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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Christine Suniti Bhat, Ph.D., L.P.C, L.S.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Treasurer, Chi Sigma Iota, Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society International<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> American Counseling Association [mailto:acamemberservices@counseling.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 20, 2015 3:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bhat, Christine <bhatc@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> 2015-16 Grad Student Ethics Competition Now Open!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Apply Your Knowledge. Find Your Professional Voice.
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<p id="welcome"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Master's and doctoral-level graduate students in counseling will be making incredibly important ethical decisions throughout their careers. The ACA Graduate Student Ethics Competition
offers a chance to put ethical studies into practice and hone ethical decision-making skills.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Here's how it works: Students form a team of three or four classmates,
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://ACAA.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT00NzQ4ODU3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MjA2NDAyNyZsaT0zMDYwODc2Mw/index.html" target="_blank">register</a></span></strong> for the competition, receive a case study, then work
through the ethical problem together and submit a brief paper identifying the following:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1. The ethical dilemma in the case study.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2. The proposed action you would take in this case.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3. The justification for that action.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">4. A description of the decision-making model used.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Members from the first-place winning team will each receive a $100 ACA eGift certificate (may be applied to membership, Conference registration, books, and more), recognition in
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Counseling Today</span></em>, a certificate and letter of recognition, an invitation to attend the National Awards ceremony at the ACA-CCPA 2016 Conference & Expo in Montreal, and something GREAT to include on
their resume/CV!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Find official competition rules and regulations
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></strong></a>. <br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Registration closes November 23, 2015</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Case submission deadline is December 7, 2015.</span></strong>
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