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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greetings everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please consider the following opportunity to participate in research. :Grief Counseling Competency Research Study”. Your Help is Needed and Appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tamarine Foreman, PhD, LPCC-S, CCTP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="color:black">Akmese, Ibrahim <ia345219@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, April 26, 2024 at 7:00</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Foreman, Tamarine <foremant@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Grief Counseling Competency Research Study | Your Help is Needed and Appreciated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:22.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear Counselor Educator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I, Ibrahim Akmese, am a Ph.D. Candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision program at Ohio University. I am in the process of collecting data
for my doctoral dissertation titled “Grief Competency of Licensed Professional Counselors and School Counselors.” This study is approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Ohio University (23-X-137).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Licensed
school counselors are my potential participants in this study. To be able to reach out to potential participants,
<b>licensed counselors in the state of Ohio</b>, <span style="background:white">I am kindly asking if you can share the study with licensed school counselors who are currently supervising your school counseling students or had supervised students in the past.
The distribution of the study to school counselors through personal connections will also be appreciated. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">The recruitment letter is attached to this email.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If you have any questions, please reach out to the primary researcher at
</span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#467886"><a href="mailto:ia345219@ohio.edu"><span style="color:#467886">ia345219@ohio.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> or his academic advisor,
Tamarine Foreman, at </span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#467886"><a href="mailto:foremant@ohio.edu"><span style="color:#467886">foremant@ohio.edu</span></a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#0C64C0">Ibrahim Akmese, LPC (Ohio), CT</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Ph.D. Candidate,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Counselor
Education and Supervision (CES)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Athens, OH 45701</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Clinical Counselor Graduate Assistant, LPC
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Counseling and Psychological Services (OU)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Certified in Thanatology (CT, by ADEC)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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