When counselor Rachel Feldwisch transitioned from full-time to part-time work a few years ago, she struggled to find flexible day care for her daughter. Luckily, her longtime friend and fellow American Counseling Association member Molly Meier was also looking for child care to accommodate her new private practice schedule. As
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It’s a good thing Jodi Mullen didn’t become a counselor exclusively for the compliments. Mullen, an associate professor and coordinator of the mental health counseling program at the State University of New York at Oswego, recalls working with a 12-year-old European American girl from a middle-class family whose presenting problem,
I am writing this column as I return from the annual ACA Institute for Leadership Training. My experiences during the week instilled in me an added enthusiasm and confidence that our professional association is alive and well. There were folks in attendance from 45 states and 16 ACA divisions. There were
CT Daily has previously shown how a positive relationship with a mother can affect a child. A Concordia University study now reveals the link between a father’s presence and a child’s intellect and well-being. Researchers evaluated 138 children and their parents when the children were 3 to 5 years old
If they believe what they see on TV and in the movies, students headed off to college for the first time might be under the impression that going out and partying is the key to being happy and having fun. But an Indiana University study found that instead, it is
Numerous studies have already made it known that exercise works wonders as a stress reliever. But a recently published study in the American Journal of Health Promotion found that the people who need the gym’s relaxing qualities the most are the ones least likely to get it. According to a
While many East Coast residents are currently dealing with billions of dollars of property damage from Hurricane Irene which made its way up the coast this past weekend, many are also having trouble dealing with residual mental anxiety from the ordeal. The Daily Press spoke with clinical psychologist and American
A newly published study focusing on the relationships between low-income mothers and their sons living in Pittsburgh found that while it is normal for the relationship between a mother and son to change over time, the way that relationship changes can affect the boy’s behavior later in life. The Wayne
Parents have been warned to steer their children away from violent video games for fear of violent behavior, but new research suggests that it might actually be the highly competitive nature of these games that leads to aggression. Researchers studied college students while they played four different video games in
It is typically thought that bullying behavior in children does not arise until they are older. However, researchers from Cardiff University in Wales found that some of these aggressive tendencies can be seen in children as young as 1 year old as they are developing their motor skills. And, the Association