Jonathan Adams, rising second year graduate student in Counseling, received a Richter Award for a summer counseling experience in India. He shares his amazing experience with us. I volunteered for one month at Bangalore Baptist Hospital in Bangalore, India. My goal in going was to observe grief counseling and palliative care. I was really interested […]
Graduation 2011
Congratulations to the 17 new graduates in the WFU Master of Arts Counseling Class of 2011. The class of 2011 included three graduates of the MDiv/MA in Counseling Dual Degree Program – one of whom is not pictured having given birth to her first child two days before. Congratulations to you, Clare, on both counts!
Jose Villalba Joins Department in Fall 2011
Jose Villalba, Ph.D joined the Department of Counseling faculty in Fall of 2011. Jose’s teaching responsibilities will include multiple graduate level courses and servicing as the Director of the Health and Human Services Undergraduate Minor, which was announced in Fall of 2011.
Department of Counseling Announces Expansion of Undergraduate College to Career Courses
The Department of Counseling increased the department’s undergraduate course offerings by expanding the College to Career courses from one to four. Heidi Robinson (11) joined the faculty in Fall 2011 to act as the lead instructor for these new career courses.
School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Programs Reaccredited by CACREP through October 2018
The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Board of Directors has awarded the Wake Forest University School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Programs reaccreditation for eight years through October 2018. The Wake Forest Department of Counseling was one of the first programs to apply for reaccreditation under the new 2009 standards. […]
Faculty Offer First Mental Health Facilitator (MHF) Training in the United States to WFU Second Year Counseling Students
Donna Henderson, with the assistance of Philip Clarke, conducted the first training for Mental Health Facilitators done within the United States for a group of graduating WFU second year counseling students. This training curriculum was developed by Professor of Counseling Donna Henderson and Scott Hinkle, a clinical training coordinator with the NBCC. The Mental Health […]
Continuing Education Seminars
WFU Department of Counseling sponsors six hours of continuing education each semester. The seminars feature experts in various areas of counseling to contribute to the professional and career development of area professional counselors and the students, faculty, alumni and clinical supervisors of the Wake Forest University Masters in Counseling Program. CEU’s for LPC and NCC […]
Department of Counseling Announces Introduction of Undergraduate Minor in Health and Human Services
In Spring 2011, the Department of Counseling gained approval to introduce an undergraduate minor in Health and Human Services with courses anticipated to be available to students beginning in Spring 2012. The minor allows students to learn basic concepts and skills applicable to applied helping fields that are identified as health and human services. Associate […]
John P. Anderson Retires from Teaching
After 17 years of teaching in the Department of Counseling Graduate Program and 26 years of service to Wake Forest University, John P. Anderson retired from teaching in January of 2011. He is greatly missed!
Sam Gladding shares his expertise in Turkey as a Fulbright Specialist Scholar
Chair and Professor of Counseling. Chair and Professor of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding shared his expertise of family counseling with educators and students in Turkey during a month-long stay there this summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar. Gladding (’67, MA ’71) gave a number of lectures at several universities on various aspects of […]