A recent survey of first-year college students reveals that a majority felt emotionally unprepared for college, while more than 1 in 3 (38 percent) felt anxious most of the time during their first term. The survey, a project cosponsored by the Jordan Porco Foundation, the Partnership for Drug-free Kids and
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One of the many reasons solution-focused counseling is a good fit for school settings is because it’s a client-directed approach, says John Murphy, a longtime school psychologist and author of Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools. School counselors often find the bulk of their time consumed with noncounseling tasks. When they are
John Duggan spends the majority of his workdays talking counselors through the challenges that inevitably confront them in their jobs. From insurance paperwork to licensure issues, questions run the gamut, says Duggan, the American Counseling Association’s manager of professional development. Duggan, a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed clinical professional
CT Online’s Nonprofit News column is written especially for counselors to help demystify many of the areas associated with successful nonprofit programming. The lifeblood of many clinical nonprofits is their ability to attract and maintain a certain level of clinical volunteers. Although some programs rely on clinical volunteers more than
Those who live in Alabama, Texas or West Virginia have vastly fewer mental health care providers to turn to for help and support than do Americans who live in Massachusetts, Maine or Washington, D.C. This discrepancy means that residents of the Southeast and other areas of the country often have
As overwhelming as the chaos may seem on each page of Where’s Waldo?, the truth is that Waldo really does appear on every page. This can help to reinforce the idea to clients that at times in real life, it is necessary to tolerate the distress that is present. Because for every moment that distress is tolerated, the opportunity to reach the goal increases.
On June 17, 2015 several members of the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, sat in a basement to share in Bible study. They welcomed a visitor to their Bible study that night — a visitor who would later murder nine of the people in that
Nine professionals from the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), a division of the American Counseling Association, will depart for an educational trip to Cuba later this month. The group, a mix of counselor practitioners, doctoral students and one counselor educator, will spend six days on the island, meeting with
In a life of ups and downs, football has been a constant for Chris Harris, a 34-year old limited licensed professional counselor (LLPC). Among the struggles Harris has faced was a battle with severe depression that threatened to derail his life at a young age. Football served as a saving grace
The most important tools a counselor can use to help a client struggling with addiction or substance abuse are genuine compassion and a deep understanding, say Ford Brooks and Bill McHenry, licensed professional counselors (LPCs) and co-authors of the second edition of A Contemporary Approach to Substance Use Disorders and