As counselors know, the ethical and legal requirement of the “duty to warn” has been adopted as a standard of care across many helping professions. It probably represents one of the most universal elements of counseling ethics regardless of cultural or national identity. Based on the Hippocratic notion of “first,
Category: Counseling Today
The prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents and young adults has rapidly and significantly increased in recent years, leading mental health professionals and researchers to describe its pervasiveness as epidemic. By definition, a person does not engage in NSSI with intent to die. Rather, NSSI is a means of
Professional counselors are routinely taught that clients are vulnerable to harm from ineffective therapy practices, but what about counseling students who can only trust that their supervisors have been properly authenticated and licensed?
One of the criticisms I have noted during my regular overseas travels is that a number of cultures view Americans as overly idealistic. A steady diet of fairy tale conclusions, Hollywood films and “reality” TV seem to set many Americans up for serial disappointment. I’ve lost track of the number
As a counselor and counselor educator, I am often pondering the recent trend of developing professional identity and what that means in applicable terms. Professional identity development has been heralded as involvement in professional organizations, legislation, mentoring, continuing education and supervision. These are effective ways to develop your own personal
“It becomes obvious from the get-go that the therapist, client and supporting characters aren’t going to have everything neatly wrapped up by the end. They remind us that we’re just broken people trying to help one another make sense of a complex world.”
“I can’t handle life right now.” “Didn’t get out of bed today.” #worthless For those who use Facebook, status updates, comments and hashtags such as these may be all too familiar. In this electronic age, people often turn to the availability and relative anonymity of social media to vent frustrations
In an article written for the Journal of Counseling & Development in 2006, titled “Baby Boomers Mature and Gerontological Counseling Comes of Age,” Mary Maples and Paul Abney suggested that professional counseling would become more complex as the baby boomers continued to age. They said that the increasing number of
This fall marks the first time that there is a statistical “minority majority” in U.S. public schools, with students of color now surpassing the number of white students. That shift has been happening gradually for a number of years, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which notes that student
Those of you who have been following the From the President columns lately are probably familiar with the global theme of intentional collaboration that I have been emphasizing. In this column, I’d like to offer a more in-depth review of this concept, while also looking at the importance of infusing