2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling...

2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference

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12:00pm CDT

Volunteer Check In Trinity LobbyKimberlee Mincey

1:00pm CDT

AARC Executive Board Meeting SabineAmanda Rumsey

2:00pm CDT

Thursday Registration Check In Trinity LobbyEunae Han

6:30am CDT

Sunrise Yoga The DenJennifer Stover • Emily Wheeler

7:00am CDT

MECD & CORE Journal Editorial Board Meeting & Breakfast Trinity 3 & 4 Friday Registration Check In Trinity Lobby

8:00am CDT

Mentorship in Counseling Research: What Mentees Need and How Mentors can Respond Trinity 2 Table 17Lara Strate A Delphi Study to Identify School Counseling Site Supervision Training Content San AntonioJereemy Oehrtman • Nancy Chae • Adrienne Backer Assessing Learning Environments in Counselor Education: Theory-Driven Scale Development and Validati Rio Grande BJeongwoon Jeong • Sojeong Nam Building an Accountability-Focused Framework for Ethical AI use in CE Research Sabine BShing Yee Bay But I Did the Literature Review!” — Equitable Authorship Practices in Collaborative Research Sabine AElizabeth Okoye-Ezeoke • Katherine McVay • Kimberlee Mincey • Briana Rodriguez • Kevin Wong Connection Before Correction: Examining Adolescent School Engagement Through an SDOH Lens ComalNadiya Boyce Fairness as an Interpretive Responsibility: Implications for Validity in Counseling Research Rio Grande AMissy Moore • Laura Huddleston Outcomes of “Integrated Behavioral Health” Training: A Multi-Year Follow-up Study Willow CreekVaibhavee Agaskar • Yung-Wei Lin Research Designs for Community-Engaged Program Evaluations Canyon LakeAzadeh Ahmadi • Elizabeth Prosek Beyond total scores using item-level symptom patterns to improve college mental health assessment Trinity 2 Poster 10Cheolwoo Park Development and Preliminary Validation of a 4MAT-Based Diagnostic System for Adult Career Transition Trinity 2 Poster 7JoongHyun Joe Evaluating Intentions to Use the 988 Lifeline Among College Students at Elevated Risk of Suicide Trinity 2 Poster 9Hannah Martinson Explanatory Mixed-Methods Insights on Unethical Supervision, Supervisory Rupture, and Repair Trinity 2 Poster 6Dasol Hwang • Sarah Roundtree Fostering Research Identity Through Mentorship and Modeling: A Novel Mini-Series Approach Trinity 2 Poster 8emma tharp How Clients Choose Depression Treatments: Perceptions and Preferences Trinity 2 Poster 5Sydney Hutchins • Graesen Smith Measuring What Matters: Outcome Evaluation in Child-Centered Play Therapy Trinity 2 Poster 4Sinem Akay-Sullivan • Aziz Zorlu • Jeffrey Sullivan The Development and Evaluation of the Parent-Child Relationship Quality Scale Trinity 2 Poster 2Abdulkadir Haktanir • Marina Fried Understanding Partners’ Mental Health Experiences in Couples Utilizing In-Vitro Fertilization Trinity 2 Poster 1Jessie Guest • Palmer Gudmundson When Self-Report Fails: The Impact of Gaslighting and Reality Distortion on Assessment Validity Trinity 2 Poster 11Hazel Zhang Where Alliance Meets Outcomes: Client Outcomes and Therapeutic Relationship in Counselor Training Trinity 2 Poster 3Sebastiana Halpin • Melissa Zeligman Addressing Misdiagnosis in Diagnostic Assessment Through Clinical, Cultural,& Experiential Training Trinity 2 Table 18Erica Pouncie • Erin Kaszynski Anger and Grief in University Honors Students: Assessing and Treating the Phenomenon Trinity 2 Table 11Meredith Rausch Assessing Agentic Identity Pathways in Autism: Implications for Counseling Practice Trinity 2 Table 10Kaiqi Zhou • Sang Qin Assoc Btwn Pornography Consumption & Romantic Relationship Outcomes with Exploration of Genre Trinity 2 Table 14Sarah Mendoza Beyond the Paper: Transforming Counselor Education Through Experiential Research Trinity 2 Table 4Aishwarya Joshi • Marjorie Shavers Effects of Parental Motivations and Stress in Perceived Outcomes of Child's Play Therapy Treatment Trinity 2 Table 9Mario Sobrino • Nicole Palacios Exploring Wellness and Identity Transition in New Counselor Educators: A Methodological Dialogue Trinity 2 Table 8Mihee Woo Faith-Based REBT May Reduce Posttraumatic and Discrimination Stress in Justice-Involved BIPOC Adults Trinity 2 Table 13Kimberly Pearson • Erin Kaszynski From Stories to Concepts: Guiding Grounded Theory Dissertations Trinity 2 Table 6Duc Huy Lam Initial Psychometric Evaluation and Applied Utility of the Counselor Self-Discrepancy Inventory Trinity 2 Table 12Seth Robinson • Christina Daou • Donghun Lee Mapping Peace: A Conceptual Exploration of Embodied Anxiety and Christian Integration in Counseling Trinity 2 Table 5Brittany King Needs Assessment of Older Adults: Implications for Ethical and Evidence-based Practice Trinity 2 Table 3Enobong Inyang Pilot study for the MARS Group: Preliminary findings and practical challenges Trinity 2 Table 16David Johnson Students’ perceptions of School Counselors' Helpfulness and Accessibility: From the Source Trinity 2 Table 1Joe Howell Teaching Program Evaluation: Challenges, Resources, and InnovationsQu Chen • Jasmine Reynolds Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to Examine Trauma Teaching in Counselor Education Trinity 2 Table 15Yoon Suh Moh • Yu Pan • Laura Dawson-Fend Using Q Methodology to Examine Subjectivity: A Dissertation Study as an Illustrative Example Trinity 2 Table 2Renyi Huang Visualizing Cultural and Identity Transition: Photovoice with Japanese Expatriate Wives Trinity 2 Table 7Yuima Mizutani • Hanyun Li Who Tells Our Stories when We're Both In and Out? Insider-Outsider Research with Black Women Trinity 2 Table 19Kathy Altidor • Linzy Andre

