Professor lends expertise to counseling manual

A College of Education professor is one of five experts tasked with revising a leading guidebook for counselors working with multicultural and social justice issues.

Anneliese Singh, an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, contributed to the latest version of Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. _The handbook is a revised version of the 1992 edition, _Multicultural Counseling Competencies, and provides a framework for counselors to implement these topics into counseling theories, practices and research.

Singh's research focuses on transgender resilience in youth and people of color, safe schools, social justice and mental health among multicultural populations. She is co-founder of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition and Trans Resilience Project and coordinates the doctoral program in counseling and student personnel services at the University of Georgia's Gwinnett campus.