Navigating Highways to Success - South Carolina Counseling

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South Carolina Counseling Association
44th A nnual Convention
South Carolina Counselors:
Navigating Highways to Success
February 7-9, 2008
Marriott Resort at Grande Dunes
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
What is the American Counseling Association (ACA)?
ACA is the world’s largest association exclusively representing counseling professionals and others who
work in the field of human development. As professional counselors, members focus on prevention and
early intervention in a variety of settings, including mental health agencies, schools, colleges, hospitals,
community centers, rehabilitation facilities, and private practice.
Established in 1942, ACA has nearly 68,000 members and 60 state and international chartered branches,
including the District of Columbia, Europe, Puerto Rico, Latin America, the Virgin Islands, and the
Philippines. There are four geographic Regions which represent the North Atlantic, Southern, Midwestern
and Western States of the United States. In addition, ACA has special interest divisions (groups having
1,000 or more members) and organization affiliates (groups with 400 to 999) members). Ranging in size
from 600 to more than 12, 000 members, ACA’s sixteen national divisions and one affiliate speak directly
to the skills, professional setting and interests of members; many also have state-level divisions that
members may join. Divisions are: American College Counseling Association, American College Personnel
Association, American Rehabilitation Counseling Association, American School Counselor Association,
Association for Assessment in Counseling, Association for Adult Development and Aging, Association
for Counselor Education and Supervision, Association for Humanistic Education and Development,
Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, Association for Religious and Value Issues in
Counseling, Association for Specialists in Group Work, International Association of Marriage and Family
Counselors, Military Educators and Counselors Association, National Career Development Association, and
National Employment Counselors Association. Each of these publishes a journal or newsletter or both.
ACA publishes the American Counselor, a quarterly magazine to assist in professional development through
feature stories and regular columns dedicated to the most current information and diverse opinions on a
broad range of counseling issues. Counseling Today is the official newspaper sent to members fourteen times
a year, and providing feature stories on a variety of topics in counseling and human development, as well as
national and international counseling news. The official Journal of Counseling and Development contains
authoritative, in-depth articles on professional and scientific issues in all areas of counseling and human
development.
Members understand the importance of prevention and early intervention for mental health problems.
Therefore, ACA plays a vital role in introducing and monitoring legislation on a range of issues from
counselor licensure, and certification requirements for school counselors, to the inclusion of professional
counselors as qualified providers of services in appropriate state and federal regulations and job classification
listings. As a lead in several advocacy coalitions, ACA government relations professionals impress upon
federal and state decision makers the essential role that counselors play in society. ACA’s volunteer
Government Relations Network members also make hundreds of visits every year to Capitol Hill on behalf of
all legislative updates and targeted legislative alerts to keep them informed of progress in the public arena.
In addition to the conventions held by each state branch, such as this SCCA convention at Myrtle Beach,
ACA holds one of the world’s largest professional conventions each year. ACA members have received
registration materials, and others may contact ACA at 5999 Stevenson Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304,
for both membership and registration materials.
The goal of ACA and of the South Carolina Counseling Association is to advance the counseling profession
through a variety of programs and services that support the personal, professional and program goals of our
members. The active participation of counselors at all levels of professional life makes this possible!
44th A nnual Convention
South Carolina Counselors:
Navigating Highways to Success
Jan Janarella
SCCA President-Elect
Convention Chair
Welcome
I would like to take this opportunity to extend warmest greetings to the members and guests
attending the South Carolina Counseling Association Convention on February 7 - 9, 2008 at the
Myrtle Beach Marriott Resort at Grande Dunes.
We are confident that you will find our City a perfect setting. Backed by a tradition of proven
hospitality and excellent facilities, we consider it a privilege to provide a stimulating and
productive atmosphere for your activities.
Myrtle Beach is widely known as a major convention area, and all of our facilities stand ready
to serve you. We offer fine dining, accommodations, entertainment, and, most of all, miles of
open, public beaches. I hope you will find the time to enjoy our many recreational activities.
It is my sincere wish that your visit will be most enjoyable, and we look forward to your
returning to Myrtle Beach in the future.
Sincerely,
John Rhodes
Mayor
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Greetings from SCCA President Anthony Brothers
Welcome to the 44th Annual South Carolina Counseling Association Convention!
Our theme is: South Carolina Counselors: Navigating Highways to Success.
As President-Elect Jan Janarella considered possibilities for an appropriate theme,
she remembered foremost the importance of navigating, collaborating and networking
with fellow counselors to provide hope, peace, and vision for the future success of our
clients and students. Many who seek the help of counselors feel a sense of hopelessness
and despair. Because they do not believe things will get better for them, they have
become depressed or desperate. As counselors, one of our jobs is to find that tiny ray
of hope and to use our empathy and understanding to help them embrace the challenge and achieve some
measure of peace of mind that will lead them to success. A counselor is the guiding light that signals hope.
This convention should offer you many opportunities for professional growth. We are excited to have
ACA Past President Marie Wakefield with us for the Keynote Address at Friday’s luncheon. She will
also be presenting a pre-convention workshop on hat therapy and communication styles, her infamous
presentation using over a hundred hats to demonstrate likenesses and differences in ways we communicate.
We are also pleased to have David Chadwell, Coordinator for Single-Gender Initiatives for the South
Carolina Department of Education, and Lobbyist Jack McInnis to speak at our opening session. Thanks to
Jan Janarella, Harriet Fields, and Linwood Floyd for their help in selecting and contacting these speakers,
as well as all the other contributions they have made. Thanks to Norma Colwell for helping with the
information needed for CEs and for preparing the write-ups for the convention program booklet prior
to editing by Linwood Floyd. Thanks to Steve Floyd for getting the website up-to-date and for printing
our meal tickets and nametags each year. Thanks to Doris Nelson and Jennie Yon for their assistance with
the conference bags and their contents. Doris Nelson’s and Geraldine Brantley’s letters and phone calls to
request donations for this convention are also greatly appreciated.
We have a wide selection of pre-convention and post-convention workshops and breakout sessions for the
convention. Thanks to all who are presenting! Thanks to the graduate students who will be helping with the
convention under the leadership of Dr. Philip Scriven and Dr. Chris Mathis. Thanks to all the Convention
Committee Members who have worked to make this a successful convention. Thanks to Jackie Hoagland,
Judy Hendrick and all the other counselors in Horry County who have helped in so many different ways.
And, most of all, thanks to all of you who are attending the convention. Remember, you are the navigators of
the present and the future!
Horry County business and shows have been most gracious in offering discounts for local attractions
and door prizes. Our schedule this year again includes the Presidential Reception on Saturday morning
at a buffet breakfast and closing session lead by Dr. Art Grant. You will have Friday night free to take
advantage of the local attractions and will have two meals on Friday and one on Saturday provided as
part of your convention registration.
I hope that all of you will enjoy our convention at this beautiful Marriott Resort. After considering
evaluations in previous years, having adequate space in meeting rooms and at the luncheon was a priority
in the selection of a meeting site. Take some time to relax and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Leave
your stress behind, meet new people, learn new ideas and techniques, and return to your work invigorated
and ready to navigate a new course or improve the old!
Anthony Brothers
SCCA President
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Leadership Directory 2007-2008
Executive Committee
President*
Anthony Brothers
Carver Junior High
467 S. Church Street
Spartanburg, S. C. 29307
864-594-4435 (O)
[email protected]
President-Elect
Jan Janarella
2635 Augusta Street
Greenville, S. C. 29605
864-232-4954 (H)
864-355-8714 (O)
[email protected]
Past President*
Jackie Hoagland
812 S. Ocean Blvd. H-1
Surfside Beach, S. C. 29575
843-238-0899 (H)
843-650-1146 (O)
[email protected]
Secretary
Viette Aikens
4841 Oakleaf Road
North Charleston, S. C. 29485
843-270-8018 (H)
843-745-7102 (O)
[email protected]
Treasurer*
Doris Nelson
106 Singing Pines Drive
Greenville, S. C. 29611
864-269-1356 (H)
864-355-1814 (O)
[email protected]
* Voting Position
Treasurer-Elect*
Judy Hendrick
1204 Lakeland Drive
Conway, S. C. 29526
843-488-5977 (H)
843-650-2294 (W)
[email protected]
Membership*
Geraldine Brantley
78 Burdock Circle
Columbia, S. C. 29201
803-783-8867 (H)
864-592-4818 (O)
[email protected]
Executive Secretary
Linwood C. Floyd
Post Office Box 911
Clinton, S. C. 29325
864-833-5208 (H)
864-355-3572 (O)
864-833-7679 (H-Fax)
864-355-3385 (O-Fax)
[email protected]
Newsletter Editor*
Patricia Rice
P. O. Box 1462
301 Sumter Street Extension
Clinton, S. C. 29325
864-833-4325 (H)
864-697-6480 (O)
[email protected]
By-Laws/Parliamentarian
James A Kiser, Jr.