9:05am CDT

Assessing Training Climate: Effects on Multicultural Self-Efficacy and Mental Health Stigma Sabine BMelissa Henrey Collaborative Autoethnography in Social Justice Research: A Study Example Sabine AYu Pan • Daisy Zhaoxuan Zhou • Yu Hsun Peng Decoding Affect: Automated Sentiment Analysis and Interaction Regimes in Psychotherapy Process Willow CreekPaul Peluso Engagement in Professional Mentoring: Supporting School Counselors' Well-Being ComalEmily Kitching Larger Research Team: Lessons from Structure and Practice Rio Grande BMalvika Behl Teaching and Writing Conceptual Scholarship in the Age of Generative AI Tools Canyon LakeMelissa Fickling • Priyanka Jha The Numbers Don't Lie: Research as Advocacy Rio Grande ABrandee Appling What does it Take to Publish in MECD or CORE? Meet the Editors Trinity 3 & 4Joshua C. Watson & A. Stephen Lenz Which Predictors Matter Most? Using Dominance Analysis to Improve Counseling Research Interpretation San AntonioAzadeh Ahmadi • Jessica Gerthe • Erin Malcom A mixed-method approach to understanding the relationship between cross-cultural body ideals and eat Trinity 2 Poster 2Carley Gimenez Barriers and Facilitators to Crisis Line Use Among Undergraduate Men of Color Trinity 2 Poster 9Afroze Shaikh Breaking the Silence: How Stigma and Cultural Expectations Affect Black Men’s Mental Health Trinity 2 Poster 4Jada Broadnax Can Artificial Intelligence Reliably Code Counseling Microskills? A Comparison with Human Raters Trinity 2 Poster 11Dasol Hwang • Hyunjy Kim • Chloe Kang Creating Conditions for Becoming: How Supervisors Navigate Intersectional Identity in Supervision Trinity 2 Poster 7Babatola Arogundade • Makbule Irem Pilgir Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy in Mental Health: A Comparative Study of Human Therapists and AI Trinity 2 Poster 5Ibrahim Bukhari Exploring Youth Counseling Competency Development in Practicum and Internship-Level Trainees Trinity 2 Poster 10Kaleb Thompson Mixed Methods in Counseling Research: What Counts and What Doesn't Trinity 2 Poster 6Clark Ausloos • Lena Salpietro The Lived Experience of Shared Military Identity in Therapeutic Relationships: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Veteran Therapists Trinity 2 Poster 8Jessica Holm • Benjamin Faul The Role of Search Investigators in Transnational Adoption Search and Reunion: A Scoping Review Trinity 2 Poster 3Susan Branco • Szu-Yu Chen Using reaction-times to measure depression Trinity 2 Poster 1Oliver Boxell A Relational-Cultural Perspective to Research Identity Trinity 2 Table 1Ericka Cables Anti-Fat Bias and the Diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa in Fat Clients Trinity 2 Table 8Cassandra Pilcher Body Art in Higher Education: Tattoos, Piercings, Outcomes Among African American Female Students Trinity 2 Table 5LaVelle Hendricks • Dimitra Smith Bridging Disciplines: Designing and Implementing Interdisciplinary Outcome Research in Counseling Trinity 2 Table 17Kara Schneider Curating the Stories of CES Doctoral Student Identity: A Pilot Dramaturgical Narrative Inquiry Trinity 2 Table 10Laura Rea Do We Really Know what Burnout is? Examining Conceptual and Methodological Challenges of Burnout Trinity 2 Table 3Shing Yee Bay Exploring the Relationships Between Parental Support & Mental Health of Black College Aged Women Trinity 2 Table 2Jessica Barnes Forgiveness and Political Reconciliation Trinity 2 Table 20Richard Balkin From Couch to Campus: Clinical Counselors Engering School Counseling Through Alternative Licensure Trinity 2 Table 19Leanne Campbell Integrative Sandtray Supervision with CITs: A Single-Case Research Design Trinity 2 Table 13Victoria Siegel International and Cultural Understanding of the Social Determinants of Mental Health Trinity 2 Table 14Parker Short • Megan Thrasher Is Dieting an Evidence-Based Practice? Measuring What Matters Most in Size-Inclusive Counseling." Trinity 2 Table 11Kari Slater Keeping the Humanity in Human Subjects: Prison Research and Ethics Trinity 2 Table 6Leigh Holman Relational Approach to Ethical Decision-Making: A Content Analysis of Counseling Literature Trinity 2 Table 12Diane Smedley • Ross Spears Student Outcomes and School Counselor Perspectives on the Hope Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study Trinity 2 Table 7Sangeun Lee The Impact of Trauma Work: Counselors’ Lived Experiences of Witnessing, Strain, and Growth Trinity 2 Table 4Lin Chiu, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC Using Rasch Analysis to Strengthen Assessment Tools in Counselor Education Trinity 2 Table 16Sahar Sheikh Virtual Reality in Counselor Education: Experiential Learning and Multicultural Competence Trinity 2 Table 9Chukwuebuka Onyia When Ideas Outrun Evidence: Accelerating Counseling Research Translation Responsibly Trinity 2 Table 15Donna Sheperis

