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.”

Posted October 3

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.

Posted October 3

Education in Leadership Professor Lisa Collins published an article titled, “Healing Racial Trauma From Public School Systems” in the Journal of Research Initiatives.

Posted October 3

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.”

Posted October 3

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.

Posted May 16

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.

Posted May 16

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.

Posted April 11

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.

Posted April 11

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.”

Posted April 11

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.

Posted April 11

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.

Posted March 14

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.

Posted March 14

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.

Posted February 21

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.”

Posted December 13

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.”

Posted December 13

Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Alexia de León and Instructor Maria Leija-Briones co-presented at ORCA on Trauma and Grief During Covid 19: The impact on the Latino immigrant community.

Posted November 15

Art Therapy Professor Mary Andrus co-presented with Art Therapy MS student Liv Siulagi and Lewis & Clark undergraduate student Kaya Tsabari a workshop entitled Art for Social Change; Activism or Slacktivism? at the 53rd annual American Art Therapy Association’s national conference in Minneapolis Minnesota.

Posted November 15

Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Justin Henderson was the keynote speaker for the Children’s Trust of Massachusetts’ annual conference. He spoke to over a thousand family services clinicians, advocates, and volunteers, delivering his keynote entitled “Reducing burnout: Collaborative approaches to increasing wellbeing and resilience in the workplace.” At the same conference, Justin presented a breakout session entitled “Building caring communities to prevent burnout.”

Posted November 15

School Psychology Professor Peter Mortola and Instructor Diane Gans presented to 100 school counselors at the Oregon School Counseling Association’s yearly conference. Their presentation topic focused on the development and use of the “Belong and Be You” curriculum which they have developed over ten years in counseling groups facilitated by Lewis & Clark graduate students at Ron Russell Middle School in the David Douglas School District.

Posted November 15

Professional mental health counseling professors Cort Dorn-Medeiros and Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain completed a presentation and a live chat session with 98 participants at the American Counseling Association’s Virtual Conference Experience. The title of the presentation was “Body Positivity, Size Diversity, HAES, and Fat Studies: Educating Counselors to Avoid Harm.”

Posted October 31

Professional mental health counseling professor Rafe McCullough presented twice at the 2022 Western Association of Counselor Education and Supervision conference. The first session, presented alongside other counselor educators from around Oregon was titled “Welcoming LGBTQ+ Students: Best Practices Within the Field of Counselor Education.” The second session he presented was titled “Centering Disability in Social Justice Counseling Conversations.”

Posted October 31

In her work as Arts Commissioner on the Oregon City Arts Commission, art therapy professor Mary Andrus facilitated a collaborative community mural to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the historic Arch Bridge. She had the privilege of working with tribal artists Brian Krehbiel and Mike Henry on the center panel representing the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. Community members from Oregon City and West Linn also contributed to the three panel mural. The mural will be on display over the next year at the Oregon City Library and the West Linn Library.

Posted October 31

School counseling professor Laura Barbour presented at the Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (WACES) Conference. The presentation was entitled: “Preventing Burnout: Self-Compassion and Self-Care for School Counselors.”

Posted October 31

Professional mental health counseling, addictions professors Alexia de León and Justin Henderson co-presented a training for the National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation’s Minority Fellowship Program. The training was part of a training series entitled ‘Innovations in Counseling: Working with Minority Populations.’ Professor de León and Professor Henderson’s presentation was entitled “Resisting Hate: Fostering Resiliency and Healing Through a Social Justice Model.”

Posted October 31

Professional Mental Health Counseling Professor Cort Dorn-Medeiros presented a workshop on youth, screens, and excessive gaming for the Multnomah County School-Based Mental Health Services titled “Screens, teens, and tweens.”

Posted August 29

Art Therapy Professor Mary Andrus’ artwork is on the cover of the recently published book “Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice,” edited by Laura Beer and Jacqueline C. Birnbaum.

Posted August 29

Education in Leadership Professor Elizabeth Denevi and co-author Jenna Chandler-Ward published Learning and Teaching While White: Antiracist Strategies for School Communities. Learning and Teaching While White is an accessible guide to help white educators, leaders, students, and parents develop an explicit, skills-based antiracist practice. Through their own experiences working with school communities, and the strategies and tools they have developed, the authors share how white educators can gain greater consciousness of their own white racial identity; analyze the role of whiteness in their school systems; rethink pedagogical approaches and curricular topics; address the role of white parents in the pursuit of racial literacy and equity; and much more.

