Solutions to Cultural Diversity Challenges and the Intersection of Race and Disability
Dr. Phillip Lewis
Session Overview:
The rehabilitation counseling profession has a professional obligation to better understand and offer multiculturalism and unbiased services/counseling interventions for all consumers regardless of race, class, gender, or social economic status.
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About Your Presenter:
Dr. Phillip Lewis, Ph.D., CRC, LADC Candidate
Dr. Phillip D. Lewis is a native of Memphis, TN. He is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) and a candidate for Licensure as an Alcohol and Drug Counselor. Presently, he serves as an Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator of the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling and Disabilities Studies at Langston University (LU) -Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In addition, he works as a License Mental Health Professional Counselor for the State of Oklahoma Healthcare Authority.
At LU he serves as the Chapter Faculty Advisor for the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota: Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International. He earned his Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Counseling Education/Law Health Policy and Disability from the University of Iowa. He earned a M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling/Administration from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL. He earned a B.S. degree in Social Work/ Political Science from Rust College in Holly Springs, MS.
His research interest includes, but not limited to: rehabilitation services for persons with mental and physical disabilities, school to work transition for adolescences with disabilities, correctional rehabilitation counseling, suicide prevention, substance abuse counseling, Bullying, Triple Negative Breast Cancer awareness/prevention, and Agrability.