Looking for a position in the counseling profession just got a lot easier. The American Counseling Association Career Center recently launched a revamped website and a partnership with CareerBuilder.com. The ACA Job Center webpage, a supplement to the online Career Center, will help counselors find nationally advertised positions with the
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Selma Yznaga was born and raised in Brownsville, a city situated on the southernmost tip of Texas and separated from Matamoros, Mexico, only by the Rio Grande. She left Brownsville to get a college education and “stayed away, like many of us did when we found out there was another
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series. Part two will appear in the May 2006 issue of Counseling Today. You, my friend, are a true musician. Without an instrument in hand, you make music without even realizing it. For we are all, by our very nature, drummers.
What if you had to work eight hours without a break? No mid-morning second cup of coffee. No idle chitchat around the water cooler about what happened on Lost last night. No five-minute mental vacation in the afternoon. Just work. Call the union! Hit the picket line! Take this job
“What if a school counselor was in on the ground floor of designing a public school?” asks counselor educator Robert Urofsky. “What would we do with that opportunity?” Those questions, in combination with his interest in the school reform movement and school choice, led Urofsky to examine whether school counselors
Answering the need for continued mental health services in the devastated Gulf Coast region, 14 George Mason University graduate students and two counselor educators recently spent a week counseling and consoling Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi. The trip was initiated through the university pilot project Counselors Without Borders to provide
Romance is ruining marriage in America. OK, that’s an overstatement if not an outright inaccuracy. But according to Mark Young, co-director of the Florida Marriage and Family Research Institute at the University of Central Florida, romance — or rather what he labels the “myth of romance” — really does contribute
There is an old saying that if the military wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one. Fortunately today, the U.S. Armed Forces are beginning to recognize the direct correlation between a soldier’s home life and job performance. They are learning that the emotional well-being of
American Counseling Association members have consulted ACA staff and leaders regarding the practice of conversion therapy and the 2005 Code of Ethics. For this reason, the ACA Ethics Committee is sharing its formal interpretation of specific sections of the ACA Code of Ethics concerning the practice of conversion therapy and
Recognizing the importance of disaster behavioral health preparedness, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration convened a national summit in New Orleans on May 22-24 to help states and territories assess the progress being made on disaster behavioral health plans and address existing barriers in the planning process. Fifty-four