Sampson  Understand how tracking the cycle and Program Description: This validation are critical in early sessions course will examine some  Explain how Modern Attachment of the areas of potential Theory informs the couple counseling conflict of interest in play process. therapy supervision. Identify and discuss some of the ethical challenges in play therapy supervision and how Craig S. Cashwell, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS, is to resolve them. Professor and Chair at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also maintains a At the end of this session, participants will be part-time private practice. able to:  Identify when mandated reporting is required. Deep Dive into Ethics Part I  Identify when duty to warn is required. (You may apply this session as a play therapy, ethics, or Presenter(s): Lynn Linde, supervision CE. Play therapy CE's will be handed out separately). Ed.D. APT Approved Provider- 99-061 Location: Archer West Program Description: Part 1: The 2014 ACA Code of Ethics Charlton (Chuck) Hall, MMFT, LMFT/S, RPT-S, says what? Everything you need to know to CHt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practice ethically. As the world continues to Supervisor, a Registered Play Therapy become more diverse, and counselors are faced Supervisor, a Certified Hypnotherapist, and a with increasingly complex challenges, knowing board member for SCAPT. the ACA Code of Ethics is more important than

How Trauma and Technology Impact an Adolescent Brain: A Practical Guide on  Demonstrate an understanding of the Neurofeedback in Application importance of integrating social- Presenter(s): Diane Kosto, Ed.D. emotional learning into their curricula Location: Camelia Boardroom  Recognize the core SEL competencies, Program Description: This presentation covers as well as demonstrate knowledge the basics of neurofeedback and how this regarding ways to incorporate SEL into innovative technology can improve trauma and their curricula technology impacted youth.  Demonstrate an understanding of At the end of this session, participants will be defining and developing a growth able to: mindset amongst students, as well as 1. Analyze if stress, trauma, and technology complete an experiential activity in create brainwave dysregulation. order to foster academic success for all 2. Recognize how neurofeedback enhances the THURSDAY PRECONFERENCE quality of services for those with brainwave dysregulation. AFTERNOON SESSIONS │1:00-4:00 3. Obtain valuable information on how An Introduction to Internal Family Systems: neurofeedback can benefit current services for Understanding Parts those experiencing barriers in treatment. Presenter: Andrieah Johnson, M.A., LMHC

Dianne provides neurofeedback in practice, she Location: Elliot has presented to SE NATSAP Oct.2016, CTSS Program Description: 2019. She will be presenting at Attach This presentation will Conference 2019 and NATSAP 2019. provide an overview of the Internal Family Social & Emotional Learning: Promoting an Systems (IFS) theory and therapy. Participants Inclusive School Climate and Growth Mindset will be able to implement tools into their work with clients and themselves immediately. IFS Presenter: Allison Paolini, recognizes that there is a multiplicity of the Ph.D., NCC mind; little subpersonalities. The motto for IFS Location: Heyward is that "All Parts Are Welcomed." Program Description: This At the end of this session, participants will be presentation will address able to: the definition of social-  Facilitate corrective attachment and emotional learning, SEL core emotional independence within their competencies, role of clients through their internal system of school counselor in implementing SEL, PBIS in parts. the schools, strategies for creating an inclusive  Understand the basic principles and school climate, definition of a growth mindset, assumptions of the model. strategies for developing a growth mindset,  Describe and recognize the three types discussion questions, as well as an experiential of Parts and Self and their roles within activity that works to foster a growth mindset. the internal system At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Location: Jasmine Andrieah Johnson is a licensed mental health counselor and owner of Connected Program Description: This training will provide Conversations Counseling, L.L.C. in Jacksonville, a basic understanding of materials needed to FL. She works with black women that are set up a sandtray practice, conduct, and process struggling with unresolved trauma who want to a sandtray as part of a play therapy session. live wholeheartedly. Over the past 5 years, her Both directive and non-directive sand trays will training has been focused in Brainspotting be demonstrated, and participants will have an (Level 2), Internal Family Systems (Level 1), and opportunity to experience creating individual as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator – and group sandtrays. Candidate (CDWF-C). Individual, group work, and self-care retreats are the avenues in which At the end of this session, participants will be she facilitates healing for those that are seeking able to: healthier emotional and mental health well-  Summarize the origin and theory of being. using sandtray in play therapy.  Describe how to conduct and process a Deep Dive Into Ethics (Part II) sandtray within a play therapy session. Presenter: Lynn Linde, Ed.D.  Describe sandtray interventions to Location: Archer West incorporate into play therapy with Program Description: This session will build on individuals, families, and groups. the information presented in (This session can be submitted as play therapy the first foundational session or professional CE. Play therapy certificates will on the 2014 ACA Code of be handed out separately.) Ethics. Topics covered in APT Approved Provider- 99-061 depth include boundary issues, practice issues, and risk management strategies. Carmen K. Jimenez-Pride is a Master Level Social Worker, Substance Abuse Professional, At the end of this session, participants will be Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North able to: Carolina and Georgia. She is also a Licensed  Understand the importance of Independent Social Worker i maintaining boundaries in counseling and other professional relationships;  Become knowledgeable about the most Supervision: Back to the Basics common practices that lead to ethics complaints; and Presenter: Thomas Vaughn, DEdMin, Ph.D.,  Understand the importance of LPC, LPC/S consultation and supervision in Location: Heyward minimizing one’s risk. Program Description: When new counselors enter our profession of counseling, supervision Hands in the Sand: Introduction to Sandtray is their lifeline to conceptualization, Play Therapy interventions, and personal growth. All of these can be provided by a supervisor who is Presenter: Carmen Jimenez- informed of developmental, role, and theory- Pride, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S based models of supervision.

At the end of this session, participants will be Understanding and Treating Process able to: Addictions Presenter: Craig Cashwell,  Review theories of supervisor and apply Ph.D. these theories to case studies to take Location: Sampson into your own practice and help the The purpose of this growth and development of new training is to expose counselors joining our profession. participants to the  Review the IDM Model of Supervision, neurobiology of The Discrimination Model of behavioral addictions, specific behavioral Supervision, and Psychodynamic addictions, and treatment recommendations. Supervision. Apply these models of At the end of this session, participants will be supervision to 2 case studies. able to:  Utilize these theories in their own  Distinguish between behavioral supervision practice. addictions and compulsive behaviors  Classify behavioral addictions included in the DSM and ICD, and those commonly treatment by counselors though not yet in either the DSM or ICD  Articulate critical aspects in the effective treatment of behavioral addictions

Craig S. Cashwell, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS, is

Professor and Chair at The University of North

Carolina at Greensboro. He also maintains a part-time private practice.

THURSDAY PRECONFERENCE Dr. Heather Trepal is Professor and Coordinator EVENING SESSION │6:00-9:00 of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Evening Session- Preventing and Managing Program in the Department of Counseling. She is a licensed professional counselor and board Vicarious Trauma: What School & Mental approved supervisor in the state of Texas. Her Health Counselors Need to Know research and publications focus on professional Presenter: advocacy, bilingual counselor training and Heather supervision, relational-cultural theory, gender Trepal, Ph.D., issues and sexual trauma, supervision in integrated behavioral healthcare settings, and ACA President non-suicidal self-injury. Location: Dr. Trepal currently serves as the project Archer West director for the Program for the Integrated Program Training of Counselors in Behavioral Healthcare Description: (PITCH). This is a 4-year, $807,000 Federal Vicarious Health Resources and Services Administration trauma can be Behavioral Health Workforce Education and common among mental health professionals Training Grant, which provides specialized who work with students and clients who are training and internship placements for student survivors of trauma. In this workshop, counselors to gain competence working with counselors will learn to explore the concept of clients in rural, vulnerable, and/or medically vicarious trauma, learn more about identifying underserved communities in integrated and evaluating their own reactions, and behavioral healthcare (IBH) settings. Dr. Trepal has served as President of the discover tools to manage them effectively in Association for Counselor Education and order to better serve their students, clients, and Supervision (ACES) and the Association for organizations. Creativity in Counseling (ACC), both divisions of the American Counseling Association. She is the  Attendees will explore the concept of recipient of numerous awards including the vicarious trauma. Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) Professional Leadership  Attendees will learn how to identify and Award, The Texas Association for Counselor manage vicarious trauma reactions Education and Supervision (TACES) Advocacy Award, the American Counseling Association effectively. (ACA) Presidential Award, and the Dwight D.  Attendees will learn the basic concepts Arnold Outstanding Alumnus Award from Kent State University's Department of Counseling of trauma-informed organizations. and Human Development Service Program. She is the 2019-2020 President of the American Counseling Association.

