Counselor Education Alumni Newsletter 2016

COUNSELOR Education

FALL 2015

A Tribute The Counselor Education faculty and staff join with the University community to honor and remember Dr. Bill Anderson, a long-time supporter and friend to our program, who passed away on August 29, 2016, at the age of 68.

Dr. Anderson, a former Curry faculty member, was a mental health advocate and received numerous accolades on and off Grounds for his work in psychology. Many members of the Counselor Education faculty and students have fond memories of Dr. Anderson’s service, love of peace, and vibrant personality.

Dr. Bob Pate remembers him fondly: “Bill’s life was a powerful demonstration of his belief in the concept of ‘unconditional positive regard.’ I am but one of many who consider Bill to be a spiritual mentor and his life to be the perfect testimonial to his Christian faith.”

Dr. Anderson retired in 2014 from UVA’s Counseling and Psychological Services after 33 years with the University.

For more on the Dr. Anderson’s contributions, visit UVA Today’s online “In Memoriam” (Sept. 1, 2016).

COUNSELOR ED is edited by Lynn Bell, Director of Alumni Relations, and published by the Curry School of Education, P.O. Box 400268, Charlottesville, VA 22904.

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Last fall, the Class of 2016 organized the ninth annual counselor advocacy mini-conference held at Curry. All first-year students presented on topics related to the theme “It Takes A Village.”

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ver the last several years, the Counselor Education Program has developed partnerships with many of the area’s elementary and secondary school counseling departments. Many have hosted our practicum and internship students, we have hosted professional development programs for practicing school counselors, and Dr. Paul Harris has spearheaded a School Counseling Summit, designed to advance the knowledge of school counseling and create additional opportunities for counselors to network with each other.

Though these efforts have been beneficial for school systems, counselors, and our program faculty and students, we have longed to create partnerships with district-level school counseling leaders. We hope to discover the leadership qualities and competencies that our students should learn and to play a role in creating systemic change in area public schools. We now have the means to accomplish these goals, and our newest full-time program faculty member is capable of leading our charge in taking on this endeavor.

This year, Dr. Julia Taylor joined our faculty after completing her doctoral degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. We are thrilled to have someone with her extensive experience as a school counselor and who understands how to close the practice gap between school counseling models, research, and practicing professional school counselors.

Over the last several years, Julia has worked with school counseling leaders in the Richmond area, helping them establish a community of collaborators at the district and division level. Leaders have been able to share ideas and develop new systemic programs for meeting the needs of public school students across all grade levels. Their efforts have made an impact on several schools in the Richmond area. She helped to develop a cohort of school counselors who are all working together to implement Recognized ASCA Model Programs (RAMP), nationally recognized school counseling programs designed to evaluate existing school programs, and use the results to inform the creation of comprehensive school counseling programs that contribute to student success.

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We hope that Dr. Taylor in her expertise will be able to partner with division level school counseling leaders in our area to have a similar impact on our schools and communities. We believe that her work will enhance partnerships between the schools in this area and our program faculty and students. We are excited about her work and how it will help us to continue to Inspire, Create, and Transform school counselor development and public school counseling programs. Read more about Dr. Taylor in the story on this page.

Faculty Updates Blaire Cholewa coauthored a paper with Christina Burkhardt (M.Ed. ’15) regarding school counselors’ influence on underrepresented students’ post-secondary thinking that was published in Professional School Counseling.

Amanda Flora joined the board of directors for the Wilson Workforce Rehabilitation Center Foundation in Fishersville, Va. She is the current past president of Virginia Career Development Association.

Paul Harris was elected to a three-year term on the ASCA Board of Directors. He is currently serving a term as president of the Virginia School Counseling Association (2016-2017).

Julia Taylor will keynote at the Idaho School Counselor Association Annual Conference, the New Jersey School Counselor Association Annual Conference, and the South Dakota Counselor Association Annual Conference.

Antoinette Thomas is the faculty lead (with our Clinical and School Psychology students) for POWER (Promoting Our Worth Esteem and Respect), a program to provide young men of color with a safe space to discuss and process social injustices while also learning how to be advocates.

Derick Williams and his co-authors Seth Hayden, Angela Canto and Tyler Finklea received the Outstanding Scholar Award in the area of Concept/Theory for the article, “Shelter from the Storm: Addressing Vicarious Traumatization Through Clinical Supervision," published in The Professional Counselor.

