ACA -CCPA 2016 Conference & Expo

ID #795-“Mentorship without Borders”: Enhancing Professional Identity Development Through Community Engagement (Room 210E, Poster 11)

02 Apr 16
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Counselor Education, Graduate Student Issues, Research

Speaker(s): Grace Lipscomb, Intern, Family Intervention Services of Richland School District Two; Katherine Feather, Clinical Mental Health Counselor, South Carolina Commission for the Blind; Sarah Phillips, Graduate Assistant, University of South Carolina; Kathryn Linich, Mental Health Intern, South Carolina Commission for the Blind; Mallie Baker, Counseling Intern, Richland One School District and Graduate Assistant at Student Disability Services on the University of South Carolina’s campus

This poster session will outline the importance of mentorship and how a Chi Sigma Iota chapter developed an effective program, “Mentorship without Borders,” that allowed for counselors-in-training to pair with professional counselors in the field to foster a more realistic professional identity. Their data indicate that the mentorship process was helpful and the counselors-in-training level of professional identity increased. Ethical considerations regarding the mentorship process also will be presented.