10:10am CDT

‘What Are We Missing?’: Advancing Spirituality Assessment in Counselor Training San AntonioShalonda Kirk • L. Eliza Stanley Beyond Database Searches: Comprehensive Approaches to Article Collection in Systematic Reviews Willow CreekCatherine Griffith • George McMahon Critical Incident Technique and Enhanced Critical Incident Technique: Methodological Applications an Rio Grande BSyreeta Wright • Tanya Lloyd • Laura Bailey Smith Reflexive thematic analysis 101 ComalJanet Kempf Rethinking What Counts as Data: The Case for Social Media in Counseling Research Methodology Sabine BLindsay Lundeen Strategies and Considerations for Teaching Doctoral-Level Research Courses in Counselor Education Rio Grande ASojeong Nam • Jaeyoung Kim What are we Measuring, and Why? Rethinking Trauma Assessment through Regulation and Growth Sabine ARebecca Nelson • Maria Alayza What was studied (and what wasn’t): A scoping review of 390 counseling intervention articles Canyon LakeCasey Barrio Minton • Carrie Wachter Morris • Jennifer Hightower • Zeming Wang • Taylor Baldwin A Lifetime at War Within: EMDR for Complex PTSD Beyond Military-Focused Treatment Trinity 2 Poster 8Jessica Holm • Benjamin Faul Adolescent Perspectives on Therapist Self-Disclosure Trinity 2 Poster 3Leah Eckstrom • Taylor Baldwin Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale: A Mnemonic Framework for Suicide Risk Assessment Training Trinity 2 Poster 9Seth Robinson Effects of a Manualized Wellness Intervention on Wellness and Goal Attainment among College Students Trinity 2 Poster 11Hannah McIntyre • Jonathan Ohrt Exploring the Intersectional Narratives of East Asian American Youth: A Photovoice Study Trinity 2 Poster 7Szu-Yu Chen • Rachel Jacoby Hidden Doubt: Predicting Impostor Syndrome in First-Gen Students Through Wellness and Resilience Trinity 2 Poster 2Timothy Eng • M. Ann Shillingford How to Develop an Observation Tool: A Step-by-Step Guide for Practice and Research Trinity 2 Poster 1Dania Fakhro Listening to the Pipeline: A Thematic Analysis of Student Experiences Trinity 2 Poster 4Jennifer Deaton • Morgan Kelly Preparing Play Therapy Trainees to Work with Suicidal Children: Impact of a Brief Microteach Trinity 2 Poster 6Eric Dafoe • Rachel Wisolmerski Research Advocacy: Counselor and Faith-Based Collaborations Advance Generational Wealth Equity Trinity 2 Poster 5Neffisatu Celestine Dambo • Faith Elam Understanding the Intersection of Disability, Diagnosis, and Mental Health Trinity 2 Poster 10Megan Thrasher A Reckoning with Gender, Race, and Objectification: Immigrant Women’s Body Image in Turbulent Times Trinity 2 Table 10Carley Gimenez • Dr.ClaireMartin Assessing Covert Trauma: Does technology have a role? Trinity 2 Table 2Carmen Gill • Clara Bossie • Kelly Emelianchik-Key Becoming a Researcher: Doctoral Students’ Journeys in Researcher Identity Development Trinity 2 Table 12Ashley McGee • Sarah Streitmatter Behind the Walls: Conducting Community Engaged Research in Correctional Settings Trinity 2 Table 7Leigh Holman Capturing Complexity and Centering Equity: Single Case Design for Practice-Based Counseling Research Trinity 2 Table 14Olivia Lewis Data Collection with College Students and Emerging Adults: Best Practices and Sampling Strategies Trinity 2 Table 11Matthew L. Nice • Tiffany Spisak Disrupting Objectivity: Positionality-Conscious Activism as Reflexive Praxis in Counselor Education Trinity 2 Table 5Sravya Gummaluri Does Mental Health Service Use Moderate Risk for Youth Violence Involvement? Trinity 2 Table 15George Richardson Examining Mothers’ Ability to Recognize Sexual Grooming Behaviors of Child Sexual Abusers Trinity 2 Table 13LaTrivia Mayers • Danielle Boyd From ABD to PhD: Rewriting the Dissertation Journey Through Connection, Culture, and Sisterhood Trinity 2 Table 1Lynell Williams • Denise Hawkins From Value to Practice: Consensus-Based Supervisory Strategies for Cultivating Cultural Humility Trinity 2 Table 3Mashal Bilal • Gülşah Kemer Making Coding Work: Practical Strategies for Team-Based Analysis in Counseling Research Trinity 2 Table 9Lena Salpietro Mapping as a Qualitative Research Method: Counseling Implications for Adult Third Culture Kids Trinity 2 Table 8Yuima Mizutani • Aneesa Bhimani-Trimble • Aisha Khorana • Fatima Rafiq • Meredith Moore Novel Eye-Movement Intervention: Repeated Measures Analyses of PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety Scores Trinity 2 Table 4Deanna Chrones • Kristin Lee Policy on Paper, Silence in Practice: Black Student-Mothers in CACREP Doctoral Programs Trinity 2 Table 19Sierah Campbell Research Gaps in Exercise-Based Trauma Interventions for Data-Driven Counseling Trinity 2 Table 6Analysia Holguin Team Research Development: 15 Essential Practices Described and Discussed Trinity 2 Table 16Paula Lazarim Voice, Perception, and Relational Process: Audio-Based Approaches in Counseling Research Trinity 2 Table 17Jennifer Kiehl Who Is Most Likely to Report Postpartum Depressive Symptoms? Insights From the PRAMS Trinity 2 Table 18Sheerah Keith

