Dr. Dominique Hammonds, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychological Counseling at Appalachian's Reich College of Education (RCOE), has been named the recipient of the 2018 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) Supervision Award. The award was presented at the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Friday, October 12th.
The ACES Supervision Award honors a counseling supervisor or supervision researcher who exemplifies excellence, innovation, and impact in clinical supervision. Candidates for this award may include counselor educators, counseling students, or practitioners who merit recognition as a clinical supervisor or supervision researcher.
A nominator stated:
Meeting the needs of her students and supervisees emerges from a high level of creativity, patience, and strengths-based practice to elicit the parallels needed to work successfully with clients and students. The level of intentionality that Dr. Hammonds brings to the classroom and supervisory environments is itself a mark of her strong leadership and supervision qualities. Her colleagues and students simply speak volumes of her ability to meet students and supervisees "where they are" while holding them accountable to high standards of reflection and action centered in multiculturalism and social justice.
The level of intentionality that Dr. Hammonds brings to the classroom and supervisory environments is itself a mark of her strong leadership and supervision qualities. Her colleagues and students simply speak volumes of her ability to meet students and supervisees "where they are" while holding them accountable to high standards of reflection and action centered in multiculturalism and social justice.
In addition, Hammonds was nominated for her work creating the Dramatized Experiential Supervision Model for which she received a copyright in the spring of 2018.
The Dramatized Experiential Supervision model is a structured method of peer group supervision that utilizes intermodal interventions to create an experiential dramatization of session themes and clinical feedback. It offers a creative way to foster student learning, uses the power of group dynamics to process session themes, and provides a structured way of moving from verbal processing to experiential learning.
Hammonds teaches her Dramatized Experiential Supervision model to a group of graduate students. Photo by Marie Freeman
Hammonds earned her Ph.D. in Counseling from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Qualified Supervisor, and Board Certified Telemental Health Provider.
She joined the RCOE faculty in 2015. Hammonds' research interests include multicultural education, pedagogy, and andragogy in counselor education.
About ACES
The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) is the premier organization dedicated to quality education and supervision of counselors in all work settings. ACES members are counselors, supervisors, graduate students, and faculty members who strive to improve the education and supervision of counselors in training and in practice. ACES and the regional associations host conferences to highlight research and best practices in supervision and in the training of counselors. In addition, ACES publishes a quarterly journal, Counselor Education and Supervision, which presents current issues, relevant research, proven practices, ethical standards and conversations in counselor training and supervision. ACES members have been and continue to be trailblazers in terms of the competencies for supervision, counselor training, research, multicultural competence, and advocacy. Many of the leaders of the counseling profession are members of ACES and there are always opportunities to become involved in leadership through task forces, committees, interest networks, and elected positions.
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