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Counseling Today
A professional counselor who wanted to build her practice without devoting an inordinate amount of time to marketing and networking shares her experience of diving into the world of online therapy platforms. "Although the pay is poor and the process new, the experience has been more than I had hoped for.”
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ACA Publications
Wellness is at the root of the counseling profession and embracing a comprehensive approach to wellness that includes mind, body, spirit, emotion and connection provides building blocks for health-based interventions with clients across the life span. With mental health conditions rising, now — more than ever — it is important for counselors to work from a prevention approach that equips clients with coping strategies to help alleviate or reduce the severity of these issues. Mind-body integration connects clients to themselves and the natural environment and creates an active process for becoming aware of making choices that lead toward a healthier and more fulfilling life.
ACA's latest publication, Wellness Counseling: A Holistic Approach to Prevention and Intervention, reviews the theoretical and empirical support for a wellness approach to counseling and provides step-by-step guidance for assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning and intervention with individuals, groups, couples and families.
ACA Membership Engagement
School-based mental health professionals are on the front lines to support, guide and advocate for students. ACA will be recognizing them during National School Counseling Awareness Week, Feb. 4–8, and we hope you'll join us! Help us celebrate their hard work by encouraging a school counselor you know to share how they help with #CounselorsHelp on social media — you can also share how a school counselor or school-based mental health professional has helped you, or a student in your life!
Download our social share image, free office poster for school counselors and find out how you can get involved throughout National School Counseling Awareness Week.
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ACA Member Blog
The truth is, not many women can name what they need emotionally from the people they love. Think about it. When was the last time someone asked you "What do you need?" Does your partner, boyfriend, husband, mother, daughter, son, friends or colleagues ask you what you need regularly, or is this question never spoken in your family or at work? And if you ask yourself this question, did you know the answer? Do you know what you need emotionally? Do you feel comfortable claiming your emotional needs? And do you trust that people will listen to you, and honor what you need from them?
This simple question — what do you need? — is at the heart of understanding women's experience with sexism and gender inequality.
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ACA Government Affairs
Virginia educators took part in a protest march in Richmond on Jan. 28 to put the state's General Assembly on notice that its schools are in desperate need of funding — for everything from working central-heating units to student mental health programs. The march, covered by the Washington Post, was called to support a budget proposed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) that would increase school funding in many areas and "allocate $36 million to fund additional school counselors for school divisions across the Commonwealth." On the national level, ACA is working with the U.S. Congress on legislation that would provide $200 million for school mental health services across the U.S.
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Harvard Health Blog
Nothing quite prepares you for the heartache of profound loss. It settles in like a gloomy thrum — sometimes louder, sometimes softer — with a volume switch you can't entirely shut off. For me, that heartbreak arrived this past October, when my mother died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, dementia and disability. Now, for the first time in my life, I'm experiencing real grief. As a health reporter, I know this emotional experience comes with the risk for physical side effects. Whether you're grieving the loss of a loved one, like I am, or the loss of a job, a home or a beloved pet, it's important to understand how the process puts your health in jeopardy.
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The Gottman Institute
In a year-long gratitude cultivating challenge, the writer decided to write one thank you note every day for 365 days, aiming to upgrade her sense of gratitude by the year's end. Did it work?
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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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NPR
Disney's Frozen remains one of the greatest box-office successes in history. But in terms of impact and influence, it is perhaps most loved and best remembered for one of its breakout songs — "Let It Go." Many groups have found significance in the song on a personal level. Stories abound of gay, lesbian and transgender people, people in prison, people with eating disorders and chemical addictions and plenty of others on the margins, all identifying with the tale of a queen in hiding, who learns to shed her shame and accepts the things that make her different. But there is one group for whom "Let It Go" has proven particularly resonant: People with disabilities. To understand why, it helps to remember some specifics of the story.
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The Counsellors Café
Anxiety and fear of failure have characterized the author her whole working life. In this moving and personal post, she describes what it was like to realize her anxiety would hold her back forever — if she didn't do something about it.
