Counselor Education alumni newsletter 2015

COUNSELOR Education

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Counselor Education Advisory Board

Thank you! to the members of our advisory board for all you do to support the program: Erin Berry (Chairperson) (Ph.D. ‘06) Marcus Carter (M.Ed. ‘04) John Connors (B.S. ‘74, M.Ed. ‘78) Amie Manis (Ph.D. ‘08) Bob Pate, Faculty Emeritus (M.Ed. ‘65) Miranda Rosenfield (Second Year Student Representative) Victoria (Tori) Saponara (First Year Student Representative) Sue Sheffield

2015 Curry Foundation Award Recipients in Counselor Education Aaron Blount, Nathan E. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Diana Chiu, Curry Trustees Fellowship in Counselor Education John Kronstain, Paul B. Walter M.Ed. Student Award Lillian McVey, William Van Hoose Memorial Award Alexandre Smith, Miriam and Edward D. Knight Scholarship

COUNSELOR EDUCATION is edited by Lynn Bell, Director of Alumni Relations, and published by the Curry School of Education, P.O. Box 400268, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Email: lynnbell@virginia.edu #UVACurry

(Most of) The Counselor Education Class of 2016

Our Amazing Students B Y A M A N D A F LO R A , C L I N I C A L A S S I S TA N T P R O F E S S O R ( P H . D. ‘0 8 )

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n case you haven’t heard, this year’s graduating class is one of the largest in recent years. We have 31 interns from more universities and geographic regions than we have seen before. This class represents 11 states and China.

In addition, we have been able to place students in more schools and districts during internship, which allowed our program to further engage in the surrounding community. Here is what some of our student leaders have to say about their internship and the program: Jennifer Aguilar, a VCU graduate who hails from Richmond, Va., is the current president of the Counselor Education Student Organization. When asked about her experience at Louisa County High School, she stated, “Internship so far has been a roller coaster ride of an experience. I never know what each day will hold—there are so many unpredictable emotional ups and downs, but the coolest part is that by the end of the day, I can’t wait to do it all over again, because I know I am positively impacting the lives of these students. Internship has been one of the best experiences of my life!”

Rachel Desmond, current Chi Sigma Iota – Rho Beta Chapter President, attended Auburn University and grew up in Florida. She is gaining a feel for Virginia and the local community at her current internship site at Albemarle High School. Rachel has enjoyed her time in Virginia and the program, sharing, “This program has helped me grow towards the counselor I want to be in so many ways. Most importantly, I have been pushed to explore myself, to challenge my world views, and to try and see life through a different lens than my own. I’ve been given the great opportunity to work with and learn from some of the most passionate and hardworking professors, school counselors, and future school counselors.”

To learn more about this wonderful group of individuals, visit the “Counselor Education Current Students” on the Curry website (curry.virginia.edu)

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Class Notes Submit your class note at curry.virginia.edu/classnotes/submit David Black (M.Ed. ’67) is retired from teaching

and also the pulpit. “Now I spend my time officiating weddings and writing. I have two books of poetry out, a third coming, and a collection of essays/spiritual musings on the way.”

Susie Bruce (M.Ed. ’91) is the director of U.Va.’s Gordie Center for Alcohol & Substance Abuse Prevention. She was featured in the fall 2015 UVA Magazine article called “How to Save a Life.”

Suzanne Burch (M.Ed. ’79) has had a wonderful career in the Charlottesville area, working with visually impaired adults. She still has her own business, Vision Solutions, LLC Marcus Carter (M.Ed. ’04) has been a school counselor for Fluvanna Co. Public Schools in Virginia since 1999. “I am also a varsity football coach, athletic director at our middle school, and school testing coordinator. I have been married for 19 years, and we have a son who is 13. Through the ups and downs, I love my school system.”

Jeff Doyle (M.Ed. ’94, Ph.D. ’01) presented most recently at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Conference (2015) on “Integrating Millennials in to the Newsroom.”

