‘Developing balance therapy’ helps provide clients with the necessary skills to stabilize or self-regulate so that they can proceed on to deeper trauma work.
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They say laughter is the best medicine, and improv does make clients and counselors laugh, but in the process, it also teaches life skills that can improve mental and emotional well-being.
Using games as a coping strategy for other underlying issues can lead to an addiction, as real life is replaced with a virtual and more favorable one.
With all that we will see students experiencing on K-12 and college campuses this fall, it is clear that mental health professionals working in school settings will be in high demand. Let the staff and leaders at ACA know what you need.
“Yes, I am a counselor, but at times like these, when someone was hurting silently, and they were family and therefore ‘under my care,’ but not in ways in which I am trained to care, I come to a standstill.”
Counselors can be a source of support for clients whose mental health is affecting — or even derailing — their work life.
The isolation and stress of COVID-19 have exacerbated a preexisting upward trend in serious mental health problems in those under 18.
Ughly children demand others’ energy. They break things. They often rub people — including their peers — the wrong way. That is what makes them “ughly” — they cause us to go “ugh.”
The Counseling Today staff won a total of five awards in APEX 2021, the 33rd annual awards program recognizing excellence in publishing.
With animals included in therapeutic interactions, counselors have an additional model of empathy-like responses to present to clients. Animals in animal-assisted therapy settings can supplement traditional therapeutic interactions by demonstrating positive behaviors with humans who are experiencing negative emotions.