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 is presenting for The Institute of Government & Public Policy of the University of East London. The presentation is entitled, “Preventing Burnout Through Adopting a Compassion-Centered Approach.”
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professors Justin Henderson and Alexia de León presented a 90 minute education session entitled ‘Resisting Hate: Fostering Resiliency & Healing with a Social Justice Counseling Model’ at the American Counseling Association in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Teacher Education Professor Lina Darwich had three presentations at ORATE on social and emotional learning along with other teacher educators in OR. Her first presentation was called “The Development of a Social-Emotional Learning Framework and Standards for Educator Preparation Programs in Oregon.” She also presented, “It Takes a Village: How EPPs Across Oregon are Preparing Teachers to Integrate Culturally Responsive SEL into Schools” and “Opportunities for SEL in Oregon’s Teacher Education Programs: What Do Early Career Teachers Think?” All of these presentations were done collaboratively with teacher educators from a number of different schools and universities.
School Psychology Professor Peter Mortola and Instructor Diane Gans submitted their complete manuscript of 130 pages and 68,000 words to Routledge for their soon-to-be-published book “Belong & Be You: A Group Counseling Curriculum to Strengthen Social Connections and Individual Resilience in the Teenage Years. Facilitating the Successful Navigation of Adolescent Development.
School Psychology Professor Peter Mortola presented a zoom workshop to 17 Bulgarian therapists of the Gestalt Play Therapy Bulgaria association in Sofia, Bulgaria. The workshop was entitled: Working with Images and Projective Cards: The Oaklander Approach to Gestalt Play Therapy.
School Psychology Professor Peter Mortola presented a workshop for Australian therapists who are part of the Sydney Centre for Creative Change. The topic of the presentation was focused on the Oaklander model of Gestalt Play Therapy and is entitled “Engaging boys and young men in counseling.”
Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Professor Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain gave a presentation at the Association for Creativity in Counseling conference in Melbourne, Florida. Her presentation was titled, “Creativity Meets Body Liberation: Interventions for Promoting Size Acceptance and Diversity.”
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.
Marriage, Couple, and Family Professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe, along with colleagues Victoria Acevedo and Lauren D’Agostino, have an article being published in the The Routledge International Handbook on Posttraumatic Growth. The article is called, “Vicarious resilience in clinical supervision: Finding hummingbird’s nectar.”
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Justin Henderson presented a training for behavioral health organization leaders that was hosted by the Oregon Council for Behavioral Health. The presentation was entitled, ‘Burnout Prevention as an Organizational Strategy.’
Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professors Justin Henderson and Alexia de León, and Professional Mental Health Counseling Professor Jeff Christensen recently published the chapter entitled ‘Cultivating Compassion for Resilience and Wellbeing: Applications for Individuals and Workplaces’ in the forthcoming book Perspectives on Stress and Wellness Management in Times of Crisis.
Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Professor Joslyn Armstrong traveled to Malaga, Spain to present at the International Family Therapy Academy conference with her friend, Dr. Denise Williams. Their presentation is entitled “Implications of the Pandemic on the Sustainability of Therapists in the Field of MFT.”
Art Therapy Professor Mary Andrus was invited to present on a wellness panel at the Peer Collective Leadership Summit at the Lewis & Clark College of Arts and Sciences.
Education in Leadership Professor Lisa Collins published a chapter titled “Brown vs the Board of Education” in Leadership and Policy in Urban Education: 21st Century Issues and Controversies. The release date for the text is April 1st, 2023.
Education in Leadership Professor Mollie Galloway and co-author Ann Ishimaru received the William J. Davis Award this month at the University Council for Educational Administration’s Annual Convention in Seattle. The award recognizes the authors of the most outstanding article published in the last volume year of Educational Administration Quarterly. The article was entitled: Hearts and minds first: Institutional logics in pursuit of educational equity.