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9:00am PDT

Inclusive Leadership in Agency Counseling SettingLIMITED Inclusive Leadership in Counselor Education SettingFULL OSU Portland Center - 2nd Floor Inclusive Leadership in School Counseling SettingLIMITED

1:00pm PDT

DEI in Counseling Leadership: Conversations with National Counseling LeadersLIMITED

2:00pm PDT

Inclusive Leadership in Counselor Education and SupervisionLIMITED OSU Portland Center - 2nd Floor

3:15pm PDT

Reflective ConclusionLIMITED OSU Portland Center - 2nd Floor

5:30pm PDT

President Reception Skyline Lounge

8:00am PDT

Ecological Supervision with Counseling Trainees Galleria 1 Deconstructing clinical supervision. Multicultural sensitivity in the global context. Parlor C I Am Going, Despite the Stigma: African American Men's Help-Seeking in Counseling Parlor B Cultural Humility: Counseling Student’s Lessons Learned through an International Immersion Galleria 3 Framing Self-Care as a Clinical Skill: Implications for Inclusive and Equitable Counselor Training Galleria 2

9:00am PDT

Updates in DSM-5-TR for Counselor Educators and Supervisors Galleria 3 Decolonizing self-care: Empowering clinician development through cultural identity exploration Parlor C Coffee and Donuts Graduate Student Mixer Parlor A Supervisees Staying Out of Trouble Galleria 2 Addressing Microaggressions and issues of Accomendations with Students of African Descent Galleria 1 Referencing CIT's lived experience to strengthen empathic attunement: An integrated approach Parlor B

10:00am PDT

Keynote Session: RAW *Realism * Authenticity * Wisdom: Counselors Leading with Purpose and Passion to Decolonize Systems! Grand Ballroom I

11:00am PDT

Meet the KeynoteLIMITED Parlor A Addressing the Training Needs of Latinx Graduate Students from a Liberatory Perspective Galleria 3 Not an Option But a Necessity! Clinical Peer Supervision for Practicing School Counselors Galleria 1 Toward Fostering an Antiracist Counselor Education Program Galleria 2 Training K-5 School Counselors to Meet Mental Health Demand Parlor C

12:00pm PDT

Cross-cultural validity of the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Survey Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 COVID'S Changed It All!: Evolving Roles of School Counselors Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 Helping Counseling Trainees Develop Their Professional Identity and Path towards Clinical Practice Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 7 Reflecting on 14 Years of Cross Racial Bridging and Elevating Student Capacity as Agents of Change Galleria 3 Shedding the Weight of Societal Pressure: Addressing Anti-Fat Bias Through a Disability Justice Lens Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3 “First Generation College Students, Here To Thrive” Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 Deconstructing Supervision: Multicultural Responsiveness through Solidarity and Liberative Justice Parlor C Developing Bilingual Pedagogy, Training, and Supervision Galleria 2 Embracing an Emancipatory, Anti-racist Approach to Supervision Galleria 1 Impact of Cultural Identity on the Dispositional Assessment of Counseling Students Using the CCS-R Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4 School Counselors’ Sustained Use of Technology in the COVID-19 Pandemic Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8

1:00pm PDT

New Virtual Realities: Using Faculty Observation to Improve Development of Counselors-in-Training Galleria 3 Researcher Know Thyself Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3 Virtual Research Labs for Counselors-in-Training (CITs) Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 2 Building Social Justice & Action into Counselor Training: Challenging a Counseling Training Clinic Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 Culturally Responsive Mentoring of Latino Graduate Students in Counseling Galleria 2 Embodied Social Justice in Counselor Education Galleria 1 Incorporating Service Learning Opportunities to Foster Counselors-in-Training's Cultural Humility Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 Training Counselors to work with Chronic Illness and Organ Transplantation Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8 Welcoming LGBTQ+ Students: Best Practices and Experiences within the Field of Counselor Education Parlor C Is it time to create a set of competencies for provisionally licensed counselors? Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4 Collaboration Across Disciplines: The Value of Integrative Care within School-Based Systems Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 7 COVID-19's Impact on the Counseling Field: Incorporating Self-Care and Wellness into Curricula Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 Career Connection Parlor A