Posted August 29

For the past ten years, School Psychology Professor Peter Mortola and Instructor Diane Gans have been running counseling groups at Ron Russell Middle School in the David Douglas School District with Lewis & Clark graduate students from the Counseling, Therapy and School Psychology Department. This summer, Routledge Press accepted for publication a book on this project which offers strands focused on 1) a group counseling curriculum, 2) adolescent development and 3) professional development for group counselors. The book is completed and will be published in April 2023. It is entitled: Strengthening Social Connections and Individual Resilience in the Teenage Years: The “Belong and Be You” Curriculum.

Posted August 29

Professional mental health counseling, addictions Professor Alexia de León partnered with Harvard Medical School and Project Build Up to discuss historical trauma and culturally responsive care for Latinx communities impacted by problem gambling and other addictions.

Posted June 17

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe was a round table participant in the “Eyes on Oregon”, at the Psychedelics Today conference. 

Posted April 12

School counseling professors Heather Hadraba and Laura Barbour were invited as guest lecturers for the graduate Counseling program at Portland State University. Fifty counseling students attended their presentation titled, Assessment in K-12 schools: Current practicesand considerations for transformation.

Posted April 12

Educational leadership professor Lisa Collins and Ohio State University educational administration professor Muhammad Khalifa presented their poster at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The poster is entitled, “Case Study: How Racialized Lived Experiences and Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Supported School District’s Organizational Development in Equitable Practices
”. 

Posted April 12

School counseling professor Laura Barbour and Oregon State University educational psychology professor Gene Eakin presented at the Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference this past March 11th. Their presentation was entitled, “Presenting burnout: Self-compassion and self-care for school counselors”.

Posted April 12

School psychology professor Peter Mortola led a 3-hour, Zoom workshop for counseling professionals in Moscow, Russia. His workshop is entitled “the bear inside: The Oaklander approach to working with aggressive energy and self-assertion”. 

Posted April 12

Oregon Writing Project director Kim Stafford writes collection of new poems, “Child in the Cornfield,” for Red Hen Press.

Posted March 15

Marriage, couple, and family therapy (MCFT) professor Joslyn Armstrong and Isaias Sanchez, 2nd-year MCFT student, presented a workshop entitled “Creating a safe space: Working with Latino and Black men in therapy” at the Center for Community Engagement (CCE).

Posted March 15

Counseling psychology professor Peter Mortola’s book Windowframes: Learning the Art of Gestalt Play Therapy the Oaklander Way has a new Italian translation. It was published last week in Italy by FrancoAngelli. In addition to the English version, the book is now available in 5 language editions outside the US: Spanish, Romanian, German, Korean, and Italian.

Posted March 14

Education professors Lina Darwich and Alisun Thompson gave a presentation based on their research titled Teacher Student Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Facing ’36 Black Boxes at the Association of Teacher Educators annual meeting. 

Posted March 14

Professional mental health counseling professor Justin Henderson published a new blog post: Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout.

Posted February 8

Education professor Carissa J. Zall presented “Adopting Quality Curriculum for a Diverse Learning Community” to the Molalla School District in December.

Posted February 8

School counseling professor Laura Barbour presented “Mitigating Compassion Fatigue Through the Practice of Self-Compassion and Self-Care” on January 5th to the Student Affairs Department at Willamette University.

Posted February 8

School psychology professor Peter Mortola has been invited to read “The Bear Inside” at a school-wide author’s visit at Lowrie Elementary School in the West Linn/Wilsonville School District to help support the student’s efforts at emotional regulation, given the challenges of having returned to in-person instruction. The school will also be purchasing 500 copies of the book, one for each child in the school.

Posted January 21

Education professors Lina Darwich and Alisun Thompson published an article/post in Edutopia: Teacher Wellness: A Sustainability Strategy for New Teachers.

Posted January 21

Art therapy professor Mary Andrus co-presented Collective Liberation: Art & Film to process a university closure, with art therapy alumni Amy Simpson at the national American Educational Studies Association conference in Portland Oregon.

Posted January 21

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe and Dr. Victoria Acevedo offered a lecture entitled “Una perspectiva ecoinformada para la terapia familiar” in commemoration of the 10th year anniversary of the Master’s in family therapy at the Javeriana University in Cali, Colombia.

Posted January 21

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Joslyn Armstrong presented a CCE workshop with Shar’Dane Harris, PhD, LCMHCA entitled “Grief and loss in Black families: Integrating spirituality intro strategies for processing death from police violence.”