73 Grove Hall Lane
Columbia, S. C. 29212-2848
803-732-0466 (H)
[email protected]
Standing Committee
Chairpersons
Awards*
Dr. Art Grant
104 Elm View Terrace
Spartanburg, S. C. 29307
864-579-4824 (H)
864-579-2810 (O)
[email protected]
Ethics*
Dr. Ron Miles
3503 Yale Avenue
803-799-1032 (H & O)
[email protected]
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Nominations and
Elections
Jackie Hoagland
812 S. Ocean Blvd. H-1
Surfside Beach, S. C. 29575
843-238-0899 (H)
843-650-1146 (O)
[email protected]
Professional
Development*
Norma Colwell
241 Rimer Pond Rd.
Blythewood, S. C. 29016
803-691-5949 (H)
803-782-1772 (O)
[email protected]
Public Policy and
Legislation*
Harriet Gardin Fields
412 Juniper Street
803-754-2367 (H/Fax)
803-754-0124 (W)
[email protected]
Leadership Directory 2007-2008
Technology
Melissa DeWitt
2601 Timmonsville Highway
Darlington, S. C. 29532
843-395-0927 (H)
843-398-2421 (W)
[email protected]
[email protected]
Presidents of Active
Divisions and Chapters
SC Association for
Humanistic Education
and Development
John Culbertson
295 Pine Ridge Road
Edgefield, S. C. 29824
803-637-2022 (H)
803-652-8100 (W)
SC School Counselor
Association
Dr. Don Keller
Anderson University
203 Johnson School of Education
Anderson, S. C. 29621
864-859-5647 (H)
864-231-2046 (W)
* Voting Position
Tri-County Chapter
Jania Sommers
106 Chadwick Drive
Charleston, S. C. 29407
843-766-0341 (H)
843-766-1120 (O)
[email protected]
Special Committees
Graduate Counselor
Education
Dr. Mary Jane Anderson
817 Hitchman Road, A-21
Augusta, Georgia 30904
706-738-7486 (H)
706-667—4497 (O)
[email protected]
Past Presidents
Candy Bates-Quinn
1011 Piper Point
Mt. Pleasant, S. C. 29464
843-884-2799 (H)
843-937-6458 (O)
[email protected]
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Liaisons
SC State Department
of Education
Ann White
Education Associate, Guidance Services
S. C. State Department of Education
803-734-5349 (O)
803-734-3525 (FAX)
awhite@ed/sc.gov
SC Occupational
Information System (SCOIS)
Toney Farr
SCOIS
P. O. Box 995
[email protected]
SC Technical College
System
Dr. Russ Bumba
111 Executive Center Drive
803-896-5367 (O)
[email protected]
Schedule for the 44th SCCA Convention
February 7-9, 2008 • South Carolina Counselors: Navigating Highways to Success
Thursday, February 7
8:30 am - 9:30 am...................................................Pre-Convention Registration Only
9:00 am - 11:00 am.................................................Exhibit Set-Up
9:00 am - 12:00 noon..............................................Pre-Convention Workshops
• Hat Therapy: An Exploration of Communication Styles (Atlantic 2)
• Stewards of Children: A Training for Adults on Resolving Child Sexual Abuse
within Communities (Atlantic 3)
9:00 am - 4:00 pm...................................................Full Day Pre-Convention Workshops
• Storytelling in Individual and Small Group Counseling (Atlantic 6)
• Update on EEDA and Electronic IGP: More Practical Applications
for Career Development Specialists (Atlantic 7)
• Competent Play Therapist: A Model for Assessment, Diagnosis,
and Intervention with Children and Teens (Atlantic 8)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm................................................Convention Registration
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm..................................................Pre-Convention Workshops
• Magical Power of the Creative Mind: Art in Counseling
and Play Therapy (Tides 1)
• Career Counseling: Essential Skills for Professional Helpers (Atlantic 2)
• Children Grow: Custody and Visitation Spanning Childhood (Atlantic 3)
• Conducting an Effective School-Based Intervention (Atlantic 1)
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm..................................................Exhibit Viewing
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm..................................................SCCA Executive Council Meeting
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm..................................................Convention Registration
Friday, February 8
7:15 am - 8:00 am...................................................Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am.................................................Convention Registration and Voting
8:00 am - 11:00 am.................................................Exhibits
8:00 am - 9:00 am...................................................Opening Session/Legislative Update
Chadwell/McInnis
9:05 am - 10:05 am.................................................Program Session I
10:15 am - 11:15 am...............................................Program Session II
11:30 am - 1:30 pm.................................................Awards Luncheon with Marie Wakefield
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm..................................................Program Session III
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm..................................................Registration and Voting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm..................................................Program Session IV
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm..................................................Program Session V
6:30 pm...................................................................Dinner on Your Own
Saturday, February 9
8:00 am - 9:30 am...................................................Presidential Breakfast/General Session
for All Attendees - Art Grant, Ph.D.
8:00 am - 11:00 am.................................................Exhibits
9:15 am - 10:15 am.................................................Post-Convention Registration/Voting
9:30 am - 11:00 am.................................................Program Session VI
9:30 am - 12:30 pm.................................................Post-Convention Workshops
• Supervision Adlerian Style=Anxiety Reduction for Clients and Supervisors (Osprey)
• Play Therapy in a School Setting: A Shared Responsibility (Tides 2)
• Stewards of Children: Training for Adults on Resolving Child Sexual Abuse
within Communities (Tides 1)
11:00 am - 12:00 noon............................................Annual Business Meeting/Election Results
12:00 noon - 1:00....................................................Lunch on Your Own
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm..................................................Adlerian Post-Convention Workshop
(Continued from 12:30)
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M arriott R esort: Room Layout
Lower Level
Main Level
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Keynote Speaker Marie A. Wakefield
Marie A. Wakefield, a 30-year veteran educator, worked as an elementary
teacher, counselor, Administrative Specialist for Guidance Services, assistant
principal, and principal. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from
Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio. As a military wife, she had
an opportunity to work in a variety of military and civilian settings. Marie
has always been active in organizations that promote change for youth and
young adults. After receiving her Master of Science degree in Educational
Foundations and Counseling from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(UNLV), she participated in many activities that allowed her an opportunity
to work with people of all ages who had various challenges. She volunteered to work in a center
for women who were sexually abused. She coordinated and trained adults and youth to provide
counseling services at a camp for middle and high school students working to maintain a drug-free
life style. She co-chaired several conferences addressing self-esteem, social responsibility, and cultural
diversity. Working with teens in a clowning ministry was a non-threatening way to have youth work
with older adults in a nursing home. She was a trainer of trainers for the Natural Helpers Program,
which enabled middle and high school students to utilize peer-counseling skills. Additionally, she
trained several elementary school personnel to implement Lions Quest Skills for Growing,
a curriculum for promoting drug prevention.
Marie has served in many counseling leadership roles in branch, region, and ACA, which include:
Southern Nevada School Counselor Association President, Nevada Counseling Association
President, Western Region Chairperson, Western Region Governing Council Representative,
Association for Adult Development and Aging President, Adultspan Editor, Association of
Multicultural Counseling and Development Membership Co-Chairperson, ACA Strategic
Planning Chairperson, ACA Financial Affairs Committee appointed observer, ACA Executive
Committee appointed observer, ACA Nominations and Elections Committee member, a Legislative
Institute participant, and a division program reviewer for the ACA Conference.
For the past nine years, she has assisted with the “First Timers” orientation at the ACA conferences.
She is the Immediate Past President of the American Counseling Association. After serving six
years, Marie recently stepped down as the director of a mentoring program that addressed critical
issues facing female teens in the 21st century. She continues to lead creative, interactive workshops.
She utilizes “hat therapy,” a Marie-ism, to personify communication styles, attitudes of personal
motivation, and the untapped leadership potential that lies within us. She is currently enrolled as a
doctoral student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and working on publishing her first book.
Ms. Wakefield has been recognized for her achievements and influence. Awards include: the AADA
Distinguished Service Award form the Association for Adult Development and Aging; Professional
Development Award from the Association for Multicultural Development and Counseling; Dr. Kay
P. Carl Outstanding Counseling Education Award; Who’s Who Among American Educators; John
A. Bailey Distinguished Professional Award; the Clark County Participative Leadership Project
Award; and the Professional Black Women’s Rose Award.
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SCCA 44th A nnual Convention
South Carolina Counselors: Navigating Highways to Success
February 7-9, 2008
Thursday, February 7 At a Glance
8:30 am - 9:30 am............................ Pre-Convention Registration (Registration Alcove)
9:00 am - 11:00 am ............................................................ Exhibit Set-up (North Hall)
9:00 am - 12:00 noon........................................................Pre-Convention Workshops
9:00 am - 4:00 pm...............................................Full Day Pre-Convention Workshops
11:30 am - 12:30 pm...................................................................... Lunch on your own
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm.......................... Pre-Convention Registration (Registration Alcove)
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.............................................................Pre-Convention Workshops
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm............................................................ Exhibit Viewing (North Hall)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm................................................. Dinner/Entertainment on your own
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm......... SCCA Executive Council Meeting/Dinner for Board Members
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm................................................................. Convention Registration
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Pre-Convention Workshops
9:00 am - Noon
Stewards of Children: Training for Adults on Resolving
Child Sexual Abuse within Communities
Presenter: Martha Tumblin, M.Ed., LISW-CP, Community Consultant, Professional Trainer
Presentation Room: Atlantic 3
Audience: All
NBCC Content Areas: Social and Cultural Foundations, Helping Relationship, and School Counseling
(Guidance Delivery System: Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, System Support,
General-Comprehensive School Counseling)
Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children training is a revolutionary sexual abuse prevention training
program that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse
and motivates them to courageous action. The dynamic Stewards of Children program is designed
for organizations that serve children, youth, and any/all adults interested in protecting children.
Workshop participants will be provided with the Stewards of Children Training Workbook while
participating in the actual three-hour interactive, video-driven, evidence-based Stewards of Children
training which will be facilitated by an Authorized Stewards of Children Facilitator. Participants will
also receive a Stewards of Children Attendance Certificate.
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Objectives: After the Stewards of Children training, participants will be able to identify facts of child
sexual abuse incidence rates and effects on individuals and society; reasons child sexual abuse happens; people
responsible for the protection of children; importance of screening staff/volunteers who work with children
and adolescents; importance of a well-conceived one-adult/one-child policy; resources to react responsibly to
incidents of child sexual abuse; and the proactive role that youth-serving organizations need to take to protect
children and educate their communities about child sexual abuse.
Martha Tumblin, LISW-CP, holds a B.A. and M.Ed. in Secondary Guidance Counseling from USC.
She is a Psychotherapist, Professional Trainer, and Community Consultant: Abuse, Addictions and
Family Systems; Authorized Stewards of Children Facilitator, Instructor, Certifier; Clinical Volunteer
Faculty, and MUSC Department of Family Medicine.
