The National Certified Counselor Tm the Official Newsletter of the National Board for Certified Counselors

Volume 27 Number 3 FALL 2011

THE NATIONAL CERTIFIED COUNSELOR TM THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL BOARD FOR CERTIFIED COUNSELORS

Army Directive Grants Counselors IN THIS ISSUE... Independent Practice Authority NATIONAL BOARD FOR CERTIFIED COUNSELORS On July 26, 2011, Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh signed Army Directive Army Directive Grants Counselors 2011-09, Employment of Licensed Professional Counselors as Fully Functioning Independent Practice Authority ...... 1 Army Substance Abuse Program Practitioners. This directive authorizes the NCC Corner ...... 2 Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) “to employ licensed professional Voluntary Audits ...... 2 counselors and licensed mental health counselors as independent practitioners NBCC Hosts State Licensure with a well-defined scope of practice.” The directive is an expansion of counselor Boards ...... 3 practice rights within the Army, which previously required physician referral and NBCC Is Platinum Sponsor supervision. of 2011 ACES Conference ...... 5

New Board Members for NBCC The directive also establishes credentialing and privileging standards for licensed and Affiliates ...... 8 professional counselors and licensed mental health counselors who meet the following criteria: Newly Approved CE Providers ...... 17 CE Providers Not Renewing...... 17 • Hold a master’s degree in counseling from a regionally accredited college or university that has its counseling program accredited by the Council for NBCC Unveils New CCMHC Application ...... 18 Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP). Effective July 26, 2011, this accreditation requirement will be waived for Government Affairs: counselors who are already employed with ASAP or have already entered the Update ...... 6 application process for an ASAP counseling position. NCC Network ...... 17 • Possess a state license as a professional counselor or mental health counselor. NBCC INTERNATIONAL • Pass the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE). NCC Book and Journal Donations Shipped Worldwide ...... 4 • Achieve the highest clinical level offered by their state licensure board. MHF Update ...... 5 The directive became effective upon signature by the Secretary of the Army and will be incorporated into Army regulations governing the Army Substance Abuse CENTER FOR CREDENTIALING & Program (AR 600-85) and the privileging of health care providers within Army EDUCATION (CCE) facilities (AR 40-68). CCE Update ...... 9 BeMIS: One Purpose, One Tool ...... 9 In conjunction with the new directive, the Army Substance Abuse Program began a national hiring initiative for substance abuse counselors. The ASAP advertisement Growth of the CPCE...... 9 mentions social workers and psychologists, but ASAP staff members have assured us that licensed counselors are eligible for the positions. NBCC FOUNDATION

Meet the NBCC Foundation...... 14 NBCC has heard from many counselors who have not taken the NCMHCE but are interested in the ASAP positions. In an effort to facilitate the hiring of NBCC Foundation Donor Thank-You ...... 14 these counselors by the Army, NBCC created a new registration process for the NCMHCE. Counselors who want to apply for these positions, have a state license 2010 NBCCF Scholarship and would like to sit for the NCMHCE should check the NBCC Web site for Recipient Close-Ups...... 15

continued on page 3 1 NCC CORNER Voluntary Audits

MyNBCC (www.mynbcc.org)—How Can It Help You as an NCC? The NCCs listed below have Have you logged into MyNBCC? If not, you are missing out on a very completed and documented helpful tool. One big plus is getting yourself listed on Counselor Find so that members of the public can find you when they are searching for a a minimum of 130 hours of counselor. Even for the not-so-techy, MyNBCC is easy to use. You can use continuing education activities it to keep your address and telephone number up-to-date and also pay your in the five-year certification annual fee so you can save postage and a check. Don’t miss out on the free services provided through MyNBCC. Log in today and see what a few cycle. By doing so, they have clicks can do. demonstrated a dedication to

CEUs Versus CE Clock Hours excellence and professionalism. NBCC gets a lot of calls regarding continuing education (CE) credit. NBCC congratulates these These calls highlight the fact that there is a great deal of confusion about outstanding NCCs. the difference between the CE clock hour and the CEU. Here are the facts: One CEU is actually worth 10 clock hours. Many people think it is equivalent to a clock hour, but that is not the case. Clock hours are the Christine A. Breier same as contact hours, and both clock hours and contact hours refer to the Naperville, IL number of hours you spend actually participating in a learning activity. A certificate of attendance for a 26-hour event would be correct if it read “26 CE clock hours (2.6 CEUs).” Questions? E-mail [email protected]. Carl R. Nassar Ft. Collins, CO CE Credit for Leadership Have you been thinking about running for office or volunteering to be on a committee with your national, state or local branch of a counseling Linda D. Savage organization? It can be daunting to step forward into a leadership position, but if you need one more check in the “pro” column of your pros and East Windsor, NJ cons checklist, you might want to consider the fact that you can claim 20 CE clock hours for holding an elected or volunteer office in a counseling Jacqueline Lee Wirth organization. There are also other leadership activities that count, and you can read about them here: www.nbcc.org/Recertification/CEMethods. Fort Pierce, FL

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2 Army Directive Grants Counselors Independent NBCC Hosts State Licensure Boards Practice Authority NBCC held its annual state licensure boards meeting August 11-12 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The meeting was attended by 65 continued from page 1 state licensure board representatives from 34 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This annual meeting is an important tool more information (www.nbcc.org/ for cultivating strong working NCMHCE). NCCs in good standing relationships with state qualify for a registration fee discount. licensure boards that enable us