● Evaluate apps and become aware of harmful apps. FRIDAY SESSION I│8:00-8:55 AM ● Recognize that social media can have a SOCIAL MEDIA DETOX positive influence on our families. (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 1, 4, & 9) Content Area: Substance abuse /addictions Day: Friday BEHIND THE BLUE SHIELD: EXAMINING THE Session I EPIDEMIC OF LAW ENFORCEMENT SUICIDE FROM A Location: Drayton CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PERSPECTIVE Presenter: James Deal, M.Ed., CATIII Program Description: Social Media Detox deals Content Area: Clinical Mental Health with the problem of social media addiction and Counseling how to assist your children in finding balance Day: Friday and create healthy relationships while still being Session I connected to social media. This presentation Location: Parris (Down the hall near the will also provide participants with strategies Carolina room Restaurant) other parents are using to assist their children Presenter(s): Nikki Vasilas, Ph.D., LPCS who may be headed toward social media Janelle Robinson, Ph.D. addiction. Lastly, participants will be shown Program Description: As of August 10, 2019, how social media can be used positively to there was an estimated 130 officer verified create quality family time together. suicides. Experts say law enforcement officers At the conclusion of this session, participants are twice as likely to die by their own hand than will: be killed in the line of duty, and 1 in 4 police ● Recognize that social media is highly officers will have thoughts of suicide at some addictive and may be used for point in their life. Compared to the general cyberbullying and other negative population, law enforcement reports much activities. higher rates of depression, PTSD, burnout, and other anxiety-related mental health conditions. Police officers are a unique subculture that

faces complex, sometimes overwhelming acceptance from a therapist. But we also begin pressures and challenges. To work effectively to look at our stories from a safe distance and with cops, mental health professionals need a gain perspective and are able to self-soothe. special set of competencies and a profound Most therapists are well-aware that mindful understanding of law enforcement culture. This breathing is an effective skill for coping. So let's presentation will explore the epidemic and rise examine mindfulness more closely. We will of suicides within the law enforcement learn simple prompts for a 5-minute community and consider the cultural meditation, understand the value of presence considerations of working with this complex with patients, help others "sit with" and population. tolerate their emotions and life changes as part of the grieving process, and learn to accept life At the conclusion of this session, participants as meaningful just as it is. will: ● Examine the statistical increase of At the conclusion of this session, participants officer suicides. will: ● Recognize cultural considerations of ● Conduct a 5-minute meditation session working with the law enforcement with patients that can be taken to gain officer. self-awareness and tolerance of ● Identify resources to increase skills and repetitious thoughts and emotions. competencies to work with this ● Explain to patients how returning to the specialized population. present moment is an intervention for anxiety and depression, not something (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 3, 8, & 9) to struggle with, but something to grow into. ● Explain and demonstrate that mindful APPLYING MINDFULNESS TO PSYCHOTHERAPY acceptance is an intervention for those Content Area: Clinical Mental Health who question if life is meaningful and Counseling worth living. Day: Friday (Meets NBCC Content Area (s): 1, 2, & 4) Session I Location: Sampson (in the registration area to PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS EMPOWERED AS the back left corner) GROUP WORK AMBASSADORS FOR HEALTH & Presenter: Cynthia Gray, M.A., LPC, CGP, FOP, WHOLENESS IMP Program Description: Returning to the present Content Area: School Counseling moment with acceptance is a shorthand Day: Friday description of mindfulness. When we engage in Session I formal mindfulness, we call it meditation. In Location: Elliot meditation, we observe our thoughts, label Presenter: George Williams, Ed.D., NCC, LP them, and return to the breath for some (MN,CA) specific period. In the process, we become Program Description: Session participants will settled and self-aware. We look at our thoughts learn activities for facilitating different types of and upsets rather than out through them. Isn't groups with various age groups in schools and that the same process that psychotherapy community-based settings for health and provides? We tell our stories and receive gentle wholeness. Topics such as dating-violence

prevention, blended families, cultural ● Apply three methods of employing awareness, and social justice issues will be therapeutic rituals and tasks. addressed. Logistical details for conducting ● Understand the pragmatics of assigning meaningful advisory type meetings, engaging rituals. after school programs, and providing in- (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 1) service/professional development training will be included. FRIDAY SESSION II│9:10-10:05 AM HOW TO INCORPORATE THE LEADER IN ME MODEL At the conclusion of this session, participants INTO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELING will: PROGRAM ● Identify the role and function of the professional school counselor and the Content Area: School Counseling professional mental health counselor as Day: Friday a group leader in accordance with Session II professional codes of ethics. Location: St. Helena (Down the hall toward the ● Apply skills for facilitating group carolina Room Restaurant on the Right) counseling sessions, conducting Presenter(s): Amanda Budd, M.Ed., Erin effective group meetings, and providing Kimbrell, M.Ed., & Andrea Ribelin, M.Ed. training sessions for parents/legal Program Description: This presentation will guardians, teachers/school staff, teach school counselors new ideas on how to administrators, and community incorporate leadership into their school members. counseling program while including the 7+1 ● Initiate and implement "Responsive Habits of Happy Kids. Leader in Me is an Services" and "System Support," evidence-based, comprehensive-school according to the ASCA National Model. improvement model—developed in partnership (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 4, 8, & 9) with educators—that empowers students with the leadership and life skills they need to thrive

in the 21st century. PSYCHO-SYMBOLIC HEALING: USING THERAPEUTIC At the conclusion of this session, participants RITUALS TO GENERATE CHANGE will: ● Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Create leadership opportunities within Counseling their school to help students succeed. Day: Friday ● Recognize how the 7+1 Habits of Happy Session I Kids can be used in an Elementary Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) School Counseling Program. ● Presenter: Paul Leslie, Ed.D., LPC Establish successful leadership Program Description: In this presentation, development groups within a school. participants will gain insight from such areas as (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 3, 7, & 9) psychotherapy, shamanism, theater, and art in how to effectively apply therapeutic rituals. TECHNOLOGY FOR PERSONS WITH AND WITHOUT At the conclusion of this session, participants DISABILITIES. WHY EVERY COUNSELOR NEEDS TO will:

KNOW THIS AND HOW IT COULD BENEFIT ALL OF (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 2, 3, & 6) YOUR CLIENTS.

Content Area: Clinical Mental Health ENGAGING FATHERS TOWARD EMPOWERED Counseling INVOLVEMENT: AN EXAMINATION OF THEORY AND Day: Friday PRACTICE Session II Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) Content Area: Marriage and family therapy Presenter: Robert Dawson, Ph.D., CRC Day: Friday Program Description: In this session, Session II participants are encouraged to bring their cell Location: Drayton phones, laptops, and tablets. Assistive Presenter(s): Jeffrey Boatner, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, technology (AT) is defined as any item, piece of NCC and Holly Johnson, Ph.D., LPCS, NCC equipment, software program, or product Program Description: This session provides system that is used to increase, maintain, or both information and skills that will further improve the functional capabilities of persons equip clinicians for increased paternal with and without disabilities. The importance involvement. Meta-analyses of paternal of assistive and adaptive technology cannot be involvement in children's counseling have understated. Through awareness, counselors consistently found that it makes a positive can help to increase their client's self-efficacy difference. Participation by fathers is associated and empower individuals for school, work, or with better outcomes and more enduring daily life. The concepts of universal design have treatment gains for children. Despite this, the long been established, but there has been an literature indicates that clinicians and other increasing trend to make technology products family service workers often fail to engage that are user-friendly. Many of the AT fathers in services. Reviews of family therapy accommodations can be provided at minimal or have found that fathers are less likely than no cost. This presentation will highlight assistive mothers to be involved in children's treatment. technology applications for tablets, The ratio of maternal and paternal involvement smartphones, and laptops. All applications and ranges from 2:1. Some of this discrepancy may programs demonstrated are free for all users. be due to clinicians' failure to solicit paternal Additional resources will be provided involvement.

At the conclusion of this session, participants At the conclusion of this session, participants will: will: ● Enable awareness of low-cost assistive ● Recognize the importance of involving and adaptive technology for persons fathers in counseling for children and with and without disabilities. adolescents. ● Highlight the application of assistive ● Identify diversity sensitive and strength- and adaptive technology to aid based strategies and best practices for consumers in school, work, or to live recruiting and retaining fathers in independently. counseling. ● Provide resources for application ● Describe an enriched father-affirming software and websites to empower perspective that both promotes and persons with and without disabilities. maximizes paternal engagement. (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 1, 2,& 3)

LEGO BASED PLAY THERAPY GROUPS and workplace settings. These barriers are established and reinforced by attitudes and Content Area: Play therapy beliefs that often derive from the majority Day: Friday culture. Two hundred thirty-three students Session II from a large, Midwestern university were Location: Elliot recruited and received an intervention along Presenter: Melissa Kennedy, Ed.S., NCC with pre- and post-testing. The purpose was to Program Description: This session will investigate potential differences in attitudes demonstrate core strategies to help children and beliefs towards a minority group as well as build, strengthen, and inspire children to evaluate if a corresponding willingness to develop effective relationships with peers. engage in social action occurred. Overall, these Participants will learn effective play therapy findings suggest that the simple intervention, techniques to use with children within the which was a specific episode of television, could home, school, or office setting. Participants will alter participants' attitudes and beliefs towards receive handouts for measures to collect data a minority group. The findings suggest a variety from teachers, parents, and community of media interventions can be utilized with members on group effectiveness. Participants success. This presentation will discuss how to will also be eligible to receive a prize at the utilize and incorporate pop culture into conclusion of the session. prevention efforts, education opportunities, and outreach programming that m… At the conclusion of this session, participants will: At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Identity core play therapy strategies to will: use with students when doing a play ● Identify and recall the purpose and therapy group. need for social justice. ● Recognize and utilize new methods of ● Restate research methods and results. play therapy techniques with students ● Identify the rationale for the use of pop in a variety of different settings. culture as an intervention, and ● Practice/model one technique used formulate new methods of during LEGO-based play therapy groups. intervention.

(Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 2, 4, & 7) (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 3)

UTILIZING AND INCORPORATING POP CULTURE INTO HELPING WITHOUT HARMING: NAVIGATING STRATEGIC EDUCATION AND PREVENTION EVENTS WEIGHT BIAS, THE PURSUIT OF WEIGHT LOSS AND THE TREATMENT OF EMOTIONAL AND BINGE EATING Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Counseling Content Area: Counselor Education Day: Friday Day: Friday Session II Location: Sampson (in the registration area to Location: Parris (Down the hall near the the back left corner) Carolina room Restaurant) Presenter(s): Erin Risius, M.A., LPC Presenter(s): Mark Taracuk, MS Ed., NCC Program Description: For clients who are Program Description: Barriers to equality and grappling with weight gain due to eating inclusion for minorities can include a variety of behaviors, such as emotional overeating and factors, including discrimination in educational binge eating, they may also be dealing with the

self-imposed and external pressure to focus on American pre-service counseling students who weight loss. As a result, clinicians often walk a may have experienced and/or are experiencing tightrope between addressing (and not symptoms of undiagnosed PTSD as defined by dismissing) the client's desire to lose weight the DSM-5. The goal is to examine its potential while trying to treat the disordered eating effects on counseling dispositions, particularly pattern. This presentation reviews how transference and/or countertransference. clinicians can help their clients to address issues Discussion on historical events that potentially of weight in a way that supports the effective created a cultural mistrust of helping treatment of disordered eating patterns by professionals and the profound stigma of shifting from a weight centered focus to the mental health and mental illness among African practice of self-care as a springboard for Americans will be examined within the context improving health and well-being. Clinicians will of counselor education programs at Historically also be encouraged to privately explore their Black Colleges and/or Universities. own attitudes about weight, and the potential At the conclusion of this session, participants impact on their treatment approach. will: At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Identify help-seeking behaviors of will: African American pre-service counseling ● Recognize three reasons why a focus on students at HBCUs. body weight can interfere with the ● Discuss historical events that enhance successful treatment of disordered the stigma of mental illness among eating. African Americans who attend graduate ● Describe five strategies for helping to counseling programs at HBCUs. shift clients' focus from weight and ● Delineate how undiagnosed Post weight-loss centered to the focus on Traumatic Stress Disorder can affect self-care. counseling dispositions of African ● Evaluate the impact a clinician’s American pre-service counseling attitude about weight can have on students at HBCUs. one’s treatment approach and offer (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 1, 3, & 8) ways to combat potential countertransference and/or projection. FRIDAY SESSION III│10:15-11:10 AM (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 1, 3, & 9) EVERFI: FREE, ASCA-BASED DIGITAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE WHOLE CHILD UNDIAGNOSED POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: IMPLICATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN Content Area: School Counseling COUNSELING STUDENTS Day: Friday Session III Content Area: Counselor Education Location: Lady Davis (in registration area to the Day: Friday back left corner) Session II Presenter(s): Peter Kelpin, M.Ed. Location: Heyward Program Description: EVERFI provides an easy- Presenter(s): Sheila Witherspoon, Ph.D., to-use, free digital platform of resources that Professional School Counselor address SEL, character development, career Program Description: This presentation will awareness and healthy decision making. In this explore help seeking behaviors of African

session, educators gain access to ASCA-based ● Identify the four developmental levels online lessons, corresponding offline lessons for supervisees. and discussions guides, and ongoing tech and ● Describe the varied creative approaches implementation support. Lessons include direct including self-assessments. journaling instruction, guided activities reinforcing content and self-care plans to support and true-to-life simulations with offline establishing an effective and healthy practice. clinical team through an intentional supervision project. At the conclusion of this session, participants will: (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 1, 4, & 8)

● Demonstrate how digital resources play GOOD GRIEF a part in building school culture by cultivating a focus on social and Content Area: Counselor Education emotional learning. Day: Friday ● Identify the four developmental levels Session III for supervisees. Location: Heyward ● Create an action plan for implementing Presenter(s): Liz Boyd, Ph.D. digital resources in their school. Brooke Wymer, Ph.D. Program Description: At some point, grief will (Meets NBCC Content Area(s): 3, 5, & 9) impact every single one of us. From the loss of a job to the death of a loved one, almost every LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: A counselor will work with a client who is CREATIVE APPROACH TO SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION experiencing grief. Interestingly, grief is not a subject that is taught in most counseling Content Area: Supervision programs. A significant amount of novice Day: Friday counselors feel uncomfortable working with Session III clients who are grieving because of their lack of Location: Drayton training in the area. Come learn and discuss Presenter(s): Claire Campbell, M.A., LPCC-S, best practices for integrating lessons on grief ATR into the CACREP core curriculum. Program Description: This session is focused on creative solutions for effective supervision of At the conclusion of this session, participants counselors in training and clinicians in general. will: This highly interactive workshop will encourage ● Integrate lessons related to grief into participants to identify the four developmental each of the CACREP core courses. levels of supervisees as well as the four primary ● Recognize the importance of training supervision styles. Participants will leave with novice counselors in grief work. creative options for developing and sustaining ● Evaluate students' comfort in working an effective clinical team. with clients experiencing grief through the practicum and internship At the conclusion of this session, participants experiences, as well as upon will: graduation. ● Recognize the four primary supervisory styles and identify skills associated with (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 2) each.

UNMASKING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A NATIONAL Content Area: Clinical Mental Health PANDEMIC Counseling Day: Friday Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Session III Counseling Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) Day: Friday Presenter(s): Fredric Mau, D. Min., LPCS Session III Program Description: Panic attacks spring from Location: St. Helena (Down the hall toward the the limbic system before neocortex processing Carolina Room Restaurant on the Right) even takes place. Cognitive therapy processes Presenter(s): George Williams, Ed.D., NCC, LP are then left to clean up the mess after it has (MN, CA) happened. Since the brain responds differently Christan Rainey, BS, CEO, M.A.D. USA, Inc. in relaxation vs. waking state, hypnotic processes offer a fast, easy way for counselors Program Description: This presentation will to get ahead of the game and head off the share the story of how co-presenter Christan attack before it happens. This is a simple Rainey's daily life and purpose for living have therapeutic process you can use in your been transformed as a result of the practice, and it will build your skills for more unimaginable domestic violence (DV) in his work with these techniques if you decide to add family. Presenters will discuss the role of mental this to your professional toolbox. health professionals in the DV cycle and provide strategies to advocate for the prevention of At the conclusion of this session, participants domestic violence. will: ● Create effective progressive relaxation At the conclusion of this session, participants processes, tailored to the individual will: client, to relieve phobia and panic ● Describe SC legislation that has been attacks. implemented as a result of the passion ● Construct a new narrative or story to of Christan Rainey, CEO of M.A.D. USA, change the way clients see phobic and Inc. (Men Against Domestic panic responses. Violence/Abuse) ● Appraise and expand the use of ● Recognize how domestic violence has noncognitive approaches to therapy in reached epidemic/pandemic clinical practice. proportions and has been declared "national emergency." (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) ● Define the role of mental health WORKING WITH CLIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE professionals in the domestic violence AND PERSISTENT MENTAL ILLNESS cycle and develop strategies to advocate for the prevention of Content Area: Clinical Mental Health domestic violence. Counseling (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 2, 3 & 9) Day: Friday Session III MAGIC MOVIES & SMOKE DETECTORS: HYPNOSIS Location: Parris (Down the hall near the FOR PHOBIA AND PANIC Carolina room Restaurant) Presenter(s): Donna Farrell, M.A., LPCA

Program Description: Discussion of the ● Apply treatment modalities and specific challenges and considerations of working with interventions aimed at addressing adults with chronic, persistent mental illness in perfectionism and disordered eating. a group, psychosocial rehabilitative setting. (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1, 6, & 9)

At the conclusion of this session, participants THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CULTURE IN THE will: PLAY THERAPY RELATIONSHIP ● Recognize primary indicators of Content Area: Play therapy schizophrenia and bipolar disorder Day: Friday diagnoses. Session III ● List major challenges of working with Location: Elliot chronic, persistent mental illness. Presenter(s): Saundra Penn, Ph.D., LPC, RPT ● Identify the limitations of working in a Program Description: In the current socio- non-profit community based mental cultural climate, there is a tendency to health facility. downplay the value of intercultural awareness (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1, 3, & 4) and intercultural knowledge in the play therapy relationship. However, the play therapy EATING DISORDERS & PERFECTIONISM: BALANCING relationship is layered with cultural metaphors, THE DESIRE TO ACHIEVE AND SELF-CRITICISM symbols, and intercultural relationship dynamics. Research shows that the Content Area: Clinical Mental Health minimization of culture devalues the lived Counseling experiences of child clients and their families. In Day: Friday addition, it diminishes play therapists' existence Session III as fully cultural beings. In this presentation, the Location: Sampson (in registration area to the presenter will lecture on play therapy as a back left corner) culturally vulnerable space and highlight the Presenter(s): Andrea Barbian, Ph.D., LPC, NCC literature on the impact of culture blindness, Program Description: The focus of this culture in the playroom, and the value of presentation will be on understanding eating metacognition in exploring culture in the disorders and specific treatment strategies playroom. The presenter will guide participants focused on the multidimensional constructs in metacognitive activities designed to promote seen with perfectionism and disordered eating. self-appraisal of interculturalism in the play At the conclusion of this session, participants therapy relationship. will: At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Establish a basic knowledge of eating will: disorders (symptoms, diagnostic ● Describe a model for developing criteria, and etiology) and their intercultural sensitivity. ● Identify the role of assessing metacognition comorbidities. in the relationship with child clients and ● Establish a basic understanding of families. perfectionism and its ability to be ● Demonstrate strategies for self-assessing maladaptive or adaptive in regards to their culture-specific thoughts and eating disorders. knowledge about culture in the play therapy relationship.

