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Friday, 28 June, 2024

8:30 am - 10:30 am Registration
9:30 am - 10:30 am Breakout Session #1
10:30 am-11:00 am Opening remarks from IAC and Assocounseling
11:00 am - 11:15 am IAC Keynote Speaker Roberta Metsola
11:15 am - 12:00 pm IAC Keynote Speaker Christine Suniti Bhat 
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Assocounseling Keynote Speaker Anna Castiglione
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch Break & IAC General Assembly (Annual Meeting)
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Breakout Session #2
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Coffee Break
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Breakout Session #3
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm IAC Europe Meeting

Saturday, 29 June, 2024

Sunday, 30 June, 2024

IAC Keynote Speakers

Dr. Roberta Metsola
President of the European Parliament
(Virtual Presentation)

Dr. Christine Suniti Bhat
President-elect of the American Counseling Association
Look Within and Find Your HERO!

IAC Main Stage Presentations

Ms. Jodie McKenzie, Changing Landscapes: A Transformative Journey in Austrailian Counselling

Dr. James Underhill, World Health Organization (WHO), on WHO/UNICEF EQUIP project

Dr. Richard Balkin on Practicing Forgiveness

Dr. Marvin Westwood, Dr. Richard LaFleur, David Savill, Dr. Grant Charles, Dr. Jürgen Müller-Hohagen, and Ingeborg Müller-Hohagen, Dialogue Instead of Trauma

Dr. Wendi Schweiger-Moore, Director, Global Capacity Building, National Board for Certified Counselors (USA)

Dr. Mehmet N Akkurt (Lamar University, USA)

Mr. Dominic Nsona, Counselling in Africa

Dr. Dione Mifsud on The Future of Counselling in Europe

DETAILED SCHEDULE

Friday, 28 June, 2024

8:30-10:30 am Registration, Plenary Room

9:30-10:30 am Breakout session #1

Oceania Room

9:30-10:00 am William G. Nicoll
Widening the Counselors Lens: Working with Children & Adolescent Concerns: Resilience-Based Schools & Families

10:00-10:30 am Yan Yan and Mehmet Akkurt
Reframing Resilience for Disadvantaged Children and Youth through Positive Storybook Reading Practice

London Room

9:30-10:00 am Don Redmond and Madelene Uytdewilligen
Cross-Atlantic Counselling Collaboration – A Decade of Knowledge Sharing between Dutch and US-based Counselor Training Organizations

10:00-10:30 am Kristi Perryman, Denise Lenares, Paul Blisard
University of Arkansas Partnership with Belize School Counselors

Paris Room

9:30-10:00 am Roberta Borgen
Resilient Engagement: Aligning Challenge and Capacity for a Sustainable Life

10:00-10:30 am Sue Pressman and Simone Lambert
A Holistic Approach to Wellbeing and Resilience for Aspiring Counselling Leaders

Vienna & Berlin Room

9:30-10:00 am Edward Ewe
A Culturally Responsive Counselor’s Guide to Working with Grief and Loss

10:00-10:30 am Shannon Holliday, Shandra Harris, and Shannon McFarlin
"At Least She Didn't Suffer:" Cultural Responses to Grief and Implications for Counselling

10:30-11:00 am Conference Opening, Plenary Room

11:00 am - 1:00 pm Plenary Keynotes, Plenary Room

IAC Plenary Keynote: Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (Virtual Presentation)

IAC Plenary Keynote: Dr. Christine Suniti Bhat, President-elect of the American Counseling Association
Look Within and Find Your HERO!

