It was my first intensive in-home counseling session with Josh, a delightful blue-eyed 10-year-old who was living with his 72-year-old aunt, Katherine. She had been granted custody of Josh a few months before I was assigned to the case. Previous reports and intakes described Josh as a child at risk
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Twenty years ago, the preponderance of Elaine Beckwith’s most troubling cases tended to center on substance abuse and the outpouring of near-psychotic clients cast into the general population after the onset of deinstitutionalization. The past few years have brought a new pattern to the fore, one as pronounced as it
Going through a divorce is a difficult process for all parties involved, but according to a recent study, it might take a greater emotional and mental toll on men than previously thought. According to the case study , found in the Journal of Men’s Health, divorced men were shown to
Click here to listen to a song by counselor Klaus Lumma and jazz harpist Patrice Fisher. Klaus Lumma may be from Germany, but the city of New Orleans has become a second home to him. Lumma is a counselor in private practice, a certified art therapist and a senior adviser
Experiencing loss is an inevitable part of life, and counselors are trained to help others overcome these emotionally difficult events. But what do counselors do to process their own personal grief — and how can they ensure that their grieving does not impede on the therapeutic process of clients? Eric
Dan Habib, filmmaker in residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, has personally seen the struggle children with disabilities can face within the public school system. His son, Samuel, has cerebral palsy, and is the subject of Habib’s first documentary, Including Samuel , which explores
CACREP and its corporate affiliate CORE have released the newly adopted Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Standards (ClRC) for immediate use by masters degree counseling programs seeking to become accredited. The standards can be found on the web at either cacrep.org or core‐rehab.org . Along with the release of the Clinical Rehabilitation
The Latino population is the fastest-growing demographic in the United States, but are counselors properly prepared and culturally competent to work effectively with this population, which is more than 50 million strong? Patricia Arredondo, campus president of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and a past president of the American
Recent research from the University of Phoenix has revealed that even if the stigma surrounding mental health counseling is on the decline, there are still barriers in the way of people receiving that treatment. But Leslie Baker, an American Counseling Association member who worked on the study, said that a
We, five Deaf counselors, have come together to write this article to educate our fellow counselors about Deaf culture, the Deaf community and working with Deaf clients. This article is written from the Deaf experience — a “Deaf center” — which reflects “a different normality” (as Irene Leigh explains in