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Counseling Today
Working as a counselor at an adult detention facility bears little resemblance to more "traditional" counseling, but the focus remains on treating each person as a human being while listening to stories of unresolved grief, tragedy and trauma.
"The individuals being held in this detention facility are most commonly referred to as prisoners, inmates or simply as males and females by the people who work here. But those of us in the counseling office refer to them as patients. We see it as our job to treat them first and foremost as human beings," writes James Rose, a mental health counselor at a detention facility in Maryland.
CT Online
Global anxiety is high, and clients are negatively impacted as they stockpile supplies and prepare for the unknown. Meanwhile, in the midst of the chaos, children struggle to make sense of all that they are seeing and hearing.
"Children turn to adults for a sense of safety and well-being. Assure children that it is not their job to worry about the virus and that you have a plan in place to care for them."
Counseling Today
Like any relationship, therapy will feature its fair share of missteps and miscommunications, and that can leave counselors feeling like failures.
By adopting a growth mindset, you can learn from your mistakes and continue growing as a counselor.
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We are living in extraordinary times. For the first time in modern history, our world is experiencing a global pandemic and all that it implies for changes in our way of life. How drastic it will be is not yet known.
As counselors, we cannot predict exactly what will happen, nor is it our job to advise clients about the virus itself. During these tumultuous time, however, what we can help with is the fear and anxiety that surrounds the uncertainty. In our work, we are all very familiar with the concept that living in distress is neither healthy nor desirable for our clients, so it's part of our duty as therapists to do what we can to help in reducing our clients' fears.
ACA designates April of each year as Counseling Awareness Month (CAM). This year, our theme is "Encouraging Counselors to #BurnBrightNotOut" — and we are inviting you to join us in expanding our efforts to amplify public attention to counseling and the role of counselors. Over the next week, CAM-related resources — including a newly enhanced landing page, social media toolkit and so much more — will be unveiled to the public so everyone can have the opportunity to show their cam spirit. This April, we look forward to welcoming you to this growing movement!
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BuzzFeed News
The coronavirus outbreak has put people with eating disorders and people recovering from them in perilous positions. We're in the line of fire for all sorts of triggering situations and conversations while socially distancing and quarantining. There's constant talk about food: restaurants are closing, grocery stores are struggling to keep food in stock, and public health experts are encouraging people to buy shelf-stable products and make meals at home. There's no more in-person therapy, but there is a constant discourse about at-home workouts.
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Psychiatric Times
Public health emergencies may present a range of unanticipated potential stressors to vulnerable patients and communities. Psychiatric patients can be disproportionately affected by these conditions due to preexisting health disparities, lack of resources or limited executive functioning under stress, all of which may impede effective responses during an emergency. As college students comprise a demographic with a growing burden of mental illness, public health emergencies pose special challenges to this population.
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PsychCentral
Social distancing — limiting our physical interactions with others — is one of the most important ways we can keep ourselves and others safe during the pandemic. Most of us find the inability to hang out with friends and family a hardship. That's natural. People are, by nature, "pack animals" who are wired to interact with others. Social distancing doesn't have to mean being socially distant. There are other ways besides meetings up close and personal that can help us stay connected. Some require a phone or computer, some only require willingness to get out of your comfort zone to do something new.
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Psychology Today
A major epidemic is uniquely and perversely cruel to sufferers of OCD. OCD fixates on invisible and immaterial threats to your well-being; OCD demands repetitive ritual behaviors to prevent such dangers; and OCD treatment, through Exposure Response Prevention therapy, requires the sufferer to confront that danger and risk harm without protecting themselves. The coronavirus pandemic has flipped all of this upside-down.
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Press Herald
For someone with a mental health diagnosis, disruption in routine or ability to continue treatment can be dangerous, which means the upheaval caused by the current coronavirus outbreak has put mental health providers on heightened alert.
Mental health officials in Maine say that the state has seen an increase in calls to both its crisis hotline and the "warm line" for non-crisis situations, although the actual numbers have not been tabulated, officials said.
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PBS NewsHour Weekend
As society adjusts to the new realities of living amid a global pandemic and the isolation that is beginning to come along with it, many are overrun with the fears and anxieties of what to do next. Others are already facing mental health issues that may now be exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak. On the March 22 episode of PBS NewsHour Weekend, Maggie Mulqueen, a psychologist in Brookline, Massachusetts, joined Hari Sreenivasan via a video interview to discuss. A transcript of the interview is also available online.
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The New York Times
The coronavirus pandemic and resulting advice — stay home if at all possible, avoid convening with others and refrain from close contacts, even on the street — has intensified the harm inflicted by factors that already isolate people and rendered many of the antidotes to isolation moot. According to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, social isolation has been linked to a 50% increased risk of dementia, a 29% increased risk of heart disease and a 32% increased risk of stroke. Yet, physical isolation is needed to slow the spread of this deadly infection. All of which raises the question: what can people do to minimize the risk of being lonely when cut off from direct human contact?
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PsychCentral
Hidden pain is difficult for anyone to manage without help, especially for those who are young. Nothing in ordinary life naturally prepares us for pain that cannot be expressed. Additionally, the outward world — what your child, teen or young adult observes — often offers a distortion of what is really going on in the lives of others.
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By Angela Cleveland
"I fought really hard to get here," she said with tears filling her eyes. "I'm in my first internship and not only am I the only woman there, but I'm also the only person of color. I don't belong in this field." As a school counselor educator, I am committed to providing opportunities for all of my students to pursue a career that aligns with their interests. I had never truly considered the systemic barriers, cultural patterns, and access to opportunities that affect our students as they explore interests and select career pathways.
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Psychology Today
Generally accepted advice about "how" to grieve often conflicts with prevailing conceptions of masculinity. This mismatch is a potential red flag for bereaved men as they try to positively work through the grief process.
There is a mountain of advice out there on grieving and what healthy mourning looks like. Many practitioners agree on certain key points. For example, there is no right or wrong way to grieve, it's OK to experience and express a range of emotions, and there is no time limit or end to grief. However, when the concept of grieving itself is considered incompatible with masculinity, the problem is not the process itself, but how we define masculinity. To meet the needs of men struggling with grief, we need to develop expanded and more flexible models of masculinity.
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They say a picture's worth a thousand words. Sometimes, though, a thousand words can help a person with PTSD regain their humanity and begin to heal.
That's the view of Dr. Bruce Kelly, assistant chief of primary care and lead for the creative writing program at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Forbes
In a matter of weeks, the outbreak and spread of coronavirus turned the whole world upside down. Even those of us who are healthy and privileged to have employment are adjusting to new routines as more companies shift to remote work, and services we take for granted (restaurants, day cares, doctor offices) shut down or limit access.
We are working hard to adapt and keep things running — business as usual in the face of crisis. But how do we "just keep swimming" when, on top of everything else, coronavirus anxiety is sky-high?
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MultiBriefs: Exclusive
In the U.S., 77% of professionals have experienced burnout at their current job. A majority, 51%, have felt burned out more than once. Furthermore, almost 1 in 3 Americans visited a doctor about something stress-related in 2018.
If you happen to be facing burnout, don't despair. Find out how you can fight burnout and chronic stress with tips from this infographic.
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Harvard Business Review
Perhaps the most difficult part of this pandemic is the uncertainty we are all facing.
Yet, uncertainty can be compared to a virus itself, one that is only adding fuel to the anxious fires burning in many of us. This is because uncertainty triggers the fear centers in our brains. Knowing how this process works, however, can help us take proper countermeasures and develop better mental hygiene.
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