Hat Therapy: An Exploration of Communication Styles
Presenter: Marie A. Wakefield, a doctoral student at UNLV and Past President of the American
Counseling Association
Audience: All counselors and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: Helping Relations and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System:
General-Comprehensive School Counseling)
GCDF Competency Area: Diverse Populations
Our communication processing system is a dynamic force, personifying what motivates our actions.
Personal strengths, cultural differences, and generational influences empower the alignment of our
values, ethics, mindset, habits, knowledge, creativity, and productivity. This workshop promises to be
interactive and collaborative utilizing “hat therapy,” a Marie-ism, as a creative, visual communication
tool. Literature provides rich opportunities to discuss counseling theory-based applications and links
to current research as we explore those internal and external factors that impact personal messages.
Objective: The audience will examine ways personal strengths, cultural differences, and generational influences
affect values, ethics, and mindset as well as habits, knowledge, creativity, and productivity.
Marie Wakefield, a 30-year veteran educator, worked as an elementary teacher, counselor, Administrative
Specialist for Guidance Services, assistant principal, and principal. She attended Central State University
in Wilberforce, Ohio, for her undergraduate studies, and she received her M.S. in Educational Foundations
and Counseling from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV). She is currently a doctoral student at
UNLV. Ms. Wakefield is also Past President of the American Counseling Association.
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Full Day Pre-Convention Workshops
Full Day Pre-Convention Workshops
9:00 a.m. - Noon and 1:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m.
Storytelling in Individual and Small Group Counseling
Presenter: Ron Anderson, Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Florida
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, Counselor Supervisors,
Mental Health Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Marriage and Family Therapists
NBCC Content Areas: Group Dynamics Processing and Counseling, Helping Relationship, School
Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: Responsive Services System)
Storytelling is an ancient and a current process that reaches children and teaches important life
lessons. The purpose of the session is to present information about the use of storytelling approaches
by elementary and middle school counselors to help children develop social and emotional skills
through imagination. The session is designed for elementary and middle school counselors who want
practical techniques for individual and small group counseling. Participants will receive a reading list,
extensive handouts, and practical guides for recording stories.
Objectives: Participants will be knowledgeable about identifying key components of a story that is designed to
reach and teach children about social and emotional skills; utilizing media selection for these stories; creating
therapeutic stories; using and adapting the “Mutual Storytelling Techniques”; helping children create their
own social/emotional stories; leading discussions that helps children personalize story content.
Dr. Ron Anderson helped create the LifeStories character education program which uses videos of
award-winning storytellers. He has been an elementary counselor, counselor educator and for 18
years, the Director of Student Services in Wake County (Raleigh), North Carolina. He has conducted
over 100 programs on this topic. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Counselor Education at the
University of Florida.
The Competent Play Therapist: A Model for Assessment,
Diagnosis and Intervention with Children and Teens
Presenter: Sandra B. Frick-Helms, Ph.D., RN, RPTS
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, Secondary School
Counselors, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Play Therapists
NBCC Content Area: Helping Relationship, Appraisal of Individual, School Counseling (Guidance
Delivery System: Responsive Services)
Strayhorn’s “competency model” provides a framework for counselors and therapists to diagnose
clients, set treatment goals quickly, and provide ongoing evidence of progress in treatment.
The model also describes a set of interventions that can be used to provide “psychological skill
practice” to children and adolescents in counseling or play therapy. Learning occurs through lecture,
demonstration, and practice.
Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the learner will be prepared to: state ways that specific
psychological strengths and weaknesses or deficits can be diagnosed in children and adolescents using Strayhorn’s
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model in counseling or play therapy; discuss the use of Strayhorn’s model in global assessment of development;
state the advantages of a model which allows for diagnosis of psychological strengths, as well as weaknesses;
list, discuss, and practice at least four interventions specific to Strayhorn’s model that can be used to strengthen
weaknesses and/or correct deficits in psychological functioning.
Sandra Frick-Helms, Ph.D, RN, is a Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor; IBECPT Certified
Professor and Supervisor of Child Psychotherapy and Play Therapy; SCAPT Founding President;
Clinical Editor, APT News Letter and Play Therapy (tm) magazine; Faculty Associate, Johns Hopkins
University Department of Counseling and Human Services; Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry
and Behavioral Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine; and Adjunct Professor,
Converse College Postgraduate Marriage and Family Therapy Program. Dr. Helms has authored
more than 30 publications focusing on play therapy, child growth, and development, and he has
presented papers, workshops, and seminars at local, state, regional, national, and international
conferences and symposia.
Update on EEDA and the Electronic IGP: More Practical
Applications for Career Development Specialists
Presenters: Judy Hendrick, M.Ed., GCDF, GCDFI; Ann White, M.Ed.; Sherry Russell Williams,
M.Ed; Mary P. Thomas Ed.D., NBCT, GCDF, GCDFI; Jackie Collum, M.Ed., GCDF, CDFI,
Career Development Facilitator; Sasha Quarles, Career Specialist; and Winnie King, M.Ed.,
GCDF; Anna Duvall, M.Ed.; Eileen M. Patonay, B.S.; and Dell Helms Gerrald, B.A., Career
Specialist from Forestbrook Middle School in Myrtle Beach, SC
Counselors, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: Comprehensive School
Counseling)
GCDF Competency Areas: Labor Market Information and Resources, Diverse Populations,
Employability, Training Clients and Peers, Program Management/Implementation, Technology
Consultation and Promotion and Public Relations
If you would like to have new resources and see for yourself the developmental nature of career
guidance from elementary through high school, you do not want to miss this presentation! Last year
participants in the half day workshop asked for an all-day program. This presentation covers all the
GCDF Competency Areas while focusing on the most recent developments in the EEDA.
The implementation of EEDA (particularly this year’s happenings), the electronic IGP, (including
demonstrations), and other updates from the State Department of Education will be presented by
Ann White and Sherry Williams.
Elementary, Middle, and High School Counselors and Middle and High School Career Development
Facilitators from several districts in South Carolina will showcase their programs and share their best
resources. The presenters will discuss practical applications which have worked for them and offer
suggestions and strategies for successful implementation of EEDA and career development within the
framework of our State Comprehensive Guidance Model.
Objectives: The participants will explore and exam useful resources and discuss new practical and workable
applications along with suggestions and strategies for successful implementation of the EEDA.
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Judy Hendrick earned her M.Ed. from USC. She holds a GCDF and GCDFI and serves as a School
Counselor at St. James High School and Scholars Academy in the Horry County School District. Ms.
Hendrick has 32 years of experience in the education system.
Mary P. Thomas, Ed.D., NBCT, GCDF, GCDFI is an Elementary School Counselor for Darlington
County Schools, SC.
Jackie Collum, GCDF, CDFI, is a Middle School Counselor at Hartsville Middle School.
Winnie King, GCDF, GCDFI, is an Elementary School Counselor in Florence, SC.
Sasha Quarles is a Career Specialist/CDF at Dutch Fork Middle School in the Lexington #5 School
District in Columbia, SC.
Anna Duvall received her B.A. in Psychology and her M.Ed.in Secondary School Counseling from
the University of South Carolina. She was a middle school counselor for five years and is currently
the Director of Guidance at Gilbert High School in Lexington School District One. Mrs. Duvall
earned her National Board Certification in School Counseling in 2004 and her Global Career
Development Facilitator certification in 2007.
Dell Helms Gerrald earned a B.A. from Coastal Carolina University. She is a Career Development
Facilitator at Forestbrook Middle School in Myrtle Beach, SC and has worked for 26 years in the
Horry County Schools.
Eileen M. Patonay earned a B.S. degree from University of Bridgeport and GCDF from Coastal
Carolina University. She serves as a Career Development Facilitator at Forestbrook Middle School in
Myrtle Beach, SC. She has 13 years experience in career development.
Pre-Convention Workshops
1:00 pm- 4:00 pm
Children Grow: Custody and Visitation Spanning Childhood
Presenter: Joy D. Bennett, MSW, LISW-CP, Private Practice affiliated with Pettigru Counseling
Associates in Greenville, SC
Audience: Post-Secondary Counselors, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family
Therapists, Play Therapists, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: Human Growth and Development and Social and Cultural
This workshop presents information for therapists working with divorced families. It addresses the
effects of divorce on children at different ages, expectations as children grow, and custody and visitation
arrangements most appropriate at specific ages. Current research on joint custody and overnight
visitation of young children is also a featured topic.
Objective: The audience will learn about children’s and families’ stages of life as they affect therapy and counseling.
Joy D. Bennett is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Certified Family Court Mediator.
She specializes in therapy with children and family therapy for divorcing and blended families.
She has been providing clinical therapy for fifteen years and is currently affiliated with Pettigru
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Pre-Convention Workshops, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, continued
Counseling Associates in Greenville, SC. Ms. Bennett has extensive experience providing training
to professionals regarding risk assessment, child development, and management for nonprofits.
The Magical Power of the Creative Mind: Art in Counseling
and Play Therapy
Presenters: Karen Luhrs, M.Ed., Director of Guidance, Fort Johnson Middle School, Charleston,
SC; and Sarette Fender, M.Ed., LPC, Retired School Counselor
Presentation Room: Tides 1
Counselors, Mental Health Counselors, and Play Therapists
NBCC Content Area: Helping Relationship and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System:
Responsive Services)
This Pre-Convention Workshop will provide the use of a myriad of art venues that will aid in
accessing feelings at all levels to provide tools for working with students in individual counseling,
small group counseling, guidance groups, and play therapy. Participants will be exposed to a variety of
art and drawing examples and will have the opportunity to create an art piece during this session.
Objectives: Audience members will be able to gain insight into the student’s art; research examples of art
creation; and create their own art to experience the rationale for art as a counseling and play therapy strategy.
