Title: Grant Writing and Proposal Development: Best Practices for Obtaining External Funding

Presenters: Megan Delaney, PhD, Leslie Kooyman, PhD, and Brian Kooyman, EdS

Description: Securing external funding to support programs or research is crucial to success and sustainability, yet grants are becoming increasingly competitive. This interactive session will highlight current research and provide strategies for identifying a community or research need, finding funding sources, and writing a successful grant proposal. To demystify the process, information will be presented in a practical, step-by-step manner. This session gives you the tools for producing a successful grant proposal.

Title: It’s Time for Counselors to Modify Our Language: It Matters When We Call Our Clients Schizophrenics Versus People With Schizophrenia

Authors: Darcy Haag Granello, PhD and Sean R. Gorby, PhD

Description: This article highlights how language used by professional counselors and trainees requires self-awareness. The potential adverse effects of labels that equate people with a psychiatric diagnoses may foster heightened levels of stigma, including internalized stigma. This study provides the first empirical evidence for practitioners to eliminate the term “schizophrenic” from clinical practice and educational programs.

Title: Like It or Not, Online Education Is Here to Stay: Best Practices for Online Teaching

Presenters: Suzan Z. Wasik, PhD; Chadwick Royal, PhD; Jennifer Barrow, PhD; and Racheal Brooks, PhD

Description: Online education is here to stay, whether you like it or not. With increasing numbers of counselor education programs and courses adopting an online model, counselor educators have an opportunity to cross the online divide by being proactive and committed to excellence as early adopters in this frontier of educational delivery. Join this honest and informative conversation on the issues and best practices for delivering outstanding online counselor education, led by professors from an accredited online program.

Title: More than a Feeling: Constructing Emotion in Theory and Practice

Authors: Joel Givens, PhD and Brett D. Wilkinson, PhD

Description: More than a feeling: Constructing emotion in theory and practice (Givens & Wilkinson, 2022) provides counselors with alternative epistemology and different language and innovative practices in response to recent research supporting the perspective that emotions are co-constructed rather than discovered. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to describe the philosophical and epistemological implications of the theory of constructed emotion, discuss emotion in the context of predictive processing and interoception, and identify implications for practice, counseling theory, and areas for future research.

Title: Prolonged Grief and Existential Counseling

Description: Counselors need to understand prolonged grief through a phenomenological, holistic, and relational lens so they can develop a blueprint for understanding and effectively treating it (Ivers et al., 2024). The authors of this professional development explore how existential perspectives and principles provide a clinically useful explanation for the presence and etiology of many of the symptoms of prolonged grief. Counselors who register for this continuing education will learn about the historical and contemporary conceptualizations of and treatment for prolong grief. They will also understand prolong grief from a phenomenological, holistic and relational lens and apply existential conceptualizations of prolonged grief to formulate integrated, flexible, and culturally responsive treatment plans.

Title: Responding to Crisis: Police and Counselors Collaboration

Presenters: Aprille Woodson, PhD, JD, LAPC, NCC and Major Donnie James

Description: Some encounters between people with mental illness in crisis and the police can turn fatal for either or both parties. Collaboration between counselors and police is vital to successful resolution of such crisis interventions. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to know what crisis intervention is and how it differs from de-escalation, understand the training, skills, and roles of police officers in responding to crisis interventions, and explain the roles of counselors in crisis intervention training and the collaborative partnership with law enforcement.

Title: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Presenter: Todd F. Lewis, PhD

Description: In this webinar, Todd F. Lewis, PH.D., LPC, NCC, discuss schizophrenia spectrum disorders and disorders that “look like” schizophrenia but do not fully meeting the criteria as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. He provides an overview of symptoms and key features, and discusses how to distinguish schizophrenia from other disorders on the spectrum. Dr. Lewis is an associate professor of Counseling and Counselor Education at North Dakota State University. This is the fifth webinar in a series of seven about the DSM-5.

Title: The SLO Movement, The Bigger Picture of Program Evaluation, and Identifying Objectives and Mapping Curricula and Processes of Program Evaluation, and Identifying Objectives and Mapping Curricula and Processes

Authors: Casey A. Barrio Minton, PhD; Donna M. Gibson, PhD; and Carrie A. Wachter Morris, PhD

Description: Provided is a brief review of accountability and SLO assessment movements in higher education, a general program evaluation model, illustrate ways in which these processes link with the types of data you will utilize in program evaluation, and identify resources for learning more about the big-picture program evaluation process, explore what we mean by SLOs and discuss the process of creating SLOs to guide program and course assessment processes. Attention to curriculum mapping as a means for ensuring that curricula includes the types of experiences students need to develop SLOs, and procedures and tools for crafting broad-based, curriculum-linked, SLO-focused assessment plans.

Title: Using the DSM-5 in Clinical Practice

Presenters: Stephanie F. Dailey, EdD and John P. Duggan, EdD

Description: In this webinar, Dr. Dailey reviews updates to the DSM-5 and how the ICD-9 and ICD-10 are represented in the new book. Participants will learn the history behind the updates, and then see examples of the new codes and learn how to accurately choose the correct codes for clients.