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Fall 2009 CECP Newsletter 
The department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology has received a three-year $546,000 grant from a state agency to create a model program for recruiting rehabilitation counselors.
Michigan Rehabilitation Services, a bureau within the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, awarded the grant to establish a Rehabilitation Internship/Employment Recruitment Model Program for DELEG-MRS.
The project will provide 
funded internship experiences with MRS for students in rehabilitation counseling programs at WMU, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Northern Illinois University. It will use state-of-the-art distance-learning technology and include development of online clinical supervision training modules for MRS rehabilitation counselors. To fill entry-level rehabilitation counselor positions MRS will recruit those who complete the internship program.
Co-directors of the project are: Patrick Munley, department chair; Jennipher Wiebold, Rehabilitation Counseling Program coordinator; and Stephen Craig, Counselor Education Unit director. Also serving on the WMU project team are Robert Leneway, associate professor in Educational Leadership, Research and Technology, and Stephen Magura, director of the Evaluation Center.
To carry out the goals and objectives of the grant project, the team will work in collaboration with Margie Hojara-Hadsell, director of MRS’ Workforce Improvement Division, which includes Kalamazoo County.
MRS helps Michigan residents with disabilities achieve employment and self-sufficiency, primarily in their communities through a network of field offices staffed by rehabilitation counselors. Its parent agency, the Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth, promotes job creation and economic growth in Michigan by centralizing and streamlining the state's job development, workforce development, and economic development functions under one department. More...
In a recent analysis of productivity in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender scholarship and research in Counseling Psychology that appeared in the January issue of The Counseling Psychologist (Smith, 2010), Dr. James M. Croteau, professor, was ranked as the most productive scholar in this area. Scholarly productivity rankings were based on publication in eight national refereed counseling psychology journals over the period of 1990-2008 and the impact of an author’s work as reflected by citation in other articles. Western Michigan University and its Counseling Psychology program was ranked third nationally in terms of LGBT scholarship in Counseling Psychology.
Dr. Lonnie E. Duncan, associate professor and co-training director of the Counseling Psychology doctoral program, co-authored a chapter with Beverly J. Vandiver, associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University. The chapter, “Toward practicing culturally sound counseling: A synthesis of current clinical research and experience,” appears in the book edited by Mark M. Leach and Jamie D. Aten titled Culture and the therapeutic process: A guide for mental health professionals, published by Routledge Taylor & Francis. The chapter summarizes the best cultural counseling practices in four core areas of mental health treatment with racial-ethnic minorities: help seeking, assessment, treatment, and training and supervision. The authors provide practical steps that mental health professionals can take to provide culturally relevant practices to racial-ethnic minority clients.