Brandé Flamez, a core professor in the doctoral counselor education and supervision department at Walden University, recently completed her second volunteer service trip to Tanzania. Flamez first visited Tanzania during the summer of 2012, spending the six months before she left raising $9,000 for hospitals, orphanages and schools in Moshi. Once
Month: August 2013
The American Counseling Association is expanding its international reach by partnering with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) for its 2014 Research Conference. ACA will sponsor events and have a hand in the session selection process for the conference, which will be held May 16-17 in London. Attendees
William Glasser, founder of Reality Therapy and Choice Therapy, passed away Aug. 23 at his home in Los Angeles in the company of his wife, Carleen. According to The William Glasser Institute his death was a “massive shock” despite the fact that he had been experiencing declining health. Glasser’s books, which
Counseling Today continues its track record of earning honors in publications contests, most recently receiving three citations in the APEX 25th Annual Awards for Publication Excellence. Lynne Shallcross, former associate editor and senior writer at Counseling Today, won an APEX award in the writing series category for her two-part series
New Jersey governor Chris Christie signed a bill Aug. 19 banning mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, on gay and lesbian clients. According to the Associated Press, Christie said he believes people are born gay and that homosexuality is not a sin, and that the
Recently, I was part of a lively discussion regarding the use of technology in the field of counseling. As strikingly diverse opinions were exchanged, I was saddened to hear the closing statement of one practicing professional counselor. Walking away from the discussion and shaking her head, she stated that if
There’s this guy I know, let’s call him “Javier.” When he was 15, he had a life in Peru that he was not willing to leave. In Peru, Javier was surrounded by his family and friends. He was part of a community that spoke the same language he did and
Many are still reeling over the case of Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man responsible for kidnapping three women and holding them hostage for more than a decade. Castro, a former bus driver, abducted Michelle Knight in 2002 at age 21; Amanda Berry in 2003 at age 16; and Georgina “Gina”
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will be hosting mental health summits at each of the 152 VA medical centers across the country over the next several weeks. The announcement was made during the Military Family Mental Health Conference at the White House. The mental health summits will provide an
Brittany Catania, an American Counseling Association new professional member who recently graduated with a master’s in counseling from Indiana State University (ISU), spent three weeks this past May in Southeast Asia learning about the topic of human trafficking on a deeper level. Catania and eight other graduate students from