Counselors help clients navigate a winter complicated by surging disease levels, the possibility of holidays spent without family, and seemingly endless isolation.
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Counselors must first understand the military culture to overcome barriers that keep many service members and veterans from receiving the care and support they need.
When almost everyone is practicing isolation or experiencing its effects to some degree, how do counselors assess and respond to isolating behaviors among their clients?
Veteran counseling professionals tackle a dozen of the most frequently voiced questions from novice counselors pertaining to navigating career options.
School counselors are doing their best to maintain the social and emotional well-being of students in an educational environment unlike any other.
Counselors and other helping professionals who are regularly exposed to others’ trauma almost invariably find themselves confronting symptoms of compassion fatigue at some point during their careers.
Counseling leaders involved in the strategic planning initiative that launched in 2005 reflect on how the multiyear endeavor helped to forge consensus and moved the profession forward.
Making the transition to life after college has never been without its challenges, but COVID-19 has introduced the class of 2020 to a whole new set of obstacles.
Counselors can take steps to lower some of the barriers that prevent those who respond in emergency situations from prioritizing their mental health.
Career counselor and business owner Sue Pressman brings a practitioner’s perspective and a collaborative spirit to her term as ACA’s 69th president.