Karen Luhrs graduated from the College of Charleston with a B.A. in French and English. She
received her M.Ed. from The Citadel in School and Clinical Counseling. She is the Lead Counselor
at Fort Johnson Middle School in Charleston, where she as been employed for over 10 years and has
supervised numerous interns in the school counseling field. She has served on the SCSCA Board as
Middle School Vice President and as former Tri-County SCCA Chapter President. Karen Luhrs has
made many presentations in community, school, and professional organizations, where she has also
held leadership positions.
Sarette Fender, M.Ed., LPC. Sarette has been employed as a school counselor in Dorchester 3 schools
and retired in 1998. She has been asked to work at Gregg Middle School since then during PACT
administrations. Sarette has been in private practice for several years. She has held many leadership
positions in SCCA and in Tri-County Counseling Association.
Conducting an Effective School-Based Intervention
Presenter: Ronald D. Miles, Ph.D., L.P.C., GCDF-I, Educational Consultant
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, and Secondary School
Counselors
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: General-Comprehensive
Schooling)
A major component of an effective comprehensive school counseling program is Responsive
Services. One of the critical elements in providing these services is the ability of a school counselor
to conduct an effective school-based intervention. This session will focus on strategies necessary to
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Pre-Convention Workshops, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, continued
plan, implement, and evaluate a student-centered intervention. A model for “Designing an Informed
Intervention” will be utilized as a means to identify necessary information and hidden variables.
Techniques related to utilizing the Student Intervention Team concept will be explored. In addition,
practical suggestions for increasing parental involvement and overcoming parental resistance will be
shared. The counselor will leave this session better prepared to provide quality intervention services
on the school level.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of this workshop, the counselor will be able to conduct an effective
assessment of student needs and concerns; identify hidden variables in the lives of students; conduct an effective
intervention team meeting; handle parental and/or colleague resistance; and increase parental involvement.
Dr. Miles is an author, a lecturer, an educational consultant, and a Licensed Professional Counselor.
He served as a classroom teacher for many years before he stepped in the counseling office as a School
Counselor then an administrator and university instructor. Dr. Miles is the present SCSCA Ethics
Chairperson.
Career Counseling: Essential Skills for Professional Helpers
Presenters: Phil Morris, Ph.D., Director of Counseling and Career Services at Midland
Technology College and David Highsmith, Ph.D., Counselor from Midlands Technical College
Audiences: Middle School Counselors, Secondary School Counselors, Post-Secondary Counselors,
Mental Health Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Career or Employment Counselors
NBCC Content Areas: Life Style/Career Development and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery
System Addressed: General-Comprehensive School Counseling)
GCDF Competency Areas: Assessment, Labor Market Information and Resources, Diverse
Populations, and Career Development Models
Career counseling skills are important for helping clients, but counselor preparation programs often
give only rudimentary training in this area. This interactive workshop will expose participants to
additional skills for working with a variety of clients.
Objectives: Participants will apply practical suggestions for providing clients with a holistic understanding
of the career planning process and an appreciation for readily available resources; participants will be able to
discuss interventions for situation-specific career counseling challenges.
Phil Morris holds a BA from Southern Wesleyan University, a MA in Religion from Lutheran
Theological Southern Seminary, a M.Ed. in Community Counseling from The Citadel, and a Ph.D.
in Higher Education Administration from the University of SC. He has worked in the past in
administration and accounting for Coca-Cola and has been at Midlands Technical College for the past
12 years. Dr. Morris has served as the Director of Counseling and Career Services for the past two years.
David Highsmith holds a B.A. in Business Administration (Banking and Finance), a Masters of
Divinity from University of Georgia Denominational Administration and The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary and Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of South
Carolina. Dr. Highsmith serves as a counselor at Midlands Technical College. His diverse educational
and vocational background — including over 20 years in youth ministry, religious education, and
military contracting — enables him to insightfully and sensitively address wide-ranging career
counseling challenges.
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Friday, February 8 At a Glance
7:15 am - 8:00 am................................................... Continental Breakfast (North Hall)
8:00 am - 10:00 am............................................... Convention Registration and Voting
8:00 am - 11:00 am........................................................... Exhibit Viewing (North Hall)
8:00 am - 9:00 am .................Opening Session and Legislative Update (Atlantic 2 and 3)
9:05 am - 10:05 am.......................................................................... Program Session I
10:15 am - 11:15 am....................................................................... Program Session II
11:30 am - 1:30 pm..........................................................................Awards Luncheon
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm...............................................................................Exhibit Viewing
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm........................................................................ Program Session III
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm................................................................... Registration and Voting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm......................................................................... Program Session IV
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm...........................................................................Program Session V
6:30 pm...................................................................................... Dinner on Your Own
Friday, February 8, 2008
Opening Session and Legislative Update
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Location: Atlantic 2 and 3
In this opening session, David Chadwell, Coordinator for Single-Gender Initatives for the SC
Department of Education, will be the keynote speaker. He will address facts and figures of singlegender education, its strengths, and qualities.
Harriett Gardin Fields, M.Ed., LPC/S, NCC/C, as Chairperson of the Public Policy Committee
of the S.C. Counseling Association, will introduce our speaker, John D. McInnis, Jr., an attorney in
Dillon, S.C., who serves as the lobbyist for the S.C. Counseling Association. Mr. McInnis has served
in the S.C. House of Representatives and has been involved in the passage of some major bills related
to parity, counselor licensure, elementary school counselor funding, and counselor reimbursement in
the state health plan.
Program Session I
9:05 am - 10:05 am
It Begins with Me
Presenters: Julie Moss, M.Ed., USC Ph.D. Candidate, Dixie Neff, ED.S., John Phillips., M.Ed.,
and Fredi Fulmer, M.Ed. are all School Counselors at Hand Middle School in Richland School
District One in Columbia, SC
Presentation Room: Oleander B
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Counselors
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Program Session I, 9:05 am to 10:05 am, continued
NBCC Content Area: Social and Cultural Foundations and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery
System: Comprehensive School Counseling)
“It Begins with Me” is a successful school-wide character education program developed and used at
Hand Middle School, Columbia SC. Topics covered include The Golden Rule book, Motivational
Mondays, Family Reading Night activities, school-wide writes, and working with school committees.
Ways to create student and teacher interest and support are also discussed.
Objective: Through this workshop, participants will gain new ideas of how to implement character education
programs using literature and how to infuse character education into a school’s curriculum.
Perception of School Counselors towards School Discipline
and Violence Prevention
Presenters: Phillip Scriven, Ph.D., Program Director and Associate Professor of Counselor
Education; Christopher C. Mathis, Jr., Ph.D.; and Art Grant, Ph.D., Counselor/Intervention
Specialist, Daniel Morgan Technology Center
Counselors, Post-Secondary Counselors, Counselor Supervisors, Counselor Educators, Career or
Employment Counselors, Group Work Leaders, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Human Growth & Development,
Social & Cultural Foundations , Helping Relationship, Group Dynamics Processing & Counseling, and
School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: Responsive Services)
GCDF Competency Areas: Helping Skills, Diverse Populations, and Employability:
This presentation focuses on perceptions of secondary school counselors and their attitudes towards
school discipline and school violence prevention. The study proposes to determine the attitudes and
effectiveness of South Carolina secondary school counselors toward their role in school discipline
and violence prevention. As well as, what differences in perception and attitude toward discipline and
school violence prevention are held by secondary school counselors based on several factors including,
but not limited to, training, age, sex, experience, and/or school location.
Objectives: This workshop participants will be able to: 1) examine the general attitudes of secondary school
counselors in the area of school discipline as it relates to classroom management, academic achievement, teacher
satisfaction, school achievement, and parental involvement; 2) identify the general attitudes of secondary
school counselors towards their roles in school discipline as it relates to violence prevention.
Choosing the BEST Career Assessment Tools for your
Elementary and Middle School Students/Clients
Presenter: Kathryn Hilgenkamp, Ed.D. LPC, GCDF, North Myrtle Beach Middle School
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, Counselor Educators,
Career or Employment Counselors, and GCDFs
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NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Appraisal of Individuals, Professional Orientation, Life
Style/Career Development, and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System Addressed: General
Comprehensive School Counseling)
GCDF Competency Areas: Global Career Development Facilitators Competency Areas: Assessment,
Ethical and Legal Issues, and Career Development Models
Career assessment tools are being produced and reproduced at record levels. Career and school
counselors, GCDFs, and administrators need to know which are theory-based, the most valid and
reliable. The predictability and utility of various career assessments will be provided.
Objective: The participant will be able to identify theory-based career basements at the close of the presentation.
Reflecting Upon Counselor Educators’ Diverse Career Paths
Presenters: George T. Williams, Ed.D., School of Education, The Citadel, Professor and
Coordinator of Counselor Education Programs, The Citadel Graduate College; Johnny Sanders,
Jr., Ph.D., Professor and Unit Head, Counseling and Development Program, Winthrop
University; Philip M. Scriven, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Program Director of Counselor
Education, South Carolina State University; Donna M. Gibson, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical
Professor of Counselor Education, University of South Carolina; Aaron H. Oberman, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of School Counseling and Coordinator of Field Experiences, The Citadel
Graduate College; Barbara Griffin, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of School Counseling, The Citadel
Graduate College; Wanda P. Briggs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Counseling and Development,
Winthrop University; and Moody E. Crews, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Counseling and
Development, Winthrop University
Counselors, Mental Health Counselors, Post-Secondary Counselors, Counselor Educators,
Counselor Supervisors, Career or Employment Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists
NBCC Content Area: Life Style/Career Development and School Counseling: Guidance Delivery
System: Responsive Services
GCDF Competency Areas: Labor Market Information and Resources, Career Development Models,
and Employability
This presentation will include South Carolina counselor educators sharing the career development
paths that led to their current professional employment. Former professional positions held and
most memorable professional experiences will be presented to encourage and inspire future potential
counselor educators. Audience participants will have an opportunity to interact in small discussion
groups. Questions will be welcomed from audience participants.
