Arne Duncan was confirmed as the ninth U.S. secretary of education in January 2009, following his nomination by President Barack Obama. During his confirmation hearings, he called education “the civil rights issue of our generation, the only sure path out of poverty and the only way to achieve a more equal
Category: Counseling Today
In the past decade, research on the efficacy of premarital counseling has proven difficult. The most notable obstacle is the reality of the self-selection bias, which recognizes that couples who are motivated to engage in premarital counseling already exhibit low risk of marital conflict. Seeking to stem divorce rates, many
In August, the nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of thousands of others gathered on the National Mall to demand jobs and freedom for everyone, regardless of race. The King Center and the Coalition for Jobs, Justice and Freedom
New college graduates approach the job market with feelings of excitement and anticipation. Weighing any possible job offers and accepting that first special position are just a couple of the first milestones new graduates face. Career counselors need to remind these “new employee” clients that their earned degree may have
A developer of online and mobile role-playing training simulations and games is helping individuals who are not trained in mental health to become more familiar with at-risk behaviors and how to respond to them. Christine Karper and Michelle Stone, members of the American Counseling Association’s Cyber Task Force, view
The NBCC Foundation is pleased to announce three scholarship opportunities for individuals pursuing a career in counseling. The scholarships support the Foundation’s priority of increasing access to mental health care through professional counseling services, particularly for underserved populations. The military scholarship program is designed to support service members, veterans and
Twelve years ago today, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in New York City, another plane into the Pentagon and one more into a field in Pennsylvania, leading to nearly 3,000 deaths and a nation suddenly awakened to its own vulnerability. The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
The reason that certain students excel in college while others flounder might relate back to their motivations for attending in the first place, according to a study conducted by two members of the American Counseling Association. Doug Guiffrida and Martin Lynch, professors at the Warner School of Education at the
Brandon Ballantyne would like to see the use of therapeutic games expand outside of the counseling profession. Ballantyne, a member of the American Counseling Association and the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, has long advocated for an increase in creative interventions within the counseling profession. In July he was able to present
Once you master the skill of riding a bike, you will always be able to ride a bike, or so the theory goes. But counselors would be mistaken if they apply that same logic to multicultural competence, says Michael Brooks, president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, a