to better serve our certificants. For those who have been tracking This year, we invited board NBCC’s effort to obtain employment members and administrators of counselors within the Department from each licensure board in of Defense (DOD), there may be an effort to better understand confusion as to how this directive each state’s licensure process. relates to the recent congressional mandate included in the FY 2011 State board representatives discuss National Defense Authorization The meeting focused on issues specific to their state. Act (P.L. 111-383), which directs state licensure examinations the Secretary of Defense to adopt and emerging issues in the counseling profession. The meeting also regulations authorizing counselors provided multiple opportunities for representatives to network and to practice independently under share ideas. Numerous presentations were given, including several on TRICARE. ethics-related topics such as ethics repository design and the NBCC Code of Ethics review process. Guest speakers included Dr. James There is no direct relationship between P. Sampson, who spoke about standards for distance counseling, and the TRICARE regulations and Army Dr. Carol Bobby and Dr. Martin Ritchie, who discussed the Council Directive 2011-09. The TRICARE for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs regulations remain in development— (CACREP) and its relation to state counselor licensure boards. the June 20, 2011, deadline having Richard A. Goldberg, general counsel for NBCC, presented on religion already been missed—and should be and counselor education from released within the next six months. a legal perspective. Other The TRICARE regulations are being presentation topics included developed through an independent portability, coaching and process and there is no formal or continuing education. informal requirement that they establish the same qualifying criteria To conclude the meeting, as the Army Directive. NBCC, the attendees traveled to the American Counseling Association International Civil Rights (ACA) and the American Mental Museum in downtown Representatives from Vermont and Health Counselors Association Greensboro for an informative Kansas who attended the meeting. (AMHCA) have been urging broad and inspirational talk by TRICARE regulations that recognize Franklin McCain. Mr. McCain is one of the original Greensboro Four all qualified professional counselors. who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins in the 1960s. He went on to We have been assured that TRICARE have a successful career and continues to make a difference in the representatives understand our position world through his work in the educational, civic, spiritual and political and will give serious consideration to spheres of the community. our comments and suggestions. It is our understanding that the TRICARE NBCC would like to express its gratitude to those state licensure board regulations will establish permanent representatives who participated in this year’s meeting, and we hope policy for counselors practicing within that those who were unable to attend will be able to join us next year. the military health system.

3 NBCC INTERNATIONAL UPDATES NCC Book and Journal Donations Shipped Worldwide

It was in the winter 2003 edition of of reference materials for our In order to continue this project, the National Certified Counselor counsellors and Trainers of Trainers. we are again asking for your help. that NBCC first asked NCCs to Thank you very much.” Please send gently used books and donate books and journals for use journals published after 1995 to specifically in Your generous NBCC International, 3 Terrace Way, Africa. NCCs book and journal Greensboro, NC 27403. Inquiries responded NBCC-I needs your help donations made this regarding this and other NBCC-I generously to continue to answer possible. While projects can be addressed to Dr. to this and many countries Wendi Schweiger at schweiger@ requests from other subsequent calls have begun creating nbcc.org. Plans are currently in for books. Since countries for counseling counseling literature the works to ship books to several that time, the resources. specific to local countries, including Kenya, Malawi donation project contexts, we have and Tanzania, in the immediate has expanded received consistent future. and NBCC Please send gently feedback that the International used books and journals books donated by We sincerely thank you for your NCCs help to build generosity and support of this (NBCC-I) published after 1995 to: regularly initial resource project. sends books to NBCC-I libraries. According countries around 3 Terrace Way to Dr. Andreea the world. Greensboro, NC 27403. Szilagyi, associate : vice president TPC Research and Practice For example, of the European Please send any questions Board for Certified in early 2009 A new professional NBCC-I was to Dr. Wendi Schweiger at Counselors, the contacted by European division of [email protected]. the Ministry NBCC, “the donated journal designed to of Education books served to and Sports build the courses promote scholarship in Uganda regarding the newly for a career counseling master’s established Department of Guidance program in Romania, which was the and academic and Counselling. Thanks to the first counseling program ever in my thousands of books donated by country outside of the Schools of inquiry within NCCs, NBCC-I was able to respond Psychology.” to their need for resources and the profession of send a shipment of books to the Since 2003, shipments of books have ministry. In his acknowledgment been sent to the following countries, letter, Mr. Wirefred George Opiro, many of which have received counseling. commissioner for guidance and multiple shipments over time: counselling, wrote “. . . the Ministry • Bhutan • Malawi of Education and Sports Uganda was • Bulgaria • Philippines in the process of beginning to set up • Cypress • Portugal a vibrant Guidance and Counselling • Cambodia • Romania TM Strategy for its educational • Greece • Turkey institutions. These books have • Kenya • Uganda gone into forming the initial stock • Macedonia http://tpcjournal.nbcc.org

4 NBCC Is Platinum Sponsor of 2011 ACES Conference

NBCC is proud to have been a platinum sponsor of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) conference this year. NBCC staff and Board members, including current Chair Dr. Brandon Hunt and past Chair Dr. James Benshoff, attended the October conference held in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Benshoff represented NBCC as a speaker at the Emerging Leaders Retreat that immediately preceded the conference.