Objective: The audience will have an opportunity to discuss a wide variety of prospective career journeys to
become a counselor educator employed in higher education.
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What Works - Effective Navigating Techniques
Presenter: Rusty Duncan, M.Ed., GCDF, School Counselor, McColl Elementary Middle School
and Marlboro County School of Discovery
Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Counselor Supervisors, GCDFs
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory and Helping Relationship
GCDF Competency Areas: Helping Skills, Employability, Training Clients and Peers, and Consultation
This presentation focuses on providing effective counseling techniques for counselors. These
counseling techniques apply to anger management, character education, cognitive-behavioral
interventions, interpersonal relations, and personal goal-setting, etc. True compassion is helping folks
help themselves!
Objective: After this presentation the audience will be able to identify effective counseling techniques.
The Best of Individual Counseling
Presenter: Arden Martenz, M.Ed., President of Marco Products from Warminster, PA.
Audience: Elementary School Counselors
NBCC Content Areas: Helping Relationship, Appraisal of Individual, and School Counseling
(Guidance Delivery System: Comprehensive School Counseling)
This presentation includes Individual Counseling ideas from 10 published elementary counselors.
Kids are different and so are counselors so join us to learn a variety of tried and true ideas that
have worked for these counselors from various parts of the country. The participant will receive
reproducible handouts to use in their elementary school counseling program.
Objective: The participants will explore strategies for Individual Counseling in counseling with elementary
students.
Program Session II
10:15 am - 11:15 am
Career Development with Transgendered College Students:
Implications for Career Counselors
Presenter: Stephanie Belke, B.A., M.Ed Candidate, Counselor Education, Clemson University
and Graduate Assistant at the Michelin Career Center at Clemson University
Audience: Secondary School Counselors, Mental Health Counselors, GCDFs, Post-Secondary
Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Career or Employment Counselors
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Professional Orientation, and Life Style/Career Development
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Program Session II, 10:15 am to 11:15 am, continued
GCDF Competency Areas: Diverse Populations, Center Employability Training Clients and Peers, and
Program Management/Implementation
Transgendered (TG) college students face a unique problem in career development today. Services
provided by university and college career centers lack the knowledge and programming to successfully
cater to transgendered individuals’ specific needs and challenges in career services. This program will
identify those specific needs, discuss how career counselors can better prepare for working with this
population, and identify needed research in the field.
Objectives: After this presentation the audience will be able to examine the specific challenges transgendered
students face in career development, discuss professional development among career counselors to better
prepare them to work with transgendered students in career development, and foster needed research in career
development for transgendered persons.
YEScarolina....free continuing education units! Part I
Presenters: Jenny Whittle, M.Ed, Educational Consultant, and the Honorable Jimmy Bailey, SC
Legislature, CEO and Founder of YEScarolina, and Commercial Real Estate Business Owner
Audience: Secondary School Counselor and Career or Employment Counselors, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: Life Style/Career Development and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery
System Addressed: Individual Planning)
Free Continuing education opportunity for school guidance counselors or career development facilitators!
Learn more about Yescarolina, a non-profit organization that offers training in entrepreneurship.
Teachers/ guidance counselors learn about entrepreneurship and how to reach their students with this
innovative hands-on curriculum. Participants actually learn how to start and operate a small business.
You can become an entrepreneur too!
YEScarolina is a non-profit organization with a mission to train teachers to teach students about
entrepreneurship. With the passing of the EEDA, this training is invaluable! Entrepreneurship
is addressed in all 16 of the career clusters; a requirement in one and an elective in the other 15.
Guidance counselors and GCDFs can get free continuing education or 3 hours of graduate credit!
Entrepreneurship training will help your students to compete in this global economy.
Objectives: The audience will learn how to start and operate a small business and are provided with the tools
to teach their students!
Cultural Diversity Games
Presenter: Zan Tracy Pender, M.A., Elementary School Counselor at Lemira Elementary, Sumter
School District 17
Audience: Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School Counselors, and General
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Spend a fun-filled hour learning and participating in educational games and activities that can be used
in small group counseling or classroom guidance. These activities promote cultural diversity and assist
students with understanding the concepts of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.
Objective: After the presentation the participants will be able to develop strategies to promote cultural
diversity in small group counseling or classroom guidance.
Effective Grief and Bereavement Coping Methods in
Pediatric and Geriatric Circumstances
Presenters: Candice Slate, B.A. and Audrey Fidler, B.S., Graduate M.Ed. Student Candidates in
the Community Counseling at Clemson University
Presentation Room: Atlantic 6:
Audience: Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School Counselor, Group Work Leader, Mental
Health Counselor, Counselor Educator, Career or Employment Counselor, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Areas: Human Growth and Development and School Counseling (Guidance
GCDF Competency Area: Helping Skills
This workshop will provide skills and practices aimed toward effective and healthy grief and bereavement
coping methods for children through late adulthood. Workshop will provide information on specific
techniques that can be used when working with grieving clients, students, family members or coworkers.
Workshop will inform audience of support and therapy programs that are exemplary in effective grief
and bereavement care.
Objectives: The participants will be able to review research on effective and healthy coping strategies; examine
techniques specifically applicable when working with clients, students, family members and coworkers; and
explore support and therapy programs that are exemplary in effective grief and bereavement care.
Body Image Dissatisfaction in Boys: A Review of the
Literature Including Weight Gain and Weight Loss Issues
Presenter: Gretta McCall, M.Ed. Candidate in Community Counseling from Clemson University
and Graduate Assistant in the college of Health Education and Human Development
Audience: Elementary School Counselor, Middle School Counselor, Secondary School
Counselor, Mental Health Counselor, and Post-Secondary Counselor
NBCC Content Areas: Human Growth & Development, Social and Cultural Foundations, and
Appraisal of Individual
Body image plays an important role in health behaviors making it important that we gain an
awareness of body image concerns relevant to both boys and girls. Almost all girls who experience
body dissatisfaction want to loose weight, whereas boys are equally divided between wanting to gain
weight and wanting to loose weight. Because most research examines body image concerns relevant
to weight loss, half of the boys who experience body dissatisfaction are not counted. This perspective
has led researchers to conclude that body image is not as pressing a concern for boys as it is for girls.
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In reality, boys and girls are equally experiencing body image concerns as both are subjected to the
pressure of social ideals.
Objectives: The audience will become aware of the body dissatisfaction issues of boys in relation to the desire to
be larger and examine relevant information about boys and body image that is in the research since 1997.
Addressing College Affordability
Presenters: Robert Mendenall, CCPS; Gerald Dunn, CPS; and Steve Turner, CCPS, The College
Funding Center of SC, LLC
Audience: Middle and High School Counselors
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: System Support)
Paying for college can and does cause a major financial strain on the family budget. Most families,
due to their income being too high, will not qualify for need-based financial aid other than loans.
This session will help school counselors assist families in reducing the high cost of college without
depending on financial aid. Presenters will focus on unique cash flow, tax, and cost containment
strategies to lower the cost of college in the eleventh hour, which is when most families begin to
determine the way they will pay for college.
Objectives: Participants will learn ways: to show families avenues to reduce the cost of private and public
universities by exploring ways to use need-based, merit, and athletic scholarships as well as Educational Tax
Credits and deductions; ways to investigate how parents can get an interest-free loan from the IRS and ways
families that own businesses or are self-employed can save money on their children’s college educations.
Awards Luncheon and K eynote
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Atlantic 4 and 5
Jan Janarella, SCCA President-Elect, Presiding
Welcome
Invocation – Dr. Art Grant
Lunch
Professional Awards and Recognition – Jackie Hoagland
Introduction of Speaker
Speaker: Marie Wakefield, ACA Past President
Acknowledgement of Sponsors/Contributors
Door Prizes
Adjournment
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Program Session III
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Achieving Kid-Friendly Results by Blending SolutionFocused Therapy (SFT) Techniques with Play Therapy
Presenter: Tonya Jasinski, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Assistant, University of South
Carolina
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, Counselor Supervisors,
Counselor Educators, Mental Health Counselors, and Play Therapists
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System:
This presentation offers a brief overview of the basic tenets and techniques of Solution-Focused Therapy
(SFT). Strategies for adapting SFT techniques, through the use of Play Therapy, will be discussed and
demonstrated for working with children. Summary handouts and session favors will be provided.
Objectives: The participant will be able to: recognize the central tenets of Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT);
to identify the major techniques of SFT; to merge SFT and Play Therapy techniques; and to adapt SFT
techniques for working with children.
YEScarolina....free continuing education units! Part II
Presenters: Jenny Whittle, M.Ed, Educational Consultant, and the Honorable Jimmy Bailey, SC
Legislature, CEO and Founder of YEScarolina, and Commercial Real Estate Business Owner
Audience: Secondary School Counselor and Career or Employment Counselors, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: Life Style/Career Development and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery
System Addressed: Individual Planning)
Free Continuing education opportunity for school guidance counselors or career development facilitators!
Learn more about Yescarolina, a non-profit organization that offers training in entrepreneurship.
Teachers/ guidance counselors learn about entrepreneurship and how to reach their students with this
innovative hands-on curriculum. Participants actually learn how to start and operate a small business.
You can become an entrepreneur too!
YEScarolina is a non-profit organization with a mission to train teachers to teach students about
entrepreneurship. With the passing of the EEDA, this training is invaluable! Entrepreneurship
is addressed in all 16 of the career clusters; a requirement in one and an elective in the other 15.
Guidance counselors and GCDFs can get free continuing education or 3 hours of graduate credit!
Entrepreneurship training will help your students to compete in this global economy.
Objectives: The audience will learn how to start and operate a small business and are provided with the tools
to teach their students!