Kevin Doyle (Ed.D. ’99) continues on the counselor education faculty at Longwood University in Farmville and serves as chairman of the Board of Counseling in Virginia.

Penny Bach Evins (M.Ed. ‘96) is head of St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore. Previously, she was an administrator at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, the Lovett School in Atlanta and the Webb School of Knoxville. She is proud that many of her students have gone on to attend the University.

Jazlynn Finney (M.Ed. ’15) is a a sixth-grade counselor at Mercer Middle School in Loudoun County, Va. Martha T. Foster (M.Ed. ’81) was named the inaugural director of the month by Arlington County Childcare Services in Virginia. Martha is the founding director of Resurrection Lutheran Weekday Preschool...

Michael Guthrie (B.S. ’75, M.Ed. ’76) received the first-place award for best documentary or public affairs program from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters for “Conversation on Aging,” a segment that aired on his weekly Real Estate Matters radio show on 1070-WINA...

Seth Hayden (Ph.D. ’11) is an assistant professor of counseling at Wake Forest University. “I have been focusing my work on the career and personal counseling

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of military service members and their families, the connection between career and mental health concerns, and the process of counseling supervision. I strongly value the balance between academic and clinical work my role offers and being able to contribute in some small way to the body of knowledge related to the practice of counseling. I am tremendously grateful for all that my experience at UVA has done to prepare me for my professional work.”

Adele Horwitz (M.Ed. ’08) is in her fifth year as the school counselor at the British International School of Boston, a small independent school serving students 18 months to 18 years. She enjoys living in Boston with her husband, 2-year-old son Jamie, and too many pets.

Adele welcomes questions from Counselor Ed students on working in the Independent Schools sector.

resources for General Electric Co. ...She is responsible for managing the HR needs of GE’s global workforce of 310,000 people. ...She champions GE’s corporate learning programs executed at its facility in Crotonville, N.Y. ...

Brian Plautz (M.Ed. ’98) was selected Counselor of the Month for the state of Colorado in November 2014, upon being nominated by a teacher and his students...

received the National Education Finance Conference Distinguished Research and Practice Fellow Award.

He is a professor and chairman of the leadership, counselor education, and human and organizational development department in Clemson University’s Eugene T. Moore School of Education...

Ryann McKinley Laden (M.Ed. ’01) and her husband, Kevin, welcomed a daughter, Jane Violet, on April 3, 2014. Jane joins big sister Ruby Colleen, 6, and big brother Sam Michael, 3.

Julia Lapan (M.Ed. 02) is working as director for the Center for Engineering Career Development at UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

“My husband Sam and I welcomed a baby girl back in June, and we are enjoying being new parents. I hope to connect with my fellow Curry classmates who have remained in the Cville area, as well as any who have moved away and would like to come visit!”

Amie Manis (Ph.D. ’08) was selected as a recipient of the 2015 Harold Abel Distinguished Faculty Award at Capella University. She was named among 15 outstanding faculty members across the university and was nominated by her dean...

Matthew Paylo (Ph.D. ’07) co-authored Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Case Conceptualization and Treatment (Pearson, 2014).

Lance Percy (Ed.D. ’78) teaches at Valencia College in Orlando, Fla. “The little time spent in semi-retirement did not suit me as I have always been a teacher, so decided to work as a professor at Valencia teaching a course for all new incoming freshmen...”

Susan Peters (M.Ed. ’78) heads global human

Judith Randolph (Randy) Sights (Baskerville) (M.Ed. ’79, Ph.D. ’82) worked

Robert C. Knoeppel (M.Ed. ’92; Ph.D. ’01)

Joseph Quintano (M.Ed. ’64, Ed.D. ’74)

recently retired from private practice as a clinical psychologist in Washington, D.C. ...I think I was the first counseling clinical psychologist the Counselor Education Department produced...”

