Counseling award named after LU Behavioral Science professor

Liberty University School of Behavioral Sciences professor Dr. Lisa Sosin has been announced as the namesake of a new award from the Association for Creativity in Counseling (ACC), a division of the American Counseling Association.

Sosin is the program director for Liberty’s Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision program and a professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Family Studies.

Sosin was presented the first Lisa S. Sosin ACC Spirit Award during an ACC conference on Dec. 9 in Melbourne, Fla. Future recipients will be ACC members who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to the values of ACC, which include a contagious energy and spirit; promoting counseling approaches that support mutually supportive, positive, growth-fostering relationships; and researching and defining relational competencies that facilitate goodwill, empathic personal and professional connections, as well as the appropriate use of power in the profession.

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