Graduate Faculty Research Highlights
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Justin Henderson presented at the Northwest Institute of Addictions Studies conference in August. The title of his presentation was “Sustaining Our Work: Burnout Prevention and Recovery in a Troubled World.”
Art Therapy Instructor Kris Bella led the art therapy program in writing a grant that was recently awarded through Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission for $71,000 that will supply equipment for the digital media lab at the Lewis & Clark Community Counseling Center. The program will use the funding to create an art therapy specific video to air on public access television.
Education in Leadership Professor Lisa Collins published an article titled, “Healing Racial Trauma From Public School Systems” in the Journal of Research Initiatives.
Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe presented at the Banbury Psychedelics Research Think Tank in Long Island, New York. Her presentation was titled “Relational ethics: including all and hearing everyone’s voices.”
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Alexia de León was invited to give a presentation to the VOA Men’s Residential Center and to provide a training titled “The intersection of trauma, grief and loss in addiction and recovery communities.” This training was provided at a low cost that went toward scholarships for youth impacted by addiction.
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Alexia de León mentored three PMHC-A students who received the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) addictions scholarship for $15,000 each. Professor de León has now mentored a total of 15 students to receive this scholarship to date.
Art Therapy Professor Mary Andrus’ article entitled Collective storytelling: Art and Film to Process a Collective Loss will be in the next issue of the International Journal of Art Therapy.
School Counseling Professor Laura Barbour recorded a presentation titled: School Counselor Burnout: Mitigating Compassion Fatigue Through the Practice of Self-Compassion and Self-Care for an online course on Comprehensive School Counseling Program Development for Oregon School Counselors hosted by the Willamette Education Service District.
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Justin Henderson hosted Dr. Kelly Wilson at Lewis & Clark for a presentation and training. Dr. Wilson is one of the co-developers of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Mississippi. While in town, he presented on the ACT approach to counseling, including how to engage with human suffering in the counseling process, values in psychotherapy, and how to address addiction.
Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Professor Chelsey Torgerson gave an invited day-long presentation to the current students and alumni of the MFT program at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK. The presentation was titled, “Becoming Culturally Responsive Therapists through Self-of-the-Therapist Work.”
Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe presented at the International Center for Education and Human Development (CINDE) in Manizalez, Colombia. Her presentation was titled “Experiencias pedagógicas en torno a la resiliencia vicaria y la generación de espacios reflexivos.”
Student Affairs Professor Brenda Sifuentez and Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Professor Wonyoung Cho gave a presentation at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in New Orleans. Their session was entitled “Color Bombing a PWI: Solidarity Across Racial Lines Without Co-Opting Narratives in Higher Education.”
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addiction Professors Alexia de León and Justin Henderson co-presented at the NBCC MFP Bridging the Gap symposium this June in Atlanta, GA on healing Latinx communities impacted by Addiction.
Art Therapy Professor Mary Andrus presented a workshop entitled Polyvagal Theory and Trauma Treatment through the Center for Community Engagement at Lewis & Clark.
Education in Leadership Professor Elizabeth Denevi was an invited presenter at the National White Privilege Conference held in Mesa, AZ. She facilitated an institute entitled Antiracist Leadership: Developing Principled Relationships Across Race. She is also an invited presenter for the upcoming NCORE Conference (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Education) in New Orleans and will be presenting an institute, Engaging Institutional Resistance. They will also be featuring her new book, Learning and Teaching While White.