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NBCC International Fellows at ACES History
2002- Park City, Utah, USA
The Fellows Program began as a joint effort by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) to identify and build relationships with international students in the U.S. who would be key persons in professional counseling in their home countries. Nominations were solicited for 2 international students from each of the 5 ACES regions. ACES offered the selected Fellows free conference registration to the national conference and agreed to offer a 2-hour time period during the conference for the Fellows. NBCC provided travel stipends and conducted a professional development workshop for the Fellows.
11 Fellows were selected for 2002, two from each ACES region and one from abroad. They were:
Name | | Home Country | | Hui-Shiang Chao | University of Northern Colorado | Taiwan | | Meng Yin Chen | Oregon State University | Taiwan | | Dr. Fidan Korkut | UNC-Greensboro/Hacettepe University | Turkey | | Tomoko Kudo | Syracuse University | Japan | | Jayamala Madathil | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | India | | Oula Majzoub | Kent State University | Lebanon | | Motoko Nakazawa | Oregon State University | Japan | | Jenny Keller Neethling | Western Michican University | South Africa | | Jane Atieno Okech | Idaho State University | Kenya | | Atsuko Seto | University of Wyoming | Japan | | Dr. Andreea Szilagyi | Polytechnic University of Bucharest | Romania |
2005- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Based on valuable feedback from the 2002 Fellows in Park City and from responses to a follow-up survey, significant changes were made in the approach to the 2005 Fellows program. Primarily feedback indicated that questions remained about how to promote the development of counseling. Because of this, the professional development workshop was focused on studying professionalization processes and was mostly conducted by counselors from outside the United States who are presently creating licensure and working to implement accreditation.
In light of the difficulties expressed by Fellows in traveling to and from their home country, a smaller group of Fellows was selected. Recruitment from non-U.S. counselor preparation programs also took place. As a result, Maria Dipal, a psychology student from Malaysia, and Dr. Huda Ayyash-Abdo, the coordinator of a School Counseling Program in Lebanon were invited to participate.
The 2005 NBCC International Fellows at ACES were:
Name | Selected from: | Home Country | | Dr. Huda Ayyash-Abdo | Lebanese American University | Lebanon | | Kyoung Mi Choi | Syracuse University | South Korea | | Maria Dipal | HELP University/College | Malaysia | | Arline Edwards-Joseph | North Carolina State University | Antigua & Barbuda | | Nikolai Ermakov | Denver Seminary | Krygyzstan | | Ana Teresa Gouveia | University of Rochester | Portugal | | Sachin Jain | University of Wyoming | India | | Dr. Chieko Koyama | Virginia Tech | Japan |
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