The climate of intolerance, anger and, to put it bluntly, hatred that has blossomed over the past four years has employed Jessi Eden Brown as a professional trainer for the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) and a private psychotherapy practice in Seattle. According to the WBI, workplace bullying targets were increasingly reporting bold assaults, debilitating sabotage, and bullying from known or…
Richard Yep, CEO of ACA S Some of the employees here at ACA heard me say that 2020 was a year of surprises. Yes, some of those surprises were good, but if I'm honest a lot of them were pretty bad. I also said that 2020 was the year of surprises, but 2021 was a year of uncertainty. In fact,…
The aphorism “Don't speak ill of the dead” is attributed to the philosopher Chilon of Sparta. The expression De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, first written in Greek and later popularized in Latin, perpetuates a social taboo against criticism of the deceased. Centuries after the first utterance, counseling clients may still hesitate to “speak badly” of someone in their life who…
COVID-19 has taken away a lot of our personal interactions. Office talk at the coffee machine. Happy hour with friends. Holiday celebrations. Friends, co-workers, extended families – many of us have only seen them virtually since the beginning of the pandemic. In many ways, it's like we're all stuck on our own lonely island – cut off from the outside…
Trust is the basis on which relationships of all kinds are built. Think how much we depend on trust in our everyday life. We trust our teachers to tell us the truth. We trust someone's check won't bounce. Even the money we exchange requires confidence in the value of the currency in our hands. We trust that the products we…
Emma looks quickly at the clock when she turns her key in the lock. It is 9:57 p.m. She sighs as she pushes the door open and quickly goes to her room to drop off her bags before going into the kitchen to prepare dinner, her second meal of the day since leaving at 6am. She fills a saucepan, turns…
Almost all counselors encounter clients who engage in behaviors such as extreme dieting, excessive exercise, fasting, emotional overeating and binge eating. These symptoms can be mild and overlooked at first, or even considered normative in our culture obsessed with thinness and appearance. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between a client experimenting with the latest fashion diet and…
"Sleep is the golden chain that connects health and body." – Thomas Dekker, 1625 "Without enough sleep we all become great 2-year-olds." – JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002 “I love sleep. I would sleep all day if I could. "- Miley Cyrus, 2019 <img data-attachment-id = "18056" data-permalink = "https://ct.counseling.org/2017/05/using-integrated-behavioral-health-toolbox/david-engstrom-2/" data-orig-file = "https://ct.counseling.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/David-Engstrom-1.jpg" data-orig-size = "388.570" Data comments opened…
[NOTE: To view this article as a PDF, log in with your ACA credentials here and select the January 2021 magazine.] In 2012, as the American Counseling Association celebrated its 60th anniversary as an organization, Counseling Today published an article entitled "What The Future Holds For The Counseling Profession." In this piece, 19 consultants shared their visions (and best guesses)…
2020: The year that surprised us again and again – and often shocked us. Rampant forest fires on the west coast. A record-breaking hurricane season. The violent police confrontation and subsequent death of George Floyd, which sparked widespread protests, re-proclaimed Black Lives Matter and called for an end to racial injustice and police brutality targeting black communities. A marked increase…