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Exploring the ties that bind

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Web Admin

Viewing clients, and their presenting issues, through the lens of their family systems often leads to insights and understandings that might remain obscured otherwise.

Counseling Today, Cover Stories Family, family counseling, parenting, play therapy 1 Comment

Uncovering the root cause of mother-daughter conflict

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Web Admin

Hormones and personality differences are often blamed for tensions in the mother-daughter relationship, but a therapy model argues that societal expectations routinely set mothers and daughters up for conflict.

Counseling Today, Member Insights Family, parenting, women 16 Comments

Dealing with the realities of dementia

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Web Admin

Counselors can serve as a steadying presence as individuals, families and caregivers confront the array of challenges and intense emotions that follow an Alzheimer’s disease or dementia diagnosis.

Counseling Today, Cover Stories Adult Development & Aging, caretaking, dementia, Family 7 Comments

Q+A: Helping clients affected by dementia

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Web Admin

The most important message a counselor can give these clients – whether that be an individual with dementia or the family or caregivers of someone with dementia – is that they are not alone.

Counseling Today, Online Exclusives Adult Development & Aging, caretaking, dementia, Family 2 Comments

Challenging the inevitability of inherited mental illness

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Web Admin

Clients with family histories of mental illness sometimes feel defeated right out of the gate, but counselors can spread an empowering message that genetics aren’t necessarily destiny when it comes to mental health.

Counseling Today, Features bipolar, Counselors Audience, Depression, Family, Mental Health, schizophrenia, shame 4 Comments

Stepping up to the challenge

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Web Admin

Counselors can help stepfamilies normalize their struggles, navigate complex family dynamics, and work toward establishing a more cohesive, stable and supportive family environment.

Counseling Today, Features Couples, divorce, Family, family counseling, Marriage 4 Comments

Working with foster and adoptive families through the lens of attachment

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Web Admin

Counselors can help parents form stronger relationships with their children and experience a reduction in difficult behaviors that have resulted in chaos and discouragement.

Counseling Today, Member Insights adoption, attachment, Children & Adolescents, Family, family counseling, parenting 8 Comments

The dismissal of divorce advice

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Web Admin

It’s a distressing reality, but advice for the newly divorced might be as common as advice for the newly married. Advice for the newly divorced often centers around protecting any children who might be involved because although parents get divorced from each other, children become divorced from the only life

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Counseling Today, Online Exclusives Couples, divorce, Family, Marriage, parenting

The social justice of adoption

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Web Admin

The adoption journey is not an easy one. After three years and nine months of active pursuit, my husband and I finalized our adoption on Nov. 29, 2017. Through this process, I learned a great deal that has helped me grow as a counselor educator and supervisor. For example, I

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Counseling Today, Online Exclusives adoption, Family, parenting, Social Justice 10 Comments

Remembering Minuchin and the democratization of therapy

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Web Admin

Just after lunch on a Friday afternoon in late March 2017, Salvador Minuchin gently raised his hand to address the hundreds assembled to learn from him at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington, D.C. If any of the attendees were drowsy from their meal or the demands of the week,

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Counseling Today, Online Exclusives counseling, Family, family counseling
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