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.COUNSELING HEADLINES
Wellness: Getting Beyond the Buzzword
Counseling Today
In the realm of counseling, wellness encompasses way more than yoga pants and running shoes. Wellness is a framework that allows counselors to treat clients holistically and leverage their strengths to address not only presenting concerns but also overall life satisfaction. "If I were talking to a beginning practitioner [about wellness], I would say, 'Mind, body, spirit — bringing those things into intake and sessions is really important,'" says Ann Church, a licensed clinical mental health counselor and co-founder of a wellness-focused therapy practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Because we can teach all the skills and coping mechanisms and all sorts of models to people, but if we're not helping them use [and draw from] other aspects of their life, we're really seeing them through a narrow, narrow lens. We're seeing them as a diagnosis rather than as a whole human being."
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You Are Invited! Advocacy Power Hour | Dec. 10, 2020
 On Dec. 10 at 3:00 p.m. (EST), ACA will be hosting Tennessee State Senator Brenda Gilmore during our December Advocacy Power Hour. Join us and learn how legislative decisions are made and by whom. You'll also learn more about the importance of how the "Finance, Ways, and Means Committee" is to the successful outcome of passing legislation.
Register today to attend!
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Learn how to prevent the most common online counseling mistakes. While the competencies of online or virtual counseling are not always evident, knowing the pitfalls and solutions can make a world of difference.
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Give the Gift of Support, Donate Today
American Counseling Association Foundation
 The American Counseling Association Foundation supports counseling students and counselors in need. Each donation makes an impact and enables ACAF to offer grants for graduate students and innovative projects proposed by counseling practitioners. Help us reach our fundraising goal by donating today. Your gift supports the counseling profession.
Given these unprecedented times, more ACA members may be interested in pursuing grants in response to the pandemic. The current grant cycle is open and funding requests must be submitted by Jan. 15, 2021.
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Registration Is Open for ACA's Upcoming Virtual Conference
 The ACA Virtual Conference Experience is the premier professional development and networking event for licensed professional counselors, students, and mental health professionals. This year, we have reimagined our annual, in-person conference to a month-long celebratory, community-building and engaging virtual experience.
Registration is now open! When you register before April 30, 2021, you will have access to conference content — including hundreds of continuing education credits — until May 31, 2021.
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The Association for Advanced Training in Behavioral Sciences (AATBS) has been the leader in licensing exam preparation since 1976. We offer comprehensive NCE and NCMHCE exam study materials including online mock exams and questions, one-on-one coaching and study aids. Explore everything AATBS has to offer today!
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.INDUSTRY HEADLINES
The Use of Journaling in Trauma Therapy
Psychology Today
Journaling is an ancient tool for reflection and personal growth that teachers, counselors, and coaches of many kinds deploy to assist learning. It can be done on a regular basis, daily or weekly, or sporadically when inspiration strikes.
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Remote Work Could Be Silver Lining of Pandemic for Some Veterans, Including Those With PTSD
Military Times
The global coronavirus pandemic has created an unprecedented increase in remote work arrangements for Americans — a Gallup survey conducted in early August revealed that more than 30% of American workers are mostly or completely remote, and record levels of cases and hospitalizations may keep people working from home for the foreseeable future. Post 9/11-era veterans stand to benefit from this shift, according to experts and veterans interviewed by Military Times.
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Feel Like You Never Have Enough Time? Try These 5 Ways to Cope With the Anxiety
Fast Company
How often do you feel like you just don't have enough time? Despite trying every time management technique and productivity strategy in the book, do you find it impossible to shake the feeling that time is slipping away? This is called time anxiety.
Similar to productivity shame — the feeling that you've never done enough — time anxiety is when you feel you never have enough time to meet your goals or that you're not maximizing the time you do have.
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Celebrities Who Have Discussed Sobriety in 2020
Fox News
On the surface, celebrities seem to have it all: fortune, fame and success. Behind closed doors, though, a number of Hollywood's leading stars struggle with alcohol, drugs and other substances. In a year of uncertainty and drastic change with a global pandemic, a wave of confessional gratitude has swept through Hollywood with more A-listers opening up about facing their demons and their sobriety journeys.
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How to Sustain Behavioral Health Care in Primary Care Practice
American Medical Association
With careful planning, the integration of behavioral health and primary care services improves patient care and outcomes and can be financially sustainable for practices that rely on fee for service, value-based care payments, or some combination thereof. The need to expand services where patients can more easily access care has only become more imperative as the nation's mental health suffers during the pandemic.
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Manic-Depression Misconception
Psychology Today
Manic-depression, or bipolar disorder, is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions in psychiatry. Part of the problem is that the term "bipolar" has been watered down to an adjective for moody. Anyone who has worked in mental health can tell you that if someone's symptoms are erratic and involve mood changes, an (inappropriate) bipolar diagnosis may be on the way.
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Kenneth A. Dodge, William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Learn more about this important new book: 802-247-3132
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Pandemic Takes Toll on Children's Mental Health
NPR
As a toddler, Kenley Gupta stopped speaking after her mom died. Over the years, she recovered from the anxiety disorder, called mutism. However, in March, the 8-year-old went silent again.
The change occurred soon after her school shut down. Kenley was shocked when her school closed.
"I was really sad I couldn't see my friends," she said.
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Premature Birth Tied to Increased Depression Risk
The New York Times
Girls born extremely prematurely may have an increased risk of depression from childhood through young adulthood.
Using Finnish birth and health registries, researchers studied 37,682 people diagnosed with mild, moderate or severe depression, comparing them with 148,795 healthy controls. The children were born between 1987 and 2007, and their average age at diagnosis was 16.
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Measuring Broken Hearts: Divorce Has Negative Effects on Physical and Mental Health
EurekAlert!
Going through a divorce is extremely challenging, and previous research has highlighted the adverse effects that it can have on divorcees. A recent study in open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology is the first to examine health impacts immediately after a divorce. The study found that the mental and physical health of recent divorcees was worse than that of the background population and that higher levels of conflict predicted worse mental health, regardless of other factors.
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Hang in There: Impact of Mental Health Challenges Is Wide, but So Are Resources to Help
Steamboat Pilot & Today
When asked about the collective status of mental health in the community, there's one image that sticks in counselor Molly Lotz's head.
It's the classic motivational "Hang in there" kitten poster. There are variations, but all have a cat with its claws barely clutching onto a branch as its feet dangle in the air. "I really don't know many people who are thriving right now," Lotz said. "Most people are just surviving."
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For many people, pets aren't just companions. This has been all the more true during the COVID-19 pandemic, as pets have helped alleviate loneliness, anxiety, boredom, stress, Zoom fatigue and a number of other phenomena people have been experiencing through the last eight-plus months. The human-animal connection is an interdependent relationship and 