WTCA Summer Conference Pre-Conference Sessions
Friday, June 8, 2018 from 3:00 - 6:00 P.M.
Ball Hall, The University of Memphis
3798 Walker Ave.
Memphis, TN 38152
3 NBCC Contact Hours
Friday, June 8, 2018 from 3:00 - 6:00 P.M.
Ball Hall, The University of Memphis
3798 Walker Ave.
Memphis, TN 38152
3 NBCC Contact Hours
Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Active Advocacy
S. Kent Butler, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, NCSC
Utilizing the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC) this workshop will provide helping professionals with evidenced based practices designed to broaden worldviews and increase counselor active advocacy. Participants will learn how one’s values, attitudes, and actions affect the communities they serve. The interactive session will also showcase how to effectively balance individual counseling with social justice advocacy and instead proactively address the problems that individuals from marginalized populations bring to counseling. While certain situations may call for individual counseling, it is important to understand that other situations may actually require interventions that take place in the community. This workshop will provide counselors with insights and help them ascertain whether intervening on an individual or community wide scale is appropriate.
S. Kent Butler, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Butler joined the University of Central Florida as an Associate Professor in 2007. He currently serves as the faculty advisor to CHI SIGMA IOTA International Honor Society. Dr. Butler also serves as the Principal Investigator, for The High-Risk Delinquent and Dependent Child Educational Research Project: Situational Environmental Circumstances Mentoring Program (SEC), which is a partnership between the University of Central Florida and several Florida universities.
On the national level, Dr. Butler has served the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) as Convention Chairperson for the 2007 to 2010 & 2014 American Counseling Association (ACA) Annual Conferences and Expositions. His dedication and service to AMCD afforded him the opportunity to serve as the organization's 2011 - 2012 President and ACA Governing Council Representative (2015 – 2018). Past service also includes representation as an ACA 20/20 delegate. He is honored to be a member of AMCD’s Multicultural Counseling Competencies Revisions Committee (2014 – 2015) which produced the newly endorsed Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC). Dr. Butler was bestowed with an ACA Fellow Award in April of 2016.
S. Kent Butler, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, NCSC
Utilizing the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC) this workshop will provide helping professionals with evidenced based practices designed to broaden worldviews and increase counselor active advocacy. Participants will learn how one’s values, attitudes, and actions affect the communities they serve. The interactive session will also showcase how to effectively balance individual counseling with social justice advocacy and instead proactively address the problems that individuals from marginalized populations bring to counseling. While certain situations may call for individual counseling, it is important to understand that other situations may actually require interventions that take place in the community. This workshop will provide counselors with insights and help them ascertain whether intervening on an individual or community wide scale is appropriate.
S. Kent Butler, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Butler joined the University of Central Florida as an Associate Professor in 2007. He currently serves as the faculty advisor to CHI SIGMA IOTA International Honor Society. Dr. Butler also serves as the Principal Investigator, for The High-Risk Delinquent and Dependent Child Educational Research Project: Situational Environmental Circumstances Mentoring Program (SEC), which is a partnership between the University of Central Florida and several Florida universities.
On the national level, Dr. Butler has served the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) as Convention Chairperson for the 2007 to 2010 & 2014 American Counseling Association (ACA) Annual Conferences and Expositions. His dedication and service to AMCD afforded him the opportunity to serve as the organization's 2011 - 2012 President and ACA Governing Council Representative (2015 – 2018). Past service also includes representation as an ACA 20/20 delegate. He is honored to be a member of AMCD’s Multicultural Counseling Competencies Revisions Committee (2014 – 2015) which produced the newly endorsed Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC). Dr. Butler was bestowed with an ACA Fellow Award in April of 2016.
American Red Cross Disaster Service Overview and Disaster Mental Health Fundamentals
Jeana Bailley, MEd / Community Counseling Specialty
Disaster Program Manager, American Red Cross
Skip Ruzicka, MS, NCC
Disaster Mental Health Volunteer, American Red Cross
Most people hear about the large disasters the American Red Cross responds to during the year – things like hurricanes, tornadoes or flooding. However, Red Cross disaster workers help people affected by smaller disasters about 200 times every day. Red Cross disaster workers are out in their communities on a daily basis, helping people cope with smaller disasters like home fires – personal tragedies that can result in someone losing everything they own. Whether one family or an entire community, disasters have traumatic consequences for those involved.
Red Cross offers eligible mental health professionals the opportunity to provide services to individuals and communities in times of greatest need. The content of the session will focus on the role of mental health workers in the aftermath of disaster. Practical examples of the types of services and the sometimes unique service settings will show the critical role of disaster mental health professionals. Discussion will address how crisis response differs from daily work experiences. Participants will learn how the American Red Cross responds to local home fires and scales up for community-wide disasters. Participants will understand how mental health volunteers can offer assistance both in their own communities or, if they choose, through deployment to regional or national large scale disaster relief operations.
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with an overview of the services that American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health workers provide both on a local response and on a disaster relief operation. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: 1) recognize the Disaster Mental Health mission and how it fits into the array of Red Cross services, 2) recognize the differences between services provided as a Disaster Mental Health worker and as a mental health professional, and 3) begin the process to become a Disaster Mental Health volunteer by completing initial training.