11:05am CDT

Recommendations for Addressing Missing Data in Counseling Research Trinity 2 Table 2Ryan Cook Critical Incident Technique and Enhanced Critical Incident Technique: Methodological Applications an Trinity 2 Table 8 Are Participants Using AI? Implications for Qualitative Research Practice Trinity 2 Table 12Yun-Ru Huang • Ashley Williams-Whitley • Patrice Parkinson At the top of the evidence hierarchy: Advancing randomized controlled trials in counseling Trinity 2 Table 10Yixin Xu Conjoint relationship interventions' spillover effects on co-parenting: A Systematic Review. Trinity 2 Table 11Carrie Hunt • Palmer Gudmundson Designing and Refining Culturally Responsive Scales: Applications of IRT and Measurement Invariance Trinity 2 Table 18Ching-Chen Chen • degree • title Dismantling Barriers to ADHD Assessment:Is Intensive Training of Pre-licensed Clinicians the Answer? Trinity 2 Table 15Kari Hays Enhancing Counselor Trainee Crisis and Trauma Competency Through Artificial Intelligence Simulations Trinity 2 Table 1Aishwarya Joshi • Seneka Gainer From Imposter to Practitioner: Measuring Counselor Confidence Across Training Stages Trinity 2 Table 3Sinem Akay-Sullivan • Jeffrey Sullivan How Do We Measure Group Skills? Rethinking Assessment in Counselor Training Trinity 2 Table 14Lisa Hedden Pain and Pressure: the need for bidirectional assessments for chronic pain clients Trinity 2 Table 4Alexis Croffie Providing Tools to Protect Children from Internet Dangers (Education Session) Trinity 2 Table 6Kimberly King • LeAnne Steen Qualitative Findings of a School Counselor-Led Mindfulness Intervention with Middle School Teachers Trinity 2 Table 19Nancy Chae • Dominique Hill • Citlali Molina Relational Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for Counseling Research and Practice Trinity 2 Table 13Violet Hodge Research Self-Efficacy Beyond Skills: Interpersonal and Systemic Influences in Doctoral Training Trinity 2 Table 9Zahide Sunal Teaching Research & Assessment: Creative approaches to making the material relatable and relevant. Trinity 2 Table 5Michelle Hollenbaugh • Joshua Watson The Integration of Popular Culture into Counselor Education Andragogy: A Phenomenological Inquiry Trinity 2 Table 17Shelby Gonzales • Melissa Lafayette Using Machine Learning to Analyze Data: Trauma and Social Determinants to Predict Mental Health Trinity 2 Table 16Eunae Han • Alex Gantt-Howrey