Janna Scarborough (Ph.D. ’02) is the chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services at East Tennessee State University...

for 25 years in a local private clinical practice with a group of clinicians of varied disciplines. “For that entire period, I specialized in treating those with eating disorders. Upon retirement in 2002, I returned to school at Piedmont Virginia Community College to take art classes. Since then, I have joyfully painted landscapes and still lifes in my home studio...”

Laura Wheat (Ph.D. ’11) is an assistant professor in the Counselor Education program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She directs the Grief Outreach Initiative, sending UTK graduate and undergraduate students into Knox County Schools to provide mentorship and support to grieving K-12 students.

Richard Yates (M.Ed. ’75) retired after 34 years as a counselor at Colonial Heights High School in Virginia. He was elected to the Colonial Heights School Board in 2010 and currently serves as its chairman.

John Zweig (Ed.D. ’75) taught at Salisbury State College (now Salisbury University) from 1975 to 1986 as associate professor of psychology. He began full time solo private practice in 1982. “My wife Robyn is office manager and receptionist. We have four children and five grandchildren. I have fond memories of the Curry School, especially faculty and fellow grad students.”

Read more. Many class notes were abbreviated due to space limitations. You can read the full versions, including photos and fond memories, at curry.virginia.edu/couns-ed-newsletter

Dr. Self-Esteem

Thank You!

Josephine Kim (Ph.D. ‘05) B Y LY N N B E L L

“...ALL OF IT HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE EDUCATION I RECEIVED AT CURRY.”

which educates Asian Americans on issues of spirituality, cultural and racial identity, intergenerational conflicts, crosscultural advocacy, mental health, and career development issues.

Her studies at the Curry School prepared her well for each of her roles, she says. “I can’t imagine not doing all of these things concurrently, and all of it has been made possible because of the education I received at Curry.”

Kim was attracted to the Curry School when she was looking for a graduate school because of its onsite counseling center, the opportunity to teach, research, and publish with professors renowned in their field, and the formal education she would receive in counselor supervision.

“I was published for the first time as a student at Curry,” she says. “I was introduced to professional organizations like ACA for the first time and was able to co-present with colleagues and professors at national conferences multiple times. I was able to study something I cared so deeply about, and through academic projects, I was able to identify ways of bringing my learning back to my own community to make a difference in people’s lives in a very tangible way.”

Kim also served as the clinical director of the Personal and Career Development Center while she was here.

“I remember being so proud of the services we were providing the university community, as well as the broader Charlottesville community,” she says.

Kim’s advice to recent graduates of the counselor education program is to never forget the reason for choosing the counseling profession.

“In a career where burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma is a frequent reality, you must stay grounded in why you began this crusade in the first place.”

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n Massachusetts, where she is a licensed mental health counselor and a lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this alumna is known as Josephine Kim. In Korea, however, she is Dr. Self-Esteem.

In 2008 Kim was the first scholar to introduce the concept of children’s self-esteem in her native country. Since then, she has written two best-selling Korean language books on self-esteem that address the topic from the perspective of the Korean culture: a handbook for parents entitled “The Secret of Children’s Self-Esteem,” and a handbook for teachers entitled “Self-Esteem in the Classroom.”

Kim spends 15-18 weeks out of the year in Asia, working with ministries of education, institutes of higher education, overseas international schools, and global NGOs providing consultations and keynote speeches.

Her reputation is no less widespread in the U.S., however, where she has lived since immigrating with her family when she was 8. In addition to teaching core counseling courses at Harvard on group dynamics and diversity and cross-cultural issues, she is a resident fellow in the Administrative Fellowship Program through the Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity.

Kim is a national certified counselor and is USA Today’s collegiate case study expert on school violence. She was deployed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the federal government to work with Hurricane Katrina victims during the summer of 2006.

