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Counseling Today
Beyond understanding the biological and mental health implications of food allergies, counselors can wield an even more important tool: Compassion.
"Sometimes, even medical professionals aren't good at that part. They send [people] off with an EpiPen and say, 'Come back in six months.' In a perfect world, they would send them off with a list of resources for mental health and wellness. Counselors can play a very important part to fill in that gap, even if it's just an empathic ear. That is incredibly therapeutic in itself."
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ACA Publications
The arts and art therapies can have a significant positive affect on mental health if used properly. Enhancing health and well-being through creative expression has had a long history, but has been more widely used in recent years to spark change and progress in therapeutic work with adults, children, groups and families. The latest edition of The Creative Arts in Counseling by Dr. Samuel Gladding is a powerful, evidence-based examination of how creative expression can be used in counseling with clients of various ages and backgrounds. It explores the clinical application of music, dance/movement, imagery, visual arts, writing/literature, drama, play and humor, animal-assisted therapy, therapeutic horticulture and nature/wilderness experiences — and contains 126 inspired exercises for immediate use with clients.
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Counseling Corner Blog
It's not unusual for parents to feel overwhelmed by the demands their children may be making for all the latest in toys and gifts. The holiday season is a time of massive amounts of advertising, a great deal of it aimed at our children. Few parents are able or willing to say "yes" to all the toy requests their children may present, but if you approach it correctly, saying "no" doesn't have to make you feel like a Scrooge.
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ACA Member Blog
Networking is the exchange of information and ideas that can significantly impact your career. For example, someone you met three years ago at a conference may end up collaborating on the same research project as you, serving alongside you on a committee, or even be your future boss! It's important to always make a good first impression so when your paths cross again you can hold up your "end of the bargain" in whatever capacity that entails. Networking may help you get a job you've always wanted, or be on that research proposal, or get published. Here are a few tips to make it out there in the networking world.
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ACA CEO Richard Yep sat down for a conversation with podcast Through the Noise to discuss running a nonprofit, working with volunteer leaders and how to keep abreast of what is important to members. Chief Knowledge and Learning Officer Lynn Linde was quoted in a Voice of America piece on addressing the mental health needs of college and university students and the importance of personal relationships with counselors, and past president Gerard Lawson contributed to an article about the importance of preparing communities to meet the needs of people struggling with mental health challenges in the wake of natural disasters for The Fix.
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ACA Government Affairs
The National Hotline Improvement Act was signed into law August 2018. The law requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to examine the effectiveness of the current National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the feasibility of changing to it to a three-digit N11 number. The law also requires the VA to report to the FCC how well the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Veterans Crisis Line are working to address the needs of veterans.
The public has the opportunity to comment on the proposed change. To submit a public comment, visit the FCC's Express Comment platform, fill out and submit the form. You can search the proceeding by typing "National Hotline" into the first field, or search for it by reference number 18-336.
The deadline for public comment is December 10.
Bloomberg
Some children are logging so many hours playing video game Fortnite that their parents are sending them to rehab. One professional working with children compared the game to heroin.
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Counseling Today Online
Continuing education shouldn't be just one more thing to cross off your to-do list. It's a chance to enrich yourself and better understand your clients.
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Vox
James L. Sexton, a successful divorce lawyer, has penned a relationship how-not-to called, If You're In My Office It's Already Too Late, which reverse engineers how relationships fall apart and extrapolates what that can teach us about staying connected.
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ACA Government Affairs
Many agencies in the federal government will run out of money on Dec. 21 if Congress and the president can't agree on a new budget — but the agencies that fund and oversee counseling initiatives are not among them. Earlier in the fall, Congress passed the annual funding bills that will keep the Departments of Education, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services open for Fiscal Year 2019.
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Forbes
This time of year can be stressful for anyone. Among the crowded stores, long shopping lists, cooking, cleaning, traveling and entertaining, it's easy to see how we can all feel exhausted. In fact, it's important that we proactively set realistic expectations for our ability to cope during this busy time because, in all likelihood, we'll find ourselves overwhelmed at some point.