Posted January 21

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Joslyn Armstrong co-authored a first author article with her sister, Jasmine Armstrong, PhD, for the fall edition of the NCFR report. The article was entitled A critical race approach to academic journal editor and reviewer bias in manuscript acceptance.

Posted January 21

On December 10th, professional mental health counseling professor Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain gave a presentation titled, “Creativity as a Critical Challenge to White Supremacy in Counselor Education” at the 2021 Association for Creativity in Counseling conference.

Posted January 21

School psychology professor Peter Mortola’s acclaimed children’s book “The Bear Inside” has been translated into Bulgarian and Tamil. A Spanish translation is already in print as well.

Posted October 26

Education professor Liza Finkel organized and moderated a panel discussion, Teaching Social Justice in Science: Finding support, maintaining focus, at the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference (via Zoom).

Posted October 26

Education professor Alisun Thompson delivers keynote address titled, “Teachers Working Conditions during COVID-19: Teaching, Learning, and Leading during a Crisis” at the STEM Leadership Institute at University of Arizona Biosphere 2.

Posted October 21

School psychology professor Peter Mortola spent summer 2021 offering the following workshops and trainings based on the work of Dr. Violet Oaklander (all via Zoom). This series was a testament to Dr. Oaklander’s ongoing influence and international reach.

  • May 22: Idaho State University
  • June 4-6: Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation International Conference
  • June 14: In Italy
  • September 2: In Sri Lanka

Dr. Oaklander died at the age of 94 in September 2021.

Posted September 29

Professional mental health counseling professor Alexia DeLeon and school counseling professor Rafe McCullough co-authored a chapter titled: “When intersecting identities collide: Embracing the complexities of race, gender, and religion in the counselor educator role.” The chapter is included in the book Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: A Blueprint for the Counseling Profession.

Posted September 29

School psychology professor Peter Mortola, along with 12 Lewis & Clark school psychology students, put on a two-day social and emotional learning/nature camp in July for 54 North Wasco School District students at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum in The Dalles. Everyone was wearing masks but having fun…

Posted September 21

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.

Posted October 3

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.”

Posted October 3

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.”

Posted October 3

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.”

Posted May 16

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.

Posted May 16

Art Therapy Professor Mary Andrus presented a workshop entitled Polyvagal Theory and Trauma Treatment through the Center for Community Engagement at Lewis & Clark.

Posted May 16

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.

Posted April 11

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.”

Posted April 11

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.’

Posted April 11

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.

Posted March 14

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.”

Posted March 14

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.

Posted March 14

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.

Posted January 17
Posted December 13

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.

Posted November 15

Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professors Alexia de León and Cort Dorn-Medeiros co-authored a grant (Scholars for a Healthy Oregon Initiative-Like (SHOI-Like) Scholarship Funds) and were awarded it in the amount of $500,000. This work is the continuation of HB2949, which aims to increase access and support for BIPOC and previously incarcerated people in mental health professions.

Posted November 15

Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Justin Henderson presented for the Oregon Counseling Association and Oregon Association for Counselor Education a supervisor training entitled Self-Care is Not the Solution to Burnout.

Posted November 15

School Psychology Professors Jennifer Twyford and Peter Mortola facilitated a panel discussion at the sixth annual school psychology alumni event in which program alumni presented on the various and specific pathways they have taken in their careers as schools psychologists, including focusing on Bilingual Assessment, Language Acquisition vs Disability, and Leadership for Inclusive Practices.

Posted November 15

Education in leadership professor Lisa Collins was featured in a promotional piece to support the River Democracy Act. The River Democracy Act aims to add nearly 4,700 miles of rivers and streams in Oregon to the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system – the largest Wild and Scenic Rivers effort in our nation’s history. It is being led by U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley.

Posted October 31

Professional mental health counseling professor Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain and PMHC alum Meredith Noble presented a workshop at the Center for Community Engagement titled, “Fat Studies 101 for Counselors and Psychotherapists.”

Posted October 31

Education professor Kimberly Campbell serves as the editor of Oregon English Journal. The Spring/Summer 2022 issue of the journal, which focused on the theme of renewal, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2022 NCTE Affiliate Journal of Excellence Award.

Posted October 31

School counseling professor Laura Barbour and University of Montana professor Emily Sallee co-presented a roundtable discussion entitled: “Igniting Doctoral Dreams in Practicing School Counselors.”