AssoCounseling Plenary Keynote: Anna Castiglione
Building Climate Resilience and Personal Well-being

1:00-2:30 pm Lunch break & IAC General Assembly (for IAC members only, Plenary Room)

2:30-4:30 pm Breakout Session #2

Plenary Room

AssoCounseling Speech: Andrea Gogliani
Innovation

IAC Speech: Jodie McKenzie
Changing Landscapes: A Transformative Journey in Austrailian Counselling

AssoCounseling Speech: Stefano Zoletto
Pride and Prejudice: Per una dimensione europea del counseling LGBTQIA+

IAC Speech: James Underhill, World Health Organization
WHO/UNICEF EQUIP Project

London Room

2:30-3:00 pm Dione Mifsud
The Counselling Profession: A Victim of Professional Appropriation?

3:00-3:30 pm Mehmet N Akkurt and Manal Saleh
Building Community Resilience in Developing Countries through Sustainable Mental Health Initiatives

3:30-4:00 pm David Walther
Bridging the Gap Between International Counselling Needs and Shortages of Global Mental Health Professionals Through Lay Counselors

4:00-4:30 pm Stefania Falcinelli
Transcultural Counselling and Transcultural Cooperation: Effective Communications and Diplomacy for True Resilience and Lasting Well-being

Paris Room

2:30-3:00 pm Anita A. Neuer Colburn and David Walther
Ethical Integration of Spirituality for Wellness and Resilience

3:00-3:30 pm Simone Lambert, Michele Kielty, Tenisha Phillips, Valentina Riso
Promoting Wellness amidst Chronic Illness: Incorporating Social Justice and Spirituality to Build Resiliency

3:30-4:00 pm Damien Ridge and Nikolaos Souvlakis
An Empirical Exploration of Working with Spirituality and Faith in the Counselling Room

4:00-4:30 pm Mary K Whiting
Broaching Religious Considerations in Counselling in an Increasingly Polarized World

Vienna & Berlin Room

2:30-3:00 pm Russell Fulmer
The Ethical Landscape of Artificial Intelligence and Counselling: Reflections and Suggestions

3:00-3:30 pm Patricia Kimball and Lotes Nelson
Exploring Personal Values Through the Use of a Photovoice Inspired Creative Exercise: I See Me (ICMe)

3:30-4:00 pm Deepak Mathew
Successful Career Decision-Making in a Digital Economy: Qualitative Study of Young People in Canada

4:00-4:30 pm Anumbano (Anum) Ali, Juan Puente, Rochelle Cade
Wellness Assessment Tools for Professional Counselors

Oceania Room 

AssoCounseling workshop: Tommaso Valleri
Counselling: fondamenti professionali e giuridici

4:30-5:00 pm Coffee Break

5:00-6:30 pm Breakout Session #3

Plenary Room

AssoCounseling Speech: Fernando Battista & Doriana Crema, Anime Migranti
Anime migranti

AssoCounseling Speech: David Mariotti
Riflessioni su identità e agire professionale del counselor in Italia

IAC Speech: Mr Dominic Nsona
Counselling in Africa

London Room (5:00-6:00 pm)

5:00-5:30 pm Shandra Harris and Shannon McFarlin
From Generational Trauma to Generational Healing: Assessment and Counselling through a Cultural Framework

5:30-6:00 pm Brandonn S. Harris and Megan Byrd
Athlete Wellbeing: Considerations for Mental Health Professionals working with Sport Communities and Competitive Athletes

Oceania Room (5:00-7:00 pm)

5:00-5:30 pm Anna Ballesteros-Urpí, Francesc Gomez-Morales, Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa
Counselling and Mental Health: A Peer Support Group in a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Day Hospital Context

5:30-6:00 pm Michelle R. Ghoston and Jasmine Graham
Neuro-informed Education in Counselling with Children and Adolescents

6:00-6:30 pm Jasmine Graham and Michelle Ghoston
Stepped Care Models of Integrated Maternal Mental Health Care: How Counselors Can Help

6:30-7:00 pm Jeanine Balzan Engerer
How do Youths Experience Creative Counselling?: Stories of Youth Making Meaning of Creative Counselling and Identity Formation

Paris Room (5:00-7:00 pm)

