When historic “superstorm” Hurricane Sandy tore through the East Coast this past October, more than 120 lives were lost and countless others were changed forever, as storm victims were forced to rebuild homes, businesses and lives in the aftermath. Two counseling students at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J.,
Month: February 2013
I know it is an unusual headline for a column, but in looking back through past issues of Counseling Today, I was struck by the number of times I have expressed appreciation to so many of you for contacting ACA about volunteering your services after some natural or person-made disaster. I
Hours after the start of the new year, Congress and President Obama agreed to a package of tax cuts, tax increases and spending changes to avert the major policy changes scheduled to take place under previous law. The Senate passed the package — the American Taxpayer Relief Act (H.R. 8)
This month’s cover story is on bullying, a terrible societal concern among our youths, but also one that still occurs regularly in the adult population. Although some studies indicate that physical bullying is declining among school-age youths, relational aggression and cyberbullying have yet to peak. The humiliation experienced by victims
Click here to read part two in this series. Many of us in private practice have expressed the desire for a paperless office, although this dream has become a possibility only in recent years. Completing all of our work via a laptop or tablet is a panacea that saves time,
We normally think of empathy in counseling as a benevolent act in which the insightful counselor deeply understands the grateful client. Carl Rogers considered this empathic connection the centerpiece of a successful counseling relationship. He offered the following metaphor of the imprisoned client being emotionally liberated by the counselor: One
Chris Clark doesn’t have to go very far to see the intersection between counseling and nutrition. He can simply look across the dinner table where his wife, Kristine Clark, a registered dietician and clinical exercise physiologist, sits with their three children in Rock Springs, Wyo. Clark, a licensed professional counselor
Meeting the needs of today’s students is challenging for counselors working in the schools, particularly with the increasing diversity of the U.S. population. To engage today’s students, school counselors must think innovatively in delivering school counseling services. Creative “nontraditional” counseling approaches, when integrated into traditional school counseling services at both
This year alone, 13 million kids in the United States will be bullied. Three million will be absent from school at some point each month because they feel unsafe there. Those numbers are courtesy of the website for Bully, a 2011 documentary from award-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch that comes out
The cover story of our February issue, “Bully pulpit,” focused on the critical role that counselors, and school counselors in particular, play in combating bullying among children and adolescents. As an online sidebar to our cover story, Counseling Today caught up with new professional Dennielle McIver, a counselor who is aiming