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HealthDay
Active-duty members of the U.S. military are much more open to the idea of mental health counseling than veterans, a new survey finds.
"There has been a fundamental shift in the military regarding attitudes on mental health, and we have seen real progress in reducing the stigmas associated with professional counseling," said survey author Samantha Dutton. She is program director in the College of Humanities and Sciences at the University of Phoenix.
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Psych Central
A new study finds that of four online communication technologies using video chat to connect with friends and family appeared to hold the most promise in staving off depression among seniors. Social isolation and depression have become commonplace in older adults, with estimates suggesting almost five percent of adults aged 50 and older lived with major depression in 2015.
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Today
You can go to Walmart to buy toothpaste and shampoo, order glasses or fulfill a drug prescription. Now, some customers can also get therapy. A new outpatient mental health clinic has opened inside a Walmart store just north of Dallas. People can walk in, call or make an appointment online to see a licensed mental health professional about problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship troubles or the stresses of everyday living.
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CNN
Saturday Night Live performer Pete Davidson isn't laughing about the public harassment he's faced during and after his relationship with singer Ariana Grande.
The comedian recently took to Instagram to address bullying he's endured for the last nine months, roughly the length of his relationship with former fiancée Grande, which ended in October.
"I'm trying to understand how when something happens to a guy the whole entire world just trashes him without any facts or frame of reference," Davidson wrote.
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Science Daily
Stressful events in the evening release less of the body's stress hormones than those that happen in the morning, suggesting possible vulnerability to stress in the evening.
The body's central system reacts less strongly to acute psychological stress in the evening than it does in the morning, according to research conducted at Japan's Hokkaido University.
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Out Magazine
Even among queer people, mental health remains a tough topic. Many of us struggle with it but are blocked from obtaining services due our country's capitalist healthcare system or internalized shame. Over the past few years, text therapy has cropped up as an alternative to traditional therapy and it makes sense. We use the internet to shop, to communicate, to hook up—why not use it as a tool to improve our mental health, too?
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Maclean's
In the midst of yet another panic attack, Tina Chan realized she needed better help. Chan was a first-year student at the University of Waterloo, and the transition from high school wasn't going smoothly.
Chan had always excelled in school, but she pushed herself harder in new classes while living alone for the first time. When she started to struggle, she reached out to resources on and off campus. She received the phone numbers for intimidating crisis hotline numbers or pamphlets full of text. Neither was useful to her.
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New York Times
The issue was peanut butter. No matter what form it took — creamy, crunchy, straight from the jar or smeared between two slices of bread — it caused Sunny Gold enormous anxiety.
In fact, the gooey spread posed such a threat that during her first few years of recovery from binge eating disorder, between 2006 and 2007, Ms. Gold, 42, a communications specialist in Portland, OR, couldn't keep it around the house. It was one of her favorite foods, and she feared she would binge on it. Just knowing it was there, lurking in her cupboard, made her feel "unsafe," as she put it.
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In Public Safety
First responder families face significant challenges. When a parent or spouse is a first responder, they often work long shifts and odd hours. The work itself is highly demanding and stressful. These pressures can take a toll on the family unit, causing strain on marriages and parent-child relationships.
For law enforcement families in particular, there are additional causes of stress. Negative public discourse about policing in both the mainstream media and on social media can cause family members emotional distress and make them worry even more about the welfare of their officer.
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Psychology Today
When we are consistent, we act in a similar way over time. Although this might seem like a good thing, the value of consistency in the romantic realm is complex, as emotions are highly sensitive to change. Hating the one you love is an example of such a seemingly inconsistent behavior.
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Psych Central
A new study from the U.K. has found greater evidence for a link between trauma in childhood and psychotic experiences by 18 years old. According to researchers at the University of Bristol, the study's findings are the first to comprehensively examine the association between different types of trauma and their timing in childhood with later psychotic experiences using a large population study.
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