NBCC had the honor of making two presentations during the ACES NBCC INTERNATIONAL UPDATES annual luncheon held on Saturday, October 29. The first was the NBCC Professional Identity Award, Mental Health Facilitator (MHF) Update granted to three counselor education programs that demonstrate, through a competitive application process, NBCC-I’s Mental Health Facilitator Michael Klaybor, Dr. Rose an ongoing commitment to strong (MHF) program is an important tool Quiñones-DelValle and Dr. professional identity and counseling for expanding mental health service Steven Scoggin as MHF master leadership. Dr. Hunt presented capacity in areas with underserved trainers. the 2010 winners—Old Dominion populations. The following is a list • A training of trainers was held University, Purdue University of the most recent trainings of trainers in Moshi, Tanzania, in July- and Boise State University—with and master trainings offered. August 2011, in partnership plaques. These departments had • A training of trainers was held with the Catholic Diocese of already received checks for $5,000. in Thimphu, Bhutan, in May- Moshi. Trainees included June 2011, in partnership with seminary students and In addition, Dr. Hunt awarded Respect, Educate, Nurture and university staff. In addition, three universities with honorable Empower Women (RENEW), and two participants obtained their mentions. The University of Bhutan’s Ministry of Education. registrations as trainers. Tennessee at Knoxville, Wake Participants from a variety of Forest University and Marywood backgrounds obtained their The sixth master training at NBCC University each received a check for $1,000. registrations as MHFs and as headquarters is scheduled for trainers. February 2012. NBCC-I plans to NBCC is currently accepting • The fifth master training was hold another master training in the applications for the 2011 held at NBCC headquarters in summer or fall of 2012. Professional Identity Award. More Greensboro, North Carolina, in information can be found at www. July 2011. Nine participants were Organizations in Japan, Rwanda, nbcc.org/faculty. trained and registered as master Taiwan, Uganda and the United trainers. NBCC-I is pleased to States have contacted NBCC-I The second presentation during welcome Dr. James Benshoff, to discuss program possibilities. the luncheon was in honor of Dr. Keith Davis, Dr. Acha Goris, NBCC-I staff will continue ACES. Over the past 60 years, Dr. Brandon Hunt, Dr. Laurie working toward the development of ACES has been a fundamental force Johnson, Dr. Gayle Klaybor, Dr. additional partnerships. in strengthening the counseling profession. NBCC acknowledged ACES’ contributions by dedicating the 13th edition of Counselor Preparation to the organization. In the book’s dedication, authors Wendi Schweiger, Donna Henderson, Kristi McCaskill, Tom Clawson and Dan Collins write “ACES serves a vital purpose for professional counseling by focusing on effective preparation and supervision … ACES’ history includes a multitude of counselors that have been involved in developing this organization. We recognize those professionals who have dedicated parts of their career to volunteering countless hours in supporting this important association. . . .” (pp. xi)

Dr. Schweiger, Dr. Henderson, Ms. McCaskill and Dr. Clawson presented ACES President Dr. Gerard Lawson with a copy of the recently printed 13th edition and a plaque to commemorate the dedication.

Reference: Schweiger, W. K., Henderson, D. A., McCaskill, K., Clawson, T. W., & Collins, D. M. (2011). Counselor Preparation: Programs, Faculty, Trends (13th Edition). New York: Routledge and the National Board for Certified Counselors.

5 NBCC GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS UPDATE

OPM Occupational Series NBCC is dissatisfied with the open- and improvement in veterans mental ended time line and has been pressing health care, including discussions on On May 31, 2011, the U.S. Office of for more timely action. The coalition the mental health initiative research- Personnel Management (OPM) issued of counseling and MFT organizations informed practices, clinical innovations, a letter to the Department of Veterans has communicated with the staff of and educational efforts for networks, Affairs (VA) indicating that the agency the House Oversight and Government local medical centers, clinics and the would not immediately be creating an Reform Committee and the Senate community. Participants included occupational series for professional Homeland Security and Government more than 1,000 clinicians, educators counselors or marriage and family Affairs Committee to discuss legislative and researchers from VA facilities. therapists (MFTs). The OPM indicated and administrative options. The NBCC, the American Counseling that it is in the process of reviewing committee staff helped to facilitate a Association (ACA) and the American occupational groups and would consider coalition meeting with OPM staff on Association for Marriage and Family development of new series when the November 1. The meeting was very Therapy (AAMFT) were granted space 100 series is reviewed. productive and the groups were given to provide information to conference a tentative time frame of fiscal year participants about the two professions NBCC has been a strong proponent of 2013 for potential commencement of in an effort to increase education and the development of an occupational the development process. While OPM hiring. series for professional counselors did not guarantee that it will create the since before the profession was legally series, and the timeline is tentative at The two meetings afforded NBCC recognized within the VA. Creation of best, the process is moving in the right and its coalition allies the opportunity an occupational series for counselors direction and the coalition will continue to discuss the slow pace of hiring is integral to federal government to press for prompt action. counselors within the veterans health employment and national parity. system. NBCC shared concerns about the limited job vacancies for Failure to create an occupational series Veterans forces counselors who work for the the profession and the fact that most federal government to be employed in: positions were in vet centers and not On August 22, 2011, NBCC staff medical centers. NBCC organized a • Generic series with no professional participated in the Department of productive coalition meeting with Dr. identity. Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Mental Mary Schohn, the newly promoted Health Services (OMHS) stakeholders director of mental health operations, • Established nonclinical series meeting. The meeting brings together to discuss ways to accelerate the lacking independent practice rights representatives from veteran service integration of counselors and MFTs with limited pay and promotion. organizations, consumer groups, into the VA. NBCC also worked professional associations and VA staff to • Social work or psychologist series with VA Director of Program Policy share information about the VA mental that are not available to most Implementation Stacey Pollack on health system. counselors and misrepresent their revising the new solicitation for The meeting training and education. representatives on the National Licensed provided an Professional Mental Health Counselor informal forum to Professional Standards Board (NLPC- The effort to obtain an occupational discuss issues of PSB). Counselors working for the series took a big step forward in 2006 interest to the VA VA OMHS are encouraged to contact when Congress enacted legislation and represented NBCC if they would be interested in authorizing the employment of organizations, serving on the NLPC-PSB. counselors in the VA. To create a series, including integration of counselors and a federal agency must request one from MFTs. OPM. NBCC pressed VA Assistant Medicare Secretary for Human Resources and On the following day, August 23, Administration John Sepulveda for NBCC attended the VA national On September 15, 2011, Rep. Barbara an occupational series during a group mental health conference, entitled Lee (D-CA) introduced H.R. 2954, meeting on the new law in September “Improving Veterans Mental Health which includes a provision to extend 2009. Mr. Sepulveda committed to Care for the 21st Century.” The Medicare reimbursement to professional the issue and followed through on that conference provided information counselors and marriage and family commitment, submitting a request to about the ongoing transformation OPM in 2010. continued on page 7 6 NBCC GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS UPDATE continued from page 6 therapists. Rep. Lee sponsored the professionals and included language health care proposals to address the bill on behalf of the Congressional providing Medicare recognition to financial crisis also may represent Tri-Caucus—comprised of the counselors and MFTs in section 17 opportunities for including the Congressional of the bill. S. 1680 provides another coalition’s Medicare language. The Hispanic Caucus, vehicle for moving this legislation and threshold for inclusion in any package the Congressional brings the total number of Medicare remains high, but not impossible. The Black Caucus and bills to three. coalition will be exploring all avenues the Congressional and seeking opportunities to include its Asian Pacific The struggling economy has legislation in any moving vehicle. American Caucus. complicated the prospects for Medicare The legislation has legislation this year. Congressional TRICARE/Defense 71 cosponsors and energy is consumed by the debt crisis includes a host of health care priorities and the need to grow jobs and turn On July 12-14, 2011, Tim Holloman for the three caucuses. around the financial system. Before represented NBCC at an organizational taking its August recess, Congress meeting for the Marriage and Family H.R. 2954 is the first House bill to passed legislation to increase the debt Counseling Collaborative (MFCC). provide Medicare recognition to limit by $2.4 trillion coupled with $900 The MFCC was formed to support counselors in the 112th Congress. The billion in immediate cuts and $1.5 service members, veterans and coalition of counseling and MFT trillion to be cut by a supercommittee their families through education groups has been lobbying for a stand- of 12 legislators (three House and training of behavioral health alone House bill since S. 604 was Democrats, three Senate Democrats, providers. The organization is introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D- three House Republicans, three Senate comprised of representatives from the OR). Several representatives have Republicans). If the supercommittee major behavioral health associations expressed interest in the legislation, fails to enact the required savings in partnership with service and VA but the coalition is seeking strong by November 23, automatic cuts providers, university staff and civilian bipartisan support before introduction. will occur on December 23. The community providers. supercommittee has been meeting to On October 11, 2011, Sens. Kent identify areas of agreement. At the July meeting, the MFCC Conrad (D-ND) and John Barrasso changed its name to the Alliance of (R-WY) introduced the Craig Thomas All legislation is considered within the Military and Veteran Family Behavioral Rural Hospital and Provider Equity context of Congress’ focus on cutting Health Providers (AMVFBHP or Act of 2011, spending and Alliance). The group also adopted a S. 1680. This increasing mission statement and is considering National Certified Counselors who bill was filed revenue. While incorporating as a 501(c)(3), launching are interested in advocating for on behalf of the the counselor- a new Web site and conducting a survey the counseling profession and Senate Rural MFT Medicare of clinicians. Health Caucus receiving more communications legislation is on government relations activities to identify scored by the The National Defense Authorization Act health care are encouraged to join the NBCC Congressional for Fiscal Year 2011 (NDAA), P.L. 111- priorities for grassroots network. Budget Office 383, directed the Secretary of Defense rural legislators. to cost only to prescribe regulations granting Cosponsors To sign up, send an e-mail $100 million counselors independent practice include Sens. to [email protected] with over five years authority under the TRICARE program Tom Harkin “Grassroots” in the subject line, (inconsequential by June 20, 2011. The deadline passed (D-IA), James and your contact information and in budgetary with no regulations and a tentative Inhofe (R-OK), NCC certificate number in the text. terms), it is new time frame of up to six additional Tim Johnson still viewed months was established. NBCC (D-SD), Amy critically for continues to press for regulations Klobuchar (D-MN), Pat Roberts (R- increasing spending. Legislators have authorizing all qualified counselors KS) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY). been hesitant to sponsor the legislation to practice independently. For more The caucus recognizes the need for for fear of seeming indifferent to the information, see the article about the increased access to mental health budget situation. However, sweeping new Army Directive on page 1.

