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Counseling Today
The idea of work as a mortality risk may sound like an exaggeration, but research suggests that the danger is all too real. In the United States, job stress costs employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 deaths each year.
Making the workplace less toxic will take systemic change but in the meantime, counselors are helping their clients cope either by finding more compatible work environments or by better managing — or changing — their current positions. In addition, some counselors are helping employers build better, healthier workplaces.
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ACA 2019 Conference & Expo
Develop your career with the highest quality resources and training. Advance the field with advocacy, engagement and action. Promote human dignity by sharing how you're helping others. The ACA 2019 Conference & Expo offers you the unique opportunity to do all of this — and much more! Join us in New Orleans, LA, March 28-31, 2019 and earn up to 23.5 continuing education credits in our pre-conference sessions (up to eight CE hours) and conference sessions (up to 15.5 CE hours). Start exploring the schedule and planning your Big Easy trip today.
ACA Member Blog
ACA Member Dr. Michele Kerulis discusses the value of using examples from pop culture as potential educational tools for graduate students and clients, and highlights examples from ABC's new show A Million Little Things, as good jumping off points for wider discussions about mental health.
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ACA Publications
The demand for licensed counselors and mental health professionals is at an all-time high. In order to train skilled counselors who are committed to and capable of serving the diverse needs of individuals and communities, it is crucial that counselor education programs are responsive to the opportunities and challenges of the changing educational landscape. Counselor Education in the 21st Century: Issues and Experiences, edited by Jane E. Atieno Okech and Deborah J. Rubel, presents a masterful, in-depth look into the world of counselor education today and a heightened awareness of best practices, faculty responsibilities and working conditions and professional identity and standards. Each chapter contains practice and training recommendations, as well as engaging personal narratives that provide real-world perspectives on a range of topics including teaching, supervision, mentoring, gatekeeping, research and grant writing, tenure and collegiality and wellness.
Brit + Co
ACA President Simone Lambert spoke with Brit + Co about how parents and guardians can discuss issues such as consent and substance abuse, which news coverage about Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh is bringing up with children and young people.
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Inside Higher Ed
Lynn Linde, ACA's Senior Director of the Center for Counseling Practice, Policy and Research, contributed to an article examining how colleges and universities are using technology to promote student wellness.
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Chicago Tribune
An experienced police officer shares how understanding people's trauma, challenges and experiences is leading to better policing: "So much of what we do involves mental health issues, and if we can find the best options for helping these residents other than throw them in jail, we can go a long way in preventing criminalization and future criminalization."
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The Odyssey
A university student makes a passionate case for the importance of counseling in everyone's lives.
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Psychology Today
The notion that war is individually transformative is rooted in mythology, literature and Hollywood war movies. Transformation in these mediums typically follows a similar pattern frequently referred to as the "hero's journey." A departure, initiation and return sequence is made manifest as an individual undertakes a journey or a rite of passage, experiences a defining moment rooted in crisis, emerges victorious and then returns home positively transformed by the adventure.
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Psychiatry Advisor
The Child Behavior Checklist has demonstrated predictive power for identifying children with subsyndromal symptoms at risk for major depressive disorder, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics. Participants in this study were originally recruited to take part in a longitudinal study of youth with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as their immediate family, for a 10-year follow-up.
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Forbes
Millennials are slowly taking over the workforce. Thirty-five percent of employees are millennials, making them the largest generation in the U.S. labor force. Depending on your personal experience and your impression of this generation, this may cause you to cringe a little. While it's true that millennials have some negative labels associated with them, this idealistic generation may just be the best thing to happen to your employee wellness program.
Why?
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FireEngineering.com
The work of firefighters is extremely demanding, both physically and psychosocially during alarms. However, the work also includes other kinds of tasks at the fire station in between these alarms. Although employees' good physical performance has typically been highlighted as an essential requirement for maintaining work ability in demanding jobs, psychosocial well-being is an equally important element. The law regulates the monitoring of physical work ability, but mental health, for prevention of work ability problems and the promotion of health, is easily overshadowed.
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Science Daily
University of Guelph researchers have revealed that the sudden drop in glucose we experience when we are hungry can impact our mood.
"We found evidence that a change in glucose level can have a lasting effect on mood," said professor Francesco Leri, Department of Psychology. "I was skeptical when people would tell me that they get grouchy if they don't eat, but now I believe it. Hypoglycemia is a strong physiological and psychological stressor."
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Time2Track is the most trusted way to track, verify, and manage clinical training hours and experiences online — no paper required. Join a webinar or sign up for a free no-risk trial to find out how students, professionals, and programs are saving time and paper with Time2Track.
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Deseret News
The day before his junior year at the University of Michigan, George Orley loaded his car and kissed his mom goodbye before starting the 45-minute drive to school. Days later, police told his parents that George — popular, funny and blessed with loving family and boundless charm — had taken his own life just outside Ann Arbor and the university.
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PsychCentral
Are you the type of person who apologizes multiple times a day or even before your second cup of coffee?
Do you apologize to a chair if you bump into it (I've done that!) or apologize for winning a race or getting a promotion? Do you apologize because you bought the last copy of a book someone else wanted or because someone bumped into you (Excuse me for being in the way of your mad dash to get to the coffee)?
Apologizing can be a dialectic. It can be great and it can be not so great.
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Medical News Today
A new study used a model of seasonal affective disorder to find out why some people don't develop depression despite being genetically predisposed to it. The findings also shed light on potential new treatments for seasonal depression.
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Washington Post
A seven-year-old is the perfect student but destroys his bedroom and screams at his siblings after school. A 10-year-old snaps at her mother constantly, criticizing just about everything she does. An eight-year-old cries every morning before school and clings to his parents each time they attempt to drop him off at school, sports events or birthday parties. A 12-year-old experiences headaches that make it difficult to get out the door on time. A six-year-old can't fall asleep at night. Though all of these behaviors appear unrelated and present different challenges, they have one common thread: Anxiety.
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Loyola Phoenix
Loyola students and visiting family members recently met Ashlar, the university's new 3-year-old therapy dog.
Therapy dogs on college campuses are meant to lower stress and anxiety and provide comfort for students, according to Therapy Dogs United. According to Affordable Colleges Online, examples of colleges who have also implemented animal-assisted therapy programs include University of Connecticut, Kent State University, University of Minnesota and Miami University.
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SELF Magazine
When famous people talk about their postpartum depression, the world pays attention. Serena Williams, who gave birth to her daughter Alexis Olympia in September 2017, has used her voice yet again to raise awareness of the serious mental health condition that, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, affects one in nine women after they give birth.
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Forbes
Despite the avalanche of digital connections, we're not making the connections that matter, according to research by O.C Tanner. Its 2018 Global Culture report shows that 42 percent of respondents don't have a close friend at work. Not surprisingly then, 46 percent of respondents reported feeling lonely.
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CNN
Feeling down in the dumps? Stressed? A little off-kilter because of some disagreement?
Hug it out! A new study suggests that just reaching out and touching someone — consensually, of course — can reduce bad feelings associated with the typical ups and downs of our social interactions.
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CNN
No matter where we live, weather touches each of us daily and the warming effects of climate change go beyond the physical environment.
A rise in average monthly temperatures is tied to a small increase in mental health issues, according to a study published recently in the journal PNAS. And over five years, a one degree Celsius increase in average temperature results in an even greater prevalence of mental difficulties.
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