Upcoming Webinars
Creating Trauma-Informed Care Environments
As a part of its Innovations in Counseling series, the NBCC Foundation invites you to a no-cost webinar on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost to NCCs and current NBCC Foundation scholars and fellows, and documentation of one clock hour of continuing education is available for registrants who attend the full webinar.
Creating trauma-informed care (TIC) environments calls for a deeper understanding of the nature and implications of trauma on the populations served. Even deeper, there is a need for reframing our thinking around healing from trauma and assisting clients in a way that decreases hurt and increases healing. Using SAMHSA’s (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) trauma-informed care approach to disasters and incorporating evidence-based research on trauma care, learn how to create TIC environments in a myriad of settings.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Define trauma through a clinical and real-world lens.
- Explain how trauma affects brain functioning and behaviors.
- Apply a four-pronged approach to creating trauma-informed care environments.
Presenter
Angélique Black McKoy, MS, NCC, LGPC, CTP
Angélique Black McKoy is a seasoned trainer and facilitator, Licensed Professional Counselor, and National Certified Counselor. She has notable counseling experience with a myriad of populations, including children and families (child-serving organizations/outpatient mental health clinic), child welfare (treatment foster care), and pastoral counseling. She is a motivational speaker, pastoral counselor, and recorded singer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from University of Phoenix and a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Capella University (CACREP-accredited). McKoy is clinically licensed in the state of Maryland and has a Certified Trauma Professional distinction and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace certification from the University of South Florida, Muma College of Business.
McKoy is the Training Institute Manager at the House of Ruth Maryland, overseeing the efforts of the Training Institute team and ensuring the quality of its services to best meet the educational needs of the community. She is also responsible for creating professional development opportunities and developing a package of technical assistance products that highlight field best practices and serve as a social enterprise for the organization. She is a native New Yorker transplanted to Maryland in 2015 with her husband, daughter, and sweet fur-baby. A fierce advocate for special-needs children and families, McKoy’s philanthropic work includes serving as co-chairperson of the Harford County Special Education Citizens Advisory Committee and a board member of Not-Another Child, Inc. in New York City, whose mission is to provide wholeness, healing, and advocacy to communities and families of gun violence and other traumatic events.
Writing a Rigorous Quantitative Methodology Section in Counseling Research
As a part of its Building Professional Excellence series, the NBCC Foundation invites you to a no-cost webinar on May 17, 2023, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost to NCCs and current NBCC Foundation scholars and fellows, and documentation of one clock hour of continuing education is available for registrants who attend the full webinar.
Conducting and publishing rigorous empirical research based on original data is essential for advancing and sustaining high-quality counseling practice. Although every section of a research study must be carefully planned, executed, and reported, the Methodology section is the “conceptual epicenter of a manuscript” (Smagorinsky, 2008, p. 390), which should include clear and specific details about how the study was carried out. Careful planning prior to launching data collection is especially important for conducting and writing a rigorous quantitative Methodology section, as it is rarely appropriate to alter quantitative methodology after data collection is complete for both practical and ethical reasons. A well-written Methodology section is also crucial for publishing research in a peer-reviewed journal, as one or more serious methodological flaws tends to automatically trigger a decision of rejection without revisions.
The purpose of this webinar is to provide guidelines and recommendations for writing a rigorous quantitative Methodology section in counseling and related fields. Specifically, the webinar will provide a general overview of the major quantitative methodological subsections, including Participants and Procedures, Measures, and Data Analysis. The presenter will provide particular details on the minimum standards for reporting both reliability and validity evidence of test scores in the Measures section, which are often lacking in counseling research. The webinar will also include commentary and an experiential learning activity on how to match variables with the most appropriate statistical test. The webinar will conclude with a question-and-answer session as well as discussion on the utility of conducting and writing a rigorous quantitative methodology section.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify and explain the criteria for the major subsections in a quantitative Methodology section
- Gain a basic understanding of the minimum standards for reporting both reliability and validity evidence of test scores in the Measures section of a quantitative Methodology section.
- Clearly articulate quantitative variables and their corresponding scale of measurement and become proficient at selecting the appropriate statistical tests based on each variables’ scale of measurement.
Presenter
Mike Kalkbrenner, PhD, NCC
Dr. Mike Kalkbrenner is an associate professor of counseling and educational psychology at New Mexico State University (NMSU) with major teaching responsibilities in the areas of counseling theory, research, and assessment. After receiving his bachelor’s in psychology from SUNY Geneseo and his master’s in mental health counseling from the College of Brockport in New York, Dr. Kalkbrenner obtained his PhD in counselor education from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Kalkbrenner earned promotion and tenure after just three years on the tenure-track. He has dozens of peer-reviewed articles and presentations in highly esteemed journals and at national conferences as well as millions of dollars in grant funding. Much of his research is centered on two major themes: psychometrics and college student mental health, and measurement and evaluation of dimensions of integrated mental and physical wellness. He has utilized quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research paradigms, with an emphasis on quantitative methodology in psychometrics and other multivariate statistical analyses. He has won several awards for his scholarship, including the Outstanding Scholar Award by The Professional Counselor (TPC) and the Outstanding Aggie Research Award by the dean at NMSU
Dr. Kalkbrenner is an associate editor of The Professional Counselor and an editorial board member of the Journal of Counseling and Development; Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development; the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice; and the Journal of Human Services. His teaching pedagogy is based on John Dewey’s theory of experiential learning and the flipped classroom in which the instructor is responsible for the learning environment and students are responsible for their own learning. Dr. Kalkbrenner has clinical experience providing counseling to a variety of populations in an array of different settings, including medical residents, veterans, college students, and children.
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