2:00pm PDT

Strategies to Improve Male Engagement in Addictions Counseling: A Qualitative Exploration Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8 Inclusive Counselor Education through Support of Non-Native English-Speaking Counseling Students Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 Does my research demonstrate multicultural and social justice sensitivity? Parlor C Teaching the Scariest Course: Innovative Methods for Master’s Level Research Class Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 2 Investigating School Counselor Competency Regarding LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Galleria 2 Multicultural Considerations in Rehabilitation Counseling: Building an Alliance and Becoming an Ally Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4 Racial Microaggressions: Negotiating Them as Students and Faculty in Higher Education Galleria 3 Creating procedural knowledge through live supervision and deliberate practice Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 Towards a Liberation Supervision Galleria 1 Building your instructional expertise: Five axioms every doc student needs to know. Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 CACREP 2024 Standards Revision: Status Update Parlor B Continued Implementation: Application of the Updated ASERVIC Spiritual Competencies in CES Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 7 Navigating Grief & Trauma as a Counselor Educator Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3 ACES State Branch Meeting with ACES Leadership Room 2206

3:00pm PDT

Cultivating Leaders of Color in Counselor Education and Supervision Parlor C Counseling for Resiliency: Utilizing Strengths-Based Therapy with LGBTQ+ Clients Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 7 Gatekeeping and Remediation: Properties of the Professional Dispositions Competency Assessment Galleria 3 Rehabilitation Counselors' Perceptions of Ethical Behavior & The Use of Technology: Pre/Post COVID Galleria 1 Licensed Professional Counselors Utilization of the Counseling Compact Parlor B Facilitating Advocacy Counseling Skills Utilizing Advocacy Evaluation Galleria 2 CACREP School Counseling Standards vs. ASCA CAEP SPA Standards: Professional Identity Implications Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 2 Igniting Doctoral Dreams in Practicing School Counselors Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 Addressing the English Learner Deficit Model: Dismantling and reconstructing an educational system Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8 Broaching Experiences from Counselor Educator, Doctoral Student, and Master Learner Perspectives Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 Cross-Cultural Mentoring in Counselor Education Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 Supervising Students to Understand the Immigrant Experience Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3 Restructuring Practicum and Internship to Incorporate Multicultural Activities and Discussions Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4

4:00pm PDT

The Importance of Advocacy for Advancing Professional Counselor Identity Parlor B Centering Disability In Social Justice Counseling Conversations Parlor C Moving toward Healing and Liberation: Dismantling Anti-Black Racism Personally and Professionally Galleria 1 Field-based Clinical Supervision: Lessons Learned Galleria 2 The Impact of a Paid Internship: A Qualitative Look Inside Interns' Experiences Galleria 3

5:00pm PDT

WACES BIPOC Panel Grand Ballroom I

8:00pm PDT

Graduate Student Meetup Hop City Tavern (hotel lobby)

8:00am PDT

WACES Environmental Climate Change and Counselor Education Summit Parlor B Gatekeeping vs. Key-making: Experiences of Racial Bias in Counselor Evaluation Parlor C Getting Ahead of the Curve - Professional, Ethical, and Legal Issues in the Psychedelic Renaissance Galleria 1 How Are We Doing? Assessing Trans and Gender Expansive Competency Among Trainees Using the GICCS-R Galleria 3 Using Artificial Intelligence to Change the Game in Training Counselors Galleria 2

8:30am PDT

Climate Change and Youth Mental Health in Oregon Parlor B

9:00am PDT

Managing the Journey: Counseling Faculty Career Development Galleria 1 Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Experiences of Innovative Technology for Counselors-In-Training Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 The Experiences of Collegiality by Early-Career Counselor Educators Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3 A Juggling Act: Prioritizing during Graduate School Parlor A ARCA Disability-Related Competencies: Strategies to Embrace Inclusive Practices Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8 BIPOC Student Narratives of Campus Climate at a Predominately White Institution Parlor C Supporting Undocumented Students in Schools: Reflections of Training Strategies for Counselors Galleria 2 The Power of Collective Healing Among Asian College Womxn Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 2 Effects of the Supervisory Relationship on Counselors Development of Self-Efficacy Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 7 CACREP Table Talk Galleria 3 Embodied Trauma-Informed Teaching: How Do We Teach Trauma Counseling Class? Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 Faculty Coteaching in Counselor Education Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 Teaching Group Counseling in a Zoom Format Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4

9:30am PDT

Climate Change and Student Mental Health: school counselor and environmental education partnerships Parlor B