5:00-5:30 pm Jane M. Webber, Julia K. Runte, and Caitlin Braine
Experiences of Threatened Afghan Scholars and Students on their Journey to Resettlement in European Universities: Lessons Learned in Counselor Advocacy

5:30-6:00 pm Terence Yee
International Counselor Educators' Experience Navigating through the Job Search and Immigration Process in the United States

6:00-6:30 pm Emily Hardman
Embracing Dual Heritage, Confronting Mental Health: The Struggles of Children of Immigrants

6:30-7:00 pm Eugene Chi and Ishu Ishiyama
Help-Seeking Experiences of Immigrants with Cultural Syndromes: Female Korean Immigrants with a Korean Cultural Syndrome (Hwa-byung) in Canada

Vienna & Berlin Room (5:00-7:00 pm)

5:00-5:30 pm Gideon Litherland and Anita Neuer Colburn
Centering Support for Clinical Supervisors: A Framework for Supporting, Training, and Monitoring Graduate Program Supervisors

5:30-6:00 pm Gideon Litherland, Edward Ewe, Gretchen Schulthes
Fostering Collaboration and Sponsorship in Mentoring

6:00-6:30 pm Laurie A Persh
Supervising for Cultural Humility and Competence with International Counselling Students or Interns

6:30-7:00 pm Laurie A Persh
The Importance of Understanding Family Systems Therapy Practice and Opportunity for General Practice Counselors in Training Under Supervision

London Room (6:00-8:00 pm)

IAC Europe Meeting, chaired by Anna Ballesteros
 

Saturday, 29 June, 2024

8:00-10:00 am Registration, Plenary Room

9:00-11:00 am Breakout Session #4

Oceania Room

9:00-9:30 am Lisa Isenman
Identity, Culture, and Infertility

9:30-10:00 am Vanessa Lim
Life is Hard, Make Friends: Counselling and the Power of Ordinary Relationships Across Cultures

10:00-10:30 am Nathan C. D. Perron, Vanessa Lim and Lisa Isenman
International Counselling Development: Impacting Global Mental Health Locally

10:30-11:00 am Martha Mason
Using the Tree of Life to Increase Resiliency in Troubled Times

Paris Room

9:00-9:30 am Ali Turfe
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Power of the Practice

9:30-10:00 am Elon Slutsky and Katherine Rodgers
Core Emotional Needs as an Alternative to Psychopathology as an Organizing Principle for Conceptualization in Psychotherapy

10:00-10:30 am John Prysor-Jones
Rebuilding Self–Esteem and Reintegration: Brian’s’ Story – a Sexual Offender against Children, Discharged from Prison Living in the Community

10:30-11:00 am Davide Mariotti and Christine Powers
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Counselling

Vienna & Berlin Room

9:00-9:30 am Emily Chew, Kirsis Dipre, Diana Gallardo, Gideon Litherland, and Gretchen Schulthes
Climate-based Stress and Psychological Hardiness: Implications for Counselors and Educators

9:30-10:00 am Neffisatu Celestine Dambo and Patrice Leverett
Multicultural Constructivist Counselling and Adult Learners: Preparing Emergent Counselors

10:00-10:30 am Roberta Attard, Marlene Cauchi, Melanie DeMarco, Ruth Falzon
Boundaries and Protocols in Counsellor-Training - a Collaborative Auto-Ethnographic Writing (CAEW)

10:30-11:00 am Bagmi Das and Mina Attia
Navigating Identity and Mental Health on Instagram: Edu-fluencers in the AAPI Community

Plenary Room (10:00-11:00 am)

AssoCounseling Speech: Alessandra Caporale, President of AssoCounseling
Essere counselor in Italia: una storia di resilienza e creatività

IAC Speech: Wendi Schweiger, Director, Global Capacity Building, NBCC (USA), and Mehmet N. Akkurt, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Counselling Department, Lamar University (U.S.)
Building Community Resilience: A Practical Guide

11:00-11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 am-1:30 pm Plenary Keynotes, Plenary Room