7 New Board Members for NBCC and Affiliates

NBCC’s Board of Directors has elected Keith M. Davis Florida State University in Tallahassee. She also holds to serve a three-year term on the NBCC Board. the Master Addictions Counselor (MAC) specialty credential. Dr. Davis is the director of the clinical mental health Dr. Hauser is chief executive counseling program at officer of Catholic Charities Appalachian State University of Salina, Inc., a private social in Boone, North Carolina, service agency that covers where he is also a professor 31 counties in Kansas and of human development and provides numerous programs psychological counseling. and services, including He has taught courses on a mental health counseling, variety of topics, including immigration services, disaster group counseling, school relief, and adoption and birth counseling, individual and parent services. She earned family development, and Keith M. Davis a doctorate in administration expressive and creative arts in from Southern Illinois Karen Fleak Hauser counseling. Prior to earning his doctorate in counselor University in Edwardsville education and supervision at The University of North and a master’s in counseling Carolina–Greensboro, he earned a master’s of education from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Her areas in curriculum and instruction, a master’s of science in of expertise include counseling, clinical assessment and school counseling and an education specialist degree in measurement, public relations, legislative advocacy, marriage and family counseling there. fund development, grantsmanship, and personnel management and staff supervision. She also holds the The NBCC Foundation Board of Trustees welcomes Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC) three new trustees this year. Sandra B. Barker, Karen specialty credential. Fleak Hauser and Sue Fort White will serve two-year terms on the NBCC Foundation Board. Dr. White is the executive director of Our Kids, Inc. in Dr. Barker is a professor of Nashville, Tennessee, which psychiatry at the Medical provides crisis counseling College of Virginia at Virginia services to children and Commonwealth University families impacted by sexual (VCU) in Richmond, where abuse. Prior to her work with she is also the director of Our Kids, Dr. White was the the Center for Human- family to family coordinator Animal Interaction, the Bill with the Department of Balaban Endowed Chair in Children’s Services and Human-Animal Interaction, created partnerships with associate director of the Sue Fort White family resource centers, Sandra B. Barker inpatient psychiatry program neighborhood groups, clergy and director of the pet and community organizations bereavement service. Additionally, Dr. Barker currently on behalf of children and youth in foster care. She holds serves as an adjunct professor of small animal clinical both a master’s of education and a doctorate in human sciences at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of development counseling from Vanderbilt University’s Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. She Peabody College. Dr. White is an expert in the areas holds a doctorate in counseling and human systems of fund development, advocacy and ambassadorship, and a master’s in rehabilitation services, both from program development and promotion, strategic planning, and community outreach. 8 CCE UPDATE