● (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1 & 3)

KEYNOTE/AWARDS LUNCHEON│11:20-12:50 PM Tomorrow's Counselor: Your role in advocacy for our profession Presenter: Heather Trepal, Ph.D., ACA President

Program board-approved supervisor in the state of Texas. Her Description: Great research and publications focus on professional and continued advocacy, bilingual counselor training and opportunities await supervision, relational-cultural theory, gender issues the counseling and sexual trauma, supervision in integrated profession. The behavioral healthcare settings, and non-suicidal self- increased need for injury. both licensure portability and parity, defending Dr. Trepal currently serves as the project director for practice rights, increasing prospects for employment the Program for the Integrated Training of and reimbursement for services, and important Counselors in Behavioral Healthcare (PITCH). This is a social issues and legislation that may impact the 4-year, $807,000 Federal Health Resources and profession and our counseling constituents are all Services Administration Behavioral Health Workforce advocacy opportunities. This presentation will Education and Training Grant which provides highlight your role as an advocate for the counseling specialized training and internship placements for profession so that we can best support our students, students counselors to gain competence working our clients, and our profession. Participants will with clients in rural, vulnerable, and/or medically consider their own vision for the counseling underserved communities in integrated behavioral profession and some of the ways in which they will healthcare (IBH) settings. contribute through advocacy. 1. Attendees will explore the concept of Dr. Trepal has served as President of the Association professional advocacy. for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) and 2. Attendees will identify common barriers relative the Association for Creativity in Counseling (ACC), to professional advocacy. both divisions of the American Counseling 3. Attendees will learn to identify opportunities for Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards professional advocacy at personal and organizational including the Association for Counselor Education level. Dr. Heather Trepal is Professor and and Supervision (ACES) Professional Leadership Coordinator of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Award, The Texas Association for Counselor Program in the Department of Counseling. She is a Education and Supervision (TACES) Advocacy Award, licensed professional counselor and the American Counseling Association (ACA) Presidential Award, and the Dwight D. Arnold

Outstanding Alumnus Award from Kent State University's Department of Counseling and Human Development Service Program.

She is the 2019-2020 President of the American

Counseling Association.

FRIDAY SESSION IV│1:00-1:55 PM Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Counseling A CLINICIAN'S GUIDE TO TRANSGENDER AND Day: Friday GENDER DIVERSE MENTAL HEALTH Session IV

Location: Parris (Down the hall near the Day: Friday Carolina room Restaurant) Session IV Presenter(s): Mark Taracuk, MS Ed., NCC Location: Heyward Program Description: As issues related to Presenter(s): Charlotte Redden Hamilton, Ph.D., transgender and gender diverse individuals gain LPC/S, LPC, LAC, ASC, NCC more national media attention, professional Program Description: Stress is the body's organizations that promote mental health and reaction to a challenge. The right kind of stress LGBTQ+ rights continue to advocate for equality can sharpen the mind and reflexes. It might be and inclusion. Yet barriers to equality and able to help the body perform better or help inclusion for transgender and gender diverse you escape. individuals such as discrimination in educational At the conclusion of this session, participants and workplace settings continue to exist in a will: pervasive manner. As transgender and gender ● Recognize physical, cognitive, diverse students become more visible, mental emotional, and behavioral symptoms of health providers serving this population must stress. be aware of the unique needs facing this ● Demonstrate and sustain ongoing self- population in an effort to help create a society care and improvement. that is physically and psychologically safe and ● Create a happy and stress-free routine secure for all people. In this presentation, for your life. participants will learn about key components and best practices related to the mental health (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 2, 8, & 9) of transgender and gender diverse and how to integrate it into effective clinical practice. MINDFULNESS AND YOGA IN CLINICAL PRACTICE At the conclusion of this session, participants will: Content Area: Clinical Mental Health ● Define key terms, summarize concepts, Counseling and improve competence in Day: Friday terminology related to transgender and Session IV gender diverse individuals Location: Sampson (in the registration area to ● Identify strategies and resources for the back left corner) creating an affirming environment for Presenter(s): Holley Mosher, M.Ed., LPCA transgender and gender diverse clients Shannon Berger, M.Ed., LPCA ● Recite methods for appropriate mental health work with transgender and Program Description: Mindfulness and yoga gender diverse individuals, and develop have been proven to increase serotonin and plans to integrate methods into practice dopamine levels in the brain. This increase contributes to a person's sensation of (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) happiness, relaxation, and overall wellness. Using mindfulness and yoga in clinical practice can reduce symptoms of PTSD, stress, PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSORS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS: depression, anxiety, etc. There is a common IMPLICATIONS FOR SELF-CARE misconception of yoga and mindfulness and how it can be utilized in clinical practice. This Content Area: Counselor Education presentation will focus on psychoeducation of

how and why these practices are beneficial for CREATIVE TRAUMA-INFORMED INTERVENTIONS clients; as well as, provide tools to utilize in your WITHIN THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE POPULATION own clinical work. Content Area: Clinical Mental Health At the conclusion of this session, participants Counseling will: Day: Friday ● Recognize the importance of yoga and Session IV mindfulness within their own clinical Location: St. Helena (Down the hall toward the practice. Carolina Room Restaurant on the Right) ● Create interventions utilizing the Presenter(s): Nicki Gaskins, M.Ed., LPCA mindfulness and yoga skills learned. Program Description: This art therapy ● Incorporate the skills of mindfulness presentation will highlight trauma-informed art and yoga into their own practice of self- interventions for use when counseling domestic care. violence victims and vicarious D.V. victims. An (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) introduction to domestic violence trauma- informed care and art therapy will be given, THERAPEUTIC ALCHEMY: CONCEPTS FOR followed by an interactive demonstration of GENERATING TRANSFORMATIONAL SESSIONS several art interventions.

Content Area: Clinical Mental Health At the conclusion of this session, participants Counseling will: Day: Friday ● Identify research-based information on Session IV and the application of creative Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) interventions in trauma-informed care. Presenter(s): Paul Leslie, Ed.D., LPC ● Understand how art therapy techniques Program Description: Learn the factors which and creative interventions are effective contribute to creating alive and inspired in trauma work. therapy sessions regardless of theoretical ● Apply practical tools to counseling orientation. Drawing from such diverse sources sessions with trauma victims. as indigenous wisdom traditions and modern (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1 & 7) psychotherapy approaches, this training will demonstrate how clinicians can revitalize and energize therapy sessions by invoking creativity HOW COUNSELORS CAN HELP TRAIN FACULTY AND and improvisation. STAFF ON BASIC MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS At the conclusion of this session, participants IN A SCHOOL SETTING will: ● Describe three processes in opening up Content Area: School Counseling interaction in counseling sessions. Day: Friday ● Discuss the use of creative therapeutic Session IV applications in diverse settings. Location: Elliot ● Describe how to create attuned, Presenter(s): Janani Buford, M.Ed., NCC, LPC synergistic relationships that are unique JG Bailey, MSW to each client. Program Description: In a time where mental (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) health conditions are on the rise, teachers need

to have a basic knowledge and understanding of ● Identify harmful apps and know which how to intervene to help students. Part 1 of apps can assist in monitoring their this session will focus on helping those not in children's social media accounts the counseling field better understand anxiety, ● Assist their children in developing depression, self-harm, panic attacks and more. healthy relationships by balancing social We will go over simple interventions for all media activity with their everyday life. ages. (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) At the conclusion of this session, participants will: FRIDAY SESSION V│2:05-3:00 PM ● Create a presentation to use in their PREPARING EMERGING LEADERS IN SCCA workplace that helps colleagues better understand anxiety and depression. Content Area: Leadership ● Evaluate how anxiety and depression Day: Friday look different at different ages. Session V ● Create and share a theme that works Location: Drayton with their workplace/colleagues, which Presenter(s): Thomas Vaughn, DEdMin, PhD, gives them steps as to how to help their LPC, LPC/S, Immediate Past President, SCCA clientele/students. Program Description: If you are an emerging (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) leader or have interest in becoming one, this session is for you! The South Carolina BRAIN HACKING, "RESCUING OURSELVES FROM Counseling Association (SCCA) holds great SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION" (REVISED AND expectations for the continued growth of EXPANDED) counselors in the State. In order to build toward this future, SCCA offers a leadership Content Area: Substance abuse /addictions development program for emerging leaders in Day: Friday SCCA. This session will provide an overview of Session IV the Emerging Leaders Handbook, as well as Location: Drayton describe the organization of SCCA with Presenter(s): James Deal, M.Ed., CATIII opportunities for emerging leaders to pinpoint Program Description: This presentation has potential places of service. been updated to reveal the latest harmful apps, At the conclusion of this session, participants apps to help parents monitor teen's social will: media activity, and successful strategies parents ● Describe the basic structure and are using to help their children find a balance organization of SCCA. with social media and healthy relationships. ● Identify personal leadership strengths This presentation will also delve into the link and interests. between Snap Chat, Instagram, and human ● Match personal strengths and interests trafficking. with areas of service in SCCA. At the conclusion of this session, participants (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 8) will: ● Recognize that social media is highly COUNSELING SUPERWOMAN addictive.

