story by Claire Miller
College of Education & Human Development doctoral student Mary Chase Mize has been named the 2020 recipient of the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Glen E. Hubele National Graduate Student Award.
This award, named for a professor of educational psychology and guidance at Eastern Illinois University, recognizes outstanding scholarship by an ACA student member.
Mize is assistant director of the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services’ H.O.P.E. Lab, which focuses on suicide intervention research and training, research on religious/spiritual coping during disaster and clinical outreach with disaster-impacted populations. In this role, she and her advisor, Assistant Professor Laura Shannonhouse, have trained more than 100 volunteers across the metro-Atlanta area who provide home-delivered meals to homebound older adults in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST). Her research has been published in the Journal of Psychology and Theology, Teaching and Supervision in Counseling and the Journal of Counselor Education and Supervision. One of the manuscripts she co-authored received the 2018 Chi Sigma Iota Outstanding Research Award and she is currently completing her doctoral practicum with Jewish Family and Career Services of Atlanta.
“I’m so grateful for this recognition but more grateful for the opportunity to do meaningful work every day as a doctoral student at Georgia State University,” she said. “Through our work over the past few years, I’ve met some truly incredible people in our community. I do not have adequate words to describe how much this means to me — I can only express my most heartfelt gratitude.”
For more information about the award, visit the Glen E. Hubele National Graduate Student Award page.
