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Counseling Today
People with high levels of resilience are more easily able to adapt and adjust to life's happenings as needed. This applies to everything from being inconvenienced by a simple mix-up in plans to being diagnosed with a serious medical condition or experiencing the sudden death of a loved one. People with high levels of resilience take in what has happened to them and ask, "What next?"
Yet, when it comes to resilience, counselors must practice what they preach. As we attend to clients' resilience, we must also make sure to build and maintain our own.
Last month I traveled to Montgomery, Alabama with my mentor to see the Peace and Justice memorial. After reading about it, I knew I had to go and see it, and having my mentor, Ellen Ziskind who was a Freedom Rider, join me, would make the experience even more impactful and meaningful. I knew it would be a difficult experience, walking through a place that was memorializing all who were killed by lynching in the United States, but I felt it was important for me to further understand the reality of racial oppression and violence.
Counseling Today
It's estimated that approximately 1 in 10 children will be sexually abused before they turn 18. Because of the culture of silence that surrounds child sexual abuse, it is safe to assume that the true number is even higher.
It's vitally important that counselors do not shy away from discussing child sexual abuse with clients. Practitioners can get creative with interventions that return control to survivors and make them feel safe, empower them to disclose their experiences and move past the guilt and shame that often threaten to hold them hostage.
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ACA Publications
Students today are faced with ever-expanding pressures and stress beginning in elementary school and continuing through college, many of which are not directly related to academic performance. Mental health problems affecting youth such as anxiety, depression, bullying, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, relationship conflicts or other concerns continue to steadily increase. School counselors must be prepared to identify students in crisis and offer them the support and interventions they need to prevent long-term implications.
Critical Incidents in School Counseling presents realistic case examples of what school counselors face on the front lines in their work with children and adolescents. In 30 chapters covering a diverse range of contemporary issues, school counseling experts analyze and discuss each case from a best practices perspective. Topics are organized around the CACREP Standards and incidents not only create teachable moments in the classroom and prepare counselors-in-training for the school counseling profession, but also provide excellent professional development for practicing school counselors.
MSN
After the murder of her parents, 88 days in captivity and an escape that drew the attention of the nation, how does a 13-year-old begin to heal? And how does a small town like Barron recover?
Those questions have drawn experts and resources from around the country to the city of fewer than 4,000 people in northwest Wisconsin since Jayme Closs went missing three months ago.
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The Washington Post
Last week marked the release of the APA's inaugural Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Boys and Men — developed over 13 years and using four decades of research. What's difficult about the APA's guidelines is that they ask us to wrestle with a complicated idea: that in a society in which gender roles have historically been rigid — and that rigidity has placed the lion's share of power in the hands of one of the genders — it's possible for the rulers to be harmed right along with the ruled. But that's what bad systems do. They mess up everyone.
ACA Government Affairs
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to help them in identifying provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security regulations "that may impede the transformation to value-based health care or that limit or discourage coordinated care among individuals and covered entities (including hospitals, physicians, and other providers, payors, and insurers), without meaningfully contributing to the protection of the privacy or security of individuals' protected health information. This RFI requests information on whether and how the rules could be revised to promote these goals, while preserving and protecting the privacy and security of such information and individuals' rights with respect to it."
The deadline for submitting your suggestions is February 12, 2019.
Please note: The notice at the top of the webpage concerning the government shutdown does not affect this comments process. Use the Federal eRulemaking Portal link provided on the webpage to submit your comments.
HHS is not one of the agencies impacted by the government shutdown.
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Foundations Associates
Margaret shares her personal experience at The Oaks at La Paloma, a Foundations Recovery Network treatment center. Hear her describe how after many years of living as a functional alcoholic and several failed attempts at treatment, she found the hope she had been searching for to find lasting recovery. Watch here.
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Free Spirit Publishing Blog
Teachers in middle school will often comment that being with their students from one day to another is like playing tug-of-war. Parents might say they have never seen their children so sullen at times and they miss the carefree nature of their son or daughter. However, these things only mean that adolescents are acting appropriately for their age. Middle schoolers are constantly making big connections, which lead to big lessons. It's going to be rocky at times but if students can pick up the right tools along the way, they will be able to face challenges and overcome obstacles with ease. Luckily, they have supportive adults to help them learn how to navigate through struggle and resolve conflicts throughout these tumultuous years!
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Sturgis Journal
To understand anxiety and depression, the Journal interviewed Stephany Bucio-Reyes and Samantha Ray, each in their junior year of high school, and Diana Hernandez, a 19-year-old college sophomore.
These three are talented, intelligent girls who have struggled with anxiety and depression.
Outwardly, they may have showed no signs of difficulty. Each wants her name published, hoping to provide hope for others. Here are their experiences.
