The NBCC Foundation (NBCCF) recently selected the recipients of its 2013 Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) scholarships. Scholarship recipients will receive $5,000 to support their counseling education and recognize their commitment to providing career counseling and guidance. The goal of the GCDF scholarship program is to increase the number of
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Mehmet Akkurt’s overriding goal is to advance the profession of counseling in his home country of Turkey. Eventually, he also hopes to serve as a bridge between Turkish and American counselors and counseling techniques because he believes there are “great opportunities for mutual learning.” Akkurt, a member of the American
I knew that this month’s column would be both difficult and easy to write. Easy because the content came to mind quickly; difficult because I dreaded the task. Writing this column would mean that a chapter of my life had ended. As the publisher of Counseling Today and your CEO, I appreciate
His tormenters reportedly called him “Big Weirdo.” He was sometimes ostracized, with his peers refusing to sit with him in the cafeteria. It sounds like sad, yet typical, bullying behavior in high school or even elementary school. Yet in this case, the victim being bullied is professional football player Jonathan
Among the changes found in the recently released f ifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is the addition of premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. During the two-week span between ovulation and the first day of their period, women with PMDD typically feel symptoms which include
It was my first intensive in-home counseling session with Josh, a delightful blue-eyed 10-year-old who was living with his 72-year-old aunt, Katherine. She had been granted custody of Josh a few months before I was assigned to the case. Previous reports and intakes described Josh as a child at risk
Twenty years ago, the preponderance of Elaine Beckwith’s most troubling cases tended to center on substance abuse and the outpouring of near-psychotic clients cast into the general population after the onset of deinstitutionalization. The past few years have brought a new pattern to the fore, one as pronounced as it
According to the U.S. Department of Education, African American and Latino students drop out of school more frequently and have lower high school graduation rates than do their White non-Latino counterparts. There are many reasons for this achievement gap, including failing and under-resourced schools, students residing in unsafe and/or poor neighborhoods,
Over the past few years, our association has sought to enhance its visibility within the global counseling community. The standing ACA International Committee historically has been charged with highlighting counseling issues that affect our international members, as well as those global issues that have import for our overall membership. However,
When I ask professional counselors why they decided to pursue this particular career path, it is rare to hear someone respond that they did it for the money. (OK, honestly, that never happens.) Nor do they respond by saying that they did it for the power, prestige, community standing or