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Student Research Over the summer, student Saron Fantahun went to St. Kitts for a research project. Funded by a UVA Jefferson Public Citizens grant, she and her research team headed to St. Kitts in July, where they conducted a mixed-methods study to understand teen perceptions of health.

They designed a workshop for 12- to 16year-old teens in St. Kitts to teach them about hypertension, diabetes, and obesity/healthy living, as well as how to be health advocates in their communities, specifically in the realm of these chronic diseases.

“Our project definitely included some challenges, but overall, it was an amazing experience to be on the beautiful island of St. Kitts,” Fantahun said.

Kathleen Brophy (M.Ed. ‘16) welcomes students to her office with pictures of her time at UVA (below). Kathleen is working as a middle school counselor at Nansha College Preparatory Academy in Guangzhou, China. Read more from Kathleen in the Class Notes.

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ong before entering the doctoral program at Virginia Commonwealth University, Julia Taylor was influencing youth, both as a school counselor and as an author of non-fiction books on topics like body image, bullying and aggression.

After earning a master of arts in counseling at Marymount University and spending a year as a school counselor in Loudoun County, Va., Taylor moved down to Cary, N.C. There, she worked as a counselor in Wake County Public Schools for six years before becoming the dean of student services at Wake Young Women’s Leadership Academy in 2011.

She published her first book, Salvaging Sisterhood, in 2005, followed by Girls in Real Life Situations: Group Counseling Activities for Enhancing Social and Emotional Development, Perfectly You, The Bullying Workbook for Teens, and The Body Image Workbook for Teens.

After completing her doctoral work, the position on the Curry School faculty appealed to her because of its sole focus on school counseling and the camaraderie of the faculty.

“I want to be able to collaborate with my colleagues,” she says.

Taylor will be teaching the internship course this semester, as well as developing supportive relationships with local school divisions.

Alumni Spotlight

Seth Hayden (Ph.D. ‘11)

The Curry School Foundation recognizes the generosity of the following alumni from the Counselor Education program who made donations in fiscal year 2016, which ended June 30:

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eth Hayden’s early career success is only the most recent example of the quality of graduates coming out of Curry’s Counselor Education program.

Since completing his doctoral work, the Military and Government Counseling Association has presented him with both the 2012 Professional of the Year Award and the 2013 Award of Excellence. MGCA is a division of the American Counseling Association that supports professional counselors and educators working at all levels of government. He also served a term as the organization’s president in 2014-15.

The National Career Development Association recognized Seth and a team of coauthors with the 2014 Outstanding Career Development Quarterly Article of the Year for their article titled “Annual review: A Content analysis of Career Development Theory, Research, and Practice-2013.”

Most recently, The Professional Counselor presented Hayden and colleagues Derick Williams, Angela Canto and Tyler Finklea with the 2015 Outstanding Scholar Award in the area Concept/Theory for their paper “Shelter from the Storm: Addressing Vicarious Traumatization Through Clinical Supervision."

Hayden came to the Curry School for his doctoral work already interested in mitigating the toll of war on soldiers and their families, and much of his scholarly work since has focused on veterans. While he was here, he counseled active duty military service members and veterans with traumatic brain injuries, raised awareness within Curry’s outreach clinics about the unique needs of veterans, and conducted research on Army services to families of deployed soldiers.

His dissertation research surveyed service providers connected with U.S. Army family service centers regarding whom they collaborate with, what strategies best facilitate cooperation, and what barriers they encounter.

His time here as a student and then as a post-doc managing our Personal and Career Development Center called his attention to another area of need, the connection between career development and mental health.

“During the most recent economic recession, I saw the impact on the wellbeing of both students entering the job market and

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community members struggling with securing long-term employment,” Hayden said. “The experience in the PCDC sparked this interest that has become a significant aspect of my scholarly work.”

Also while at the Curry School, Hayden benefitted from a collaborative environment, which is evidenced, he says, by the incredible diversity of counseling and research opportunities that were available to him. He realized, too, how important it is for research to inform counseling, which has been instrumental in his work. “It ensured that what I do has direct application to practice,” he said.

Hayden joined Wake Forest's Department of Counseling in 2014, after two years at Florida State University’s Career Center. He enjoys the opportunity to play a small part in shaping the development of future counselors.