Content Area: Clinical Mental Health important than ever as both the benefits and Counseling costs of postsecondary education have Day: Friday continued to rise. The Federal Reserve System Session V has created a variety of FREE, unbiased Location: Parris (Down the hall near the resources that can help students evaluate their Carolina room Restaurant) options to make the right choice and Presenter(s): Dee Hann-Morrison, Ph.D., LPC, successfully navigate the complicated process MAC of applying to schools and for financial aid. Program Description: This presentation will During the session, you will experience these discuss a cultural perspective of the 'Strong hands-on resources and leave the session with Black Woman' (SBW) what it is and what it isn't, tools you can implement with your students before addressing how the notion of SBW from day one. Featured resources include Invest impacts the delivery of mental health services is What's Next, Navigate, and Making Personal to women of color. Issues to be addressed Finance Decisions. include historical trauma; the role of cultural At the conclusion of this session, participants expectations in the management of mental will: health issues; the AfricanAmerican community's ● Utilize updated information on the inclusion in Mental Health treatment. costs and benefits of post-secondary At the conclusion of this session, participants education, including its impact on will: earning potential and job security, ● Demonstrate a broadened along with the risks of students not understanding of cultural nuances that completing their education path and support or detract from SBW's student loan burden. management of mental health ● Analyze unbiased tools for helping challenges. students assess their college and career ● Recognize viable community resources readiness, create a plan for achieving to support mental health treatment their goals, and gain the knowledge options for SBW. they need to be successful. ● Create culturally sensitive treatment ● Evaluate free resources that can be options to support SBW emotional used in a variety of counseling settings stability and growth. from one-on-one sessions, small group sessions, or an entire class, and that can (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 3) be differentiated to different grade- FREE COLLEGE AND CAREER RESOURCES FROM THE levels or levels of learning. EDERAL ESERVE F R (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 5)

Content Area: School Counseling FRACTURED VALUES: HOW STUDENTS COMING Day: Friday FROM CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN BACKGROUNDS Session V RECONCILE THEIR FAITH AND COUNSELOR IDENTITY Location: Elliot Presenter(s): Yolanda Ferguson, M.A. Content Area: Ethics Program Description: "Should I go to college?" Day: Friday "Should I borrow money to pay for my Session V education?" These questions are more Location: Heyward

Presenter(s): Adam Brandt, M.Ed., LPCA Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Program Description: This is a small qualitative, Counseling phenomenological study on how students Day: Friday coming from conservative Christian Session V backgrounds reconcile the tension points that Location: Jasmine exist between their faith values and counselor Presenter(s): Julie Pickens, Ph.D., CRC identity. Many tension points exist between Lisa Higgins, MA, LPC these two identities. The literature and my Program Description: College-age people with a interviews suggest the most common points of mental health diagnosis are often struggling to friction are LGBTQ and abortion concerns. On a find success in college environments due to a more philosophical level, the postmodern lack of appropriate supports. Many college-age underpinning of multiculturalism is also in students report challenges in utilizing the discord with the conservative Christians' more clinical mental health and/or accommodation modernist way of interpreting scripture, which services available on their campus. Often a is in essence the conservative Christians' source student will attempt to use one support or the of truth and reality. other, and when they are not able to access the Literature and participant interviews suggest supports that they feel are appropriate they counseling programs do not prepare students attempt to access the other support. Also, often for integrating their faith and counselor students are accessing both, but there is a lack identities. Professors are often intentionally of continuity between the supports. This hesitant or avoid discussing religion and presentation discusses how support personnel, spirituality in class due to fear of both college-level clinical mental health marginalization and missed promotion counselors and accommodations services opportunities or risk and taboo from students personnel, can assist students in acquiring and who may respond negatively. meshing the services that are available to them to assist them in finding post-secondary At the conclusion of this session, participants success. will: ● Identify and understand common value At the conclusion of this session, participants clashes students coming from will: conservative Christian backgrounds ● Evaluate their own current practice to experience as they move through a identify and address areas for counseling program. improvement in their service provision. ● Recognize resources these students use ● Enhance and enrich the way that they to reconcile their counselor identity and work with and support college-age faith values. students with a mental health ● Explore better ways to integrate faith diagnosis. development with professional ethics ● Build appropriate support plans to through the counseling program. ensure that the students they support are accessing the appropriate resources (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 2, 3, & 8) to ensure post-secondary success. LIMITED SERVICE PROVISION POST-SECONDARY (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 2, 5, & 9) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ACCOMMODATION SERVICES

INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY TO INCREASE CLIENT POSTER SESSION & SNACK BREAK RESILIENCE, MANAGE STRESS, AND CREATE A 3:05-3:25 HEALTHY ALLIANCE BETWEEN MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT Location: Callibogue (Ballroom near exhibitors in the Savannah Foyer) Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Counseling Day: Friday Session V Location: Sampson (in registration area to the back left corner) Presenter(s): Holly Johnson, Ph.D., LPCS, NCC Jeffrey Boatner, PhD, LPC, LMFT, NCC

Program Description: Integrative psychotherapy considers the unique needs of the client, including preferences, motivation, physical ability, personal characteristics, and spiritual beliefs. This session will impart PAIN REDUCTION IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY knowledge and provide insights for managing THROUGH PLAY AND ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY stress, promoting healthy living, and practicing spirituality in a way that best fits the individual's Content Area: Play therapy worldview. Day: Friday At the conclusion of this session, participants Poster Session 1 will: Presenter(s): Zoë Zadoorian, B.A. ● Discuss methods of integrative Program Description: This presentation covers psychotherapy that focus on client how play therapy and animal-assisted therapy strengths and spiritual perspectives to help reduce pain in pediatric oncology. There promote new methods of managing are various factors that play into pain reduction stress and creating strategic life but letting kids be kids while they still can help changes toward a more positive future. reduce pain during, before, and after ● Evaluate the research regarding the procedures. importance of integrative psychotherapy, including wellness- At the conclusion of this session, participants based counseling and holistic will: approaches with a focus on ● Understand how play therapy and psychosocial and spiritual supports. animal-assisted therapy can help ● Apply the knowledge of integrative reduce pain in pediatric oncology. psychotherapy and holistic principles to ● Explain the various factors that play promote a client's healing on into pain reduction in combination with emotional, physical, mental, and play and animal-assisted therapy. spiritual levels. ● Explain the ways play and animal- assisted therapy can reduce pain and (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1)

prepare kids for procedures and give COLLEGE COUNSELING METHODS them a holistic treatment. Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Counseling THE FEMINIST APPROACH TO TREATING EATING Day: Friday DISORDERS Poster Session 3 Presenter(s): Aaliyah Bond, B.S. Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Tanner Shirley, B.A. Counseling Program Description: Our presentation will Day: Friday delve into the different counseling methods Poster Session 2 offered at colleges and universities across the Presenter(s): Anna Wolljung, B.A. state. Our poster specifically takes a closer look Program Description: The poster will provide a at the comparison of mental health statistics at synopsis of Eating Disorders, as well as colleges and universities that limit their information on Feminist techniques/strategies counseling services versus those that do not. By for treating eating disorders. The goal of the looking at success rates for colleges and poster is to offer professionals in the field the universities in South Carolina, we will be able to opportunity to explore interventions for eating gain a better understanding of what needs to disorders that differ from the widely used CBT change to improve counseling for college approaches. The main topics of conversation students. will be around: empowerment, voice/power, & connection. It is important to note that the At the conclusion of this session, participants poster information/research is coming from the will: perspective of working with the female ● At the conclusion of this session, population but has implications in being participants will be able to evaluate adapted for males in treating eating disorders potential changes needed to improve and thoughts around food, body image, and counseling services for this population eating. at colleges and universities. At the conclusion of this session, participants ● At the conclusion of the session, will: participants will be able to compare ● Integrate Feminist services offered at colleges and techniques/strategies to current universities across the state. methods of treatment for eating ● At the conclusion of the session, disorders. participants will be more informed on ● Understand how eating disorders can what colleges and universities are be conceptualized based upon an already doing. individual's gender, culture, and societal

pressures. ● Recognized the relevance of integrating PRACTICALITY OF ONLINE COUNSELING Feminist techniques/strategies that allow an individual to conceptualize Content Area: Clinical Mental Health their thoughts on food, body image, Counseling and eating from the perspective of their Day: Friday gender, culture, & societal pressures. Poster Session 4 Presenter(s): Janie Howland, B.A.

Program Description: Technology has had a ● Recognize the possible effects of sexual huge role in the way our society has developed. addiction on an individual's romantic Many places have turned to online counseling, a and familial relationships platform in which individuals can log onto to ● Acknowledge future research connect with a counselor in the comfort of their possibilities in the area of sexual own home. What implications does this growth addiction have on the counseling field? Since this form of ● Address important implications for counseling is developing and growing, there are treating individuals with a sexual many questions as to how this will benefit both addiction in a marriage/family setting the clients and counselors.

