2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling...

2026 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference

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8:00am CDT

Assessing Learning Environments in Counselor Education: Theory-Driven Scale Development and Validati Sabine ASojeong Nam • copresenter 1 • copresenter 2 But I Did the Literature Review!” — Equitable Authorship Practices in Collaborative Research Rio Grande BElizabeth Okoye-Ezeoke • copresenter 1 • copresenter 2 Developing the CSESS: Assessing and Cultivating Self-Efficacy Sources in Counselor Education Sabine BJeongwoon Jeong • copresenter 1 • copresenter 2 Fairness as an Interpretive Responsibility: Implications for Validity in Counseling Research Rio Grande AMissy Moore Outcomes of “Integrated Behavioral Health” Training: A Multi-Year Follow-up Study Willow CreekVaibhavee Agaskar • copresenter 1 • copresenter 2 Research Designs for Community-Engaged Program Evaluations Canyon LakeAzadeh Ahmadi • copresenter 1 • copresenter 2

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 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 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

10:10am CDT

Beyond Database Searches: Comprehensive Approaches to Article Collection in Systematic Reviews Willow CreekCatherine Griffith Critical Incident Technique and Enhanced Critical Incident Technique: Methodological Applications an Rio Grande BSyreeta Wright 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 What was studied (and what wasn’t): A scoping review of 390 counseling intervention articles Canyon LakeCasey Barrio Minton ‘What Are We Missing?’: Advancing Spirituality Assessment in Counselor Training San AntonioShalonda Kirk

11:15am CDT

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 Cultivating Collaborative Scholarship in Integrated Care Workforce Development Canyon LakeMalvika Behl Listening to the Pipeline: A Thematic Analysis of Student Experiences Rio Grande BJennifer Deaton Navigating AI in Counselor Education: Expert Perspectives on Pedagogy, Ethics, and Practice Sabine AYiying Xiong 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 We Rise Together: Building Collaborative Frameworks for Supporting Marginalized Clients and Students Rio Grande AJ'haria Dallas

2:35pm CDT

Four Functions of Counseling Scholarship: Applying Boyer’s Framework to a Maturing Discipline Sabine AMelissa Fickling From Epoché to Essence: Rigorous Analytic Practice in Transcendental Phenomenology Rio Grande AVaquisha Black From Practice to Publication: Helping Clinicians Publish on Counseling and Sexual Wellness ComalNiko Wilson Integrating Practice Based and Participatory Action Research to Bridge Research and Practice Rio Grande BAmanda Rumsey International Panel Willow CreekAmanda Giordano Making the Invisible Visible: Transparency and Rigor in IPA Analysis Sabine BPaige Scoma Measurement of Neurocognitive Processes in Mental Health Counseling San AntonioOliver Boxell Strengthening Research Mentorship to Build Collaborative Scholars in Counseling Canyon LakeElizabeth Prosek

3:40pm CDT

AI-III Workshop: A Scalable Model for Integrating Generative AI in Counselor Training Canyon LakeLindai Xie Developing Multi-tiered Research Teams for Student and Faculty Success at R1 Institutions Rio Grande BDalena Dillman Taylor Evaluation of a Diagnostic Decision Making Model and Curriculum for Counseling Professionals Sabine AAlexander Fields I made an Instrument, Now What? Testing Four Methods to Determine Scoring Procedures and Thresholds Sabine BNatalie Ricciutti International Panel Willow CreekAmanda Giordano Keeping the Counselor in the Loop: AI-Enhanced Assessment in Clinical Care ComalCarlos Casteneda Mapping the Narratives: Introduction to Semantic Network Analysis Rio Grande AZhaopu (Ken) Xu Using Concept Mapping to Identify Crisis Competencies in Community Mental Health Counselor Training San AntonioErica McSwain

8:00am CDT

Addressing Researcher Bias Within Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis San AntonioPaige Scoma Connection Before Correction: Examining Adolescent School Engagement Through an SDOH Lens ComalNadiya Boyce Exploring Psychometric Properties of the Traumatic Growth Scale Sabine BMargaret Poandi Making Research Accessible: Diverse Methods of Knowledge Dissemination Willow CreekAmanda Giordono Navigating Authorship in Counseling Research: Ethical, Relational, and Practical Strategies Sabine ABradley McKibben 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 Toward Methodological Standards for Delphi Research in Counseling Rio Grande BHaley Ault

9:05am CDT

Applying the EQUITY-AI Framework to Counseling Assessment and Research Canyon LakeLoriAnn Stretch Causal Machine Learning for Precision Counseling: From Average to Individual Treatment Effects Willow CreekYusen Zhai Demystifying research: Creative strategies for teaching master’s-level counseling research courses Rio Grande BAdriana Labarta 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 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 Quasi-Experimental Design: How to Best Address the Lack of Randomization in Your Counseling Research Canyon LakeDeanna Chrones Student Outcomes and School Counselor Perspectives on the Hope Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study ComalSangeun Lee The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory: An integrative tool for assessment, practice, and research Rio Grande BRick Balkin

11:15am CDT

Advancing Positive Childhood Experiences: Frameworks, Measurement, and Research Implications San AntonioGahyun Park Centering Advocacy in Counseling Research: Implications for Practice and Policy Canyon LakeDanielle Pester Boyd Engaging Minoritized Participants: Recruitment and Retention in Counseling Research. Sabine AShalonda Kirk How to conduct inductive content analysis in counseling research Rio Grande ADaniel DeCino Mapping Trauma Education in Counseling Programs: A 25-Year Scoping Review Sabine BYu Pan Neuroscience-Integrated Assessment in Counseling: Culturally Responsive Practices and Procedures ComalYoon Suh Moh Trends in School Counseling Intervention Research: Findings From a 25-Year Systematic Review Rio Grande BCatherine Griffith Using multi-group IPA as an Innovative Qualitative Method for Transnational Counseling Research Willow CreekShuxin Cheng

1:30pm CDT

Beyond Q Factors: A Thematic Analysis of UDL Beliefs in Counselor Education Rio Grande BEllie Potts Beyond the Numbers: The Impact of Student-to-School Counselor Ratio on Student Success ComalYanhong Liu Comprehensive student assessment and implications for remediation and retention Sabine BJennifer Cook Effectiveness of an AI Simulation and Feedback Intervention on CITs' Broaching and Self-Efficacy San AntonioXihe (Aimee) Tian Narrative Analysis and Narrative Inquiry Canyon LakeMakbule Irem Pilgir Recommendations for Addressing Missing Data in Counseling Research Willow CreekRyan Cooke “But I’m not a research person!” Using the RARE Model to support research identity development Sabine AGina Polychronopoulos

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 Growing Through Expansion: Cultural Humility and Relational Flourishing in Intercultural Couples San AntonioPeitao Zhu Healing as Legacy: An Endarkened Narrative Inquiry Canyon LakeAaliya Bond-Richardson Not So Anonymous: Ethical considerations for publications using publicly accessible data Sabine ALindsay Lundeen Recommendations for conducting a longitudinal study in counseling research ComalHeather Fye Trend Analysis of Attention-related Problems in College Clients: Baselines and Treatment Outcomes Sabine BMario Sobrino

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 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 Mapping Counselor Inclusion in Medicare: An Outcome-Based Geospatial Case Study San AntonioJonathan Wiley Preparing Counselors for Tomorrow’s Practice: AI Literacy and Ethics Willow CreekCharles Gibson Using Discipline Data as an Equity Assessment Tool Rio Grande ADelarious Stewart

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