11:15am CDT

The Role of Campus Climate, Social Support, and LGBQ Asian American Mental Health During COVID-19 Trinity 2 Poster 7Jackie Yang Assessing Community Readiness to Inform Mental Health Strategies in Asian American Communities ComalSang Qin Assessing Reflexive Social Justice Advocacy: A Feedback Loop for Counselors and Counselor Educators1 Sabine BC. Peeper McDonald • Hannah Carter Cultivating Collaborative Scholarship in Integrated Care Workforce Development Canyon LakeMalvika Behl • Heather Trepal Developing Multi-tiered Research Teams for Student and Faculty Success at R1 Institutions Rio Grande BDalena Dillman Taylor • Alexandra Frank • Caitlin Frawley Navigating AI in Counselor Education: Expert Perspectives on Pedagogy, Ethics, and Practice Sabine AYiying Xiong • Yusen Zhai Navigating Ethics, Manipulation, and Vulnerable Participants: Experimental Analogue Design Willow CreekCassandra Pilcher STRIVE to Save Lives: Scaling a School‑Based Suicide Prevention Training and Outcome‑Tracking Model San AntonioMelissa Mariani • Laura Shannonhouse We Rise Together: Building Collaborative Frameworks for Supporting Marginalized Clients and Students Rio Grande AJ'haria Dallas • Denise Hawkins A 10-Year Topic Modeling Analysis of Counseling Research in the Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentHayoung Jung • Isak Kim A longitudinal qualitative analysis of early counselor trainee professional identity development Trinity 2 Poster 1Sebastiana Halpin Cross-cultural Validation of the 21-item Cultural Humility and Enactment Scale in South Korea Trinity 2 Poster 2Dasom Han • Sangeun Lee Development and Validation of the Counselor Neurofeedback Competency Scale Trinity 2 Poster 11Ross Spears Examining the CES-D Scale Using Multidimensional Rasch Rating Scale and Partial Credit Models Trinity 2 Poster 6Zhi Jie Lee • Juan Chavez Future Oriented Stress amongst International Emerging Adults in U.S. amidst Visa Policy Changes Trinity 2 Poster 5Jiayi fu • Kaiyi Zhang • Mona Ali Zaib • Nainika Hira • Jiayi fu Neurocounseling: A Psychoeducational Bridge Linking Brain Functioning and Mental Health Trinity 2 Poster 10Kayla Turner Preparing School Counselors for Rural Practice: Development and Evaluation of RSCC Training Trinity 2 Poster 3Brian Welsley Harrington • Emilu Goodman-Scott Strengthening Self-Belief in Higher Education: A Systematic Review Trinity 2 Poster 4Jazmine Hasty • Rainie Gordon The Impact of Marriage Equality for Thai LGBTQ+ Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study Trinity 2 Poster 9Gon Ratanashevorn Virtual Reality in Counselor Education: Experiential Learning and Multicultural Competence Trinity 2 Poster 8Chukwuebuka Onyia • Lauren Robin

12:15pm CDT

Professional Networking Luncheon Trinity 3 & 4

12:45pm CDT

Keynote: The Importance of Data-Driven Legislative Advocacy: A Curated Conversation with Dr. Octavio Martinez, Executive Director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Trinity 3 & 4Ms. Patsy Cunningham • L.C.P.C. • Jr. M.D. • M.P.H. • M. B.A. • F.A.P.A. • Executive Director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

1:45pm CDT

Association for Assessment & Research in Counseling Annual Member Business Meeting Trinity 3 & 4Amanda Rumsey

