Counseling is a unique field and, by any objective standard, an established profession. We have a widely disseminated and growing body of scholarly knowledge as evidenced by high-quality journals and publications, professional conferences specific to the counseling field, our own national accrediting body and hundreds of accredited graduate training programs.
Month: June 2007
It wasn’t very long ago that counselors were not considered eligible for any insurance or managed care reimbursements. The hard work by the American Counseling Association and state counseling organizations has changed that. Now managed care companies are coming to ACA and asking that its members consider becoming providers on
Compared to traditional Western views about counseling, the multicultural-social justice movement promotes very different ways of thinking about mental health, psychological development and the important roles counselors can play in fostering these concepts. The issue of trauma is an excellent example. Significant differences exist in the way many traditionally trained
On the basis of their presentations at the Asia-Pacific Childhoods Conference in Singapore last year, Fred Bemak and Rita Chi-Ying Chung, both counselor educators at George Mason University in Virginia, were invited to take part in a mental health exploratory mission to Myanmar recently. The United Kingdom division of Save
As the news of mass shootings at Virginia Tech unfolded on April 16, few were better equipped to appreciate the tragedy’s impact than American Counseling Association member Nancy Miller. A former licensed school counselor who is now in private practice, Miller understood the mental anguish created by such an event.
The American Counseling Association’s Office of Public Policy and Legislation held the 2007 Legislative Institute in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25-27. Seventy-two ACA members from 21 states attended workshops and briefings on various aspects of legislative advocacy and public policy. As part of the Legislative Institute, attendees learned the basics of