Counseling Today asked Carlos Zalaquett, professor and coordinator of the clinical mental health counseling program at the University of South Florida, to weigh in on the role of diversity in depression. Zalaquett, the associate editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, has researched depression among different client populations.
Month: October 2012
As a child living in public housing on Chicago’s South Side, I never realized that what I experienced growing up could be considered “abnormal,” “high-risk” or a “community failure” by other people. I could not play outside after dark because this is usually when the shooting started. I very often had to
This is the first in a series of school counselor advocacy stories that will run online as a counterpart to the school advocacy stories running in Counseling Today’s Counselor, Educator, Advocate column. ESL teacher Wendy Kotz and Jason Cordova, a school counselor, submitted the following story about school counselor Diana
PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention has once again marked October as Bullying Prevention Awareness Month in an effort to raise awareness of the physical, mental and emotional effects of bullying that millions of adolescents experience. Various American Counseling Association members recently shared their thoughts on common bullying trends and
More than 200 members from the 13 states making up the Midwest Region of the American Counseling Association convened in Council Bluffs, IA, with the goal of promoting leadership and cooperation between branches of ACA as well as the association as a whole at the Midwest Leadership Institute and Nebraska
Check CT Online on Oct. 22 to read Counseling Today’s November cover story, in which counselors share their tips for identifying and treating clients with depression. Oct. 11 marked the 22nd annual National Depression Screening Day (NDSD). In an effort to raise awareness and educate Americans about the disorder, more
California is set to become the first state to ban gay conversion therapy. New therapy interventions such as mindfulness, guided imagery, somatic experiencing, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are gaining popularity in the mental health field. Stress and depression can affect rates of cancer survival. Research has found that
For many counselors, retreating into the depths of a novel can often be a much-needed and well-applauded act of self-care. But can reading fiction actually make someone a better counselor? Empathy-focused research in the past few years suggests that this may very well be a possibility. Keith Oatley, a cognitive
Tim Alderson, 37, has enjoyed running in marathons ever since high school. But he never thought he would be able to apply his hobby to an internship and graduate thesis paper at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, an all-female penitentiary in Eagle River, Alaska, and perhaps more surprisingly, eventually to
I like October. The weather here in the Washington metropolitan area begins to cool down after what normally has been a warm and humid summer, the leaves turn colors that I never saw growing up in California, and many of our members (as well as staff) begin to move into their