She is also founding executive director of a non-profit called Mustard Seed Generation,

Read more about Josephine in an expanded story at curry.virginia.edu/couns-ed-newsletter

The Curry School Foundation recognizes the generosity of the following alumni from the Counselor Education program who have made donations so far in calendar year 2015: Elizabeth Becker

Lawrence Keene

Cynthia Bedell

Lena Kite

Alta Bibb

Barbara Lacy

Susan Blalock-

Sherry Lambert

Pearman

Dorothy Litten

Anne Brashear

W. Kase Luzar

Dale Brittle

Cynthia Martin

Nora Brookfield

Elizabeth McLeod

Stephen Butters

Meredith Moore

Elmer Carter

Sue Mullins

Craig Colvin

Monica Nixon

John Connors

Marjorie Page

Harriet Dawson

Roseann Parks

Deborah Deichman

Timothy Roberts

Carol Disque

Kenneth Rothman

Penny Bach Evins

Elaine Rudick

Ellis Gedney

James Schermerhorn

Joseph Gieck

Inge Seiler

Heather Gill

Donna Shank

Richard Glover

Donald Stanton

Katherine Hagan

Alice Strang

Suzanne Harkness

Jacqueline Sullivan-

Kathleen Harrison

Smoot

Richard Harwood

Thomas Tiller

Jeanne Hineline

Francis Turnage

Dennis Howard

Mary Weybright

Countess Hughes

Your gifts directly benefit Curry students and the quality of their educational experiences.

Congratulations!

Christine Quilpa, a second-year student in the master’s program, received the 2015 ACA Roland and Dorothy Ross Trust Graduate Student Essay Competition for Future School Counselors. She received a $1,000 grant, complimentary registration to the ACA 2016 Conference & Expo, a $250 ACA eGift certificate, and publication of her essay in Counseling Today.

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Counselor Ed Program News B Y D E R I C K W I L L I A M S , P R O G R A M A R E A D I R E C TO R

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he Counselor Education program, School Counseling Specialty, is continuing to solidify itself as one of the premiere counseling training programs in the country.

Our program faculty members have refined the program’s curricular offerings, and we have increased the average enrollment of students.

In addition, faculty are focused on increasing the platform of the program in order to meet the needs of the PK-12 schools, including but not limited to those needs related to students, their families, and their surrounding communities.

Currently, students are required to take a minimum of 58-credit hours over a two-year program of study. The credit hour increase resulted more from counting the credits the students are taking and faculty are teaching, than from adding courses to the previously listed course of study.

Ten credit hours were added across the practical aspects of student training, specifically, the essential skills counseling lab, practicum, and internship.

Credit hours are not the only increases that have occurred in the program over the past few years. The program seeks to admit 18 to 26 students each year, representing an increase

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from our previous average goal of 12 students each year.

We now have a total of 52 students over two cohort groups enrolled in the program.

This increased enrollment in the school counseling specialty allows us to continue to provide students with a high quality learning experience in both our coursework and practicum placement settings.

Additionally, faculty are engaged in increasing the platform of the program. Much of the efforts for training have been focused on our own master’s students. We have also provided professional development opportunities for area school counselors through several efforts, including our yearly School Counseling Summit.

We have been brainstorming ideas for adding more formal training opportunities for preservice counselors, practicing counselors, and those seeking educational opportunities beyond the master’s degree level. Ideas have progressed around postmaster’s certificate programs, education specialist degree offerings, and a doctoral program in counseling and counselor education.

With these changes, we will continue to Inspire, Create, and Transform.

Faculty Highlights

Paul Harris is VSCA President-Elect 20152016. He received a 2015 NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant to study using mobile technology to promote healthy student-athlete identity development.

Blaire Cholewa serves on the editorial board of the journal Professional School Counseling.

Amanda Flora was elected president of the Virginia Career Development Association for 2015-2016 and was selected to participate in the National Career Development Association’s Leadership Academy in 2016.

Antoinette Thomas serves on the board of Meliora, a UVA student-run mentoring organization. She is also the Curry School’s Diversity Action Committee Chair , and she received an IMP Society Grant Award.

Derick Williams presented at the Virginia Counselors Association on “White Southerners Remember When Segregation Seemed Normal (to Them)” with Andy Anderson (adjunct faculty).