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Marty Jencius Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

LDES Associate Professor Marty Jencius received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling. This award goes to a counselor with an extensive history of advocacy and exceptional practice in the field of traumatic stress and resilience. Such advocacy and exceptional practice may be demonstrated by a history of research and publication, mentoring, and involvement in the mental health counseling community.

Marty will receive this award  during the annual American Counseling Association conference in Toronto, Canada, on March 30. 

A Division of the American Counseling Association, the vision of IARTC, in accordance with the ACA, is to: 

  • Promote greater awareness and understanding of traumatic stress, as defined by current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the current edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
  • Promote the recognition of resilience and traumatology as a specialization requiring focused training and supervision in the counseling profession and related helping fields 
  • Globally promote the professional development of resilience and trauma-competent counselors and   counselor educators
  • Advocate for the profession of resilience and trauma-focused counseling
  • Contribute to the knowledge base of resilience and trauma studies
  • Ensure ethical, culturally inclusive resilience and trauma-informed practices that protect those using  counseling services  
  • Advance appropriate assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies for counseling in response to traumatic experiences in ways that promote positive development, resilience, and the wellbeing of people across the lifespan 
  • Disseminate educational and professional materials with the purpose of raising the standards of practice in trauma and resilience counseling, education, supervision, and mental health care across the world.

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POSTED: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 08:16 AM
Updated: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 01:52 PM