At the conclusion of this session, participants MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE CULTURALLY will: COMPETENT COUNSELOR ● recognize the ethical implications of using the online platform as a way to Content Area: School Counseling counsel clients Day: Friday ● understand the pros and cons of using Poster Session 6 the online counseling platform Presenter(s): Demetria Perkins B.A. ● analyze the different training Allisondria Durham B.A. opportunities available for those who Program Description: This presentation will want to use the online platform to address the need for culturally competent reach clients school counselors within the school to create a comprehensive counseling program that SEXUAL ADDICTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON ROMANTIC integrates multicultural awareness and AND FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIPS acceptance into individual, group, classroom, Content Area: Marriage and family therapy and school-wide programs. This presentation Day: Friday will highlight the role of the counselor and Poster Session 5 school and what the interventions look like in Presenter(s): Marissa McNeace, B.A. the school setting. Program Description: The focus of this poster At the conclusion of this session, participants presentation is to review the literature will: surrounding sexual addiction and how it effects ● Recognize the need for multicultural the social relationships of an individual with this education in schools. type of addiction. More specifically, the goal is ● Demonstrate an understanding of the to look at the effects on the romantic and role of the school counselor in creating familial relationships of the individual with the a comprehensive counseling program addiction. After outlining the findings, that is culturally responsive. implications for counselors treating ● Recognize professional development couples/families with an individual with sexual resources for becoming educated about addiction are addressed. cultural awareness.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will: DEPRESSION IN AFRICAN AMERICANS

Content Area: Clinical Mental Health LGBTQ+ youth and how these protective factors Day: Friday contribute to positive outcomes in the lives of Poster Session 7 LGBTQ+ youth. Presenter(s): Winter Albohaire, B.A. At the conclusion of this session, participants Program Description: The presentation for the will: conference program will highlight depression in African Americans. The topic will discuss the ● Recognize the effects of adult and history behind many causes of depression and a familial support in the lives of LGBTQ+ case study about the effects of depression youth. within African American people within the city ● Identify protective factors and risks of New York. factors that affect specific populations within the LGBTQ+ community. At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Evaluate how legal protection and will: representation serve as protective ● Recognize the need for a broader case factors for LGBTQ+ youth. study concerning African Americans and depression. INCLUSIVE SEX EDUCATION ● Identify the services needed for those Content Area: School Counseling struggling with depression and societal Day: Friday stigma. Poster Session 8 ● Recognize specific needs for African Presenter(s): Jennifer Towery, B.A. Americans diagnosed with depression. Program Description: South Carolina is one of IN NEED OF A RAINBOW SHIELD: PROTECTIVE the few states in the U.S.A that has a Sex FACTORS FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH Education program based around abstinence- only. An Inclusive Sex Education program would Content Area: Clinical Mental Health enable students to become more aware of Day: Friday themselves as well as their personal feelings. Poster Session 8 This includes exploration through the different Presenter(s): Chandler Sally, B.A. flags available for the numerous sexual Program Description: LGBTQ+ youth in the orientations and working with the United States of America are often faced with 'Genderbread Person.' bullying and rejection from peers, educators, At the conclusion of this session, participants and family members due to their sexual will: orientation, gender identity, and gender ● Recognize the lack of information in expression. These negative factors contribute to current Sex Education Programs across higher rates of risk-taking behavior, homeless, the U.S.A. and suicide among LGBTQ+ youth when ● Advocate for changes to their own Sex compared to their cisgender heterosexual Education Programs at their own peers. This population has often been school. invalidated and underserved by educators, ● Utilize the 'Genderbread Person' to help medical providers, and mental health understand the different components professionals, though LGBTQ+ youth greatly of sexuality. need support from allies in these professions. This presentation explores protective factors for

FRIDAY SESSION VI│3:35-4:30 PM Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Counseling COUNSELING AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER Day: Friday Session VI Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Location: Elliot Counseling Presenter(s): Kimberly Richardson, Grief Day: Friday Specialist Session VI Program Description: Working in the counseling Location: St. Helena (Down the hall toward the profession can be very challenging. How do Carolina Room Restaurant on the Right) counselors deal with the loss of their loved Presenter(s): Nikki Vasilas, Ph.D., LPCS ones, clients, close friends, or colleagues Erin Thompson, M.A. without getting burned out? There is a need to Program Description: Law Enforcement Officers have a better understanding of empathy in today's climate face intense demands in a development in the counseling profession and difficult and dangerous workplace. The stresses more education on how to improve the of daily work only intensify the already rigorous situation. Counseling the bereaved can put a lot and uncertain nature of their jobs. The unique of stress on some counselors and this can be stress that law enforcement personnel and their difficult. I would like to educate the counseling families are exposed to requires a professional industry on how to help their bereaved clients, who understands these unique hardships and how to cope with the loss of their clients, loss of the reluctance that may come with seeking their co-workers, loss of their loved ones and professional support, even if they recognize the more. benefits. This presentation will explore the myths law enforcement may have about mental At the conclusion of this session, participants health and discuss ways for the clinician to will: increase awareness and professional ● Learn helpful tips and skills to help the competencies needed to work with this bereaved cope with their loss. population. population. ● Acknowledge and learn how to cope with own loss/es. At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Learn how to keep their clients more will: engaged and returning. ● Discuss the unique stress of the law (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) enforcement community.Recognize cultural considerations of working with NETIQUETTE..PROPER USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR the law enforcement officer. TEENS. ● Identify the myths law enforcement officers may have about seeking mental Content Area: Substance abuse /addictions health treatment. Day: Friday ● Compare evidence and practice-based Session VI interventions needed to develop clinical Location: Drayton support for officers. Presenter(s): James Deal, M.Ed., CATIII Program Description: Improper usage of social media platforms such as Facebook, SnapChat, COUNSELORS GRIEVE TOO - HOW TO HELP THE and Instagram could possibly lead a teen to not BEREAVED COPE WITH THEIR LOSS being accepted to college or landing a

prospective job. Both college admissions offices HELPING PARENTS HEAL: EXPERIENCES OF and human resource professionals are taking a POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AFTER A MISCARRIAGE hard look at applicant's social media accounts and profiles. This session will provide the Content Area: Clinical Mental Health participants with proper netiquette guidelines. Counseling Day: Friday At the conclusion of this session, participants Session VI will: Location: Parris (Down the hall near the ● Recognize that improper information Carolina room Restaurant) on social media could be harmful. Presenter(s): Liz Boyd, Ph.D. ● Analyze their social media profiles and Program Description: Miscarriage is the most find improper information. common pregnancy complication in the United ● Develop a professional and meaningful States, yet minimal research exists related to presence on social media. the growth parents experience in the (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1, 4, & 9) aftermath. In an effort to better understand posttraumatic growth after a miscarriage, ARE YOU SHOOTING FOR THE BIG CANDY BAR? researchers used the posttraumatic growth CREATING A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL CAREER inventory (PTGI) to assess growth in over 350 PROGRAM PART I parents who experienced a miscarriage. Come learn about the results of this study and discuss Content Area: School Counseling demographic and miscarriage related factors Day: Friday that are related to high levels of growth. Join Session VI this timely discussion that impacts many Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) parents, and leave with insights and tools you Presenter(s): Kristen Starcher, M.Ed., M.ED., can use with your clients tomorrow. GCDF, GCDFI Program Description: The presentation will At the conclusion of this session, participants focus on building a comprehensive career will: program and applicable activities. We will look ● Demonstrate an understanding of the into career classes, career lunches, field trips, relationship between posttraumatic job fairs, job shadow, creating a college and growth after a miscarriage. career center and much more. Applicable ● Recognize and apply best practices activities will be shared and demonstrated. related to working with parents who have experienced a miscarriage to At the conclusion of this session, participants encourage posttraumatic growth. will: ● Identify ways counselors can use the ● Create a comprehensive career PTGI in practice to assess clients' guidance program; Implement a variety growth regarding miscarriage. of activities for career exploration; learn various career activities and events, (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1 & 7) encourage students to start early to be SURPRISE! YOU ARE GUILTY OF ETHICS AND LEGAL prepared for after high school choices. IOLATIONS ART (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 5) V P I

