This workshop has been approved by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology for 3 hours of continuing education credits. The CE program has three purposes. First, new professional knowledge will be presented regarding recent evidence of normal human biases that contribute to ethical decision-making, including areas such as prediction errors, biased attributions, and rationalizations. Second, to maintain ethics competency and currency it is important for psychologists to consider a closer intersection of principles and standards, coupled with recent guidelines. Third, it is important to practice ethical decision-making while considering potential biases, which will be discussed using examples from multiple contexts. This workshop will cost $30 for professionals and students to attend.
Mark M. Leach earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma and is currently the Chair and Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Louisville. He is a past Associate Member of the APA Ethics Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, and is Vice-Chair of the APA Task Force charged with developing the next iteration of the ethics code. He teaches a graduate level ethics course and his research interests include national and international ethics, forgiveness, and the relationship of spirituality on psychological variables.
Helping clients manage symptoms and promote coping and resiliency skills are hallmarks of many human helping professions, including counseling psychology. However, these emphases often overshadow essential conversations about how mental illnesses are the consequence of interlocking systems of structural oppression that compromise optimum development and health. Additionally, as counseling psychologists are constantly being implored to consider culturally relevant materials to use with clients experiencing and navigating forms of structural oppression, paradigmatic boundaries (e.g., hegemonic Eurocentric worldview) and institutional limitations (e.g., accrediting) still constrain our imagination with regard to the types of resources that are allowed to stand in as feasible and respected forms of therapeutic interventions. Here, the presenter will challenge the audience to consider how hip hop culture, given its various interrogations of structural power and violence (e.g., ghettoization, police surveillance, hyper segregation, distorted educational curriculum) can be advantageous not only to practitioners working directly with clients but also the educators (e.g., counseling psychology educators, counselor educators) tasked with preparing clinicians capable of stimulating wide-scale systemic change. This workshop will cost $15 for professionals and $5 for students to attend.
There will be scholarships available for 20 students to attend this workshop for free. More information about scholarships can be obtained by contacting Dr. McCubbin: laurie.mccubbin@louisville.edu. Proceeds collected from this workshop will be directed to the 2019 Diversity Equity and Poverty Hip-Hop Summit in Louisville, Kentucky.
Ahmad Washington Ph.D., NCC is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at The University of Louisville. He teaches in the School Counseling program where he works with pre-service school counseling students as they prepare to transition into the profession. Dr. Washington received his B.S. in Psychology from Francis Marion University, his M.A. in Clinical Counseling from Webster University, and his Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University Iowa in 2013. He is the co-editor of the book, Black male student success in 21st century urban schools: School counseling for equity, access and achievement. Dr. Washington has received various counseling related awards recognizing his work, including the First Annual Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) Asa Hilliard Scholarship Award (2009). His primary research interests are social justice counselingand Hip Hop school counseling. In particular, he is interested in exploring how, and under what circumstances, school counselors engage students in conversation about issues of social injustice through facets of Hip Hop culture. One of Dr. Washington’s recent articles titled: Using Hip-Hop Culture and Rap Music in Counseling Black Menwas published in the Journal of Counseling and Development (JCD), the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the counseling profession. It was the January 2018 featured article on the American Counseling Association website.
Ruth E. Fassinger, PhD, is Professor Emerita in Counseling Psychology at the University of Maryland, where she was a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and department Chair. After leaving UMD, she served as Dean at California State University/Stanislaus and John F. Kennedy University, and then as a Visiting Scholar at the American Psychological Association (APA). She is an APA Fellow in three divisions (17, 35, 44), has served on the editorial boards of six leading journals in psychology, is a member of the Advisory Committee of the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, and currently serves as President of Division 17. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and service. She maintains a practice in consulting and career/leadership coaching, and a philanthropic business that donates proceeds from her handmade quilts to worthy causes.
Kish Cumi Price, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Smoketown Family Wellness Center (SFWC). The majority of her professional career has been devoted to working with and on behalf of children and their families, specifically within historically minoritized populations, as a counselor, CEO, researcher, educator, mentor, and youth advocate. Dr. Kish continues that charge as she manages the innovative health care delivery model at The Wellness Center. In collaboration with Smoketown community residents and the SFWC team, she identifies and implements community initiatives that promote physical, mental, and spiritual wellness for youth and their families. Dr. Kish is a native of Flint, Michigan and Franklin, Tennessee, and she received her doctorate from the University of Louisville (Counselor Education and Supervision) and her B.A. (Psychology) and M.A.Ed. (Counselor Education, School Counseling) from Wake Forest University. Dr. Kish Cumi is a National Holmes Alumna with a distinct interest in social justice for youth and their families. Dr. Kish is a proud wife and mother of 9 amazingly cool kids (3 bio and 6 bonus) with one on the way!
T Benicio Gonzales, MSW, PMP, serves the residents of Louisville as Interim Director for the Center for Health Equity. T supports the department’s strategy to deepen its focus on the root causes of health through authentic community engagement, strategic partnerships, addressing data gaps and challenges, and through policy analysis and development. T is a native of Texas and has called Louisville, Kentucky, home since 2006. T is a graduate of the University of Houston where T earned a Master of Social Work with a policy concentration. T holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
Erica Young, EdD, CSW, is an educator and mental health professional. She has been the Success Coach with JCPS at the Academy@Shawnee in West Louisville for five years. She has worked in Philadelphia, Chicago and Louisville in elementary and middle schools, teenage parent programs, and community mental health. She received her master’s in social work from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on racial equity in education and disproportionate discipline of Black girls. She is married with two young children and loves to travel and hike.