How to Join
To join one of the interest networks below, please email Holly Clubb at hclubb@counseling.org with the following information:
Name
Email
The network you wish to join
ACA Membership status - Member / Non-Member
ACA Interest Network for Professional Counselors in Schools
Randy Astramovich
randy.astramovich@unlv.edu
Kimberley Coelho-Vera
Kimberley.vera@comcast.net
Wendy Hoskins
wendy.hoskins@unlv.edu
Members that may want to join: The network provides networking and collaboration opportunities for LPCs currently working in school settings or those who may be interested in working as a counselor in schools; counselors in guidance programs who want to focus their identities as professional counselors; and counselor educators and supervisors who are interested in advocating for and researching new models for the delivery of mental health counseling services to children and adolescents in school settings.
Children's Counseling Interest Network (approved March 2002)
Dr. Magalie Piou-Brewer
maggy@mpbhealth.com
Members that may want to join: Anyone interested in children’s issues and promoting children.
Forensic Counseling Interest Network (approved October 2008)
Victoria Palmisano
vep@buffalo.edu
Members that may want to join: This interest network will advance the contributions of all counselors whose work intersects with understanding of human behavior and laws, legal processes and legal systems. The interest network shall also serve to inform the counseling and legal communities, as well as the public, of current research, educational and service activities in the field of counseling and the law. The impact of professional counseling in this domain may influence policy, program development, mediation, advocacy and arbitration, as well as teaching and research.
Grief and Bereavement Interest Network (approved October 2007)
Bernadette Joy Graham
bernadette_joy@yahoo.com
Members that may want to join: All counselors would do well to have training in grief and bereavement or just simply to know that the interest network is there to have a source for referrals.
Historical Issues in Counseling Network (approved November 2006)
Dr. William C. Briddick
chris.briddick@sdstate.edu
Members that may want to join: Members of this Interest Network are interested in the significant people, trends and issues of our profession’s history.
Interest Network for Advances in Therapeutic Humor (approved September 2002)
Ms. Dianne Joyce
getfunny@hotmail.com
Members that may want to join: This network was designed to help counselors realize the value of humor in the therapeutic setting and how to appropriately use humor: Humor helps to establish rapport but requires strict boundaries in knowing what kind of humor to use, when to use it, how to use it, and with which clients it is appropriate. Humor may include something as simple as a magic trick, a simple statement, the use of a printed cartoon, or humorous body language.
Multiracial/Multiethnic Counseling Concerns Interest Network (approved March 2002)
Dr. Kelley R. Kenney
kelleyrkenney@comcast.net
Members that may want to join: This interest network has broad application to the work of professional counselors in all settings, working with all ages and developmental stages. The issues and concerns of this population cut across all aspects of the profession, hence counselors affiliated with all entities and divisions of ACA can find application to their work.
Network for Jewish Interests (approved March 2002)
Dr. Richard S. Balkin
rick_balkin@tamu-commerce.edu
Dr. Dana Heller Levitt
Levitt@ohio.edu
Members that may want to join: Individuals interested in Jewish issues in the counseling profession, through advocacy, research or identification with Judaism, may find a home in this interest network.
Sports Counseling Interest Network (approved March 2006)
Dr. Taunya Tinsley
tinsley@cup.edu
Members that may want to join: This interest network would be a good match for those counselors who want to make a career out of this area, as well as those who want to make sports counseling one aspect of their career. For example, advisers for athletes are those whose responsibilities include academic advising, life skills development, performance enhancement and psychosocial development at both the collegiate and high school levels. Professional counselors may hold positions as academic advisers for athletes, may be in private practice for clinical and mental health issues or may hold full-time positions within professional sporting organizations, colleges/universities, school settings or community agencies.
Traumatology Interest Network (approved March 2003)
Dr. Karin B. Jordan
kjordan@georgefox.edu
Members that may want to join: This network would be good for counselor educators as they make curriculum changes to meet the new CACREP Standards and educate themselves about traumatology. In addition, this network would be good for those counselors and counselors-in-training who have an interest in or are already providing counseling services to trauma- or disaster-affected people and communities, including those interested in serving military personnel and their families. This includes school counselors as they deal with children and adolescents who have one or both parents deployed overseas. Counselors who volunteer for relief organizations, serve as crisis counselors or serve on special university and school disaster task forces could also benefit from this network because it creates opportunities to share experience insights gained and new plans and advances they have made to be better prepared.
Wellness Interest Network (approved October 2008)
Dr. Gerard Lawson
glawson@vt.edu
Dr. Jane E. Myers
jemyers@uncg.edu
Members that may want to join: Counselors work from a preventive, developmental, wellness-oriented perspective. It is the philosophy underlying all that we do. In particular, counselors wanting to find other counseling practice or research might use the network to share ideas and projects.
Women's Interest Network (approved March 2002)
Aretha Marbley
aretha.marbley@ttu.edu
Members that may want to join: Women and anyone interested in women’s issues and promoting women.