DCC: The Distance Credentialed Counselor (DCC) is a national credential The Growth of the offered by the Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE) and represents to employers and the public that the individual credential holder has met the Counselor Preparation established requirements and adheres to the NBCC Code of Ethics and the Ethical Requirements for the Practice of Internet Counseling. Comprehensive Applying for the DCC credential is easy. Simply submit a completed application, Examination a certificate of completion from the required training and a $25 fee. As an added bonus, NCCs receive a $125 discount on the DCC training fee and acquire 15 Graduate counselor education NBCC-approved continuing education hours once the training is completed. programs in 45 states have adopted the Our training partner, ReadyMinds, has made the training available in an online Counselor Preparation Comprehensive platform so that it is now even more convenient to become a DCC credential holder. Examination (CPCE) to standardize the measurement of students in For more information regarding the DCC credential, please visit cce@cce-global. counseling programs. The exam was org/dcc. For more information regarding the required training, please visit www. designed to assess students’ knowledge readyminds.com/dcc. of counseling information that is BCC: The December 31, 2011, deadline for applying for the Board Certified considered important by counselor Coach (BCC) credential during the inaugural period is quickly approaching. preparation programs. More than 300 Inaugural applicants will sit for the required examination as part of the norming programs across the United States and process. Once the inaugural period ends, applicants will be required to meet abroad have adopted the CPCE since additional educational requirements and pass the BCC examination. NCCs can its introduction in 1997. In 2011, more meet the coaching training requirement of the BCC application by documenting than 8,500 students will take the CPCE just 30 hours, so this is a unique opportunity to pursue a credential that will help to as part of their program. The growth of establish your identity as a professional coach. the program has encouraged the Center for Credentialing & Education to focus on innovative ways to serve schools One Tool – One Purpose and students.

The Behavioral Management Information System (BeMIS) is a powerful tool with The widespread use of the program one purpose: To administer, score and interpret Gough’s Adjective Check List is due to both the validity of the (ACL), providing professionals with standardized personality data for individual, instrument and excellent customer group, relationship, intrapersonal and interpersonal assessment, description service, including providing timely and development. The nonthreatening, quickly completed ACL consists of 300 responses and reports. This customer adjectives and provides standardized data for 37 personality traits. It has been in service approach has made it easy for worldwide use since 1949. higher education institutions to adopt the instrument. BeMIS is available as PC software, which provides access to all of BeMIS’s functionality, or in the cloud, where a requested profile or interpreted report can be delivered by e-mail. Both the PC and cloud applications include the option In September 2010, CCE launched of online ACL administration. BeMIS provides practitioners with the exact data a secure browser-based portal— they need in the format they prefer, and it provides researchers the data they need accessible from anywhere in the to investigate behavior in personality terms. However, both practitioners and world—that allows representatives researchers have access to BeMIS’s open environment, where new reports, charts, from participating universities to scales, interpretations and norms are easily created. access CPCE documents. This has reduced the reporting time and greatly In addition to the functionality it provides practitioners and researchers, BeMIS increased the satisfaction of the can also be used to identify core behavioral tendencies and to compare a test universities. taker’s data to those tendencies for the purpose of facilitating selection (students, employees, etc.) and for career decision-making. Counselor educators may obtain The Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE) is currently providing BeMIS and further information regarding the support to numerous institutions that are using it to facilitate student selection, self- CPCE at www.cce-global.org/Org/ exploration and organizational assessment. CPCE. For more information or to become a BeMIS user, e-mail [email protected]. 9 Introduction to Clinical Practice within the Transgender Community JoinÊtheÊ Saturday, November 19, 2011 | 9 am–4:30 pm | TC11 | 6 CE Credits | $135 MassachusettsÊ Elijah C. Nealy, MDiv, LCSW, instructor SchoolÊofÊProfessionalÊ Suicide: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know PsychologyÊforÊtheseÊ Friday, December 2, 2011 | 9 am–4:30 pm | S611 | 6 CE Credits | $145 Lisa Firestone, PhD, instructor NBCCÊApprovedÊ ContinuingÊEducationÊ A Developmental Understanding for Assessing and Treating Violent Individuals Programs Saturday, December 3, 2011 - | 9 am–4:30 pm | V611 | 6 CE Credits | $145 Lisa Firestone, PhD, instructor For more information and to register online, visit Eating Disorders: Practical Considerations in the Diagnosis, www.mspp.edu/ce Assessment & Treatment of Children, Adolescents, Adults & Families Friday, February 24, 2012 | 9 am–4:30 pm | ED63 | 6 CE Credits | $135 Mona Villapiano, PsyD, instructor Overcoming the Immunity to Change Saturday, February 25, 2012 | 9 am–4:30 pm | RK60 | 6 CE Credits | $135 Robert Kegan, PhD, instructor

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Continuing education approval or advertisement does not imply NBCC endorsement of any product, method or theory of counseling. 13 NBCC FOUNDATION UPDATE Meet the NBCC Foundation

The NBCC Foundation enters a new era with new staff and board leadership. Sherry L. Allen joined the Foundation as executive director on July 1, and is the first full-time executive staff member. She brings more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit management and fund development. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Allen was the president and CEO of Youth & Family Services Network, a national member organization of direct service organizations. “The Foundation has a great platform from which to build, and I am honored to join the NBCC family,” says Ms. Allen.