IAC Plenary Keynote: Kenneth Carswell, World Health Organization
Supporting Communities Affected by Adversity: The Work of WHO in Developing and Implementing Scalable Psychological Interventions around the World

AssoCounseling Plenary Keynote: Prof Johanna Monti, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Dr Chiara Veneri and Dr Noella I. Barison
Luoghi, Comunità, Narrazioni. Counseling e costruzione di comunità consapevoli. Il progetto Kinesis network e la nascita di una partnership

1:30-3:00 pm Lunch break

Poster Presentations, Gazebo area

• Imre Emeric Csaszar: A Partnership Between Counselling and Theater: Measuring Student Impact
• John J. S. Harrichand: Social Determinants of Health with Sex Trafficking Survivors in the United States
• Natoya Haskins: Embodying the Epistemology of Afrocentric, Womanist, and Black Liberation Theologies: an Ethnographic Narrative Inquiry for Healing Racial and Spiritual Trauma
• Donghun Lee: The Impacts of Counsellors' Self-Discrepancies on Counselling Effectiveness: A Pathway Through Burnout and Well-Being
• Keeland LoDato: A Systematic Review of Mobile Applications for Cultivating Emotional Wellness
• Keeland LoDato: Utilizing CQR-M to Explore College Student Experiences with Wellness-Related Mobile Applications
• Devon Romero: Uncovering Post Traumatic Growth Among Survivors of Sex Trafficking: What Counsellors Need to Know?
• Sonya L. Ford: Come Together: Prioritizing the Importance of Wellbeing and Resilience in Medical School
• Tenisha Phillips: Experiences of Licensed Professional Counsellors of Color with Implementing Social Justice Advocacy
• Jennifer R. Curry: Mindfulness Training for Counselling Students: Interventions and Outcomes

3:00-5:00 pm Breakout Session #5

Plenary Room

IAC Speech: Marvin Westwood, Richard LaFleur, David Savill, Grant Charles, Ingeborg Müller-Hohagen, and Jürgen Müller-Hohagen
The Long Shadow of War: Counselling Clients Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma

AssoCounseling Speech: Pietro Pontremoli
I sentimenti morali nel counseling

IAC Speech: Richard Balkin
Practicing Forgiveness

Oceania Room (3:00-4:00 pm)

3:00-3:30 pm Sandra Gavin and Courtney E. Allen
Embracing Intersectionality & Fostering Resilience: The Power of Creating an Intersectionality Collage

3:30-4:00 pm Courtney E. Allen and Sandra Gavin
Fostering Empowerment and Building Community: Creative Strategies to Deepen Conversations on Diversity and Identity

Paris Room

3:00-3:30 pm Anthony Zazzarino
Supporting Affectional Diverse Individuals with a Serious Mental Health Condition

3:30-4:00 pm Dennis Frank
Innovative Methodologies to Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth in Schools

4:00-4:30 pm Dennis Frank
Therapeutic Approaches for Counselling Same-Sex Couples

4:30-5:00 pm Bagmi Das and Mina Attia
Post-Traumatic Growth and Resilience of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers in the United States

Vienna & Berlin Room

3:00-3:30 pm William G. Nicoll
Introduction to Resilience-Focused Counselling & Psychotherapy

3:30-4:00 pm Jane M. Webber
Integrating Techniques in Trauma counselling That Help Clients Become “Unstuck” in Their Journey to Trauma Recovery

4:00-4:30 pm Bright Nkebasa Byengoma
Healing Hearts: Fostering Happiness in Rescued African Girls through Resilience and Recovery

4:30-5:00 pm Jesmond Apap
Responding to the Signals of the Body and the Mind. Exploring Narratives of Spiritual Abuse (SA) in Christian Spiritual Accompaniment

3:00-6:30 pm AssoCounseling Presentations, London Room

4:00-6:30 pm IAC Associations’ Roundtable, chaired Bill Borgen, IAC President, Oceania Room