2:35pm CDT

Developing the CSESS: Assessing and Cultivating Self-Efficacy Sources in Counselor Education Sabine BJeongwoon Jeong From Epoché to Essence: Rigorous Analytic Practice in Transcendental Phenomenology Rio Grande AVaquisha Black • Kristin Lee From Practice to Publication: Helping Clinicians Publish on Counseling and Sexual Wellness ComalNiko Wilson • Shannon Shoemaker Integrating Practice Based and Participatory Action Research to Bridge Research and Practice Rio Grande BAmanda Rumsey International Panel Willow CreekAmanda Giordano Strengthening Research Mentorship to Build Collaborative Scholars in Counseling Canyon LakeElizabeth Prosek • Erica LeBlanc Using Concept Mapping to Identify Crisis Competencies in Community Mental Health Counselor Training San AntonioErica McSwain • Mashal Bilal Awareness and Integration: An IPA of CAST Advocacy Identity Development in Counselors in Training Trinity 2 Poster 10Christa Vento-Jones • John Harrichand College Students’ Experience Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Develop Personal Wellness Plans Trinity 2 Poster 9Lauren Shearer • Jonathan Ohrt Detecting Aberrant Response Patterns on the CES-D Scale: A Graded Response Model Approach Trinity 2 Poster 7Zhi Jie Lee • Juan Chavez Hope as a Dyadic Mediator Between Conflict and Satisfaction in Couples Trinity 2 Poster 3Daewon Kim • Nadiya Boyce Latent Class Analysis of Large-Scale Data in Counseling Research: Mental Health Disparities Example Trinity 2 Poster 6Jungeun Lee Latent Classes of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Differences in Life Satisfaction and Development Trinity 2 Poster 1Matthew L. Nice Loneliness and belonging among undergraduate students: A dual continuum approach Trinity 2 Poster 2Hayoung Jung • Minjoo Kang • David Duys Measuring Mentorship: A Psychometric Meta-Analysis of the Mentoring Competency Assessment-21 Trinity 2 Poster 8Stephen Lenz • Eunae Han Preparing Counselors in Training (CIT)for Work With Marginalized Clients in SUD Treatment Trinity 2 Poster 4Rachel King • Leslie Garza Mendoza Translating Advanced Assessment Technologies into Culturally Responsive Forensic Practice Trinity 2 Poster 5Abraham Leal, MS, LPC, NCC, CCTP, C-PD Validity of Written English Counseling Assessments for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing College Students Trinity 2 Poster 11Hannah McIntyre • Jonathan Ohrt A Two-Phase Qualitative Design for Mapping ChatGPT Adoption Trajectories Trinity 2 Table 3Fan Fan Between Conviction and Practice: Religion, Counselors, and LGBTQ+ Clients Trinity 2 Table 15Kaylee Van Gent • Sarah Shrewsbury-Braxton Centering Haitian Women’s Voices: A Phenomenological Study of Racial Trauma Trinity 2 Table 7Dr.ClaireMartin • Kathy Altidor Confirming Servant Leadership’s Role in SUD Counselor Burnout and Turnover PreventionGeorge Richardson • Amy Ross • George Richardson From Classroom to Change: Research as Advocacy in Non-Research-Focused Counseling Programs. Trinity 2 Table 16Monica Coleman Increasing Well-Being Among Veterans Using Psychoeducation and Mindfulness: Preliminary Data Trinity 2 Table 10Meredith Rasch • Violet Hodge No Policy Background? No Problem, Bestie! An Introduction to Policy Analysis for Counseling Research Trinity 2 Table 6Saiber Shaikh • Shyrun Karandikar Priming a Neurocognitive Memory Mechanism to Augment Traditional Mental Health Counseling Trinity 2 Table 8Oliver Boxell Reconnecting Under Constraint: Can Family Therapy Repair Attachment in Juvenile Justice Settings? Trinity 2 Table 20 Self-Esteem & Body Dysmorphia: Exploring the Role of Social Media Trinity 2 Table 2Regin Dean Starting Where You Are: Using Backcasting to Build a Research Agenda from a Local Practice Idea Trinity 2 Table 9Erin Mason The Post-Dissertation Pivot: Establishing Your Research Agenda as New Faculty Trinity 2 Table 1Lara Strate • LeAnn N. Willis The Stories Behind the Stats: Using Mixed Methods to Holistically View Student-Athlete Mental Health Trinity 2 Table 19Tiffany Spisak • William Johnson Transforming Trauma Assessment: Unifying the Clinical and Creative Lens in IPV Work with Families Trinity 2 Table 4Syreeta Wright Using Anonymous Questionnaires to Collect Sensitive Information: A CQR Case Study Trinity 2 Table 12Afroze Shaikh • Daniel Dosal-Terminel • Hannah Martinson • Jordan Westcott Using Data to Support Professional Counseling Programs and Rationalize Access to Resources Trinity 2 Table 14Rui Ding • K. .Michelle Hunnicutt Hollenbaugh Utilizing measures of Mindfulness, Executive Functioning, and Counselor Self-Efficacy to Evaluate Professional Wellness and Functioning Trinity 2 Table 13David Duany When Is It Participatory? Navigating the Tensions of Participatory Action Research Trinity 2 Table 17Ashley McGee • Sarah Streitmatter Writing as a Psychological Process: Managing Resistance, Emotions, and Identity in Academic Writing Trinity 2 Table 11Dania Fakhro • Melissa Zeligman

