For many immigrants, both their journey to and their experiences in the United States can be traumatizing, but they are unlikely to access help from counselors unless counselors themselves work to mitigate some of the barriers.
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Counselors Audience
As counselors, we understand there are some limits to confidentiality. However, voice assistant technologies in cell phones and other devices have the capability to leak what clients and counselors once believed to be confidential information.
“Because the personal is professional and the professional is personal in our work, it can be hard to separate the two. This makes it difficult to prevent internalization during the grievance process. I felt like a bad counselor and, thus, a bad person.”
A growing body of research suggests counselors should no longer think of mental health in isolation but rather as part of a complex system that includes what people eat.
Counselors share the lessons they’ve learned along the way in their efforts to translate the ideal of multicultural competence into practical action.
“Human rights issues can potentially affect anyone. Therefore, human rights have a seat at the counseling table.”
Mental health professionals are increasingly beginning to recognize and treat chronic procrastination as something much deeper than a time-management or lifestyle issue.
Highly sensitive people are often misunderstood and frequently misdiagnosed, but in a supportive and validating counseling environment, they can frequently tap into their many strengths.
Counselors embedded in a trauma center in a busy hospital facility find that suicidality and medical trauma often intersect with alcohol or substance use.
Is a passion for helping others enough to carry counselors through an entire career, or is it sometimes necessary to f ind other sources of inspiration?