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Program Session III, 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm, continued
Native American Culture and
Selecting Native American Literature
Presenter: Zan Tracy Pender, M.A., School Counselor Lemira Elementary School
Audience: Elementary, Middle, High School and Post Secondary Counselors, Counselor
Educators, Counselor Supervisors, and GCDFs
This workshop will highlight details of the American Indian culture, including facts about South
Carolina native peoples, not found in classroom text books but gleaned from the presenter’s
Wassamasaw and Santee Paternal Grandmother’s life experiences.
Objective: The participants will develop strategies to present facts about Native American culture through
selected literature.
South Carolina Governor’s Office: Continuum of Care for
Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children
Presenter: Christian Barnes-Young, M.S., LPC-I, Clinical Consultant, SC Governor’s Office
Continuum of Care in Florence, SC
Audience: Elementary, Middle, and High School Counselors, Counselor Supervisors, Marriage
and Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Private Practitioners, and GCDFs.
NBCC Content Areas: Helping relationships and professional orientation.
The Continuum of Care is a state-wide agency that provides intensive case management for children
with severe emotional disturbance. A brief summary of the Continuum’s history will be provided
along with an explanation of its eligibility criteria, application process, and services.
Objective: The audience will examine the history, eligibility criteria, application process, and service provided
by the SC Governor’s Office: Continuum of Care for Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children.
Abuse and Trauma as a Barrier to Success
for our Children: Part I
Presenter: Don Elsey, Ed.D., LPCS, Clinical Coordinator of the Dee Norton Low Country
Children’s Center in Charleston, SC
Audience: Elementary, Middle, and High School Counselors, and General
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Program Session III, 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm, continued
This presentation examines the effects of trauma and abuse on children which can be staggering. Often
these are overlooked or misdiagnosed, leading to frustration and continued problems. The program will
look at common trauma symptoms, how children accommodate to trauma, and manifestations in the
classroom and evidenced based treatment options.
Objectives: The participants will be able to identify trauma symptoms, recognize children’s skills to accommodate
trauma, and review manifestations in classroom and evidenced-based treatment options.
Student-Athlete Rx: Helping High School Student-Athletes
Increase Their Chances of Getting Athletic Scholarships
Presenters: Robert Mendenall, CCPS, Gerald Dunn, CPS, and Steve Turner, CCPS, The College
Funding Center of SC, LLC
Audience: Middle and High School Counselors
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: System Support)
Is your school doing enough to help student-athletes pursue their dreams of playing college athletics and
receive scholarships to do so? If you are interested in offering a solution to the student-athletes at your
school, you need to attend this session! You will see a workshop presentation and support materials that
can be duplicated at your school.
Objective: The participant will gain information that will provide direct support for students wishing to increase
their chances of receiving an athletic scholarship.NBCC Content Area:
Program Session IV
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Computer and Video Game Safety
Presenter: Jennifer V. Greene, M.Ed., Program Assistant SC State Department of Education with
Character Education Department’s Teen LEAD Grant
Audience: GCDF, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School Counselors
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling: (Guidance Delivery Services: Comprehensive School
Counseling)
GCDF Competency Area: Helping Skills
This presentation provides a broad view of the internet and video gaming world. Its purpose is to inform
administrators, educators, and parents on the dangers that are present in our technological society. Along
with the dangers, it also highlights strategies that adults can use to protect children. It provides useful
websites, hints, and tips to make internet usage and gaming fun, educational, and safe.
Objectives: The audience will be able to understand the broad view of child safety online, identify risks associated
with internet usage, decide on things that they can do to protect children online, identify signs of Cyber Bullying,
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Program Session IV, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, continued
understand the broad view of video gaming, identify the top ten best and worst video games for children,
understand gaming health concerns, understand the methods used to rate video games, and identify the symbols
used to rate video games
Career Specialist: On the Pathway to Success
Presenters: Malura Shady, M.Ed., GCDF, Lakeside Middle School Level and GCDF in Anderson
School District Five; and Gale Clinkscales, GCDF, Career Specialist at Belton Middle School Level
in Anderson School District Two
Audience: Middle School Counselors, Secondary Counselors, Career Employment Counselors,
and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: Life Style/Career Development
Global Career Development Facilitators Competency Areas: Career Development, Program
Management/Implementation, and Promotion and Public Relations
Excitement, challenges, obstacles, and successes…what a year! Hear what several energetic middle
school career development facilitators accomplished their first year while implementing a developmental
career program model and Career Pathways. Come prepared to gather ideas and resources to assist you
as you bring a career focus to your school.
Objective: The audience will be able to develop new programs from the new idea and resources presented. GCDF
Competency Area:
Counseling Issues: Bullying and Students with Disabilities
Presenters; Insoo Oh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina and Julie Moss,
M.Ed., School Counselor, Hand Middle School
Counselors, Counselor Supervisors, Counselor Educators, and Mental Health Counselors
NBCC Content Areas: Human Growth & Development, Group Dynamics Processing & Counseling, and
School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System Addressed: (General: Comprehensive School Counseling)
This session will explore various counseling issues of bullying and students with disabilities. Overview
of research finding, effective intervention, case studies, and practical implications will be discussed.
Objective: The audience will be able to examine research relating to counseling issues of bullying and students
with disabilities.
Legal and Ethical Dilemmas Confronting the Professional
Group Counselor
Presenters: George T. Williams, Ed.D., Professor and Coordinator of School Counseling
Programs, The Citadel, Rachael Matthews, Lauren Kurtz, and Laura Wolfe (Graduate School
Counseling Students, The Citadel)
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Audience: Elementary-Secondary School Counselors, Counselor Supervisors, Mental Health
Counselors, Group Work Leaders, Post-Secondary, Supervision, and General
NBCC Content Area Group Dynamics Processing & Counseling and School Counseling (Guidance
This workshop will provide an overview of professional codes of ethics, legal guidelines, and dilemmas
confronting the group counselor. A major objective is to educate professional group counselors about
appropriate decision making whenever encountering difficult ethical and legal issues in group work.
Audience participants will have an opportunity to interact in small discussion groups. Handouts will
be provided and questions will be welcomed from audience participants.
Objective: Participants will be able to identify professional codes of ethics for group counselors.
Abuse and Trauma as a Barrier to Success
for our Children: Part II
Presenter: Don Elsey, Ed.D, LPCS, Clinical Coordinator of the Dee Norton Low Country
Children’s Center in Charleston, SC
Audience: Elementary, Middle, and High School Counselors, and General
This presentation examines the effects of trauma and abuse on children which can be staggering.
Often these are overlooked or misdiagnosed, leading to frustration and continued problems.
The program will look at common trauma symptoms, explore ways children accommodate trauma,
and review manifestations in classroom and evidenced-based treatment options.
Objectives: The participants will be able to 1) identify trauma symptoms, 2) recognize children’s skills to
accommodate trauma, 3) review manifestations in classroom and evidenced based treatment options.
Behavioral and Academic Intervention for Emotionally
Wounded and Unmotivated Students
Presenters: Art Grant, Ph.D, Counselor/Intervention Specialist, Daniel Morgan Technology
Center and Chris Mathis, Ph.D., Research Associate, South Carolina State University
Audience: Elementary School Counselors , Middle School Counselors, Secondary School
Counselors, Group Work Leaders, Counselor Supervisors, Mental Health Counselors, PostSecondary Counselors, Counselor Educators, Career or Employment Counselors, Marriage and
Family Therapists, and Diverse Audience
NBCC Content Areas: Helping Relationship, Social & Cultural Foundations and School Counseling
(Guidance Delivery System: Responsive Services System)
GCDF Competency Areas: Helping Skills, Diverse Populations, and Employability
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When the emotional needs of children and teens are unmet, educational and psycho-social
development also suffer. Children who are emotionally wounded due to abuse, unresolved anger and
resentment have difficulty learning the communication and problem-solving skills needed in school
and the world of work.
Objectives: After this workshop the participants will be able to: examine the impact of family dynamics on
the development of communication and decision making skills among emotionally wounded youth; identify
strategies for promoting parent/community involvement in meeting the needs of at-risk teens; discuss
strategies for reducing the high rates of absenteeism, disciplinary suspensions and violent behavior within
our schools and the community; and share techniques for reducing apathy and teaching the skills needed by
emotionally wounded youth to succeed in the current and future job market.
Program Session V
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Choosing the BEST Career Assessment Tools for your
Secondary, Post Secondary Students, and Adults/Clients
Presenter: Kathryn Hilgenkamp, Ed.D. LPC, GCDF, North Myrtle Beach Middle School
Audiences: Secondary School Counselors, Post Secondary School Counselors, Counselor
Educators, Career or Employment Counselors, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Appraisal of Individuals, Professional Orientation, Life
Style/Career Development, and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System Addressed: General
GCDF Competency Areas: Assessment, Ethical and Legal Issues, and Career Development Models
Career assessment tools are being produced and reproduced at record levels. Career and school
counselors, GCDFs, and administrators need to know which are theory-based, the most valid and
reliable. The predictability and utility of various career assessments will be provided.
Objective: The participant will be able to identify theory-based career basements at the close of the presentation.
White Male Identity Development: The Key Model
Presenter: David Scott, Ph.D., Community Counseling Program Coordinator & Assistant
Professor at Clemson University
Audience: Counselor Educators, Mental Health Counselors, and Career or Employment Counselors
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Helping Relationship and Life Style/Career Development
This presentation provides counselors with a model and tools to help them work with White men
and their identity development. The presenter will cover and explore numerous issues dealing with
multicultural/diversity such as race, ethnicity, gender, disability and socioeconomic class. This model
was also published in the Journal of Counseling and Development. The presenter will explain a
theoretical model of white male identity and the five types proposed by the key model, articulate
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Program Session V, 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm, continued
the need for a white identity model that is specific to men, and explore ways this identity development
concept is associated with the world of work.
