{"id":2158,"date":"2010-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2010-02-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T05:00:00","slug":"ma-in-counseling-students-receive-top-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2010\/ma-in-counseling-students-receive-top-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"MA in Counseling Students Receive Top Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>\n<div style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MA in counseling ethics award\" src=\"\/news\/images\/2010\/counseling-ethics.jpg\" \/><br \/>MA in counseling ethics award recipients (l. to r.): Zachary Taylor, Erin Constable, Thomas Smith and Tara Kreider. Photo by Amy Schmid<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<p> A team of EMU students in the <a href=\"\/graduatecounseling\/\">master of arts in counseling program<\/a> received a first-place award in the annual national Graduate Student Ethics Competition sponsored by the American Counseling Association (ACA), Alexandria, Va. <\/p>\n<p> Zachary Taylor, West Columbia, S.C.,; Erin Constable, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada; Tara Kreider, Harrisonburg; and Thomas Smith, Hillsboro, Kan., were among teams nationwide who submitted essays in the masters level competition. Each essay was reviewed by members of the ACA ethics committee. <\/p>\n<h3>A case study<\/h3>\n<p> The case study involved a counseling intern in a college counseling center. The scenario related to the counselors identity as a white suburban male working with a Latina student discussing her experience with childhood abuse. She reported having taken a covert action that seemed to have contributed to her abuser&#8217;s early death. The study contained multicultural, boundaries of competence and mandated reporter issues. <\/p>\n<p> The team prepared a 15-page paper identifying what they believed the dilemma to be, what they felt the most ethical actions should be, the justification for their proposed actions and a description of the decision-making model used in reaching that decision. <\/p>\n<h3>Applying ethics to professional situations<\/h3>\n<p> <a href=\"\/personnel\/people\/show\/lla739?ssi=graduatecounseling\">Linda Leitch-Alford<\/a>, associate professor of counseling, teaches a course on professional applied ethics, which the students drew from in preparing their essay. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;To have received first place in this national contest is a statement of the quality of students in our program,&#8221; Dr. Leitch-Alford said. &#8220;The award is also a significant affirmation of their abilities to apply academic learning to professional situations with excellence. It gives us confidence that they will serve their future clients well,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p> Each first place team member will receive a $75 gift certificate to the ACA Bookstore, an ACA Ethics Competition winner&#8217;s certificate and a letter of recognition from ACA President Lynn Linde. These will be presented to the EMU team &#8211; as well as the two other winning master&#8217;s level teams and the top three doctoral level winning teams &#8211; at the ACA Annual Conference &amp; Exposition in Pittsburgh, Pa., during the ACA National Awards Ceremony Mar. 21. <\/p>\n<p> Student names, institutions and winning responses of the winning master&#8217;s and doctoral teams will also be published in the (month) edition of &#8220;Counseling Today&#8221; magazine and posted on the ACA website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counseling.org\">www.counseling.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h3>About the MA in Counseling program<\/h3>\n<p> EMU has 37 students currently enrolled in its <a href=\"\/graduatecounseling\/\">MA in counseling program<\/a>, which is accredited by The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The program offers a 60-semester hour, CACREP-approved track that prepares students for clinical practice as a licensed professional counselor and a dual degree that enables a student to earn both a master of divinity and an MA in counseling degree in less time than if both were pursued separately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA in counseling ethics award recipients (l. to r.): Zachary Taylor, Erin Constable, Thomas Smith and Tara Kreider. 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