3:40pm CDT

Measurement of Neurocognitive Processes in Mental Health Counseling San AntonioOliver Boxell • Tyler DiPonzio AI-III Workshop: A Scalable Model for Integrating Generative AI in Counselor Training Canyon LakeL. Avery Moore • Lindai Xie • Jared Lau Evaluation of a Diagnostic Decision Making Model and Curriculum for Counseling Professionals Sabine AAlexander Fields • Haley Ault I made an Instrument, Now What? Testing Four Methods to Determine Scoring Procedures and Thresholds Sabine BNatalie Ricciutti • Scarlett Zhang International Panel Willow CreekAmanda Giordano Keeping the Counselor in the Loop: AI-Enhanced Assessment in Clinical Care ComalDr. Carlos Castañeda • Donna Sheperis • Ashley Diaz Mapping the Narratives: Introduction to Semantic Network Analysis Rio Grande AZhaopu (Ken) Xu • Hongshan Shao Collecting and Analyzing Data during Grant Projects: Strategies to Amplify Participants' Voices Trinity 2 Poster 3Dodie Limberg Evaluating Intentions to Use the 988 Lifeline Among College Students at Elevated Risk of Suicide Trinity 2 Poster 5Hannah Martinson From classroom to living room: Training school counselors for Play and Systemic Intervention Trinity 2 Poster 1Jessie Guest • Rainie Gordon Getting Regression Right from the Start: Assessing and Addressing Model Assumptions Trinity 2 Poster 8Stephen Lenz • Danelle Flores • Abdulkadir Haktanir International Counseling Trainees in U.S. Programs: A Scoping Review of Supervision Research. Trinity 2 Poster 6Zilin Chang • Eunseon Gong Pocket Therapy? A Meta-Analysis of Mental Health Apps for Anxiety and Stress Trinity 2 Poster 4Ye (Agnes) Luo School-Based Interventions to Reduce School Absenteeism: A Meta-Analysis Trinity 2 Poster 2Dan Li Who Benefits and Who Drops Out from University Counseling Services? （Poster Presentation） Trinity 2 Poster 7Jiayi fu • Xin Zou AI in Assessment: Ethical, Clinical, and Educational Applications Trinity 2 Table 15Laura A. Bailey Smith • Sarah J. Fucillo All the single cases, all the single cases. Now [students] put your hands up! Trinity 2 Table 13Cian Brown • Olivia Lewis • Evan Smarinsky Closing the Competency Gap: The TRACA for Transracial Adoption Counseling Trinity 2 Table 14Lisa Ali Content and Connotation: An Analysis Protocol to Center Student Participant Perspectives Trinity 2 Table 18Alexandra Frank • Dalena Dillman Taylor • Katelyn Lee Demystifying Institutional Review Boards (IRB) Through an Equity Lens Trinity 2 Table 11Catharina Chang Examining a Polyvagal Trauma Intervention: A Single-Case Study of the Safe and Sound Protocol Trinity 2 Table 16Rebecca Nelson Research as Advocacy: Mentoring Counselors-in-Training From Competent Consumer to Competent Research Trinity 2 Table 17Jessica Gerthe Self-Report vs. Simulation-Based Assessment of Suicide Gatekeeping Competence among YouthsIsak Kim • Minjoo Kang The Personal is Empirical: A Co-Autoethnographic Exploration of Research Identity Development in WOC Trinity 2 Table 12Patrice Bryan • Emily Lee-Chong

4:30pm CDT

Welcome Reception Trinity 3 & 4

6:30am CDT

Sunrise Yoga The DenDr. Jennifer Stover • Emily Wheeler

8:00am CDT

It Takes a Village: Relational Supports & Career Decidedness in Korean Multicultural Adolescents San AntonioKahyen Shin • Melissa Luke Exploring Psychometric Properties of the Traumatic Growth Scale Sabine BMargaret Poandi Intellectual Humility and Counselor Trainees' Attitude toward Counseling Theories ComalPriyanka Jha • Peitao Zhu Making Research Accessible: Diverse Methods of Knowledge Dissemination Willow CreekAmanda Giordono • Kistine Ramsay-Seaner Navigating Authorship in Counseling Research: Ethical, Relational, and Practical Strategies Sabine ABradley McKibben • Christian Chan • Casey Barrio Minton Pathways to Developing a Research Identity in Counselor Education Canyon LakeEricka Cables Ten years of randomized controlled trials in counseling journals: Scope, quality, and insights Rio Grande AYixin Xu • Zeming Wang Toward Methodological Standards for Delphi Research in Counseling Rio Grande BHaley Ault • LeAnn Wills • Kertesha Riley

9:05am CDT

Causal Machine Learning for Precision Counseling: From Average to Individual Treatment Effects Willow CreekYusen Zhai • Yung-Wei Lin Cultural Humility, Anxiety, and Supervisory Alliance as Predictors of Supervisee Non-Disclosure Canyon LakeDana Isawi Demystifying research: Creative strategies for teaching master’s-level counseling research courses Rio Grande BAdriana Labarta • Galaxina Wright Four Functions of Counseling Scholarship: Applying Boyer’s Framework to a Maturing Discipline ComalMelissa Fickling Hopelessness and Helplessness; Detecting Clients at Risk of Suicide Before Rapport San AntonioCora Mayfield Measuring Mentoring Engagement: Development and Validation of the Mentoring Engagement Scale Sabine AEmily Kitching Stories, Settings, and Systems: A Researcher's Introduction to Ethnographic Case Study Sabine BSaiber Shaikh Understanding and Applying Multilevel SEM to Address Cross-Cultural Measurement Noninvariance Rio Grande AXihe (Aimee) Tian

