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Message from the President of ALGBTIC, Michael P. Chaney, Ph.D., LPC, NCC
There Is No Place for Hate in A Counseling Space
Thank you for taking time to visit the website of the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC). Whether you stumbled upon our site accidentally or you chose to visit our site, I want to personally welcome you and invite you to explore all the site has to offer. I am confident that you will find countless resources related to counseling issues associated with LGBTQQIA individuals. Additionally, you will find resources that discuss and explore social justice issues and advocacy strategies centered on queer communities. Our website is dynamic and continually evolving. Therefore, as you peek around the various spaces of the site, if you notice anything that needs to be updated, or if you notice anything missing that you think should be added, such as resources or links, I invite you to email me at chaney@oakland.edu.
Over the next year, I will be putting in the spotlight some of the unethical and unjust practices currently taking place in the field of counseling such as sexual orientation change efforts and other anti-queer counseling movements. Furthermore, I will focus on bringing queer-affirmative counseling issues to the forefront. So, keep your eyes open for information related to these important issues in ALGBTIC News, the official newsletter of ALGBTIC, and the upcoming American Counseling Association (ACA) Convention that will take place in March 2011 in New Orleans, LA.
On behalf of our queer communities, an Anti-LGBT Counseling Task Force is being formed that will have several responsibilities over the next year including educating ACA members and non-members about social injustices against queer clients/students (e.g., sexual orientation change efforts and other reparative therapies etc.), examining the current ethical codes and proposing changes to ACA Ethics Committee, and organizing events/discussions related to queer-affirmative counseling. If you are interested in being involved do to hesitate to contact me directly.
Another crucial goal is to examine the needs of ALGBTIC members and to increase our membership. Whether it is due to the economy or for other reasons, the reality is that our membership has decreased. Over the next year, I am going to actively work to get our numbers back up. To become a member, folks can contact Philip Gnilka (pgnilka@gmail.com), Membership Committee Chair, or by calling ACA at 1.800.347.6647 ext.222. Our division is more powerful with more individuals. With more members come greater diversity, multifarious skills, and assorted visions of an enhanced ALGBTIC.
Other goals that I have created for the next year are to establish educational/networking opportunities and scholarly/developmental partnerships between ACA, other divisions, and ALGBTIC.
In order for ALGBTIC to move forward and evolve, fresh ideas and emerging leaders need to be identified and utilized within the association. Therefore, we are always looking to involve passionate and motivated folks in ALGBTIC. If you have any desire to participate in the association, click on the link under the section “Want to Volunteer?” You can also email me directly at chaney@oakland.edu for more information. Just know, there is always a place for you at this table. And remember, there is no place for hate in a counseling space!
Cheers!
Mike
Highlights from ALGBTIC.org
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Just added: ALGBTIC's statement related to Augusta State University
Want to Volunteer?
ALGBTIC President Michael P. Chaney is seeking individuals who are interested in becoming more involved in the division. There are a number of projects that will be taking place during the 2010-2011 year. Learn more about ALGBTIC volunteer opportunities.
ALGBTIC is now offering NBCC Approved Clock Hours!
The National Board for Certified Counselors has approved ALGBTIC to offer continuing education clock hours through our publication the Journal of LGBT Issue in Counseling as well as for live events, such as conferences and workshops. Future editions of the journal will have home-study quizzes which readers may submit with a small fee. Those who pass will earn CE clock hours that can be used towards recertification. In addition, ALGBTIC will be able to offer CE clock hours for workshops, conferences, and similar events that fit within the education guidelines of NBCC. Those state chapters interested in offering CE clock hours for conferences and other live events can apply to use the division approved continuing education provider number by contacting Michael Brubaker at michael.brubaker@uc.edu or by phone (513) 556-9196.
Call for Submissions:
Special Issue of Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling
Counseling Competency with Transgender Clients
Deadline for Proposals: January 30, 2010
The Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling invites submissions for a special issue on
counseling competency with transgender clients. Planned publication date for the special issue is December 2010. The purpose of this special issue is to call the counseling field to consider new and innovative ways to address counseling competency with transgender clients in counselor supervision, training, research, and practice, and advocacy. Proposals should comment on or help practitioners and scholars engage and apply the recently ACA-endorsed Counseling Competencies with Transgender Clients (see wwww.algbtic.org for a pdf of this document). Proposals should also be grounded in social justice, feminist, multicultural, and liberatory frameworks and approaches to working with transgender clients.
The editors of this special issue are interested in research, theory, and practice-based proposals. The emphasis for this special issue is on proposals addressing school, community, university, activist, community-based, and other settings in which counselors work. We are emphasizing submissions that attend to inequities in power, privilege, and access to resources experienced by transgender people from diverse populations through forces such as racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ableism, adultism, and ageism within the counseling relationship and counseling setting.
If you are interested in the possibility of authoring an article in this special issue, please submit a 2-3 page double-spaced proposal that specifically addresses your chosen topic. We cannot guarantee acceptance of all proposals, as there will be a peer-review process. We hope to include articles by established scholars in transgender studies and to concurrently highlight new voices in the field. We encourage collaborative authorship with students, community-based organizers, and activists. Finished practice, theory, and research-based articles will be 15 double-spaced manuscript pages in length, not including references. Submissions must be original and not previously published and written in APA-6th ed. Proposals will be reviewed as they are received.
The deadline for proposal submission is 1/30/09. Please submit an electronic copy of your proposal to Dr. Anneliese Singh at asingh@uga.edu and a copy to Dr. Theo Burnes at burnes@upenn.edu. We are happy to discuss the special issue with you by email or phone: Anneliese Singh at (404) 849-8186 or Theo Burnes at (903) 886-5634. After initial review, co-editors will communicate proposal decisions by 2/15/2010. If a proposal is selected, the manuscript will be due by 5/15/2010. Subsequent anonymous, peer-reviews and author revisions according to reviewer feedback will each have 30-day cycles. No extensions will be provided due to the tight timeline for the special issue.
We look forward to receiving your proposal.
Anneliese Singh and Theo Burnes (Special Issue Co-Editors)
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