Objective: After this session the participants will be able to have a clearer understanding of White male
identity development and possibly how to help them deal with oppression and racist views in the workplace
and community
Creative Application of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling
Approach to School Setting
Presenters: Insoo Oh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina and Tonya
Jasinski, M.Ed., Doctoral Candidate, University of South Carolina
Counselors, and Counselor Educators
NBCC Content Areas: Helping Relationship and School Counseling: Guidance Delivery System
(Responsive Services)
This session will provide school counselors with diverse application of Solution-Focused Brief
Counseling (SFBC) approach. Creative adaptations of principal techniques of SFBC (e.g., Miracle
Question and Scaling) using various materials will be demonstrated.
Objective: The audience will be able to experience diverse application of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling
approaches during a variety of demonstrations.
Organizational Tools and Advertising Strategies to
Promote a Successful Comprehensive Counseling Program
Presenters: Marie R. Goldsborough, M.A., NCC, Elementary School Counselor and Colleen J.
Barker, Ed.S., High School Counselor and National Board Certified Counselor Candidate
Audience: Elementary School Counselor, Middle School Counselor, Secondary School
Counselor, and Counselor Educator
NBCC Content Areas: Research and Evaluation and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System:
In this interactive and informative workshop, counselors will have the opportunity to receive a resource
packet full of different tools that will help them be organized and allow them to spend more time
counseling and less time on paperwork. Come to this workshop ready to gather a wealth of information,
and be sure to come with ideas from your own experiences to share with others!
Objectives: The participant will be able to cultivate a closer professional relation by discussing organizational
systems that have been successful in promoting a comprehensive program and to promote a greater awareness
of the role of school counseling programs by advertising to different populations (teachers, parents, students,
administrators, and the community) through various mediums.
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Program Session V, 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm, continued
Connecting with the Elderly Group through Music,
Exercise and Humor
Presenter: Pat Edmunds, M.Ed., Complementary Therapist at Hospice of the Upstate and Water
Fitness Instructor for the City of Clemson
Audience: Mental Health Counselor, Post-Secondary Counselor, Counselor Educator and
Counselors working with the elderly
NBCC Content Areas: Human Growth & Development, Helping Relationship, Group Dynamics
Processing & Counseling, and Life Style/Career Development
In a group setting, opening the mind body connection through relaxation in the less fit elderly
increases self-efficacy and confidence and can lead to a therapeutic exchange. Humor, as well as
improvisational Native American flute music, is combined along with simple exercises, using cross
body techniques while seated on land or immersed in water, to enhance skills and build confidence in
your more infirm clients.
Objective: The participants will be able to develop strategies to increase self-efficacy and confidence in the
elderly client.
Zero Tolerance for Sexual Harassment or Intimidation
of Any Nature
Presenter: Candice Bates-Quinn, M.Ed., LPC, Charleston County School District Coordinator,
School Guidance and Counseling
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, and Secondary School
Counselors
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling: Guidance Delivery System (System Support)
Beginning on the elementary level and continuing through all grades “0 Tolerance for Sexual Harassment”
protocol and procedures are shared with administration, students and parent. A proactive approach which
includes prevention and intervention strategies will be discussed.
Objective: The participants will examine a proactive approach including prevention and intervention
strategies for Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School Counselors.
Friday Evening
Dinner and Entertainment on
your own
(Registration packet contains discount coupons for local shows and voucher
for free coupon booklet at Tanger Outlets. Take proof of school employment or
have your name on list if pre-registered for free admission to Ripley’s Aquarium.)
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Saturday, February 9 At a Glance
8:00 am - 9:30 am.................... Presidential Breakfast/General Session (Atlantic 2 and 3
8:00 am - 11:30 am........................................................... Exhibit Viewing (North Hall)
9:15 am - 10:15 am....................................... Post-Convention Registration and Voting
9:30 am - 11:00 am........................................................................ Program Session VI
9:30 am - 12:30 pm......................................................... Post-Convention Workshops
11:00 am - 12:00 noon................................. Annual Business Meeing/Election Results
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm..................................................................... Lunch on your own
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm........................................................... Post-Convention Workshops
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Program Session VI
9:30 am - 11:00 am
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education 101:
Law and Implementation
Presenter: Brenda J. Myers, B.A., SC Department of Education State Coordinator of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Program
Audience: General and GCDF
NBCC Content Area: School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: Comprehensive School
Counseling)
This session will provide a basic overview of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Concrete
strategies for implementing the law in school districts will be discussed. Participants will learn how to
solve problems with the law, so that they can apply it to the real life situations that await them upon
return from the conference. The information presented provides professionals vital information to help
families and children who qualify for support.
Objectives: Participants will gain an understanding about how to support the implementation of the
reauthorized McKinney-Vento Act and to provide suggestions for this implementation in helping to support
children and families in South Carolina with children who may not have been identified.
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Program Session VI, 9:30 am to 11:00 am, continued
Violence Prevention Programs and Threat Assessment
in Schools
Presenters: Patricia Brandon, M.Ed., LPC, NCC, NCSC, Certified Family Mediator and Director
of Guidance at Dent Middle School in Richland School District Two and Brittany Parker,
Counseling Intern in the USC Ed. S. Program
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, High School Counselors,
and Counselor Educator, and Mental Health Counselors.
NBCC Content Areas: Helping relationship, Appraisal, Research/Evaluation, Professional Orientation,
and School Counseling (General: Comprehensive School Counseling)
This program will examine current violence prevention programs in schools, address criteria for
successful programs, and focus on appropriate threat assessment for schools as defined by results of a
collaborative effort between the US Department of Education and the US Secret Service.
Objective: The audience will be able to identify prevention programs with assessments defined by results of a
collaborative effort between the US Department of Education and the US Secret Service.
Treating Asperger’s Syndrome Using a Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy Model
Presenter: Jim Garvey, M.A., LPC, LPCS and a National Certified CBT and Director and
Founder of the Cognitive Behavioral Clinic specializing in the treatment of high functioning
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presentation Room: Oleander A
Counselors, Post Secondary School Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Career or
Employment Counselors
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Helping Relationships, Appraisal of Individual, and School
Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: Responsive Services)
The presentation will cover clinical symptoms from a developmental perspective. How does Asperser’s
Syndrome fit into Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Model will be
examined as presenting the best practice model for treating high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Objective: The audience will explore the developmental perspective and the best treatment model for high
functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Program Session VI, 9:30 am to 11:00 am, continued
Does Counseling Intervention Impact the Behavior of
Alternative School Students?
Presenters: Carolyn Woodbury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling, South
Carolina State University, Cassandra Sligh-Dewalt, Ph.D., Research Associate, and Adjunct
Professor, SCSU, Christopher C. Mathis, Jr., Ph.D. Research Assistant,1890 Research,
Oni Hasan McDade, and Shara Y. Jones, M.Ed., Graduate Students, Counseling Education-SCSU
Counselors, Mental Health Counselors, Post-Secondary Counselors, Counselor Educator Career
or Employment Counselors, Counselor Supervisors, and GCDFs
NBCC Content Area: Counseling Theory, Social and Cultural Foundations, Helping Relationship,
Group Dynamics Processing & Counseling and School Counseling (Guidance Delivery System:
GCDF Competency Areas: Helping Skills, Labor Market Information and Resources, Diverse
Populations, Employability, and Program Management/Implementation
Research shows that citizens in South Carolina consider discipline and violence the largest problem
in alternative schools. However, most discipline problems are not violent, but they create anxious
disruptions that are always on the border of escalating, and consume better spent teaching. Hence,
educators and legislators have responded to these disruptions by raising the stakes for students. As
a result of zero-tolerance policies that have been adopted by 90% of the US schools, tolerance and
disruptive and unlawful behaviors are retreating while suspensions and expulsions are ever increasing
rapidly. Whereby, many school districts now have established alternative schools for at-risk students
and behavior problem students who chronically disrupt school to make schools in the district dangerous.
Moreover, it has been reported that alternative schools are effective in meeting the needs of these at-risk
students, and providing a safer and more positive learning environment for regular schools.
Objectives: At the close of this workshop the audience will be able to: investigate the impact of the behavior
of alternative school students through counseling intervention; determine and describe the characteristics of
the alternative schools; determine the primary purpose of alternative school; and disseminate accurate and
important information concerning alternative schools/programs that enable educational leaders to make
effective decisions regarding the practices of students being serves at these schools/programs.
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Post-Convention Workshops
(Separate fees required for these.)
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Play Therapy in a School Setting: A Shared Responsibility
Presenters: Keren Riegel, Ed.S., LPCS, RPTS, NCC, NCSC and Sarah Smith,Ed.S., are
Elementary School Counselors at Edward E. Taylor Elementary School in Richland School
District One in Columbia, SC.
Audience: Elementary School Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Play Therapists
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory and Helping Relationship and School Counseling
(Guidance Delivery System: Responsive Services)
This presentation is designed as an introductory training session for school counselors wishing to
incorporate “play therapy” into their school counseling programs. This workshop is especially targeting
those counselors working with young children who are not being reached with other counseling
strategies. The speakers will present information on ways to incorporate the practice of play therapy
into school counseling programs. This workshop targets those school counselors who want to learn
about the fundamentals of using play therapy in a school setting.
Objectives: At the completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: list the toys necessary for a playroom;
understand the time and the logistics for doing play therapy in a school setting; know which children and
circumstances respond best to play therapy in the school setting; see a video of play sessions in a school setting;
understand ways to job share the counselor position in an elementary school.
Keren M. Riegel, Ed.S., NCC, NCSC is a Registered Play Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
Supervisor, and Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Mrs. Riegel is Past President and a Founding Member of SCAPT and currently works as a School
Counselor. She previously worked as a special education and classroom teacher prior to her career as
an elementary school counselor in Richland School District One. She is in private practice focusing
on work with children and families. She has presented at local and state conventions on the subject of
Play Therapy and “Sand play.”
