Title: Counseling Leaders and Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession

Title: Counselor and Client Advocacy: 10 Practical Tips for Busy Counselors

Presenters: Victoria Kress, PhD; Matthew C. Fullen, PhD; and Jolie A. Long, EdS

Description: In order for the counseling profession to grow and thrive, we must advocate for ourselves and our clients in legislative arenas. In this program, attendees will learn about the importance of engaging in legislative advocacy. Foundational information about legislative processes and strategies will be provided. Ten practical tips that counselors can apply to enhance their legislative advocacy efforts will be shared.

Title: ACA Leadership Academy

Description: Part 1: In this session, viewers will learn the accounting basics for running an association. Topics covered include nonprofit accountings basics, rules and regulations that must be considered when operating a tax exempt organization, as well as how to create an annual budget. The sessions will also provide information on the accounting and membership services the American Counseling Association provides to it divisions.

Part 2: This session provides an overview of how ACA has pivoted its advocacy strategy in 2020 due to the public health pandemic, and provides a roadmap of how regions, branches, and divisions can organize virtual advocacy events to continue effectively lobbying on behalf of the counseling profession.

Part 3: This Q&A session, led by members of the ACA Publications team, is designed to promote research and to provide insight on how to publish a book or journal article with ACA. Guidelines, insights, and practical tips on publishing will be offered to clarify the submission and publication process.

Part 4: Are your students career ready? It is imperative college students engage in conversations about their career development within their academic experience. This presentation will highlight career-related resources that can assist you in inspiring, preparing, and empowering your students.

Part 5: There is a clear and distinct formula for success in social media. There's a playbook that you can use to leverage the power of this transformative platform for getting the proverbial word out. No matter who you are or where you're from, you can harness the power of social media to vastly grow or build your business, brand or professional profile.

Part 6: ACA Connect is a great tool for communication, sharing, networking and more. This training is a brief refresher on the platform and includes information on getting to ACA Connect and navigating once you’re in the system.

Title: DSM-5 Wrap Up

Presenter: Stephanie F. Dailey, EdD

Description: This final webinar in a series of seven presents a wrap up of key points covered in the previous sessions. Stephanie F. Dailey, Ed.D., LPC, NCC, ACS, who covered gender dysphoria in a previous webinar, provides a summary of the major changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition. Implications for counselors using the DSM-5 and trends for the profession regarding diagnostic nosology are highlighted. Dr. Dailey is an assistant professor of counseling at Argosy University and a co-author of the American Counseling Association bestseller DSM-5 Learning Companion for Counselors. This is the final webinar in a series of seven about the DSM-5.

Title: Establishing Personal and Professional Boundaries

Authors: Gerald Corey, EdD; Michelle Muratori, PhD; Jude T. Austin, II, PhD; and Julius A. Austin, PhD

Description: In this chapter we focus on our successful and unsuccessful experiences setting boundaries at home and at work.

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.