It once may have been a skill set reserved for specialists, but multicultural counseling has quickly become an everyday part of most counselors’ workloads. In a nation whose immigrant population is booming, many counselors find themselves working with people and cultures they had little to no contact with before. At

Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series. Part two will appear in the May 2006 issue of Counseling Today. You, my friend, are a true musician. Without an instrument in hand, you make music without even realizing it. For we are all, by our very nature, drummers.

Romance is ruining marriage in America. OK, that’s an overstatement if not an outright inaccuracy. But according to Mark Young, co-director of the Florida Marriage and Family Research Institute at the University of Central Florida, romance — or rather what he labels the “myth of romance” — really does contribute

Editor’s note: Both audio and video downloads of the keynote addresses delivered at the ACA/CCA Convention are available on the ACA website at www.counseling.org. If counselors occasionally feel that their work goes unnoticed or underappreciated by the world at large, those in attendance at the American Counseling Association/Canadian Counselling Association

“Identity” was the buzzword that emerged from the most recent counseling summit, held April 1 during the American Counseling Association/Canadian Counselling Association Convention in Montréal. Following on the heels of the initial summit, which took place Jan. 11 at the American Association of State Counseling Boards Annual Conference in Phoenix,

The mission of the American Counseling Association is to enhance the quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing the counseling profession and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and diversity. But as evidenced by the European Branch