10:10am CDT

Checking the Box or Changing the Culture? Counselor Educators' Understanding of Ableism Willow CreekCynthia Boyle Knowledge, Power, and Inquiry: A Critical Pedagogical Perspective Rio Grande AJ'haria Dallas • Lauren Hearn • Deaetta Grimes Mentoring Doctoral Students: An Intersectional, Feminist Panel Discussion Sabine AEmily Goodman-Scott Positioning the Self in Research: Autoethnography in Counselor Education and Re‑Professionalization Sabine BScarlett Iglesias Hoyos • Javier Casado Perez Student Outcomes and School Counselor Perspectives on the Hope Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study ComalSangeun Lee The Ball Pit, The Paper Airplane, & the Counselor-Researcher: Teaching Methods for Research Methods San AntonioMason Hale The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory: An integrative tool for assessment, practice, and research Rio Grande BRick Balkin

11:15am CDT

Beyond the Numbers: The Impact of Student-to-School Counselor Ratio on Student Success Sabine BYanhong Liu Centering Advocacy in Counseling Research: Implications for Practice and Policy Canyon LakeDanielle Pester Boyd • John Harrichand Engaging Minoritized Participants: Recruitment and Retention in Counseling Research. Sabine AShalonda Kirk • Jordan Westcott How to conduct inductive content analysis in counseling research Rio Grande ADaniel DeCino • Phillip Waalkes Neuroscience-Integrated Assessment in Counseling: Culturally Responsive Practices and Procedures ComalYoon Suh Moh • Ching-Chen Chen Trends in School Counseling Intervention Research: Findings From a 25-Year Systematic Review Rio Grande BCatherine Griffith • Dominique Hill • Melissa Mariani Using multi-group IPA as an Innovative Qualitative Method for Transnational Counseling Research Willow CreekShuxin Cheng • Yiying Xiong

12:00pm CDT

Graduate Student Luncheon - Off Site at Ringos RingosHeather Mack • AARC Grad Student Representative on the Executive Board Lunch on your own TBA

1:30pm CDT

“But I’m not a research person!” Using the RARE Model to support research identity development Sabine AGina Polychronopoulos Beyond Q Factors: A Thematic Analysis of UDL Beliefs in Counselor Education Rio Grande BEllie Potts • George McMahon Comprehensive student assessment and implications for remediation and retention Sabine BJennifer Cook • Peggy Caballos Effectiveness of an AI Simulation and Feedback Intervention on CITs' Broaching and Self-Efficacy San AntonioXihe (Aimee) Tian • Yanhong Liu Narrative Analysis and Narrative Inquiry Canyon LakeBabatola Arogundade • Makbule Irem Pilgir Quasi-Experimental Design: How to Best Address the Lack of Randomization in Your Counseling Research Willow CreekDeanna Chrones Recommendations for conducting a longitudinal study in counseling research Rio Grande AHeather Fye • Ryan Cook

2:00pm CDT

Snack Break Trinity 3 & 4 Foyer

2:35pm CDT

A Content Analysis of Research-focused Presentations at ACES National Conferences Rio Grande BPhillip Waalkes AI in Counseling Research: Ethical Integration in Qualitative & Quantitative Methods Willow CreekSeneka Gainer Assessing Outcomes in Trauma Training: A Mixed Methods Study of Counselor Development Rio Grande AMelissa Henry Beyond the Standard Score: Reframing Neurodivergent Cognitive Profiles ComalDelarious Stewart Growing Through Expansion: Cultural Humility and Relational Flourishing in Intercultural Couples San AntonioPeitao Zhu • Dana Isawi • Makbule Irem Pilgir Healing as Legacy: An Endarkened Narrative Inquiry Canyon LakeAaliya Bond-Richardson Mapping Trauma Education in Counseling Programs: A 25-Year Scoping Review Sabine BYu Pan • Yoon Suh Moh • Nayoung Kim Not So Anonymous: Ethical considerations for publications using publicly accessible data Sabine ALindsay Lundeen

3:40pm CDT

Advancing Career Counseling Research for First-Generation College Students: A Multi-faceted Approach Rio Grande BByeolbee Um Attachment Styles and Self-Deficits in Counseling Assessment Sabine Aemma tharp • Michael Karcher Demonstrating the Feasibility of Mixed Methods Research in Counseling Program Evaluation Sabine BKatelyn Lee Evaluating the Utility of the Sporting Resilience Model for Collegiate Student-Athlete Resilience ComalJusten Schroeder Final Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial for Gottman Method Couples Counseling for Infidelity Canyon LakePaul Peluso • Taylor Irvine Leadership in AARC: A Gathering Space for Graduate Students & New Professionals Willow CreekMatthew L. Nice • Lara Strate • Hayoung Jung • Christa Vento-Jones • Rachel Jacoby Mapping Counselor Inclusion in Medicare: An Outcome-Based Geospatial Case Study San AntonioJonathan Wiley • Ravi Patel Using Discipline Data as an Equity Assessment Tool Rio Grande ADelarious Stewart

2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference

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