2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference

Sep 17 - 19, 2026

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2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference

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Canyon Lake

8:00am • Pathways to Developing a Research Identity in Counselor Education
9:05am • Applying the EQUITY-AI Framework to Counseling Assessment and Research
10:10am • Quasi-Experimental Design: How to Best Address the Lack of Randomization in Your Counseling Research
11:15am • Centering Advocacy in Counseling Research: Implications for Practice and Policy
1:30pm • Narrative Analysis and Narrative Inquiry
2:35pm • Healing as Legacy: An Endarkened Narrative Inquiry
3:40pm • Final Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial for Gottman Method Couples Counseling for Infidelity

Comal

8:00am • Connection Before Correction: Examining Adolescent School Engagement Through an SDOH Lens
9:05am • Four Functions of Counseling Scholarship: Applying Boyer’s Framework to a Maturing Discipline
10:10am • Student Outcomes and School Counselor Perspectives on the Hope Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study
11:15am • Neuroscience-Integrated Assessment in Counseling: Culturally Responsive Practices and Procedures
1:30pm • Beyond the Numbers: The Impact of Student-to-School Counselor Ratio on Student Success
2:35pm • Recommendations for conducting a longitudinal study in counseling research
3:40pm • Evaluating the Utility of the Sporting Resilience Model for Collegiate Student-Athlete Resilience

Ringos

12:00pm • Graduate Student Luncheon - Off Site at Ringos

Rio Grande A

8:00am • Ten years of randomized controlled trials in counseling journals: Scope, quality, and insights
9:05am • Understanding and Applying Multilevel SEM to Address Cross-Cultural Measurement Noninvariance
10:10am • Knowledge, Power, and Inquiry: A Critical Pedagogical Perspective
11:15am • How to conduct inductive content analysis in counseling research
2:35pm • Assessing Outcomes in Trauma Training: A Mixed Methods Study of Counselor Development
3:40pm • Using Discipline Data as an Equity Assessment Tool

Rio Grande B

8:00am • Toward Methodological Standards for Delphi Research in Counseling
9:05am • Demystifying research: Creative strategies for teaching master’s-level counseling research courses
10:10am • The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory: An integrative tool for assessment, practice, and research
11:15am • Trends in School Counseling Intervention Research: Findings From a 25-Year Systematic Review
1:30pm • Beyond Q Factors: A Thematic Analysis of UDL Beliefs in Counselor Education
2:35pm • A Content Analysis of Research-focused Presentations at ACES National Conferences
3:40pm • Advancing Career Counseling Research for First-Generation College Students: A Multi-faceted Approach

Sabine A

8:00am • Navigating Authorship in Counseling Research: Ethical, Relational, and Practical Strategies
9:05am • Measuring Mentoring Engagement: Development and Validation of the Mentoring Engagement Scale
10:10am • Mentoring Doctoral Students: An Intersectional, Feminist Panel Discussion
11:15am • Engaging Minoritized Participants: Recruitment and Retention in Counseling Research.
1:30pm • “But I’m not a research person!” Using the RARE Model to support research identity development
2:35pm • Not So Anonymous: Ethical considerations for publications using publicly accessible data
3:40pm • Attachment Styles and Self-Deficits in Counseling Assessment

Sabine B

8:00am • Exploring Psychometric Properties of the Traumatic Growth Scale
9:05am • Stories, Settings, and Systems: A Researcher's Introduction to Ethnographic Case Study
10:10am • Positioning the Self in Research: Autoethnography in Counselor Education and Re‑Professionalization
11:15am • Mapping Trauma Education in Counseling Programs: A 25-Year Scoping Review
1:30pm • Comprehensive student assessment and implications for remediation and retention
2:35pm • Trend Analysis of Attention-related Problems in College Clients: Baselines and Treatment Outcomes
3:40pm • Demonstrating the Feasibility of Mixed Methods Research in Counseling Program Evaluation

San Antonio

8:00am • Addressing Researcher Bias Within Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
9:05am • Hopelessness and Helplessness; Detecting Clients at Risk of Suicide Before Rapport
11:15am • Advancing Positive Childhood Experiences: Frameworks, Measurement, and Research Implications
1:30pm • Effectiveness of an AI Simulation and Feedback Intervention on CITs' Broaching and Self-Efficacy
2:35pm • Growing Through Expansion: Cultural Humility and Relational Flourishing in Intercultural Couples
3:40pm • Mapping Counselor Inclusion in Medicare: An Outcome-Based Geospatial Case Study

TBA

12:00pm • Lunch on your own

Trinity 3 & 4

6:30am • Sunrise Yoga

Trinity 3 & 4 Foyer

2:00pm • Snack Break

Willow Creek

8:00am • Making Research Accessible: Diverse Methods of Knowledge Dissemination
9:05am • Causal Machine Learning for Precision Counseling: From Average to Individual Treatment Effects
10:10am • Checking the Box or Changing the Culture? Counselor Educators' Understanding of Ableism
11:15am • Using multi-group IPA as an Innovative Qualitative Method for Transnational Counseling Research
1:30pm • Recommendations for Addressing Missing Data in Counseling Research
2:35pm • AI in Counseling Research: Ethical Integration in Qualitative & Quantitative Methods
3:40pm • Preparing Counselors for Tomorrow’s Practice: AI Literacy and Ethics

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