Content Area: Ethics Day: Friday

Session VI Day: Friday Location: Heyward Session VII Presenter(s): Francis Martin, Ph.D., LPC, Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) NCCMHC, ACS, NCC Presenter(s): Kristen Starcher, M.Ed., GCDF, Program Description: This session examines GCDFI several common but often unrecognized Program Description: The presentation will violations of professional ethics and focus on building a comprehensive career recommends specific actions that will help to program and applicable activities. We will look protect counselors from unwelcome surprises into career classes, career lunches, field trips, around ethics violations. The examination job fairs, job shadow, creating a college and includes self-reports from practicing counselors, career center and much more. Applicable recent research about professional counselors, activities will be shared and demonstrated. reports of ethics violations, and unfortunate At the conclusion of this session, participants lawsuits against counselors. It emphasizes data will: from these various sources and describes trends ● Create a comprehensive career and emerging challenges in professional ethics. guidance program; Implement a variety Apart from the obvious need to protect of activities for career exploration; learn themselves from surprises, this session aspires various career activities and events, to contribute to client-affirmative practices and encourage students to start early to be positive, future-oriented ways of managing prepared for after high school choices. clinical work. The session provides several (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 5) handouts. HEALTHY AND HARMFUL SPIRITUALITY At the conclusion of this session, participants will: Content Area: Supervision ● Implement several practices that, if Day: Friday implemented, will help participants to Session VII avoid ethics violations and legal Location: Drayton vulnerability. Presenter(s): Jason Neill Ph.D. LPC ● Complete recommended worksheets Program Description: This session will cover the that, if completed, will improve findings of a qualitative research study on how counselors' skill in maintaining masters level counseling students appropriate ethical behavior conceptualized healthy and harmful spirituality. ● Recognize specific skills that may decrease ethical and/or legal At the conclusion of this session, participants vulnerability. will: ● Discover how counseling students (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1 & 8) conceptualized healthy and harmful FRIDAY SESSION VII│4:40-5:35 PM spirituality. ● Utilize the content of the study to ARE YOU SHOOTING FOR THE BIG CANDY BAR? initiate conversations with counseling CREATING A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL CAREER students and LPCI's on the topic. PROGRAM PART II ● Recognize the importance of discussing this topic with counselors-in-training Content Area: School Counseling (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1, 2, & 9)

HOW COUNSELORS CAN HELP TRAIN FACULTY AND Presenter(s): Francis Martin, Ph.D., LPC, STAFF ON BASIC MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS NCCMHC, ACS, NCC IN A SCHOOL SETTING Program Description: This session includes reports about several recent lawsuits and the Content Area: School Counseling specific implications of these lawsuits for Day: Friday practicing counselors. It is based on the Session VII assumption that, while these lawsuits are Location: Elliot immediately relevant to the work of counselors, Presenter(s): Janani Buford, M.Ed., NCC, LPC most counselors lack the time that would allow JG Bailey, MSW, M.S.Ed, CAS them to immerse in these lawsuits. For example, what do recent lawsuits say about Program Description: In Part 2 of the session, privileged communication for clients or duty-to- we will help participants create a presentation warn mandates for licensed counselors? The to use in his/her workplace that helps examples raise the familiar statement, “You colleagues better understand anxiety and either knew or should have known about the depression. Participants will be able to create outcomes of this lawsuit.” Based on recent and share a “theme” that works with their outcomes of lawsuits and trends in mental workplace/colleagues which gives them steps as health law, this session aims to assist to how to help their clientele/students. counselors with their need to protect Example of one that was created at a session: themselves and their clients, with regard to ASSESS for risk developments in mental health law. The LISTEN without judgment session includes handouts. REASSURE safety and support ENCOURAGE appropriate help At the conclusion of this session, participants will: At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Implement several practices that, if will: implemented, will help participants to ● Create a presentation to use in their avoid ethics violations and legal workplace that helps colleagues better vulnerability. understand anxiety and depression. ● Complete recommended worksheets ● Evaluate how anxiety and depression that, if completed, will improve look different at different ages. counselors' skill in maintaining ● Create and share a theme that works appropriate ethical behavior with their workplace/colleagues, which ● Recognize specific skills that may gives them steps as to how to help their decrease ethical and/or legal clientele/students. vulnerability.

(Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1 & 8)

SURPRISE! YOU ARE GUILTY OF ETHICS AND LEGAL BIBLIOTHERAPY IN THE MODERN AGE: CREATIVE VIOLATIONS PART II USE OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA TO PROMOTE CLIENT GROWTH Content Area: Ethics Day: Friday Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Session VII Counseling Location: Heyward Day: Friday

Session VII be deliberately and creatively included in Location: St. Helena (Down the hall toward the treatment. Because they are engaging, widely Carolina Room Restaurant on the Right) available, and expansive in scope, multimedia Presenter(s): Jeffrey Boatner, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, resources provide a powerful update on the NCC bibliotherapy approach. Implications and Holly Johnson, Ph.D., LPC, NCC opportunities will be explored.

Program Description: Bibliotherapy has a rich At the conclusion of this session, participants history within the counseling profession as a will: means of augmenting or extending client ● Acquire an understanding of the engagement beyond the clinical setting. breadth of multimedia resources Because of its relatively low cost, flexibility, and available to augment counseling, and accessibility, bibliotherapy has increasingly recognize how these can best be been explored as a primary intervention. There implemented. is an opportunity to expand the principles of ● Acquire a resource list of potential bibliotherapy beyond the printed page. multimedia resources to support Increasingly, technologies such as podcasts, counseling. youtube videos, blogs, movies, and other media ● Identify clients who might benefit from have placed a world of information at our specific outside resources, along with fingertips, and the fingertips of our clients. an understanding of how these can best Many of these resources speak directly to the be presented to the client. problems or circumstances experienced by (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1, 3, & 8) clients. Counselors benefit from a greater awareness of these resources and how they can

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Finding our Focus

As counselors we work with our clients to help them develop goals and develop the skills necessary to meet them; we help them to identify the roadblocks on their path to success and then find ways over, around, and through them. Applying those same principles to our own lives (both personal and professional) can be a challenge though. Finding ways to apply them at an organizational level, whether that be at an institution of higher learning, a private practice, within the healthcare system, or a professional organization can be a completely different beast entirely.

We will examine the importance of self-care, prioritization, collaboration, and action as they apply to finding our focus and moving forward in our personal and professional lives.

SATURDAY SESSION VIII│10:15-11:45 Program Description: This workshop is designed for clinical and school counselors, COUNSELING BEYOND WORDS: THE SCIENCE AND teachers, and other mental health professionals PRACTICE OF HEALING THROUGH THE EXPRESSIVE who want to gain clinical expertise when ARTS working with creativity and healing. While building creative confidence, participants will Content Area: Clinical Mental Health also acquire critical knowledge about the Counseling impact of art and creativity on the brain and its Day: Saturday potency on healing, overall health, and well- Session VIII being. It is quite common to hear that many Location: Jasmine (Next to the Resort Store) helpers and clients alike have some reluctance Presenter(s): Claire Campbell, M.A., LPCC-S, to use art in treatment as many claim "I am not ATR Creative." This hands-on workshop will address

this reluctance and offer expressive based At the conclusion of this session, participants interventions and strategies for clinicians to will: implement in their day to day work with clients ● Describe the ethical issues that are of all ages. The use of art therapy, music, likely to be evident when working with movement, mindfulness practice, yoga, and victims of trauma. sensory integration will be incorporated to ● Apply ethical issues into practice while develop confidence in creative intervention conducting therapeutic interventions. building and implementation. ● Recognize boundaries when acting in dual roles. At the conclusion of this session, participants will: (Meets NBCC Content area(s):4 ,6, & 8) ● Demonstrate an understanding of the USING VIRTUAL REALITY, AUGMENTED REALITY AND effects of art therapy and expressive 360 VIDEO IN COUNSELING: CLINICAL interventions on clients. ● Utilize art therapy media and expressive APPLICATIONS therapy techniques to address specific Content Area: Clinical Mental Health symptoms and aid in resolution and Counseling ongoing well-being. Day: Saturday ● Recognize the basic tenants of art Session VIII therapy and other expressive therapies, Location: Parris (Down the hall near the history of expressive therapies, and Carolina room Restaurant) their development as a clinical Presenter(s): Robert Dawson, Ph.D., CRC therapeutic modalities. Mike Walsh, Ph.D., LPC (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) Thomas Jones, B.S.

THE ETHICS OF TRAUMA INFORMED CARE Program Description: Exploring ways to utilize Content Area: 360 Video, Virtual Reality and Augmented Day: Saturday Reality to enhance the client experience and Session VIII clinical outcomes, the session will consist of a Location: St. Helena (Down the hall toward the brief review of the empirical research Carolina Room Restaurant on the Right) supporting the use of these technologies and Presenter: Christine Johnson, M.A., LPC, LPC-S will move quickly into hands-on demonstration Program Description: The seminar will address of the technology, including the use of all three the complexities of frequent and fundamental technologies in Clinical settings. Participants dilemmas in the delivery of trauma informed will have an opportunity to design their own care. Ethical trauma informed care Augmented Reality products, experience 360 incorporates principles of safety, trust, video and Virtual Reality firsthand. We'll collaboration, choice and empowerment. The explore a wide variety of technology platforms, goal for clinicians is to successfully implement many of which are free to use. For the the delivery of high quality and ethical trauma modalities that have equipment costs, we'll informed care to clients focusing on provide an exploration of the costs associated empowering the client to achieve greater self with some of the platforms, and we'll provide knowledge, self-sufficiency and attain higher recommendations for technological specs. This levels of resilience. will be followed by brainstorming designed to

