How technology and the computer age are changing the counseling profession First off, let’s all thank Al Gore — this Internet thing is genius! But in all seriousness, what recent invention has exerted as much influence on the way we live, learn, work and communicate as the World Wide Web
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Wikipedia has its champions and its critics. But above all, the free online, user-generated “encyclopedia” has users. According to Wikipedia’s online entry about itself, “As of April 2008, Wikipedia attracts 683 million visitors annually reading over 10 million articles in 253 languages.” As of July 9, the English Wikipedia edition
It’s not uncommon for children to act out or for teens to test boundaries when a parent is away from home. The stress caused by the absence of a parent is only amplified for children of military personnel and is further exacerbated when that parent is deployed on a military
They are the masters of multitasking. They can walk, talk, listen, type and text, all the while sipping $5 designer coffee and updating their MySpace profiles. They are beyond overachievers and often speak multiple languages. They fully expect to find their dream job the day after graduating college and plan
Five years ago, Kay Sudekum Trotter arrived at a muddy Texas horse ranch wearing capri pants and sandals and wanting to learn more about equine-assisted therapy. By the end of the afternoon, her cute outfit was dirty, her shoes ruined, but this self-proclaimed city girl had been roped by this
On Sept. 11, 2007, the Global War on Terrorism entered its sixth year. As of February 2007, more than 1.5 million U.S. warriors had been deployed to the combat zone. According to the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Military Deployment, more than 500,000 warriors have served two combat
Back when I was in my 20s, I knew a guy named Roger who hung wallpaper for a living. The one thing I remember about Roger is that he was always happy. I would often see him on worksites, zipping around with a bounce in his step, singing gleefully under
Mark Twain once said, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” That very sentiment can easily be applied to the No Child Left Behind debate, as many school officials have questioned whether this legislation actually interferes with providing school students a well-rounded and quality curriculum. Signed into
Alise Bartley, a private practitioner in Ohio, and Carol Klose Smith, then a doctoral student at the University of Iowa, met under extraordinary circumstances — both volunteered to be American Red Cross disaster mental health providers in the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The two American Counseling Association members were
Earlier this year, a 12-year-old boy in Florida beat a 17-month-old girl to death with a wooden baseball bat because she was crying while he was watching television. Last month, national news outlets repeatedly played segments of a videotape in which a group of girls — ages 14 to 17