The Counseling Psychology Graduate Student Council proudly presents our 3rd Annual Psychology Conference. The conference is online via Zoom on Oct. 6, and in person at Alaska Pacific University on Oct. 7.
This year’s theme is Psychology and the Environment.
Topics include:
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The psychology of understanding environmental issues
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Climate change as Social Justice and the effects of climate change on BIPOC communities
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Integrating nature into a Holistic Health model of care aligns with Positive Psychology and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
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The effects of climate change on Alaska’s environment
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Keynote Speakers & Panelists Bios
Dr. Sebree is an American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS) core faculty member of the MA program at the Michigan School of Psychology. He graduated with his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the Michigan School of Psychology in 2016. He has since conducted his clinical work in the Ann Arbor area, working with a variety of populations, with a focus on young college students and adults within the University of Michigan system. Dr. Sebree received his MECCA Certificate in Multicultural Counseling from MSU. He specializes in multicultural identity theory and counseling, alongside ecopsychology/ecotherapy and climate psychology. Dr. Sebree has worked extensively with various social justice organizations in Detroit around food security and other environmental justice issues.
Dr. Sebree’s community-oriented social justice praxis is emphasized in his teaching, clinical work, and mentorship. Dr. Sebree has been an active member of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, APA Division 32. Serving as a member-at-large, membership chair and co-chair of the Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee for the organization. Dr. Sebree also serves as a member-at-large, and communications chair, for APA Division 34, Society for Population, Environmental, and Conservation Psychology. Dr. Sebree serves as a board member for the 501c3 non-profit, The Humanitarian Alliance, which works to promote psychological, social, and ecological justice.
Joe Sarcone has worked together with Indigenous peoples facing intractable public health conditions for nearly forty years. Joe is a practitioner of culturally safe public health. Cultural safety places the emphasis on the practitioner to develop a critical consciousness of their place in society relative to the people they serve, and, promotes the transfer of power from the practitioner to disparate populations. His experience is wide-ranging including; local health department sanitarian, Rural Sanitation Officer, Solomon Islands, Rural Sanitation Coordinator, EPA Alaska Operations Office, Environmental Health Advisor, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Water and Sanitation Advisor, Alaska Native Health Board, Sanitarian, International Rescue Committee (IRC), Program for Mozambican Refugees, and team member, CDC) Sierra Leone Ebola Vaccine Team. Joe is inspired by a quote from Inupiaq elder MaryAnn Warden, “You have to have your heart glad when you are serving the people.”
Dr. Ashley Doss is a clinically licensed psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist. Presently, she is the Critical Response & Wellness Coordinator for the Anchorage School District, where she works to provide appropriate staff trainings, coordinate crisis response for mental health & well-being, and support wellness initiatives designed to prevent caregiver burnout, reduce suicide rates and the psychological impact of crises. Dr. Doss is a PREPaRE trainer and serves on the Alaska School Psychologists Association (ASPA) as the current President. She has previously worked as a school psychologist in Alaska and Texas at elementary and secondary levels and has experience in the private setting conducting counseling services, neuropsychological evaluations, and psychoeducational assessments. Dr. Doss has provided trainings and spoken at conferences at the local, state, and national level regarding resilience, executive functioning, multicultural considerations, and more. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and loves to be outdoors hiking, kayaking, cross-country skiing, and traveling.
Scott D. Churchill has just retired from his 42-year position as Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas, where he was founding director of its current graduate programs in psychology. Over the years, he has developed and taught over 100 different class syllabi, including courses in lifespan development, psychoanalysis, projective techniques, psychopathology, qualitative research, history of cinema, cutting edge films, primate studies, zoo habitat research, ecocinema and conservation psychology.
His Tropical Ecology & Ecopsychology class, partially inspired by his encounter with Jane Goodall many years ago, has brought Churchill and his students to Costa Rica, Belize, and Big Bend National Park as living laboratories where students experience first hand the issues pertaining to environmental impact of human behavior, including climate change, tourism, and industrialization while also exploring the emotional and spiritual relationship of humans to their environment.
A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Churchill is currently in his 18th year as Editor-in-Chief of the APA Division Journal The Humanistic Psychologist, and has served as President of the Society for Humanistic Psychology and the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology while being a founding member of several professional societies, including the International Human Science Research Conference (IHSRC), the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), and the International Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP).
Dr. Churchill has presented papers, workshops, and invited addresses at professional conferences around the world, including Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Taiwan, Malaysia, Canada and Australia. He has published over 80 articles and chapters, and his book Essentials of Existential Phenomenological Research was published by the American Psychological Association in 2022.
Schedule
1 to 2 p.m. Dr. Sebree
2 to 3 p.m. Dr. Churchill
3 to 4 p.m. Dr. Dial
Oct. 7: In Person
1 p.m. Panel classroom
2 p.m. Talking circle in Boardroom
3 p.m. activities
Panel Members: Jo Volkheimer, Beth Leonard, Wilson Justin, Joe Sarcone, Ashley Doss, and Kristen English.
Please join the Oct. 6 Zoom session at the link below: