Counselor Educators: Working Together for Transformative Antiracist Teaching: A Work Table Series on Antiracist Teaching
What is a Roundtable Session?
Our work table sessions offer a chance to connect around a shared project or task. These sessions are interactive and participatory in nature.
Description
Racism is endemic in societies across the world. Racism results in inequities in mental health access, symptom severity, diagnosis, and treatment among racially oppressed communities (Medlock et al., 2017). Mental health professionals are charged with an ethical imperative to engage in racially just practices and disrupt systemic racism. Antiracist counseling training is needed to prepare antiracist counselors. Yet, it’s not uncommon for counselor trainers to find it challenging and inadequately prepared to engage in antiracist scholarship, curriculum design, and teaching.
The Counseling Roundtable (TCR) is pleased to host an Antiracist Teaching Work Table Series with the aim of developing an international antiracist teaching network. Through the network, we hope to produce (a) evidence-based, transformational, and context-relevant antiracist training materials and learning modules; and (b) scholarly work that furthers the discourse on antiracist teaching, learning, and development among mental health professionals. Also, we seek to establish an international network where counseling trainers across the world can collaborate to produce antiracist scholarship and strengthen their antiracist identity.
We are seeking to recruit collaborators who:
are from diverse backgrounds, including mental health professional identity and geographic location;
are interested in elevating the art and science of antiracist pedagogy;
have received formal training in pedagogy/andragogy and some teaching experience;
are committed to antiracist teaching, particularly in counseling and related training,
are available to collaboratively participate in workgroups for a prolonged period of time (e.g., 3 to 6 months or more);
are interested in online and hybrid education formats;
are interested in evaluating and researching teaching and curriculum effectiveness in online and hybrid learning environments;
are interested in researching antiracism-based topics; and
are interested in securing grants to support antiracism-related projects.
Experienced, senior mental health researchers and trainers are most welcome. We can always benefit from your mentoring.
We believe such important work can only be accomplished by a diverse group of educators and researchers who believe in racial justice, are committed to theory- and research-based teaching practices, and are dedicated to preparing antiracist mental health practitioners.
Learning Objectives
We will hold our first Work Table meeting on this series on Saturday, September 16, 2022, at 5:00 PM PST to meet with interested counselor educators, supervisors, and mental health trainers and researchers to:
share our goals and conceptual framework of the network,
address questions attendees may have about the network,
map the scope and types of projects, and
form workgroups.
Presenter Bios
Kok-Mun Ng, PhD, LPC,, LCMHC, NCC, ACS
Dr. Kok-Mun Ng, a professor of counselor education at Oregon State University, is one of the Lead Collaborators at TCR. Dr. Ng’s specializes in relationship and family counseling. He teaches family counseling and several other counselor education subjects. His research and service interests include, but not limited to, professional issues in counseling training, multicultural and social justice issues, and internationalization of counseling. Malaysian Chinese. Multilingual.
Professional website: https://education.oregonstate.edu/people/kok-mun-ng
Colleen Lam Nguyen, MA, LMFT
Colleen is currently a doctoral student in Counselor Education at Oregon State University.
Professional website: www.colleenlamnguyen.com
Nelandra Anselmo, MS, LMFT
Nelandra is currently a doctoral student in Counselor Education at Oregon State University.
Professional website: www.mytruecore.com