2007-2008
Year in Summary

• Graduation 2007.
• New dual degree - M Div/Master of Arts in counseling -- approved by trustees.
• In October 2007, the Wake Forest Department of Counseling receives the 2007 Outstanding Counselor Education Program – Master Level from SACES (Southern Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors).
• Program Faculty won two national awards at the March 2008 American Counseling Association Conference in Hawaii.  Donna Henderson received the ACA Professional Development Award.  Gladding, Veach, Newsome and Henderson also accepted the Counselor Education Advocacy Award for the department in recognition of being the first program to take all of its students to Washington for ACA Legislative Day. Also, a new award was established by the Association for Creativity in Counseling named the “Samuel T. Gladding Inspiration and Motivation Award.”
  Faculty and Students receive awards at the 2007 ACA Convention.
  WFU Counseling students and faculty attend the 2007 ACA Legislative Institute in mass.
• The Department presented two very well attended continuing education seminars for area professional counselors.  In November, Sam Gladding presented “Creative Arts & Counseling.  In April, 1997 program graduate and recipient of the 2008 WFU Distinguished Alumni Award, Dr. Michelle Kielty Briggs presented seminars on incorporating spirituality into counseling and on resolving ethical dilemmas.
• The Department also proposed and facilitated “College of the Overwhelmed” – a Voices of our Times presentation.  Sam Gladding served as moderator.  Students enjoyed a two hour private conversation with panelists Richard Kadison of Harvard, Russ Federman of UVA and Christopher Flynn of Virginia Tech.
• The Department successfully completed reports and passed two strenuous reviews by accreditation entities NCATE, NCDPI and received good reviews from University Internal and External Review Boards.  The External reviewer wrote in his report: “this counseling program is most likely the best master’s degree program in counseling in the United States.”
• Counseling students won 2 of the 5 Richter scholarships awarded to graduate students for independent study requiring travel.  Scott Meltsner studied domestic abuse in South Africa.  Jennifer Rogers studied holistic counseling in Florence, Italy.
• Donna Henderson served as president-elect of CSI (International Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society.  She also traveled to Mexico to help train Mental Health Facilitators in a week long session that used a curriculum she wrote.   Henderson also served as the key-note speaker at an international school counselor’s conference in Turkey.
• Sam Gladding spent two weeks in Malaysia serving as a consultant to counselor education programs at two different universities.
• Debbie Newsome served as chairman of the WFU Institutional Review Board.
• Laura Veach worked as a liaison in an academic partnership with the Department of Surgery, Level 1 Trauma Center at WFU Baptist Medical Center. She also secured a paid internship for a counseling student at WFUBMC and a second paid internship at a new addictions treatment center, The Bridge, where she is serving as a consultant.
• The second year students in Veach’s Mental Health class developed a training series for nurses in Guyana serving as mental health providers.
• Pamela Karr received the Devoted Service Award from the NCCA (North Carolina Counseling Association) at its February conference.  She also served as treasurer of the North Carolina Career Development Association and as on-site chairman for its fall conference which was held at Wake Forest.
• Faculty and students presented at the NCCA conference in Durham in February 2008. Sam Gladding gave the luncheon address. Four first year students presented a program entitled: “Presentation of helping professionals in movies and television.”
• The first issue of Catharsis, a literary magazine devoted to the art of counseling was published by student members of the CSI honor society.
• The department expanded the number of sections it offers of the popular undergraduate course, Career Planning.  Graduate students assist with that course.
• Six of the fifteen graduation members of the class of 2008 are headed directly to doctoral programs at Idaho State, NC State, Syracuse, Old Dominion and Penn State.

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