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  • CAM Publicity Contest Entries Currently in Review

    Each valid entry will receive a $20 eGift Certificate that can be used to purchase anything in the ACA bookstore and one winner will be selected from the pool of valid entries to win a complementary registration to the ACA 2014 Conference & Expo in Honolulu! Winner will be announced soon!

  • ACA Launches New Weekly Newspaper Column

    The new, informative "Counseling Corner" columns are being created to help educate the public about counseling issues, counselors, and the counseling profession. Read all columns to date, and learn how you can use them to promote counseling. More
  • Counseling Today

    Counseling Today: Treating self-injury

    Counseling Today's May cover story, "When the hurt is aimed inward," takes an intimate look at nonsuicidal self-injury. What functions does it serve for clients? What do clients need from you as the counselor? And how might the therapeutic relationship hold the key to change? More

  • CUBA: End 2013 With the Trip of a Lifetime

    People to People Citizen Ambassador Programs (Ambassador Programs, Inc.) is currently working with ACA to plan a counseling program in Cuba this December. Details, dates, and trip itinerary coming soon. To reserve a space now call 877.787.2000. More

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  • We Want You….and your feedback – Ethics Revision Task Force

    May 23, 2013
    Well, this has been a long process and we are in the home stretch. Therefore, we of the Ethics Revision Task Force (ERTF) would like to inform you all of what’s been going on and what’s ahead.
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  • Type A Girl . . . in a Relationship

    May 22, 2013
    Romantic relationships provide an unparalleled opportunity for personal growth, but they’re sure as hell not easy. They can trigger our worst qualities; they can leave us in a state of depression or anxiety for months or years. We can lose track of ourselves in a relationship--stop doing things that make us feel good, lose touch with friends who bring out our best or even forget who we really are.
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  • FLORIDA - Hospice of Broward County

    May 23, 2013
    Implements the established bereavement counseling services and protocols through client assessment, goal setting, plan of care implementation, progress evaluation, documentation, advocacy, coordination of service delivery, and providing crisis management until client goal resolution is achieved. Demonstrates advanced level of clinical skills in the assessment and implementation of anticipatory grief and bereavement counseling based on plan of care. Demonstrates advanced level of clinical skills in the timely documentation of client progress and plan of care review/revision.
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  • FLORIDA - Camelot Community Care

    May 23, 2013
    Full-time positions available in the In-Home Counseling Program on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) team. Provides therapeutic techniques as delineated in the treatment plan with assigned children and families and provides counseling, intervention and support to create a therapeutic environment in the home or in an outpatient setting by performing the following duties.
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  • Eating Disorders and Obesity

    Eating Disorders and Obesity

    Laura H. Choate
    Both practical and comprehensive, this long-needed book provides a clear framework for the assessment, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders and obesity.... Learn More
  • Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling

    Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling, 2nd edition

    Jeffrey T. Guterman
    The most current trends in solution-focused counseling are explored in the latest edition of this updated and expanded text... Learn More
  • Family Violence

    Family Violence

    David M. Lawson
    Counselors-in-training, educators, and practitioners will benefit greatly from this in-depth and thought-provoking look at family violence, its effects, and treatment options... Learn More

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