“Having the opportunity to work with talented colleagues who are shaping the counseling profession has been very gratifying,” he said. “Including students as co-authors on several peer-reviewed journal articles and as co-presenters at conferences has been especially fulfilling,” he added. “Providing opportunities for students to be involved in counseling-related research is a foundational aspect of my work and will continue as I progress in my career.”

Hayden has continued to stay in contact with Curry counselor education faculty members, too, and has collaborated on a number of projects with them.

“The opportunity to have contact with high quality faculty members with a strong counselor education identity continues to influence me greatly as I progress in my career,” he said.

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CLASS NOTES Kathleen Brophy (M.Ed. ’16) is starting her first

year as an (international) school counselor in Nansha, Guangzhou, China. “I am working at a college prep school for Chinese students as a middle school counselor (grades 7 & 8). Thus far, the experience has been fantastic, as I could not have imagined a more excitingly different and challenging work environment. I learn something every day, whether it be from my peers or students. ... I am excited to implement what I learned from my amazing professors at UVA here in China.”

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

Harrison Gordon (M.Ed. ’84) “My wife and I moved to the Charlottesville area around Thanksgiving of 2014 after many years in the Lancaster, Penn., area. It is nice to be back in C’ville!”

Tracey Grimm (M.Ed. ’11) has lived and worked outside the United States since 2013. She served as the secondary school counselor at Colegio Internacional de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela, for two years. In 2015, she began a two year contract at Lincoln School in San Jose, Costa Rica, serving as a college counselor...

John Harms (M.Ed, ’71, Ed.S. ’77) has been retired since 1999. “I am now living at Patriots Colony, a Continuing Care Retirement Community for Military Officers. This after living 30 years in Hawaii.

Still counseling a few high school students who are grandchildren of residents, primarily using the online SVIB…” Dana Levitt (M.Ed. ’95, Ph.D. ’01) was promoted to professor in the Counseling and Educational

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She co-authored the forthcoming book, A Guide to Graduate Programs in Counseling, with Tyler Kimbel (Oxford University Press).

Casey Loftus (M.Ed. ’09) and her husband John and her son Jacob welcomed a daughter, Cora, this June. Casey is currently on a sabbatical from work but is employed by Fairfax County Public Schools.

Ann B. McCollum (M.Ed. ’93) after 20 years as an outdoor educator and educator in independent schools, started a consulting business focusing on risk management for off-campus and experiential education programs for schools and youth development programs like summer camps. “...In May I graduated from the University of New Mexico’s School of Law and am thrilled to have joined Matthews Fox, PC, a small firm in Santa Fe, N.M., with a focus on charter school and education law.”

Erin McDonald (M.Ed. ’06) is the Assistant Dean for Student Conduct at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. Erin oversees the student conduct staff, process, documentation and outreach for the campus.

She resides in Conway with her husband Jeremy and their son Henry.

Mary Meinhardt (M.Ed. ’16) “I am the proud, new school counselor at Wakelon Elementary School in Zebulon, North Carolina!”

Steve Parker (B.S. ’76; M.Ed. ’83) “Nothing exciting to report. Can say that my experiences, as both an undergrad and a graduate student in the Curry School, have been of immense lifelong benefit.”

Christine Marie Quilpa (M.Ed. ’16) says she is ecstatic for many great new beginnings! She is in

her first year as a school counselor at Beverley Manor Middle School in Augusta County and recently moved to Waynesboro, Va. In addition, she became engaged to Robbie Turner. A wedding is planned for spring 2017.

Peter Taylor (M.Ed. ’93) has been appointed president of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, which facilitates charitable giving in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. He previously led the Maine Community Foundation, overseeing grantmaking, scholarship and impact investing programs.

Rick Voit (M.Ed. ’77, Ph.D. ’80) after years in Massachusetts, has continued his practice in coastal Maine for the past 15 years. Formerly the education coordinator for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, he continues his writing with two projects nearing completion. Semi-retirement has involved fewer clinical hours, sharing more time with loved ones and two wonderful dogs, and the beautiful bounties Maine has to offer.

Winifred Wegmann (M.Ed. ’77) “After using my M.Ed. in Counseling in a variety of settings in higher education and law firm administration in Charlottesville, Washington, DC, New York City and Albuquerque, I moved back to Charlottesville in the mid-90s when my husband accepted a position at the University. ...Once our kids were out of college I decided to open my own shop — Pour la Maison, on Ivy Road not far from the University...”

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