Critical Incidents in School Counseling

Tarrell Awe Agahe Portman, PhD, is the dean of the College of Education at Winona State University. She is a licensed school counselor, mental health counselor, and teacher, with over 35 years in education. She was one of two school counselor educators appointed to sit on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards School Counseling Standards development committee. Dr. Portman has served the profession as president of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. She has received numerous awards and recognitions over her career and was the first recipient of the Mary Smith Arnold Anti-Oppression Award from the Counselors for Social Justice division of ACA. Her research and publications focus upon school counseling and counseling issues among American Indians. She has served on editorial boards for the Professional School Counseling, Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and Journal for Humanistic Counseling. Chris Wood, PhD, is an associate professor in the Counselor Education program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Wood has previous experience as a high school counselor, a counseling/guidance department chair, a counselor/group leader at a residential youth facility for troubled teens, and a career counselor at an alternative school serving grades 7-12. Dr. Wood was the editor for the journal Professional School Counseling for 6 years. Dr. Wood has been the principal investigator or faculty research associate on research teams that were awarded over $3 million in state and federal grants. He has had over 30 conference presentations and 30 publications, including articles in Professional School Counseling, the Journal of Counseling & Development, the Journal of College Counseling, Counselor Education & Supervision, Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, and The Elementary School Journal. Chris Wood was co-editor for the fifth and sixth editions of the National Career Development Association publication, A Counselor's Guide to Career Assessment Instruments. Dr. Wood was honored with the American Counseling Association Fellow Award in 2017. Heather J. Fye, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama. She is a certified K-12 school counselor and licensed professional counselor. Dr. Fye has worked in the mental health and school settings for 13 years. She has previously worked in child protective services, at a nursing home, in the elementary school setting, at an outpatient counseling clinic serving youth and their families, and at a college counseling center. Her research, publications, and presentations primarily focus on school counselor wellness, stress, coping, burnout, creativity in counseling, and implementation of the American School Counselor Association National Model. She has over 30 professional presentations on these topics and has been published in the Journal of Counseling & Development, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, and Professional School Counseling. Dr. Fye and her colleagues were awarded the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling MECD Patricia B. Elmore Award for Outstanding Research in Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development in 2015 and the American Counseling Association Research Award in 2016 for their research on school counselor burnout.