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Forbes
Throughout my seven years as an elementary school counselor, I have often been asked, "What does a school counselor at an elementary school do?" The role of the school counselor is often misunderstood because it is unique. At the forefront of everything that a school counselor does is relationship. Studies have shown that if students have someone that loves and believes in them, their outcomes are far greater.
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UPI
When children are having suicidal thoughts, their parents may often be in the dark, a new study shows. The study included more than 5,000 kids, ages 11 to 17, and one parent for each child. Researchers found that among the children, eight percent said they had contemplated suicide at some time. But only half of their parents were aware of it.
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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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The Guardian
People who are naturally early risers are less likely to develop mental health problems than "night owls," according to scientists.
A large-scale genetics study found being biologically programmed to wake up early is linked to greater happiness and a lower risk of schizophrenia and depression.
The scientists behind the work said evening types may be at greater risk from the mental toll of having to fight their natural body clock due to most schools and workplaces having early start times.
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Global News
It's no secret that working moms have a lot on their plate, but new research shows they're carrying more stress than others.
According to a U.K. study, women who work full-time and are raising two or more kids are 40 percent more stressed than working women with no children. Even moms with a job and only one kid are under more pressure, as researchers found they had an 18 percent higher level of stress.
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Digital Spy
Netflix's brand new British comedy-drama series Sex Education packs an immediate punch, sticking the students of Moordale Secondary School and their sex-based concerns right in front of your face without warning or apology.
Because this is a show on a mission: "[It's about] encouraging people to rip the Band-Aid off and have those uncomfortable, awkward conversations about sex, rather than bottle it all up inside, or think that they have to go online to get the answers," writer Laurie Nunn told Digital Spy and other press.
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CTV News
While some may blame the rise of smartphones and other connected devices for an uptick in mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, a growing number of researchers are seeking to harness such technology to help spot when vulnerable people are slipping into darkened moods that could threaten their well-being — and even their lives.
Known as digital psychiatry, such efforts are seen as being on the vanguard of mental health research.
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PsychCentral
Have you ever looked back at particularly busy times in your life and wondered, "How did I do all of that?" I know I have! Interestingly, while amazed with how I was able to manage so much, I felt sad as I also remembered a subtle, nagging voice pushing me with a fearful narrative that I wasn't enough. Do you know that voice as well? The one that pushes you to do more, take on more, over schedule yourself, go faster, accomplish more?
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Allure
For many people living with depression or anxiety (or just struggling with everyday stress), seeing a therapist can be affirming — sometimes life-saving. A great therapist can offer a safe, neutral, nonjudgmental space to talk and provide coping strategies for managing symptoms, both essential parts of a long-term mental health strategy. However, finding a great therapist isn't always easy.
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Psychology Today
I'm a 42-year-old married guy who just started an Instagram last week, mostly to see pictures of rock climbers, golden retrievers and bad dad jokes. I plan to do more lurking than posting, but I had to put something on my page, right? My first two posts happen to be exercise pictures. Within a day of starting my Instagram, I ran across a study published in the Journal of Business Research suggesting that we post workout-related content to social media when our "mating motivation" is high, but our opinion of our own "mate value" is low.
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UPI
Negative experiences online may bring about higher rates of loneliness among social media users, a study says. Every 10 percent increase in negative interactions on social media made the study participants 13 percent more likely to feel lonely, according to new research published recently in the American Journal of Health Promotion.
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Entrepreneur
Whenever the calendar flips over to a new year, I feel that we all fall into a familiar trap. We attempt, and subsequently fail, at following through with those ambitious resolutions we only recently set. One of the most common reasons our resolutions fail is that we're trying to add even more things to an already full plate.
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Psychology Today
For the American economy, 2018 was a pretty rough year. According to the American Psychiatric Association, our national anxiety level increased five points in 2018 as the stock market swung wildly, especially after the relative calm of the previous year. This increase in money-related anxiety was consistent across all age groups, races and genders.
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