News

In the Fall 2016 Newsletter:

• President’s Message
• Four Tips for Using Clinician-to-Clinician Support as a Means of Preventing Burnout
• Coping with the Challenges of Gatekeeping
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Disasters Intervention for Counselors: Why Attunement Matters
• Graduate Students Coping Skills
• Informed Decisions: Exploring Professional Counseling Organizations
• Responding to Racism: Practice Reminders for Counselors

Each of the five ACES regions nominate one student to serve as the ACES Graduate Student Representative (GSR). From these five nominations, the ACES Governing Council will choose one student to serve in this position. This is a three year serviced position: designee, current, and past GSR.

SACES is currently accepting applications from doctoral students who are early in their academic program (a graduate student serving as a GSR must hold doctoral student/doctoral candidate status for at least 2 years of their service and only the final year could be served as a new faculty member or supervisor) to be the SACES nominee. To apply, please email the following materials to Melanie Iarussi at miarussi@auburn.edu:

• A cover letter describing your educational and other relevant experiences to the position, including your previous and/or current involvement with ACES and SACES.
  
• A current CV
• Your answer to this question (posed by ACES): "Suppose you were selected for the GSR position, what would be different in a year service position that would show it was useful, that you were the right person to apply, and that ACES was right to have selected you?"

Applications are due December 15, 2016

In the Summer 2016 Newsletter: 

• President’s Message
• SACES Conference News
• Being Gritty: Teaching Counseling Practicum and Internship Students How to Raise their GQ
• Black Lives Matter: Counselors, Advocacy, and Social Justice
• The Use of Vision Boards as a Therapeutic Intervention
• Meet the Editors, Drs. Elizabeth Villares and Lacretia Dye

The SACES Career Connection will take place at the SACES Conference in New Orleans on Friday, October 7 from 8am-5pm and Saturday, October 8 from 8am-2pm. SACES will have a direct link (coming soon) for university employers who have faculty positions available and job seekers, which will direct each interested party to the SACES webpage (www.saces.org) to upload their materials to participate in the SACES Career Connection. 

To prepare for the SACES Career Connection, employers will be given the opportunity to post their open positions in a virtual portal that will allow prospective job seekers an opportunity to learn about positions before the conference.

For job seekers, candidates will upload their CVs so that employers may review their credentials ahead of the conference and potentially contact them for a meeting at the conference.

The links to the employer and job seeker portals will be launching soon on the SACES website. Questions about the Career Connection should be addressed to Margaux Brown and Marcela Kepic at SACEScareerconnection2016@gmail.com.

In an effort to continue meeting the needs of counselor educators and supervisors, after the end of the Career Connection at the SACES Conference the SACES LinkedIn group (you can request access to the SACES LinkedIn page by clicking here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4544312) will start focusing on promoting employment opportunities and relevant materials for job success. 

The SACES Executive Board is issuing a call for nominees for the SACES President-Elect-Elect (2017-2020) and Secretary (2017-2018). View the SACES Bylaws (Articles IV, V, and VIII) for a description of the officer positions, executive council duties, and election of officers procedures.

The board is accepting nominations and self-nominations. If you are interested in running or nominating someone for one of these positions, please contact Shawn Spurgeon at sspurgeo@utk.edu.

For self-nominations, please include:

•  A one paragraph Statement of Interest in serving the SACES membership; this paragraph will be seen by SACES members during the voting process
• A copy of your CV

If nominating someone, please include their contact information so that I may be in touch with them to determine their interest in the nomination.

Nominations for these positions are due on August 26, 2016.

In the Spring 2016 Newsletter: 

• President’s Message & President Elect’s Message
  
• The Significance of Increasing Cognitive Complexity through Reflection for Adult Learners in Counselor Education by Patrick Rowley
• HIV is not a Death Sentence – Unless you Live in the South by J. Richelle Joe
  
• My Circle of Support To Complete the Ph.D. Marathon: A Story of Perseverance by Vivia Hill-Silcott
  
• Namaste Intentions within the Counseling Process by Dr. Nicole Arcuri
  
• Meet the Editors, Drs. Elizabeth Villares and Lacretia Dye
  

Register by 7/15/16 to take advantage of the Early-Bird conference rate. Visit saces.org/Conference-2016 for more details about the conference, hotel, sponsorship information, and more. Contact Sherrionda Crawford (scrawford@troy.edu) or Shelly Reed (sreed36535@troy.edu), SACES 2016 Conference Registration Co-Coordinators, with any questions or concerns related to registration.

The call for proposals is now open to fund innovative best practices and research studies related to counselor education and supervision. SACES will fund up to six proposals, of up to $500 each. This grant competition is open to both professional and student members of SACES. Because of their need and because of the limited funding available for student research, student researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Individuals may submit (or be part of a submission team) for only one proposal.  The deadline for submission is August 12, 2016, 11:59 EST. Visit saces.org/research/ for more details.

SACES would like to announce the 2016 Emerging Leaders Workshop to be held at the SACES conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday, October 6, 2016.  Leaders within SACES and the counseling profession will conduct the workshop. The Emerging Leaders workshop is designed to: help students and new faculty members discover how leadership can enhance their own professional development; enhance the diversity of SACES; and, engage talented and dedicated counseling professionals to serve as future SACES and/or ACES leaders. Visit saces.org/emerging_leaders for more details.