Posted October 31

Professional mental health counseling, addictions professor Justin Henderson presented a 3 hour training at the Northwest Institute of Addictions Studies conference entitled “Self-care is not the (only) solution to burnout.

Posted October 31

Professional Mental Health Counseling, Addictions Professor Justin Henderson was involved in a number of projects and presentations over the summer of 2022.

  • He presented a training for Reach for Resilience North Dakota in association with the North Dakota Department of Human Services, Behavioral Health Division and the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services of America entitled “Culture Change: Fostering a Resilient Workplace.”
  • He contributed to the publication ‘Plan to Extinguish Organizational Burnout’ produced by McLean & Company, an organization dedicated to training leadership and human resources professionals.
  • He provided a training for HR100, a Colorado coalition of human resources professionals entitled ‘Tending to the Fire–Collaborative Approaches to Burnout and Workplace Wellbeing.
  • He was invited on the Career Contessa Podcast: A weekly advice podcast focused on women, work, and all the answers to your career questions so you can be more fulfilled, healthy, and successful at work. The episode centered on Henderson’s article ‘Self-Care is Not the Solution to Burnout.’
  • He provided a professional training for the Northwest Institute of Addiction Studies Conference entitled ‘Self Care is Not the Only Solution to Burnout.’
Posted August 29

Professional Mental Health Counseling Professor Cort Dorn-Medeiros, along with Oregon State University Professor Arien Muzacz, received a $19,000 grant from the Oregon Council on Problem Gambling to look at the intersection of LGBTQ+ persons and problem gambling using data from Problem Gambling Services at the Lewis & Clark Community Counseling Center.

Posted August 29

Teacher Education Professor Liza Finkel and Biology Professor Greta Binford have secured funding from the National Science Foundation to expand work on Binford’s NSF-funded project, “Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Building Capacity in Data Science through Biodiversity, Conservation, and General Education.” The new funding will provide professional development in conservation-centered data science pedagogy for 6th-12th grade STEM teachers in Portland, and Lewis & Clark College of Arts and Sciences undergraduates interested in STEM teaching careers. Participating teachers and CAS students will attend a weeklong data science and curriculum development workshop in summer ’23, teach their curriculum in middle or high school classrooms during the 2023-24 school year, and then reconvene in a summer ’24 workshop to share experiences, revise and update curriculum, and publicly share the curricular materials.

Posted August 29

As part of Love is King’s Operation ROAM, Education in Leadership Professor Lisa Collins visited the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to hear from the indigenous Gwichʼin tribe regarding the ongoing battle to protect their lands from oil drilling.

Posted August 29

Dean of Equity and Inclusion Danielle Torres and Teacher Education Professor Alejandra Favela co-wrote an article published in the Northwest Journal of Teacher Education: Surveying the landscape of post-secondary options and support for undocumented students in the Pacific Northwest: A view from one state’s school counselors.

Posted August 29

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe served on the various committees for the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board. Professor Hernadez-Wolfe recently served on both the Rule advisory committee and the Training subcommittee. She is also continuing her service in the Equity subcommittee.

Posted April 12

School counseling professor Heather Hadraba was invited to become a board member for the non-profit organization– “Ok You”. 

Posted April 12

Art therapy professor Mary Andrus co-facilitated an Open Studio Session with Lutheran Social Services and Art Therapy Students for the Portland Ukrainian community.

Posted April 12

Educational leadership professor Lisa Collins presented a TED talk focused on racial healing entitled, “Healing from racial trauma”. 

Posted April 12

Professional mental health counseling professor Cort Dorn-Medeiros and counseling psychology professor Stella Kerl-McClain co-presented at the Association for Women in Psychology’s annual conference that took place in Chicago, IL. Their session was entitled, “Size diversity, HEAS, “BodyPositivity” and fat liberation: Educating counselors to avoid harm”.

Posted April 12

School psychology professor Peter Mortola, along with colleagues and co-writer Howard Hilton, has led a 7-hour Zoom workshop for counseling professionals at LifeStance Health. Their workshop is entitled “Promoting healthy masculinities”. 

Posted April 12

Oregon Writing Project director Kim Stafford to co-edit “The Art of Revising Poetry: 20 U.S. Poets on Their Drafts, Craft, and Process” on the Bloomsbury Press

Posted March 15

Educational leadership professor Brenda Sifuentez and University of North Carolina at Greensboro teacher education professor Delma Ramos recently published Historically Underrepresented Students Redefining College Success in Higher Education in the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success

Posted March 14

Education professors Lina Darwich and Alisun Thompson deliver a workshop focused on integrating social emotional learning and children’s literature with a focus on equity and representation at the Association of Teacher Educators annual meeting.

