A Counselor's View of Italy
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
May 13-28, 2010
A two-week study institute set in a picturesque 14th century villa on a mountainside in Tuscany. Learn about the counseling profession in Italy from Italian mental health professionals PLUS study with nationally known counseling professors. Visit ancient Italian cities on day trips including Florence, Pisa, Assisi, Siena, Greve, Lucca, and San Gimignano. Meet other graduate students and counselors from throughout the United States and Italy.
Credit Options:
- 3 graduate credits in counseling
- 3 undergraduate credits in human services
- 45 continuing education hours
Cost:
- Your roundtrip airfare from your home to Rome, Italy and
- $2,745 Program Fee
NOTE: All participants must register for graduate credits, undergraduate credits, or continuing education hours. All lectures and workshops are open to all participants. Non-counselors are welcomed to participate, but there are no discounts for participants who are not counselors.
Your deposit is fully refundable until January 15, 2010, is 50% refundable from January 16, 2010 through March 17, 2010, and is not refundable after March 17, 2010.
Included in the costs:
- Room in villa (shared room with shared bath); Single rooms available for additional fee of $350
- Most meals
- Tuition for graduate or undergraduate credits or continuing education hours
- All transportation within Italy
- Health Insurance
- Entry to two museums in Florence
- English speaking institute guide throughout trip and local guide in Siena
Not included in the costs:
- Your roundtrip airfare from your home to Rome, Italy
- 6 lunches on day trips to ancient cities and one dinner in Siena
For further information on the study institute contact
Dr. Ted Remley, Director tremley@odu.edu
Casa Cares near Reggello, Italy
Join counseling graduate students, counselors, and counseling program faculty members from throughout the United States for a two-week study institute in which counseling practices in Italy will be compared and contrasted to counseling in the United States. Italian mental health professionals (including counselors, psychiatrists, and social workers) will give presentations to participants. In addition, American faculty members will lead seminars related to their specialties in counseling.
Hear a counselor in private practice in Florence explain how he first learned about counseling, how he created a graduate degree for himself that prepared him to be a counselor, and how he is now leading a movement in Italy to provide recognition for counselors. This counselor and other Italian mental health professionals will share their experiences.
View from Window at Casa Cares
This institute offers the comfort and security of a planned itinerary that includes an American guide who is fluent in Italian. Participants stay the entire two-weeks in the same room in a magnificent 14th century villa that features a spectacular view of the Tuscan hillside. Frequent visits to a small Italian village are possible that provide a flavor of Italy that can only be experienced in the rural countryside. In addition, all of the major cities in Tuscany will be visited, including three days in the culturally rich city of Florence.
This institute offers the comfort and security of a planned itinerary that includes an American guide who is fluent in Italian. Participants stay the entire two-weeks in the same room in a magnificent 14th century villa that features a spectacular view of the Tuscan hillside. Frequent visits to a small Italian village are possible that provide a flavor of Italy that can only be experienced in the rural countryside. In addition, all of the major cities in Tuscany will be visited, including three days in the culturally rich city of Florence.
Highlights:
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Visits to Cities in Tuscany Including:
Lectures by Italian Mental Health Professionals Workshops by Nationally-Known American Counselors |
Priority application deadline: January 15, 2010 (inquire about availability after this date; reserve early to assure availability of space) Cost: $2,745 plus airfare Cost includes: Shared room with shared bath, most meals, bus from/to airport in Rome and to ancient cities, health insurance, tour guides, museum admissions. Single rooms with shared baths are available for an additional $350. Not included: Roundtrip airfare from the United States to Rome's Fiumicino Airport, meals while visiting cities, travel and health insurance, expenses of a personal nature. |
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For further information, contact: Dr. Ted Remley, Chair Norfolk, VA 23529 | |
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Itinerary 2010
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Faculty Leaders
Dr. Ted Remley is the Director of the institute. He is a lawyer and counselor and is a former Executive Director of the American Counseling Association. Dr. Vivian McCollum is a former President of Counselors for Social Justice and specializes in school counseling. Dr. Remley and Dr. McCollum are faculty members in the Counseling Graduate Program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Teresa Christensen is a counseling faculty member at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and specializes in play therapy and counselor supervision. Dr. Pat Thomas is a visiting faculty member in counseling at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. | |
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Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Larry Tyson is a former President of the Florida School Counselor Association and is a faculty member at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Dr. James Benshoff is a former President of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and Chair of the National Board of Certified Counselors. He is a professor of counseling at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. | |
Participants in 2009 Institute
Cost: All participants pay $2,745. Payments may be made by MasterCard or Visa or by submitting a check or money order made out to Old Dominion University. Participants purchase their own roundtrip airfare from their home to Rome's Fiumicino Airport.
Payment Schedule: $250 deposit upon application; $1,195 due on February 15, 2010; and final payment of $1,300 due on April 16, 2010.
Seeing Italy Before or After the Institute: Since round trip airfare from the United States to Rome's Fiumicino Airport is individually arranged, participants may travel to Italy early and join the group in Rome or Reggello. Participants may also stay over after the institute ends if they wish to further explore Rome or other parts of Italy or Europe.