[Counselor_Educ] FW: ARCA Small Grants for Research on Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling

Thu Jan 29 12:53:04 EST 2015

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Christine Suniti Bhat, Ph.D., L.P.C, L.S.C.
Associate Professor & Program Coordinator, Counselor Education,
Faculty Advisor, The Alpha Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota,
Department of Counseling and Higher Education,
The Patton College of Education, OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH 45701

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Subject: ARCA Small Grants for Research on Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling

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As you are probably aware, CORE and CACREP have been working diligently to roll- out the new accreditation process for Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling (ClinRC). The leadership from both CORE and CACREP gave the ARCA Board an update during the Board’s meeting in conjunction with the 2014 ACA Conference in Honolulu. The Board also took the opportunity to ask questions about the whole process, including how the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling standards were validated above and beyond their initial development (i.e., by several anonymous experts) and subjection to public comment. In response, the representatives from CORE and CACREP said that these organizations did not have any plans nor the resources to validate the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling standards above and beyond what has already occurred.

The promulgation of ClinRC is a significant component of the rapidly changing landscape of professional counseling. The ARCA Board voted to fund some research to further understand, define, and validate ClinRC. In the field of professional counseling, the quality and fearlessness of empirical inquiry conducted by Rehabilitation Counseling Researchers is second to none. Ongoing research into CLINRC will provide a scientific lens from which to view CLINRC. Such a lens is critical as the politics, policy, and resource allocations regarding CLINRC unfold. We believe it is important to assess and monitor the necessity, implications, advantages, and disadvantages of this development in definitions of and distinctions among counseling. We would like to be informed shapers of how this planned change evolves, and for that we need data.

ARCA is pleased to announce a small grant program to support studies that exam questions about CLINRC, such as: What are the meaningful differences between CLINRC and “regular” rehabilitation counseling as it is currently practiced in settings that provide a scope of client services? What short-term or projected impacts are

CLINRC having on professional training programs, employers, certification and licensing boards? What levels of validity characterize the CLINRC standards?

Application Dates and Guidelines for the ARCA small grant program for research on
Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling (ARCA-CLINRC):

·    Allocated program budget: $4000
·    Anticipated number of awards: 4
·    Anticipated maximum amount of each award: $1000
·    Application Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET), February 25, 2015.
·    Peer Review: February-March 2015

 Notification/Disbursement of Award: March 2015

Application materials:

Proposal Narrative (two-page limit, 1-inch margins, 12 point font, single spaced): The Proposal Narrative page limit applies to text and non-text elements (e.g., figures, tables, graphs, photographs, diagrams, chemical structures, drawings, etc.) used to describe the project. Inclusion of URLs that provide additional information to expand the Proposal Narrative and could confer an unfair competitive advantage is prohibited and may result in administrative withdrawal of the application. The Proposal Narrative should include the following:

Rationale: State the ideas and reasoning on which the proposed research is based. Describe how the (any?) preliminary data and rationale support the research idea (proposal?). State how this
project meets the intent of this program.

Research Question/Hypothesis: State the research question to be answered or hypothesis to be tested.

Research Strategy: Clearly describe the research being proposed.
Concisely state the project’s objectives, specific aims, and ultimate endpoints. Describe the proposed methods and how they will accomplish the project’s aims.

Personnel: Briefly state the qualifications of the PI and key personnel to perform the described research.

Brief budget and justification: Briefly state amount being requested and outline how it will be spent.

Supporting Documentation: The items to be included as supporting documentation for the application must be submitted as separate PDFs are limited to:

Cover letter (one page limit): Cover letter should include contact information of PI.

References Cited (one-page limit): List the references cited (including URLs if available) in the Proposal Narrative using APA format.

Key Personnel Biographical Sketches (1-page limit per individual).

Submission: Application materials must be emailed as PDFs to
UnderstandRC at gmail.com<mailto:UnderstandRC at gmail.com>.

Study Completion: Awarded studies need to be completed and a report of findings made to the ARCA Board by March 1, 2016. Details of report will be communicated subsequent to awards.

Presentations/Publications: The ARCA Board will work with Awardees to support presentation/publication of research results in ARCA-related
activities and publications.

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