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Counseling Today
"The change" can be accompanied both by physical side effects (brain fog, trouble sleeping, hot flashes, night sweats) and mental health-related issues, including depression, struggles with self-worth, body image and grief over the loss of youth and fertility. Counselors can help clients see not just the losses associated with menopause, but also the opportunities.
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CTV News
We all know eating right and keeping fit is important, but here are some simple ways to also look after your mental health in 2019.
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NPR
In a particularly difficult season of depression, photography was one of the tools Tara Wray used to cope. "Just forcing myself to get out of my head and using the camera to do that is, in a way, a therapeutic tool," says Wray, a photographer and filmmaker based in central Vermont. "It's like exercise: You don't want to do it, you have to make yourself do it, and you feel better after you do."
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Grist
When it comes to surviving climate disasters, it's not necessarily over when the weather gets better. Like people who lived through Hurricanes Katrina, Maria, Sandy, and other disasters — those recovering from Hurricane Irma are reporting symptoms of post traumatic stress. You might think that the biggest predictor of survivors' mental health issues would be how drastically someone was impacted by a storm, but according to research published this month in JAMA Network Open, a more telling factor was how much media hype a person consumed about the storm.
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Timberline Knolls is a residential treatment center located on 43 beautiful acres just outside Chicago, offering a nurturing environment of recovery for women and girls ages 12 and older struggling to overcome eating disorders, substance use, mood disorders, trauma and co-occurring disorders. An adult partial hospitalization program is also available.
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Everything GP
Blue Monday, which to some may be known as the most depressing day of the year, is coming up on Monday, Jan. 21st. But according to mental health experts, the idea of a "Blue Monday" doesn't really work.
Executive Assistant Shane Anderson of the Suicide Prevention Resource Centre says that though he is happy it gets people talking about the stigma of depression and suicide, the issue doesn't peak at any one day.
"There is nothing that goes along with the idea of a Blue Monday. Yes, it's a couple of weeks after Christmas and everyone has gotten their credit card bill. But it is not an actual day that we recognize."
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Bustle
You can never fully know what people do behind closed doors, since our time at home is when we get to fully relax and be our truest selves — away from the prying eyes of the public. But for people with high-functioning anxiety, this alone time is often rife with ways of dealing with stress. The thing is, not everyone knows these habits are a side effect of anxiety.
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Police One
First responders not only deal with everyday stress, but they are on the front lines of situations that are often extraordinary and traumatic. These experiences, compounded by long hours and the need to make quick decisions, can take a toll on their mental health and well-being. Considering the nature of their jobs, it is not surprising that most first responders believe mental health and wellness is important. However, the stigma associated with mental health counseling might be preventing first responders from actually acquiring the help they need.
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HealthDay News
Hearing loss among seniors is not always recognized and treated, but if it were it might help head off late-life depression, a new report suggests. Older people who suffer from hearing loss have a high risk for depression and the greater the hearing loss, the greater the risk, researchers have found. The report was published online recently in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
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Psychology Today
If you were to stop and think about what features constitute a truly "healthy" person from a psychological perspective, what would be your criteria? Is it necessary to be happy to be healthy? Do you have to be able to roll with the punches that life throws your way? Do you need to be in a good relationship? Does your record of truth-telling have to be squeaky clean? Should you steer clear of arguments? Try coming up with your own set of criteria and jot them down or just list them in your head right now. Hold on to your answers before you read further.
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EurekAlert!
Nearly 20,000 future doctors will graduate from U.S. medical school this spring and embark on the residency training that launches their careers. Right now, they're choosing which hospitals and health systems they'd most like to train at.
But a new study suggests that their mental health in the crucial first year of training — called internship — may depend a lot on the nature of the program they enter.
Writing in the journal Academic Medicine, a team from the University of Michigan and The Medical University of South Carolina report that medical interns were more likely to suffer from depression at certain programs compared with others.
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Lifehacker
I used to hate the gym — not because of actual exercise per se, but purely because I was so self-conscious. I was obsessed with the idea that I'd be criticized for my shoddy squat form or brief five minutes on the treadmill — and then exiled from my gym forever, cast off onto the island of exercise pariahs. I hated it so much I'd avoid using the gym at peak hours just to avert the judgment of others, even if that meant getting my adrenaline rush at 4:00 a.m.
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Psych Central
Considering other people's feelings and treating them with kindness and generosity is something we should all strive to do. But sacrificing our own well-being in order to make others happy is not.
Sometimes there's a fine line between doing things for others and behaving like their doormat.
When you compromise who you are and what you need, people-pleasing has crossed the line from kind and generous to self-abandonment — not being your authentic, imperfect self because you're afraid others will disapprove, criticize or reject you.
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