Posted March 14

Educational leadership professor Lisa Collins presented in the session “Exploring the Intersection of Race, Equity and Mental Health” at the Equity Summit Rising Together conference. 

Posted March 14

Professional mental health counseling - specialization in addictions professor Cort Dorn-Medeiros published a new blog post: Teens, Screens, and COVID-19(s): A Parent’s Quick Guide to Screen Sanity.

Posted February 8

Education professor Carissa J. Zall presented “The Challenge of a Diverse Civic Community: Building Consensus (How to engage students in complex conversations)” at the Oregon Civics Conference.

Posted February 8

School counseling professor Laura Barbour co-authored an article with Emily Sallee and Nikki Correa in the Journal of School Counseling. The article is titled: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI): What school counselors need to know to support their students.

Posted February 8

Education professor Lina Darwich co-facilitated, along with other Lebanese teacher educators living in the US, a workshop: A Safe Return to School: How SEL Can Support Teachers and Students. The audience was Lebanese principals and teachers in schools who have been impacted by the Beirut blast in August 2020.

Posted January 21

Art therapy professor Mary Andrus was an invited presenter at Lesley University in Boston MA to speak about Art Therapy trauma treatment and her research on moving stories and art from private to public spaces for healing and social change.

Posted January 21

Student affairs administration professor Brenda Sifuentez and professor Ryan Gildersleeve, University of Denver, presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education annual conference a paper entitled ​​The Ontological Turn in Higher Education: Implications for Justice and Equity.

Posted January 21

School counseling professors Heather Hadraba and Laura Barbour presented at the Oregon School Counselor Association conference. Topic: Assessment in K-12 schools: Current practices and considerations for transformation.

Posted January 21

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Joslyn Armstrong presented with Isaias Sanchez, a second-year year MCFT student, at the 2021 national Systemic Family Therapy conference. Their presentation session was entitled “To the little boy inside: Working with Latino and Black men in therapy.”

Posted January 21

On December 10th and 11th on Zoom, school psychology professor Peter Mortola ran a seven-hour workshop entitled “group counseling with children and adolescents” for the Gestalt Play Therapy Organization in Sofia, Bulgaria. Also, on December 13th on Zoom, he led a three-hour workshop on emotional regulation for the teachers at La Petit Fleur Les Ecoles in Sri Lanka.

Posted January 21

Art therapy professor Mary Andrus was an invited virtual presenter in Taiwan at the University of Taipei to a group of art therapy students where she discussed response art in art therapy practice.

Posted January 21

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe launched the “Psilocybin assisted psychotherapy and integration series” through the Graduate School’s Center for Community Engagement. This training introduces mental health professionals to working with psilocybin from indigenous and western perspectives.

Posted October 26

Art therapy professor Mary Andrus presented twice in October on the work of Art for Social Change. The first was a local co-presention with co-chair Lawrence Siulagi at the Lewis & Clark Community coffee hour and the second was a panel presentation for the American Art Therapy Association entitled Creative Change Agent: Therapist as Entrepreneur.

Posted October 26

Marriage, couple, and family therapy professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolf published the following articles throughout summer 2021:

  • Hernandez-Wolfe, P. (In Press). Nepantla moments in therapy: A Clinical Example with Latinx immigrants. Women and Therapy.
  • Bryant, T., Shapiro, E., Vazquez, C., De Barros, I., Hernandez-Wolfe, P., Comas-Diaz, L. &
  • Nicolas, M.G. (2021, August). Towards Grounding Transnational Feminism in Borderland Spaces. Symposium: Transnational feminism. American Psychological Association. Online annual conference.
  • Hernandez-Wolfe, P. (2021, May). Abordajes sistémicos. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia.
  • Hernandez-Wolfe, P. (2021, May). What do colonization and decolonization have to do with sexual violence? An exploration into liberation-based healing. Lecture series for the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs.
Posted September 29

School psychology professor Jennifer Twyford co-authored a paper in the Journal of Community Psychology titled, “Providing a safer passage: Perceptions about a neighborhood intervention program for disadvantaged youth.”

Posted September 29

Art Therapy professor and program director Mary Andrus was appointed by the Mayor of Oregon City to serve a 1 year term on the Arts Commission with the goal of supporting community beatification, contributing to place making and supporting livability through the proliferation of public art throughout Oregon City.

Posted September 29