10:00am PDT

Ethical Eating Disorder Treatment: What Counselor Educators and Supervisors Need to Know Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8 An Exploration of Student-lead Multicultural Process Groups Parlor C Encouraging Advocate Identity Development in Master's Level Counseling Students Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 Integrating the Competencies for Counseling Multiracial Populations into Counselor Education Galleria 3 Supporting immigrant students and families by using community cultural wealth Galleria 2 Understanding Asian American college students’ COVID-19 related experiences: A national dataset Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 The Mindful, Motivational Supervisor Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 2 Examining Current IPV Training in Counselor Education: Research Findings and Implications Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 Teaching DSM-5 diagnosis and assessment from an intersectional feminist framework Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4 Teaching Supervision: A creative approach to training doctoral student supervisors Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3

10:30am PDT

Climate Change & Mental Health: Proposed counselor training, competencies, and curriculum Parlor B

11:00am PDT

Supporting East and Southeast Asian Clients: A Panel on Culturally-Centered Training and Practices Parlor C International Student and Faculty Interest Network Meeting Parlor A Implicit Bias Comes to Life: Incorporating IB Effectively into Your Multicultural Counseling Course Galleria 1 Basic Assumptions in Developing Counselor Identity: Perceptions of CIT's and clinical supervisors. Galleria 2 Clinical Supervision of Students Counseling LGBTQ+ Clients Galleria 3

12:00pm PDT

Business Lunch, Sponsored by Palo Alto University Grand Ballroom I

1:30pm PDT

Testing Measurement Invariance for Supervisee Disclosure in Supervision Grand Ballroom Foyer Meaning, burnout, belongingness and firefighter suicide Grand Ballroom Foyer Rural Parent Perspectives on Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment Grand Ballroom Foyer Narratives of Sexual Boundary Crossing with Counselor Educators and Supervisors Grand Ballroom Foyer Construction and Validation of the Climate-Aware Counselor Scale Grand Ballroom Foyer Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Supervisor Competence and Counselor Burnout Grand Ballroom Foyer COVID-19 Online Racism: Lessons from Asian and their families Grand Ballroom Foyer DEI: Experiential Activities to Broach Biases and Stereotypes Grand Ballroom Foyer How is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Taught in Graduate Counseling Programs?: A Proposed Study Grand Ballroom Foyer Relationship centered graduate education: A thirty-year narrative review of relational pedagogy Grand Ballroom Foyer Using the Discriminant Model with a Multicultural Lens for Counseling Interns Grand Ballroom Foyer Exploring Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalizations: How Trauma-Informed Care Can Promote Healing Grand Ballroom Foyer Impact of an exercise program on participants’ perceived well-being during substance use recovery Grand Ballroom Foyer

2:00pm PDT

How To Teach Your Students to Get to Their Clients' Core Pain and Grow from It Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 6 The Role of Mindfulness in Addressing Counseling Students’ Stress and Self-Efficacy Grand Ballroom II -Roundtable 3 Through Our Lens: Liberatory Research In Action Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 2 Collective Space: An Anti-Racist Strength Based Framework for BIPOC Mentorship Parlor B Counseling Womxn: Developing an Elective on Intersectional Issues in Women's Mental Health Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 1 Ditching the Textbook in the Culture Course Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 7 Hands-On Comprehensive Approach to Developing DEI Competence in Masters Level Students Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 8 Supporting International Counseling Students during COVID-19: Considerations for Counselor Educators Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 5 Trends in International Counselor Education: Cultural and Training Implications Parlor C Living Outside the Lines: Navigating Academic Careers Beyond the Tenure Track Galleria 1 Teaching Trauma: Lessons Learned from the Classroom Grand Ballroom II - Roundtable 4 Preventing Burnout: Self-Compassion and Self-Care for School Counselors Galleria 2

3:00pm PDT

The Nuts and Bolts of Creating and Operating a Tele-mental Health Training Clinic Galleria 3 Ecotherapy: Moving From the Classroom Into Clinical Practice Parlor B Use-of-Self as an Instrument in Antiracist Teaching and Professional Development Galleria 1 Ethics and Bias: The Impact of Stigma on Clinicians, Clinical Assessments, and Treatment Access Parlor C Managing Value Differences in Counseling Galleria 2

4:00pm PDT

The Consideration of Lifespan Development Through a Cultural and Contextual Lens Parlor B Preparing Counselors in Training to Meet the Needs of Transgender Clients Parlor C Transformative Instruction for Online and Hybrid Learners Galleria 2 The Mind-Body Connection: Transformative SEL for Graduate Counseling Students Galleria 3