July 1 also marked the beginning of a new year for the Board of Trustees. Returning trustees Dr. William Byxbee and Dr. Wayne Lanning serve as Chair and Vice-chair, respectively. The Board welcomes three new trustees: Dr. Sue Fort White, executive director of Our Kids, Inc. in Sherry L. Allen Nashville, Tennessee; Dr. Sandra Barker, professor of psychiatry and endowed chair at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), as well as director of the School of Medicine Center for Human- Animal Interaction at VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia; and Dr. Karen Hauser, CEO of Catholic Charities of Salina, Inc. in Salina, Kansas. According to Board Chair Dr. Byxbee, “Our new board members combine the best of all possible worlds: complete dedication to the mission of the NBCC Foundation and a wealth of practical experience in the area of grant writing and fund-raising.” To learn more about the new trustees, turn to page 8.

The NBCC Foundation Board of Trustees met September 13-14, 2011, and approved the funding priorities for the coming year. The priorities include continued funding for master’s-level counseling scholarships focusing on NBCC Foundation Board members and staff gather for dinner service to rural and military communities, as well as for following the meeting. Pictured (l to r) are Donna Mastrangelo, the NBCC-I Mental Health Facilitator program. The Sherry Allen, Karen Hauser, William Byxbee, Sue Fort White, Sandra Barker, Wayne Lanning and Thomas Clawson. Foundation will initiate new scholarship priorities in 2012 that are intended to increase counselor availability in underserved urban areas, and also to support graduate studies for Global Career Development Facilitators (GCDFs). More information will be distributed soon through the Foundation Web site, www.nbccf.org.

A big thank-you to the 337 individuals who made Thank You generous contributions to the Foundation this summer.

To learn more about the Foundation or to show your support by making a donation, please visit the Foundation’s Web site at www.nbccf.org or send your contribution to the address below.

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David Weisenhorn is both Shirley LaForce-Gillians is a a student and a graduate of graduate of Paine College and is Appalachian State University enrolled in Mercer University’s master’s where he is pursuing a in clinical mental health counseling master’s degree in clinical program. She realized that counseling mental health counseling. was the right career for her after a Shortly after finishing basic yearlong deployment to Iraq in support training, Mr. Weisenhorn of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While witnessed the trauma and deployed, she witnessed firsthand the heartbreak caused by 9/11. needs of her fellow service members. That experience sparked a passion within him—a passion Ms. LaForce-Gillians currently works to help those in need. Mr. Weisenhorn plans to live this within the Department of Veterans Affairs where she is able passion by helping his fellow veterans as a counselor, and to work with colleges, hospitals and other organizations to is already broadening his skills by obtaining a postgraduate bring readjustment services to veterans. Upon obtaining her certification in addictions counseling. counseling degree, she plans to work as a counselor and then a team leader to further serve the military population. What led you to pursue a career in counseling? The most vivid event was while serving as a chaplain What are your short- and long-term goals as a assistant during the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, professional counselor? For the community/population 2001. The weeks spent on the Pentagon lawn seeing tears you’ve committed to serve? of the hopeful parent or spouse and listening to the stories I hope to serve as an advocate to bring general awareness of of the soldiers during the clean up gave birth to the desire the readjustment process and issues these combat veterans to counsel young soldiers and their families. I discovered face. . . . Also to maintain an outreach program to assist the effects of trauma and the need for so many to be helped these veterans and their families. Being prior military helped along the way to recovery. me to realize that I am capable and willing to assist this population with the many transitions and issues that they What are your short- and long-term goals as a may encounter in life. professional counselor? For the community/population you’ve committed What does becoming a National to serve? Certified Counselor (NCC) mean to you NBCC Foundation During my service time, I saw firsthand personally? Professionally? the effects of war on my fellow soldiers, wants to be YOUR Becoming a National Certified Counselor out of which grew a strong desire to instrument for funding means a lot to me. It means that I have serve our veterans and work closely with issues important put in the time and effort to gain the best those suffering from post-traumatic stress to you. Donations knowledge and experience to become an disorder (PTSD) and struggling with to the Foundation effective counselor within this field. It also means that I am part of an organization substance abuse. I have every intention support the counseling to help bring healing to so many that have that strives to promote high standards given so much. profession through and awareness of counseling within scholarships and communities and beyond. The Department of Veterans Affairs has community capacity- just opened up mental health provider jobs What impact has the NBCCF scholarship within the VA to professional counselors, building grants. Make had on your life? What does it mean to offering hope that I may be able to spend a a difference! Get you personally and professionally? career giving back to our military brothers involved. Make a The NBCCF scholarship has proven and sisters. donation. Go to www. to me that I am capable of being the What impact has the NBCCF scholarship nbccf.org and click “I best counselor that I can be. I am very had on your life? What does it mean to want to...” appreciative and feel honored to be a you personally and professionally? recipient of this award which recognizes Personally, it was confirmation that I have Donations are tax my accomplishment thus far. Receiving given myself to the right profession. That deductable, and may this scholarship is a motivation to continue I chased a dream and it was the right be made as honorarium striving personally within this profession one. Professionally, it propels me to work and to continue promoting the profession harder and give myself more fully to the or memorial. while bringing awareness for clients within community in which I plan to serve. communities. 15 2010 NBCCF SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT CLOSE-UPS

