American Counseling Association member and first-generation Haitian-American Florence Saint-Jean is striving to bring better mental health care access and awareness to the people of Haiti. In particular, Saint-Jean is working to create a trauma intervention curriculum to be used by professionals within Haiti. Saint-Jean, a counselor and Ph.D. student at
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The American Counseling Association Governing Council recently approved two new interest networks: the Sexual Wellness in Counseling Interest Network and the Integrated Care Counseling Interest Network. ACA interest networks offer members a chance to join together to explore areas of common interest or concern. Counseling Today spoke with Teresa Jacobson, a
ACA recognizes how stressful sheltering-in-place is and wanted to provide you with guidelines developed by ACA and the American Red Cross that can help reduce anxiety for you, your clients and your students. To access the sheltering-in-place guidelines, please click the following link: Sheltering-in-Place guidelines http://www.counseling.org/docs/trauma-disaster/shelteringinplace.pdf?sfvrsn=2s Additional trauma resources to
A federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a California law prohibiting licensed mental health professionals from practicing “reparative therapy” on gay and lesbian teenage clients violates the free speech rights of practitioners. According to the Associated Press , the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering two
You may be thinking “it” will never happen to me and stop reading here. But, yes, “it” can happen to you, so keep reading! Consider the following very real possible scenarios: Vacation: You were a passenger on the Costa Concordia (January 2012). Disaster struck. Your body was lost at
The winners of the American Counseling Association’s yearly ethics competition all agree that their reasons for participating go much deeper than the prize — they are each passionate about the subject in general and care about the substantial impact that ethics has on the counseling profession. The ACA Graduate Student
The American Counseling Association Governing Council recently approved two new interest networks: the Sexual Wellness in Counseling Interest Network and the Integrated Care Counseling Interest Network. ACA interest networks offer members a chance to join together to explore areas of common interest or concern. Counseling Today spoke with Wynn Dupkoski
Need an excuse to go to Honolulu in March 2014? Submit your conference proposal by June 5, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. ACA is seeking advanced programs in all areas. In support of evidence-based practice, a brief description of the research supporting each proposal is requested as appropriate. Notices of
American Counseling Association members are invited to review and submit their comments on the first draft of the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics (COE), the latest revision in nearly a decade. The draft was officially announced at the ACA 2013 Conference & Expo in Cincinnati at a town hall meeting
The American Counseling Association welcomed its 20th division in March when the ACA Governing Council approved the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC). ACAC, which has been operating as an organizational affiliate of ACA since 2010, aims to focus on the training needs of counselors who work with children