From Hesitant to Competent: Develop Your Disability Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills
Conference Strand
Ethical Issues in Professional Counseling
Abstract
The aim of this presentation is to equip counselors, supervisors, and counselor educators with the requisite awareness, knowledge, and skills to competently work with individuals with disabilities (IWDs). Presenters will address competencies relevant to understanding and accommodating the disability experience, advocacy and self-advocacy of IWDs, the counseling relationship and process, and working with or supervising IWDs in a combined lecture-style format with interactive dialogue
Evidence
Not available- external review
Format
Individual Presentations
Biographical Sketch
Melissa D. Deroche is an Assistant Professor at Troy University.
Edina Renfro-Michel is an Associate Professor at Montclair State University.
Kristen D. Dickens is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University.
Location
Virtual Conference
Start Date
2-11-2021 1:45 PM
End Date
2-11-2021 2:45 PM
Recommended Citation
Deroche, Melissa D.; Renfro-Michel, Edina; and Dickens, Kristen N., "From Hesitant to Competent: Develop Your Disability Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills" (2021). National Cross-Cultural Counseling and Education Conference for Research, Action, and Change. 12.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ccec/2021/2021/12
From Hesitant to Competent: Develop Your Disability Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills
Virtual Conference
The aim of this presentation is to equip counselors, supervisors, and counselor educators with the requisite awareness, knowledge, and skills to competently work with individuals with disabilities (IWDs). Presenters will address competencies relevant to understanding and accommodating the disability experience, advocacy and self-advocacy of IWDs, the counseling relationship and process, and working with or supervising IWDs in a combined lecture-style format with interactive dialogue
Description
See Abstract