Danielle Dorfer is a graduate Kay Lechner is a graduate of Paul Smith’s College and is of St. Norbert College and enrolled in the State University is enrolled in Valparaiso of New York at Plattsburgh’s University’s master’s in clinical master’s of mental health mental health counseling counseling program. A proud program. Ms. Lechner realized and long-term resident of the her calling to serve in a rural North Country of New York area after seeing her family and neighbors in rural Wisconsin state, Ms. Dorfer has embraced drive for miles to obtain the wilderness of her area medical and mental health care. and uses it as a therapeutic Her decision was reinforced tool in her role within a during a study abroad in Rome community program to serve where she worked to help many of the poor and homeless at-risk adolescents. She plans to continue serving her living there. She has committed to working in rural community as a counselor and offer services that address Wisconsin after graduation to bring mental health services issues prevalent in her town, such as unemployment and to those with little or no access to such care. addiction. Is there one experience that you’ve had as a volunteer/ What led you to pursue a career in counseling? counselor/counselor-in-training that stands out from I couldn’t say the words “I am angry” until I was 20 years the rest? old. I grew up holding all of my emotions in and it almost One training experience that stands out . . . is the work I killed me. I had a math teacher once who said she hated did with a student during my internship at a local, rural math growing up because she didn’t understand it. She school. One day the kindergarten teacher sent a student to was determined to learn how to teach math to others in see me because the teacher was unsure how to handle the hopes to save her students some of the agony she went student’s frequent crying in class. As I talked with her I through. Today . . . I hope that I can teach the skills that I allowed her to color on some paper to ease her anxiety, as so desperately needed to learn. I knew coloring was an activity she enjoyed. The young girl drew five flowers all in a row. The middle flower had What are your short- and long-term goals as a only one petal; all the petals from that flower were on the professional counselor? For the continued growth of ground. She looked up at me and explained simply, “The counseling as a global profession? middle flower is dying, because it isn’t getting enough My long term goal is to learn more about how to water.” Knowing she was the middle of five children in incorporate nature, spirituality and ceremony into healing. her family, it struck me at once that she was not getting the I would like to develop my own practice that incorporates attention she needed at home to be able to thrive fully. all of the skills I have learned in wilderness therapy. Globally, I would like counseling to get back to the earth I often think of this experience when I think about rural in terms of grounding and making connection with things communities. To me, the need in rural communities outside of the individual in a spiritual and community is obvious, just as the thirsty and dying flower was so sense. obvious on this girl’s page in front of me. What does becoming a National Certified Counselor What impact has the NBCCF scholarship had on (NCC) mean to you personally? Professionally? your life? What does it mean to you personally and Becoming a National Certified Counselor is an important professionally? goal for me, and has been since I learned of the NBCC I am so grateful for this scholarship. This is my last organization. This credential will allow me to demonstrate semester and although I have worked between sessions, that, as a counselor, I have met national standards I was coming up short on money and was struggling to developed by mental health professionals, something that make ends meet. I feel honored that I was selected out of will be invaluable in my practice and my professional so many applicants and this . . . gives me the freedom to development. Holding up this standard and maintaining the focus on my clients and my developing counseling skills. best practices possible will … help community members begin to learn more about the counseling profession.

16 Newly Approved Continuing Education Continuing Education Providers Providers Not Renewing Biblical Seminary Counseling Department; #4562; Hatfield, PA; CE providers that did not renew www.biblical.edu/index.php/counseling/master-of-arts-mac their NBCC-approved status in Blue Basin, Inc.; #6528; Houston; www.bhctraining.com 2010 are listed below. Providers interested in reinstating NBCC- Bruce J. Spencer, Ph.D.; Seattle approved CE provider status CEUonestop; #6529; Rockville, MD; www.ceuonestop.com should e-mail recertification@nbcc. org. The 2011annual updates and College of New Rochelle; #4500; New Rochelle, NY; www.cnr.edu renewals were due April 30, 2011. Core Values Counseling, LLC; #6527; Beaverton, OR; Providers needing an extension www.CoreValuesCounseling.com to submit the 2011update or Elite Consulting Unlimited; #6513; Shelby, NC renewal should contact NBCC at [email protected]. Family Psychological Services, PC; #6526; Greely, CO; www.palytherapy.ws

Father Flanagan’s Boys Home; #6517; Boys Town, NE; www.boystown.org American Healthcare Institute of Clinical Training & Research; Gentle Reprocessing, LLC; #6509; Rutland, MA; #5106 www.gentlereprocessing.com Anthony J. Siracusa; #6041 Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence; #6519; Boise, ID; www.engagingvoices.org Ashland School of Hypnotherapy; #6256 Idaho Society of Individual Psychology (ISIP); #6525; Boise, ID; www.adleridaho.com Baptist Health Systems; #6077

Messiah College; #4563; Grantham, PA; www.messiah.edu/academics/ Beneficial Film Guides, Inc.; #6218

North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society; #6518; Chapel Hill, NC; Bully Safe Schools; #6328 www.ncanalysis.com Career Resource Center; #5131 North Carolina State University Counseling Center; #6534; Raleigh, NC; www.ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/counseling_center/ CASA—Natl. Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse at Columbia Northwest Frontier Addiction Technology Transfer Center; #6531; University; #6307 Portland, OR; www.nafttc.org Catholic Charities Diocese of The Upside Down Organization; #6514; Baltimore; Metuchen; #6111 www.upsidedownorganization.org CE-NOW.com; #6347 Treeside Institute for Clinical Advancement; #6520; Lake Orion, MI; www.treesidecounseling.com Centennial Area Health Education Center; #5058 University of Massachusetts Medical School; #6524; Worchester, MA; www.umassmed.edu/tobacco Center for Human Development; #6249 University of Phoenix Santa Teresa Learning Center; #4564; Santa Teresa, NM; www.phoenix.edu/campus-locations/nm/new-mexico-campus/santa-teresa- Clear View Psychological Services; learning-center.html #6322 We Are Mosaics; #6505; Markham, VA; www.wearemosaics.com continued on page 18