help participants to apply these models and ● Recognize different styles of leadership concepts within their own settings. Participants and collaboration methods. will walk away with practical and workable ● Identify and evaluate elements that strategies for their own promote or inhibit effective collaboration. At the conclusion of this session, participants ● Apply concepts via an experiential will: activity to demonstrate understanding. ● Conceptualize the use of 360, VR and AR in their own clinical settings. (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 4) ● Describe the empirical basis for the use CREATING THE PUZZLE OF SELF: INTERNAL FAMILY of 360 video, Virtual reality and SYSTEMS AND THE THERAPEUTIC POWERS OF PLAY Augmented Reality technology in clinical settings THERAPY ● Use 360 Video, Augmented Reality, and Content Area: Play therapy Virtual Reality Technologies to enhance Day: Saturday clinical outcomes. Session VIII (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) Location: Elliot Presenter: Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LISW-CP, CREATIVELY COLLABORATING IN "CO-LAND:" CO- RPTS FACILITATING, CO-TEACHING, AND CO-PRESENTING Program Description: This experiential workshop is focused on gaining an Content Area: Supervision understanding of the Internal Family System Day: Saturday model integrated into Play Therapy. Session VIII Location: Lady Davis At the conclusion of this session, participants Presenter(s): Yvette R. "Roxi" Tolbert, Ph.D., will: LPC-S, LPC, ATR-BC, NCC, ATCS, ACS ● List the core concepts of the Internal Ashlyn Bordelon B.S. Family System model. ● Discuss the challenges with children and Program Description: This session will be families in relation to Internal Family focused on three main types of creative Systems work within the Play Therapy collaboration in the counseling field: co- setting. facilitating groups, co-teaching, and co- ● Apply the Internal Family System model presenting. Participants will walk away with to Play Therapy and Expressive Art knowledge about different styles of leadership interventions within the therapeutic and collaboration, common elements that setting. promote effective collaboration, and creative (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) methods for exploring and processing collaboration experiences. An experiential BRAIN U-TURN: HEAD OFF PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY activity will be included so that participants can HAPPEN practice applying concepts from the session before they leave. Content Area: Clinical Mental Health Counseling At the conclusion of this session, participants Day: Saturday will: Session VIII

Location: Drayton USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN COUNSELOR SUPERVISION Presenter: Fredric Mau, D. Min., LPCS Program Description: Emotional reactions by Content Area: Supervision the brain's limbic system happen before Day: Saturday cognitive neocortex responses. For this reason, Session VIII cognitive therapies work to manage reactions Location: Sampson (in registration area to the that have already happened. Guided imagery, back left corner) hypnosis, and relaxation processes take Presenter(s): Thomas Vaughn, Ph.D., LPC, LPC-S, advantage of brain reactivity to make a U-Turn NCC, ACS and shift emotional responses in a more healthy Program Description: The integration of direction before cognitive processing even telehealth services into the counseling field has comes into play. This approach to therapy changed the landscape for counseling allows you to get on the front end and facilitate professionals. Likewise, the application of healthy emotions and behaviors initially and telehealth technology into supervision offers reduces the need for later cognitive opportunities for counselor supervisors to management of problems that did not, expand services to supervisees, as well as serve therefore, happen. areas in which supervisory contacts are limited. This training will explore the various At the conclusion of this session, participants technological tools available to supervisors, will: enumerate the common professional ● Participants will be able to describe responsibilities for distance supervision, and differences in brain response in relaxed identify the ethical concerns created within this vs. waking states. model of supervision. ● Participants will be able to construct different goals for therapy focused on At the conclusion of this session, participants heading off rather than managing will: dysfunctional behaviors and emotional ● Identify various technological tools reactions. utilized in distance supervision by ● Participants will be able to create observing these tools in practice. guided imagery processes to use in ● Enumerate the various professional client therapy. responsibilities associated with distance supervision. (Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1) ● Identify ethical concerns specific to the use of technology in supervision.

(Meets NBCC Content area(s): 8)

Post-conference workshop│1:00-4:00

MANAGING CRISIS SITUATIONS

Content Area: Professional Day: Saturday Post Conference Workshop Location: Elliot Presenter(s): Barbara Melton, M.Ed., LPC, LPC-S Program Description: This 3 hr workshop encompasses a variety of platforms where crisis management can be incorporated into clinical mental health counseling, including the following areas: Client suicide/Suicide Attempts, Personal threats by clients, Violence in schools, college campuses, Workplace violence, Witnessing disasters and violent events. We will also discuss how to manage angry clients and special techniques for working with psychotic clients. An overview of Psychological First Aid, which is used in disaster mental health, will also be covered. And there will also be discussion of how to volunteer for the Red Cross on the Disaster Mental Health team.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will: ● Understand how to incorporate crisis management in a variety of platforms. ● Provide immediate support to people who may be experiencing a crisis. ● Provide immediate support to people who may be experiencing a crisis by using psychological first aid principles.

(Meets NBCC Content area(s): 1)

CPGA/SCACD/SCCA Past Presidents

1963 – 64 Dr. Charles 1970 – Mrs. Mary Jane 1975 – 76 Mr. J. D. Kibler, Cummins McDonald Jr. 1964 – 65 Mrs. Hazel Gee 1971 – 72 Dr. John 1976 – 77 Mr. James A. 1965 – 66 Mrs. Joyce Whitacre Kiser, Jr. Gayden 1972 – 73 Mrs. Brittana 1977 – 78 Dr. Kathryn 1966 – 67 Dr. Velma Cromartie Altman Hayden 1973 – 74 Dr. C. A. 1978 – 79 Dr. Melvin 1968 – 69 Dr. Claude “Buddy” Edwards Haynes Cooler 1974 – 75 Dr. Rebecca 1979 – 80 Dr. David 1969 – 70 Mrs. Edith Hipp Pennell Mahrer

1980 – 81 Dr. Beatrice R. 1994 – 95 Ms. Betty D. 2007 – 08 Mr. Anthony Thompson Gilliam Brothers 1981 – 82 Mr. Gary Lewis 1995 – 96 Dr. Sharon V. 2008 – 09 Mrs. Jan 1982 – 83 Mrs. Harriet Balcome Janarella Gardin Fields 1996 – 97 Ms. Geraldine 2009 – 10 Dr. Philip 1983 – 84 Dr. E. H. “Mike” Brantley Scriven Robinson, III 1997 – 98 Mrs. Fay 2010 – 11 Dr. Mary Jane 1984 – 85 Dr. Roger M. Hart Anderson- Wiley Bowersock 1998 – 99 Mrs. Alice W. 2011 – 12 Dr. David Scott 1985 – 86 Dr. Ida E. Latimer 2012 – 13 Dr. Gwendolyn L Wannamaker 1999 – 00 Mrs. Linwood C Snider 1986 – 87 Dr. Walter Cox Floyd 2013 – 14 Dr. Wanda Bailey 2000 – 01 Dr. Walter Briggs 1987 – 88 Dr. Charlotte Bailey 2014-15 Mrs. Doris Nelson Murrow Taylor 2001 – 02 Dr. George 2015-16 Dr. David Scott 1989 – 90 Dr. Sal Inglese Williams 2016-17Dr. John Nance 1990 – 91 Mrs. Sarah 2002 – 03 Mrs. Candice 2017-18Dr. George Moody Bates-Quinn Williams 1991 – 92 Dr. Florie J. 2003 – 04 Dr. Art Grant 2018-19 Dr. Thomas Frederick 2004 – 05 Ms. Donna Vaughn 1992 – 93 Dr. Charles L. Forrest Latimer 2005 – 07 Ms. Jackie 1993 – 94 Mrs. Patricia D. Hoagland Rice

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NBCC Content Areas and Topics 1. Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an advanced understanding of the counseling processes, including, but not limited to, the following topics: Foundational and well-established counseling theories, principles, and techniques of counseling and their application in mental health settings. Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Wellness and prevention within counseling and treatment. Crisis intervention techniques for counselors to use in response to disaster or other rapid onset trauma-causing events, including but not limited to, psychological first aid strategies. Psychophysiological awareness and mindfulness in the counseling process. Distance counseling. Biofeedback used in a mental health setting. 2. Human Growth and Development. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an advanced understanding of the nature and needs of individuals at developmental levels, and are relevant to professional counselors and the counseling profession. A Category 1 Presenter is required for all program content related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Human Growth and Development topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics. 3. Social and Cultural Foundations. Continuing Education programs in this content area provide an understanding of the issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society that impact professional counselors and the counseling profession. A Category 1 Presenter is required for all program content and information related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Social and Cultural Foundations topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics. 4. Group Dynamics and Counseling. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an advanced understanding of therapeutic group development, dynamics and counseling theories; and, group counseling methods and skills, including, but not limited to, the following topics. 5. Career Development and Counseling. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an advanced understanding of career counseling, development and related life factors. A Category 1 Presenter is required for any program content related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Career Development and Counseling topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics. 6. Assessment. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an advanced understanding of approaches to assessment and evaluation in counseling practice. A Category 1 Presenter is required for all program content related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Assessment topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics. 7. Research and Program Evaluation. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an advanced understanding of research methods, statistical analysis, needs assessment and evaluation, and ethical and legal considerations in research. A Category 1 Presenter is required for all program content related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Research and Program Evaluation topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics. 8. Counselor Professional Identity and Practice Issues. Continuing education programs in this content area provide an understanding of various aspects of professional functioning as graduate-level counselors. A Category 1 Presenter is required for all program content related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Counselor Professional Identity and Practice Issues topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics. 9. Wellness and Prevention. Continuing education programs in this content area provide psycho-educational information for counselors to enhance their ability to promote optimal wellness related to client mental health. A Category 1 presenter is required for all program content related to the counseling and/or treatment of clients. Wellness and Prevention topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics.

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