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Three professors in the university’s Graduate Department of Counseling presented at the Western Association of Counselor Education and Supervision Conference in Portland Nov. 15-18. The conference was organized and led by the department’s Keith Dempsey (WACES president) and Michelle Eave (WACES vice president). Eave presented “The Experience of Novice Counselors Working with Clients Who Are Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuseâ€; Daniel Sweeney presented “The Practical Use Of Sandtray Therapy Across Therapeutic Settingsâ€; and Lorraine DeKruyf presented “Grounded Theory Insights into School Counseling Site Supervisor Development,†“Centering the Pendulum: Training School Counselors to Claim a Balanced Identity†and “A Statewide University Collaboration Model: School Counselor Educators Partner for Comprehensive Success.†Also participating was Amber Russell (a GDC alumna, PsyD student and WACES graduate student representative), who presented “The Multiracial Individual as a Unique Population within Diversity: What Educators, Supervisors, and Clinicians Ought to Know.â€
Gary Tandy (English) led this fall’s “Seminar by the Sea” at Twin Rocks Friends Camp, speaking on “The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis.â€
Ed Higgins (English) published three poems in the November issue of the online magazine Silent Things.