17 NBCC Unveils New Continuing Education Providers Not Renewing CCMHC Application continued from page 17

NCCs have been telling us that they want to apply for the Certified Clinical Collaborative Medical Education New Directions: Consulting and Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC) Inst; #6370 Clinical Services; #5894 specialty credential, but are reluctant to because of the time it would take Columbia University/Counseling New England Forensic Associates; to obtain all the documentation they Psychology; #5821 #5626 have already submitted for their NCC and state license. We have heard their Compact Clinicals; #6234 North Carolina Family-Based feedback and are pleased to introduce Services Assn; #6166 the 2012 CCMHC Application for Data Trace Publishing Company; State Licensed Counselors. This new #6286 Northwood Health Systems, Inc.; application provides an expedited route #6224 for professional counselors who hold a Duke Child and Family Study state license. NCCs who are licensed Center; #6345 Orchard Park; #5804 in their state may be eligible to use this new application to complete the eLearning Essentials; #6235 Organic CEUs; #6324 certification process with ease. The new application is offered at a special Family Care for Children & Youth, Pennsylvania Psychological price for NCCs: $25, or $75 if they Inc.; #6089 Association; #6150 need to take the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination Fireside Forensic Services; #6087 Personal Dynamics; #6207 (NCMHCE). Foundations for Successful Regional Psychiatric Services of CCMHC for State Licensed Counselors Relationships; #6333 NEA; #5696 Application Requirements: Greenwood Professional Seminars; Sage Healing Institute; #6223 • Completion of 60 hours of graduate #6278 counseling coursework, including Savannah Family Institute; #5854 a master’s degree (48 semester/90 Julian M. Ridolphi; #6033 quarter hours) or higher in UAMS-AHEC South Arkansas; counseling from a regionally KidsPeace National Ctrs for Kids #6123 accredited university. Applicants Overcoming Crisis; #5275 who completed fewer than 60 Wellness Plus; #6215 semester hours (or 90 quarter Leonore M. Foehrenbach; #6037 hours) of graduate-level credit in Wellspring; #6289 their counseling degree can use Life Purpose Institute; #5783 credits from nondegree counseling Western Colorado Area Health; coursework for the lacking 12 Lighthouse Education, Inc.; #6351 #5186 semester hours (18 quarter hours). Certificate credits will be accepted Living Hope Texarkana; #6315 Worthington Center, Inc.; #5737 to fulfill the additional requirement. • A full and current license from Louise M. Aldrich; #6039 a state professional counselor MAPS-MD; #6355 licensure board or the California Registered Professional Counselor Mid-South Institute of (RPC) credential. Neurolinguistic Programming; • A passing score on the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling #5379 Examination (NCMHCE). Mytherapynet.com; #5974 The 2012 CCMHC Application for National Fibromyalgia Assn; #6360 State Licensed Counselors can be found at www.nbcc.org/Specialties/CCMHC. 18 NBCC BOARD NCC NETWORK

OF DIRECTORS Lourra Barthuly, NCC, LPC, of Eagle, Colorado, recently published a children’s book to assist children through change. In the children’s book Ouishy Squishy BRANDON HUNT Brain Shop, Dr. Lourra B helps young minds adapt to change through her Ph.D., NCC, CRC, LPC charming characters and entertaining plotline. In the story, Dalton experiences State College, Pennsylvania many changes that make him upset—his class misses recess, karate class is Chair cancelled, and he is unable to present his science experiment. Dalton’s mom takes him to the Ouishy DEVIKA DIBYA CHOUDHURI Squishy Brain Shop , Ph.D., NCC, ACS, LPC where he learns that his GOT NEWS? Ypsilanti, Michigan brain must stretch and Chair-elect bend because things If you would like to submit an item for JOSEPH D. WEHRMAN change. Therapists can NCC Network, refer to the guidelines and Ph.D., NCC, ACS, LPC use the book as a tool deadlines on our Web site: www.nbcc.org/ Colorado Springs, Colorado in therapy. The book Newsletter/Submissions Secretary is available through bookstores nationwide, JAMES M. BENSHOFF from the publisher at www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore, or by visiting Ph.D., NCC, ACS, LPC barnesandnoble.com, borders.com or amazon.com. Wilmington, North Carolina Past Chair Rubin Battino, NCC, LPCC, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, recently published two books, DONNA MASTRANGELO both of which are available from www.Lulu.com. The first book is entitled Atlanta, Georgia Healing Language. A Guide for Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, Psychologists, Public Member Social Workers, and Counselors. It contains 68 scenarios, each with examples of healing language, and some with examples of harmful language. There are ROSE M. QUIÑONES-DELVALLE also responses to questionnaires by doctors, nurses, patients and caregivers. The Ph.D., NCC, MAC, LPCC, LSW title of the second book is Howie and Ruby. Conversations 2000-2007. This Youngstown, Ohio book is essentially an oral history of Howard H. Fink, Ph.D. He is a clinical KEITH M. DAVIS psychologist who grew with and participated in the development of psychotherapy Ph.D., NCC, NCLSC in the United States after World War II. Dr. Fink is one of the rare Fellows of Boone, North Carolina the American Academy of Psychotherapy. Readers will find his stories of group therapy and the growth of psychotherapy particularly interesting. Battino is the THOMAS W. CLAWSON author or co-author (one book) of seven other books on psychotherapy (most Ed.D., NCC, NCSC, LPC available from Crown House Publishing or Amazon.com). Greensboro, North Carolina NBCC President and CEO Patrick F. Cioni, NCC, LPC, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been notified by the Center for Credentialing & Education that he has met the qualifications for the Approved Clinical Supervisor credential. His chapter “Hate, Revenge and Forgiveness: A Healthy Ego-Strengthening Alternative to the Experience of TM TM Offense” has been published in the book Psychology of Hate (2010) by Nova Science Publishers. The National Certified Counselor is published three times per year: Spring/ Fall/Winter. It is distributed without Rosemarie Scotti Hughes, NCC, NCSC, LPC, LMFT, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was charge to NCCs by NBCC®. awarded the rank of Dean Emerita from the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University. The award banquet in her honor was held in December NBCC CHAIR BRANDON HUNT 2010. She had worked at Regent for 23 years, and had been dean for 15 years. She is now in private practice at Eden Counseling Center in Virginia Beach and is PRESIDENT AND CEO an online faculty member at Liberty University, Argosy University (Washington THOMAS W. CLAWSON D.C.) and Nova Southeastern University. She is on the board of editors for NEWSLETTER EDITOR Counseling and Values and The Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health. She KATHERINE CLARK is the author of three published books and many articles. She was on the Board of Counseling for Virginia for eight years and served as its chair for two. She also Copyright © 2011 National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. All rights reserved. was president of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB) Reproduction in whole or part is prohibited and worked extensively with NBCC, notably on the issues of portability for without written authorization from NBCC. counselors. 19