Sarah Shealy Smith was awarded an Ed.S. in Counseling from the University of South Carolina
in 2004 and a M.Ed. in Student Personnel Services from USC in 1991. She is a certified school
counselor working toward her Registered Play Therapist with APT. At this time she is employed as a
School Counselor at E. E. Taylor Elementary School in Columbia, SC and in the past has served as a
Gifted and Talented Teacher, an Educational Talent Search Counselor, a Language Arts High School
Teacher, and a Career Specialist at Midlands Tech Prep.Description
Stewards of Children: Training for Adults on Resolving
Child Sexual Abuse within Communities
Presenter: George T. Williams, Ed.D. Professor and Coordinator of Counselor Education Programs:
The Citadel Graduate College
Audience: All
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Post-Convention Workshops, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, continued
NBCC Content Areas: Social and Cultural Foundations, Helping Relationship, and School
Counseling (Guidance Delivery System: Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services,
System Support, General—Comprehensive School Counseling)
Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children training is a revolutionary sexual abuse prevention training
program that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse
and motivates them to courageous action. The dynamic Stewards of Children program is designed
for organizations that serve children, youth, and any/all adults interested in protecting children.
Workshop participants will be provided with the Stewards of Children Training Workbook while
participating in the actual 3-hour interactive, video-driven, evidence-based Stewards of Children
training which will be facilitated by an Authorized Stewards of Children Facilitator. Participants will
also receive a Stewards of Children Attendance Certificate.
Objectives: After the Stewards of Children training, participants will be able to identify: the facts of child
sexual abuse incidence rates and effects on individuals and society; reasons child sexual abuse happens; people
responsible for the protection of children; importance of screening staff/volunteers who work with children
and adolescents; the importance of a well conceived one-adult/one-child policy; resources to react responsibly to
incidents of child sexual abuse; and the proactive role that youth-serving organizations need to take to protect
children and educate their communities about child sexual abuse.
George T. Williams earned a B.A. in Psychology (1974), M.Ed. in Counselor Education (1977),
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; Eddy in Counselor Education (1983), University of Cincinnati;
and is presently a Professor and Coordinator of Counselor Education Programs at The Citadel.
Post-Convention Supervision Workshop
9:30 am - 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Supervision Adlerian Style = Anxiety Reduction for Clients
and Supervisors!
Presenters: Jane Lawther, Ph.D., Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and Don Robinson,
M.D., Consultant
Presentation Room: Osprey
Audience: General and Supervisors
NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory, Helping Relationship, and Group Dynamics Processing
and Counseling
This interactive group session designed for all to learn from each other will welcome participant
reactions and ideas. Presenters also focus on elements of anxiety reduction in supervision include the
following: understanding the physiology of stress; taking charge of your personal health and healing;
and attending to life style while sharing responsibility for the supervision process.
Objectives: Participants will be able to reaffirm the physiological/emotional causes of anxiety; name ways to
take charge of their health; and demonstrate sharing the responsibility for supervision.
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Post-Convention Supervision Workshop, continued
Jane Lawther, Ph.D., LPCS, and Don Robinson, M.D, have for 25 years presented at SCCA and
other counseling meetings. Their participatory style welcomes colleagues’ involvement. Participants
are invited to share their knowledge and expertise. Operating on the Adlerian cornerstone that “None
of us is as smart as all of us,” these presenters claim that they have traditionally learned more than
they have taught. Always well prepared and stimulation, their sessions are an adventure in interaction.
Both Don and Jane are retired, but they are busily at work every day with volunteer activities.
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Exhibitors and Contributors
ACT
Career Training Concepts, Inc.
Chestnut Hill
Coastal Carolina University
Furman University
Gulf Stream Cafe
Heartwood Institute
Johnny Rocket’s at Broadway at the Beach
Johnny Rocket’s at Barefoot Landing
Kuder
Mar co Products, Inc.
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Myrtle Beach Cultural and Leisure Department
Palmetto Behavioral Health
NCS Pearson
SCOIS
South Carolina Association of Play Therapy
South Carolina Student Loan Corporation
Trident Technical College
Webster University
Youthlight
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SCCA Continuing Education (CE) Questions:
LPC, NCC, GCDF, Teacher Certification, and Play Therapy
Continuing Education (CE) is provided by the South Carolina Counselor Association (SCCA). SCCA is
recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the SC Board of Counselors (LPC),
Therapists (MFT) and Psycho-Educational Specialists (PES) to offer Continuing Education and abides by the
NBCC Guidelines. The Contact Hours from this convention can be used for renewal for: LPCs, MFTs, and PESs
(Provider # P-069) and for National Certified Counselors, National Certified School Counselors, other NCC
specialty areas certificates (Permanent NBCC ACEP Provider # 2041), Teacher Re-Certification, and Global
Career Development Facilitators(GCDF) if the workshop objectives comply with The Center for Credentialing
and Education GCDF Competency Areas (www.cce-global.org). The SCSCA Conference adheres to South Caroline State
Department of Education Teacher Certification Renewal Guidelines (www.scteachers.org).
Many participants have questions about the Continuing Education (CE) process. Many of your questions may be
answered in this document. If you have specific questions, please contact the SCCA Professional Development
Chairperson, Norma Kimrey Colwell.
What is a Verification of Attendance Certificate (VOAC)? It is the certificate awarded to you at the completion
of your workshop or seminar documenting your Professional Development Contact Hours for certification and/or
licensure. The VOAC is located in the SCCA Program Booklet. You will receive a separate VOAC for supervision and/or
play therapy workshops.
Can I use the Workshop Contact Hours to satisfy my license and/or certification renewal requirement for LPC,
NCC, NCSC, MFT, etc? Yes, you can use the contact hours at this convention since SCCA is a permanent provider
for Board for National Certified Counselors and the South Carolina Board of Counselors, Therapists and PsychoEducational Specialists.
Can I use the Contact Hours from this workshop or seminar to satisfy my requirement for SC Teacher
Certification Renewal? Each certified School Counselor employed in SC is required to develop a Professional
Development Plan. Some school districts may require pre-approval to choose options #6 or #10 from the 2004
Revised SC State Department of Education Certificate Renewal Matrix. School Counselors may be able to include
SCCA Convention Contact Hours as professional trainings in the 120 credit hours needed during the five year
renewal cycle. In making plans to use the SCCA Contact Hours the School Counselor must apply the following
*criteria: relates to the counselor’s Professional Development plan, relates to area of certification, relates to the district
goals and has professional relevance to the educational setting. Most Professional Development Plans must be preapproved and reviewed by the school district Certification Coordinator. (*For more detailed information note the
Certification website and other contact information listed at the end of this document.)
What can be counted for Contact Hours? Participation during a learning experience such as workshop sessions,
trainings, and/or seminars earn Contact Hours. Breaks, lunches, committee or administrative meetings can NOT earn
Contact Hours.
How does SCCA provide Continuing Education for counselors and therapists? SCCA is a permanent provider
for the NBCC (NBCC ACEP Provider # 2041) and the South Carolina Board of Counselors, Therapists and
Psycho-Educational Specialists (Provider #P-069). As a permanent provider SCCA provides Continuing Education
for Licensed Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psycho-Educational Specialists, National
Certified Counselors (NCCs), National Certified School Counselors (NCSCs) and other Nationals Certified
Counselor specialty area certifications.
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If I have another license and/or certification can the Contact Hours from the workshop or seminar
apply? Other professional groups, licensing boards and/or certification bodies may not grant pre-approval
of training activities, but they may accept the training in accordance with their procedures and the nature
of the training. Psychologists, nurses, social workers, child life specialists, etc. may wish to submit the
convention and workshop objectives including the Verification of Attendance Certificate for consideration.
APT Continuing Education: The SC Association for Play Therapy (APT Provider Number 99-061)
is co-sponsoring several workshops during this convention. SCAPT is approved by APT to offer
Continuing Education-specific to Play Therapy. SCAPT maintains responsibility for the qualifying
workshop programs. Participants receive Verification of Attendance Certificates awarded by SCAPT
after attending the qualifying workshops. Please look for the new SCAPT-APT Logo noting
“qualifying” workshops. You will be awarded a separate VOAC from SCAPT-APT (www.sca4pt.com
or www.a4pt.org) for “Play Therapy” qualified training.
Will SCCA and/or the SC State Department of Education (SC SDE) send my Verification of Attendance
Certificate to the National Board of Certified Counselors, SC Board of Counselors, Therapists, and PsychoEducational Specialists, or the SC Teacher Certification Office? No, it is the responsibility of the workshop or
seminar participants to obtain the Verification of Attendance Certificate and maintain it for their records not the
responsibility of SCCA or SC SDE.
Can I use SCCA Workshop Contact Hours to satisfy my license and/or certification renewal requirement
for LPC, NCC, NCSC, MFT, etc? Yes, since SCCA is a permanent provider for Board for National Certified
Counselors and the South Carolina Board of Counselors, Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists.
Can I use the Workshop Contact Hours to satisfy my certification as a Global Career Development Facilitator
(GCDF)? Yes, if the workshop objectives comply with the GCDF Competency Areas those are located on the
CCE website (www.cce-global.org).
What about LPC license and/or NCC audits? The NBCC and SC Board of Examiners for LPCs, MFTs, and PESs
conduct random annual audits at which time the audited LPC and/or NCC shall provide completed Continuing
Education documentation and/or certificates to the board.
Global Career Development Facilitators can contact The Center for Credentialing and Education
(www.cce-global.org) which a corporate affiliate of NBCC® for more information.
For additional information for LPCs, MFTs or PESs please call the SC Board of Examiners at 803-896-4658
(FAX: 803-896-4719) or log onto the website: http://www.llr.state.sc.us/POL/Counselor
For more information about the Revised Teacher Certification Renewal Plan contact the Certification Office at
803-734-8466 between the hours of 1:00-4:00 PM (Monday-Friday) or the certification website: www.scteachers.org.
SCCA Professional Development Chairperson, Norma Kimrey Colwell; 241 Rimer Pond Road; Blythewood, SC
29016; Phone: 803-691-5949, FAX: 803-738-8895 or Home E-mail: [email protected]
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