Counseling Webinars & Trainings
Association for Play Therapy (APT) E-Student Membership
Did you know that students are eligible for a complimentary Association for Play Therapy (APT) E-Student membership?
Go to www.a4pt.org to learn more about it.
As an E-Student member, you’ll enjoyed the following benefits:
- the Play Therapy™ Magazine in digital format
- our weekly member e-newsletter, PlayToday
- the Play Therapy Connection online forum
Graduate Student Engagement Opportunity: SEED Workshop Series
The SEED Series invites graduate students to design and present workshops connected to their program interests, areas of research, or professional expertise. These workshops are offered to undergraduate student leaders, giving graduate students a platform to share knowledge, build connections, and contribute to the broader Wake Forest community.
Participation provides graduate students with the opportunity to:
- Share their academic and professional expertise in an accessible workshop format
- Gain valuable teaching, facilitation, and leadership experience
- Strengthen their CV/resume through applied leadership and engagement work
- Connect with undergraduates and support their growth as campus leaders
Graduate Student Engagement Opportunity: Women’s Center Book Club
Graduate Student Book Club
The Women’s Center invites all graduate and professional students to join our Fall Book Club featuring In Her Own Voice: A Woman’s Rise to CEO by WFU alum Jennifer McCollum (’89). We’ll meet virtually three times throughout the semester (dates TBA) to connect, share perspectives, and dive into conversations on leadership and authenticity.
The REST Framework: Ethical Documentation in a Climate of Heightened Surveillance – September 12, 2025
FREE!
Join us on September 12, 2025 from 12-1PM EST
The REST Framework: Ethical Documentation in a Climate of Heightened Surveillance
Presenters: Victoria Giles-Vazquez MA, LPC, LCMHC, NCC & Hilary Flint MS, LCMHC, NCC
Hosted by SAIGE-NC
September 12, 2025 12-1p
Session Description:
In a sociopolitical climate where administrative violence against marginalized communities has become increasingly more targeted, mental health providers face critical ethical dilemmas in how they document care. This session introduces the REST Framework, an ethical documentation model designed to guide counselors, clinical supervisors, and counselors-in-training in developing documentation practices that intentionally protect clients most vulnerable to administrative violence.
Historically, clinical documentation has not been a neutral practice. Clinical documentation within the mental health system has been complicit in perpetuating administrative violence, which refers to “the everyday forms of bureaucratic harm that regulate and police bodies, particularly through state documentation, classification systems, and institutional practices disguised as care or protection” (Stanley, 2011). In recent years, growing evidence demonstrates that clinical notes have been used in courtrooms, immigration proceedings, school policing, and carceral institutions to reinforce punitive logics rather than support healing (ACA, 2018; APA, 2020). For example, the case of Kevin Euceda, an asylum-seeking youth whose therapy notes were shared with ICE and used to justify his prolonged detention, exemplifies the dangers of documentation that lacks protective and ethical foresight.
The REST Framework emerges from the urgent need to support providers in moving away from surveillance-based practices and toward documentation grounded in the ACA code of ethics including Multicultural/Diversity Considerations (B.1.a), Respect for Privacy (B.1.b), Respect for Confidentiality (B.1.c), Minimal Disclosure (B.2.e), and Confidentiality of Records and Documentation (B.6.b) (ACA, 2014). This approach draws from interdisciplinary best practice recommendations—including the American Counseling Association (ACA, 2018), the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020, 2022), and the American Medical Association (Kim et al, 2019), and invites participants to reimagine the administrative work of providers as neutral recorders, but as protectors of client stories.
Screening for Gambling among Emerging Adults,
including College Students – September 25, 2025
Mental health professionals including psychologists, clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, substance abuse counselors, pastoral counselors, school counselors, as well as clergy, school administrators, recreational therapists, peer support specialists and all those interested in learning about problem gambling.
September 25, 2025 12:00pm-1:00pm
Contact Hours: 1
Speaker Michelle L. Malkin
Training Description: While several gambling screens have been shown to be valid and reliable among different populations, the growth of gambling-related harms among emerging adults (18-24) presents a new challenge. Through research on this population, it was shown that emerging adults may experience gambling risk and harms different than other populations. In order to help emerging adults, including college students, understand whether they may be experiencing gambling-related harms, Dr. Michelle L. Malkin and Dr. Michele Stacey, of the GRPI, developed a new emerging adult gambling screen specifically relevant to the experiences of this population. The screen allows for identification of those who may need further assessment and possible treatment. This presentation lays out the new screen, its development, purposeful testing, and potential use.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn about the growth of gambling-related activities among college students and emerging adults.
- Participants will understand how current gambling screens may lack relevance to emerging adults and college students.
Registration Fee: No cost/Free but participants are required to pre-register for each training.