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Conference AGENDA Friday, February 3, 2006
8 am - 9 am
Registration

9 am - 12 noon
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"How Racial Identity and Other Racial Constructs Explain the Test-Score Achievement Gap"

Dr. Janet Helms, Augustus Long Professor Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology at Boston College, Boston MA

12 noon - 1 pm
Lunch and Poster Sessions
(provided on site & included in registration fee)

Counseling Arab Americans
Heather N. Hart and Ann H. Moss, Augusta State University, Evans, GA

Exploring Light-Skinned African American Females’ Racial Identity: A Qualitative Study
Stacy S. Frazier, M.S., C.R.C.; Kathryn H. Ganske, and Dr. Y. Barry Chung, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Role Models and Identity
James L. Lee, M.Ed. and Tonette Robinson, M.A., University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Political Oppression
Jay Johnson and Brian Merrill, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH

The Effects of Radical and Oppressive Music Lyrics
Jennifer M. Sheard, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH

Religious Conflict
Tamika McKenzie, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH

Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence
Karia Kelch-Oliver, Georgia State University, Decatur, GA

Recovery is Real: The Identity of Recovering Addicts
Kim G. Durfee, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Race and Ethnicity in Career Counseling
Edward Delgado-Romero, Ph.D.; Eliza Wells, M.S.; Graham Hunter, MHS; Brian Padilla; Ednisha Knighten; John Jackson; Nasir McGee, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

College Students with LD
James J. Bergin, Ed.D., Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Filipino American Identity
Ma. Teresa G. Tuason, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Guidelines are Not Tailor-made: Implementation of the APA Multicultural Guidelines within Areas of Counseling Psychology
Andrea Berlick and Natalie Dautovich, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Counseling Asian Americans
Joy Farrer and Peggy Grant, Augusta State University, Martinez, GA

Between Sistahs
Damafing Thomas and Elaina Chance, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

Sexism: Why It Exists
Nancy Griffith, BA; Corrie Gee; and Brandon Sumner, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Post-Traumatic Salvage Disorder (PTSD) Among African American Survivors Following Hurricane Katrina
Gene A. Ramsey, Ed.D., Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL

Developing Cross-Cultural Curriculum for Bridging the “Digital Divide in Education”
Dr. Robert L. Perry, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

1 pm - 2:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Mediation Across Cultures as a Response to Conflicts in Higher Education
This presentation will serve to bridge the gap by examining if and how communication styles impact negotiation styles and the potential outcomes of negotiations on the success of the mediation process.
Marcia W. Jones, Ph.D., and Meta Y. Harris, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Socio-Race and the Development of Racial Identity
In this interactive session, participants will explore the meaning of their own socio-race as a precursor to the presenter’s overview of Janet Helm’s black and white racial identity models.
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, Ph.D., Lesley University, Newton, MA

On Schools and Becoming Black
This proposal addresses the ways in which Black racial identity development can influence interpersonal relations in educational settings.
Carolyn W. Rollins, Ph.D., Vivian McCollum, Ph.D., and Rhonda Bryant, Ph.D., Albany State University, Albany, GA

White Like Me: Activities for Promoting White Identity Development
This workshop will present experiential activities, assignments, media presentations, readings and in class exercises that can be used in multicultural and diversity education courses.
Dale Brotherton, Ph.D., and Phyllis Robertson, Ph.D., Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

Empowering Black Youth
In this participatory session, you will discover ways to elevate ”talk” to action on behalf of African American students, especially boys, in your school and community.
Deryl F. Bailey, Ph.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Cultural Diversity and the Governance of Public Schools: Key Laws and Legal Decisions Affecting Identity Development in Contemporary America
This interactive workshop facilitates participant understanding and appreciation of six complex emerging heterogeneous systems with a specific focus on the governance heterogeneous system, most commonly referred to as “School Law.”
Walter S. Polka, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA and P. Rudy Mattai, Ph.D., State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

The Educating Spoken Word: The Classroom Use of Poetry and Hip Hop
This interactive workshop will feature handouts of culturally astute poems and hip hop lyrics, listening to select pieces, group discussion of the thematic content, and devising ways to use such works in an educational context.
Melvin T. Peters, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

Estamos Aqui y Somos Padres: Serving the Growing Latino Population of Parents through Effective Counseling and Education Programs
This workshop will include an overview of Latinos and parenting styles. Specifically, we will be examining counseling models, values, acculturation, ethnic identity, and religion. Participants will suggest important components of general parenting information that should be included in a parenting program.
Brittany M. Edwards and Lisa Vaughn, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA

Indigenous Worldviews...
This presentation will introduce non-Eurocentric worldviews regarding healing.
Lynetta G. Willis and Priti Shah, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Implementing School Counseling Strategies to Empower At-Promise Students
This presentation will emphasize the importance of school counseling strategies as we have sought systemic change to increase the performance and success of all at-promise students.
Casie M. Ollendick, Shellie Caplinger, and Deryl Bailey,Ph.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Beverage Break

3 pm - 4:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Learning to be Racial
This presentation addresses the intertwine between “racism” and “privilege” and the way people of different cultures define them.
Linda F. Weiskoff, LCSW, BCD, Heartwork Counseling Center, Atlanta, GA

At the Intersection of Sexual Orientation and Religious/Spiritual Values: Perspectives in Therapy and Training
This workshop will be an opportunity for dialogue and deepening our understanding of the cultural complexities which arise at the intersection of sexual orientation and religion in therapy.
Mary A. Fukuyama, Ph.D., and Carlos A. Hernandez, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Learning From an Exchange of RICH Backgrounds
This workshop will focus on what can be learned and taught from the exchange of information recalled by two African-American girls.
Fred S. Washington, Jr., George S. Chenault, and Marianne Drew Chenault, Beaufort, SC

Black, Brown and White Allies in Multiculturalism
In this presentation three counselor educators will focus on the process of becoming allies in multiculturalism.
Edward Delgado-Romero, Ph.D., Deryl Bailey, Ph.D., and Pam Paisley, Ed.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Using Films in Multicultural and Diversity Sensitivity Training
This workshop uses films to explore privilege, identity, and cross-cultural diversity issues in diversity sensitivity training.
Mary Jane Anderson, Ph.D., and Melanie Harper, Ph.D., Augusta State University, Augusta, GA

Bumping Against Myself: Aesthetic Pedagogy for Awakening Privileged Identities
This workshop will showcase a promising teaching strategy – aesthetic journaling – that awakens unexpected insights and self-knowledge among privileged learners.
Mark A. Hicks, Ph.D., George Mason University, Washington, DC

Homophobia and Heterosexism
This presentation will discuss how homophobia and heterosexism exist in the United States today and how to have less of them as opposed to more.
Rev. Keith Kron, Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston, MA

Women, Political Trauma, and Empowerment
This workshop will address women’s identities after experiencing political trauma in a variety of cultures.
Amber Selman, Lisa Vaughn, Ph.D., and Dovile Budryte, Ph.D., Brenau University, Gainesville, GA

Multicultural Counseling
This workshop describes the presenter’s experience of redesigning a course, Multicultural Counseling and Psychology, to help students develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes for more effective work with a diverse client population.
Delores Walcott, Psy.D., Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Teaching Tolerance
This session will help facilitate an understanding of student differences, ie., race, culture, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religion, gender and how as educators we can learn to integrate strategies into lessons that will help deal with these differences.
Marty Simmons and Julie Spires, Glynn County Schools-Needwood Middle School, Brunswick, GA

4:30 pm - 6 pm
FEATURED SPEAKER
"Religious Issues Affecting Counseling: The Bible and Homosexuality"

Daniel Helminiak, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA

This workshop will review the requirements of professional codes of ethics regarding religious or spiritual issues in counseling and will present a model for ethical practice. The workshop will explain what spirituality is in relation and in contrast to religion, how the inherent requirements of spirituality square with the health concerns of counseling, and why, when, and to what extent spirituality is a legitimate topic of secular psychotherapy. The model is grounded in Bernard Lonergan’s analysis of human consciousness or spirit and supposedly applies across religions and cultures.
1.5 Ethics credits has been applied for

Conference AGENDA Saturday, February 4, 2006
8 am - 9 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9 am - 12 noon
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Let's talk About Katrina and its Aftermath "

William E. Cross Jr, Ph.D., Professor and head of the doctoral program in Social-Personality Psychology at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (GC-CUNY)

What does the response to Hurricane Katrina say about race, class, identity, and the ethical value of justice? What are the lessons learned, consequences, and challenges for educators and mental health professionals? This interactive presentation will explore these questions and other issues of race and class as they relate to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

12 noon - 1 pm
Box Lunch

1 pm - 4 pm
FEATURED SPEAKER
"A Cross-Cultural Model for Ethically Treating Spiritual Issues in Secular Counseling"

Daniel Helminiak, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA

This workshop will review the requirements of professional codes of ethics regarding religious or spiritual issues in counseling and will present a model for ethical practice. The workshop will explain what spirituality is in relation and in contrast to religion, how the inherent requirements of spirituality square with the health concerns of counseling, and why, when, and to what extent spirituality is a legitimate topic of secular psychotherapy. The model is grounded in Bernard Lonergan’s analysis of human consciousness or spirit and supposedly applies across religions and cultures.

3 Ethics credits has been applied for

4 pm ADJOURN