5:00-5:30 pm Coffee break

5:30-6:30 pm Breakout Session #6

Discussion moderated by Valeria Balisteri, with Dominic Cirincione, Pat Howley, Antonio Monteiro dos Santos, and Anthony Rose
The Perspectives of the Person-Centered Approach, Plenary Room

AssoCounseling meeting, London Room

IAC Counselling Practitioners' Roundtable, Paris Room

6:30-8:00 pm Theatre performance “Pezzi unici”, drama company “Counselor in scena”

8:00-9:30 pm Drinks reception, Plenary Room (reservation required)

 

Sunday, 30 June, 2024

9:00-9:30 am Registration, Plenary Room

9:00-11:00 am Breakout Session #7

Oceania Room

9:00-9:30 am Odalea Novais Freire and Emilene Andrada Donato
Teaching a Culturally Sensitive Counselling Approach to Brazilian Counselors Working with Compatriots around the World

9:30-10:00 am Paul Blisard and Kristi Perryman
Treatment of Client Anxiety Through an Allostatic Lens

10:00-10:30 am John J. S. Harrichand and Mary Whiting
Blessed or Stressed? Culturally Competent Care for Spiritual/Religious LGBTQ+ Individuals

10:30-11:00 am Lisa Canaccini
Familylab. An International Counselling Experience

London Room

9:00-9:30 am Yehuda Bar Shalom and Amira Bar Shalom
Counselling in Multicultural Settings: Best Practices of Arab/Jewish Encounters

9:30-10:00 am Krista Malott and Stacey Havlik
Addressing Identity and Oppression through Group Work with First Generation College Goers

10:00-10:30 am Shanee Barraclough and Krista Malott
Student Counsellor Experience of Broaching Client Identities: Integrating a Critical Consciousness Lens in Counselling Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand

10:30-11:00 am Claudia Interiano-Shiverdecker, Priscilla Prasath, Donghun Lee & Derek Robertson
Bilingual Counselling: Language and Cultural Considerations When Providing Services in Different Languages

Paris Room

9:00-9:30 am Cynthia A. Briggs and Linda Foster
Infusing the Social Determinants of Health throughout the Counselling Curriculum

9:30-10:00 am David D. Christian
The Indivisible Student: Promoting Wellbeing in Counselors-in-Training through the Implementation of the Indivisible Self Model of Wellness

10:00-10:30 am David D. Christian, Matthew Peck and Nicolas Bellegarde
Adventures in Wellness: Integrating the IS-Wel Model into Adventure Therapy

10:30-11:00 am Lena Mazurkiewicz
Confidence and Courage to Face Transitions: Resilience in Counselling Education

Vienna & Berlin Room

9:00-9:30 am Michelle Camilleri
Becoming an Online Counsellor: Experiences of Maltese Counsellors

9:30-10:00 am Courtney LaRoque
Mental Health on the Native American Reservations

10:00-10:30 am Karl Vonzell Mitchell
Developing Multicultural Competence and Social Justice Advocacy Skills with Service-Learning Pedagogy: A Qualitative Inquiry on the Lived Experiences of Counselor Educators

10:30-11:00 am Patricia Kimball and Lotes Nelson
Utilizing Creative Interventions in Counselling to Bridge Cultural Differences

Plenary Room

Speech “The Future of Counselling in Europe” (9:30-10:20 am)
Dr Dione Mifsud, International Association for Counselling

IAC Europe Presentation (10:20-11:00 am)
IAC-Europe Intermin Leadership Committee

11:00-11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 am-1:30 pm Plenary Keynotes, Plenary Room

AssoCounseling Plenary Keynote: Samuele Pigoni
Restituire il potere: il counseling come pratica di empowerment individuale e sociale

IAC Plenary Keynote: Lina Kashyap and Swapnalekha Basak
Using Indian Knowledge Systems for Effective Counselling Practice

1:30-2:00 pm Conference Closing, Plenary Room