JCD Spring 2008
Karen Eriksen
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Concerns have been raised related to the intersection of gender and diagnosis, particularly with respect to biases in diagnoses made according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The authors review the literature on the prevalence of diagnoses by gender, sex bias in diagnosis, the problematic impact of particular diagnoses on women, and the relationship of diagnosis to socialization and social conditions. Alternative diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, and diagnostic foci that can help counselors to most effectively avoid gender bias are offered.

David Kaplan, PhD
(6) Hour Course

A major revision of the ACA Code of Ethics was completed in October of 2005 and contains significant changes that will impact professional counselors across all settings and specialties. This course highlights new ethical imperatives in the 2005 ACA ethical code in such areas as confidentiality, dual relationships, multiculturalism and diversity, technology, recordkeeping, diagnosis, end-of-life care, and the selection of interventions.

JCD Winter 2007
John S. Wadsworth & Dennis C. Harper
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among adults is characterized by inattentiveness and impulsivity. This article provides counselors with information about the etiology, assessment, and treatment of adult ADHD.

JCD Summer 2007
Ulrika Haggård-Grann
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Guidance to identify and manage clients with a perceived high risk for future violence is of great importance for mental health professionals. In the past decade, several structured instruments have been developed to assess risk of future violence. Awareness of the limits and abilities of such instruments is required. This article reviews the most well-known risk assessment tools and provides recommendations for how to approach the area of violence risk assessment.

JCD Winter 2008
Alia I. Sheikh, Sylvia A. Marotta
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and can affect individuals of all ages, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. This article reviews the research on psychosocial interventions in cardiac rehabilitation programs and discusses the evolving set of best practices for counselors working in a new setting with people who have experienced the trauma of cardiac disease. Recommendations for best practices for counselors who work in this emerging area are provided, including recommendations for facilitating posttraumatic growth.

Book: Synthesizing Family, Career and Culture: A Model for Counseling in the Twenty-First Century
Joshua M. Gold, Joseph C. Rotter, and Kathy M. Evans
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This chapter offers a rationale for integrating one's professional knowledge of multicultural and family approaches into one's career counseling.

Book: Assessment in Counseling: A Guide to the Use of Psychological Assessment Procedures, Fourth Edition
Albert B. Hood and Richard W. Johnson
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Comprehensive assessment programs measure a combination of a person's values, interests, and aptitudes.

Book: Assessment and Intervention With Children and Adolescents: Developmental and Multicultural Approaches
Ann Vernon and Roberto Clemente
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Understanding what needs to be done and knowing how it can be accomplished are complex challenges that are simplified with an understanding of the developmental process and models that guide the design and implementation of intentional interventions.

Book: Promoting Student Resiliency
Kris Bosworth and Garry R. Walz.
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

When Anton was five, he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He struggled in school and ended up dropping out after the 10th grade. Ten years later he is a sous chef in a busy downtown bistro.

John Sommers-Flanagan and Rita Sommers-Flanagan
Book: Tough Kids, Cool Counseling
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

When working with children or adolescents, counselors should prepare for a journey filled with the unexpected.

Suzanne M. (Hobson) Dugger and Laurie A. Carlson
Book: Critical Incidents in Counseling Children
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This incident addresses a school counselor's work with a child exhibiting symptoms of separation anxiety that are complicated by special education placement and frequent moves by his family.

From Blue Collar to Ivory Tower: Counseling First Generation, Working-Class Students
J.A. Lippincott & R.B. Lippincott
Book: Special Populations in College Counseling
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

College can be a strange new world for first-generation college students, students who come from families in which neither parent attained any level of postsecondary education.

Jeffrey T. Guterman
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The stages during the first session consist of (a) joining with the client, (b) coconstructing a problem and goal, (c) identifying and amplifying exceptions, and (d) coconstructing tasks.

JCD Spring 2006
Rick A. Myer and Holly B. Moore
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This article outlines a theory for understanding the impact of a crisis on individuals and organizations. Crisis in context theory (CCT) is grounded in an ecological model and based on literature in the field of crisis intervention and on personal experiences of the authors.

JCD Fall 2004
Kathryn J. Watkins and Tracy D. Baldo
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This article offers an overview of the biology of infertility and its psychological and sociological effects. Counseling issues are presented to assist counselors to identify infertility as a concern and provide interventions.

JCD Spring 2007
Mark S. Kiselica & Mandy Morrill-Richards
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

In this article, the major issues associated with sibling maltreatment are highlighted, and strategies for helping the victims and perpetrators of sibling abuse and their families are described.

Book: Counseling as an Art
Samuel T. Gladding
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This chapter has emphasized that although counseling is not a play or comic activity, various forms of play and humor can be used in a therapeutic way with children, adolescents, adults, older persons, groups, and couples/families.

JCD Fall 2006
Eugene Goldin, Terry Bordan, Daniel L. Araoz, Samuel T. Gladding, David Kaplan, John Krumboltz, & Arnold Lazarus
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This article explores the existence of humor in counseling from the perspectives of several leaders in the field. Specifically, the last 5 authors describe some of their thoughts and experiences regarding the emergence of humor in counseling.

JCD Fall 2003 Exam

This article explores the overlapping relationship between BPD and PTSD and critiques how both are viewed within the mental health community. Previous research on BPD and PTSD is explored, as well as concerns and limitations regarding both diagnostic categories.

JCD Winter 2004
Russell C. Curtis, Amy Kimball , and Erin L. Stroup
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Social phobia, a relatively obscure disorder, is receiving increased attention due to evidence suggesting that it is more prevalent and debilitative than once thought. The purpose of this article is to help counselors better understand the nature of and treatments for this disorder.

JCD Summer 2006
Dolores T. Puterbaugh
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

It has been estimated that 1 in 4 persons will experience a depressive episode over his or her lifetime (G. Gintner, 2001). The author discusses various etiologies of depression, interpersonal factors related to depression, and research on various communication-focused counseling interventions.

Book: Assessment of Client Core Issues
Richard W. Halstead, PhD
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

A clear conclusion is that eating disorders reflect an interaction of social, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and physical variables.

Book: Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents, Fifth Edition
Kimberly Wright and Elva E. Blanks
Edited by David Capuzzi and Douglas R. Cross
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The standard for body size and weight is socially determined. It is a cultural phenomenon that demands that the current ideal physique is slim.

JCD Fall 2007
Julian D. Ford, Eileen M. Russo, Sharon D. Mallon
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Historically, administrators and clinicians have been hesitant to address posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)in the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). However, research shows that SUD treatment recruitment and outcomes may be adversely affected if co-occurring PTSD is left untreated.

JCD Summer 2003
Jorge G. Garcia, Brenda Cartwright, Stacey M. Winston, and Barbara Borzuchowska
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The Transcultural Integrative Ethical Decision-Making Model in counseling addresses the need for including cultural factors in the process of ethical dilemma resolution.

Rocco Cottone, Ph.D., Harriet Glosoff, Ph.D., Michael Kocet, Ph.D.
(3) Hour Course

Learn the ethical principles that form the basis for codes of ethics—including the ACA Code of Ethics—in the helping professions. This course covers key concepts in ethical practice, decision-making models, case studies, examples, principle ethics, virtue ethics, conflicts between law and ethics, and learning exercises, all in a straightforward fashion and with multiple resources identified in each of the five lessons.

Book: Multicultural Issues in Counseling: New approaches to Diversity
Barbara Herlihy and Gerald Corey
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Sexual attraction to clients is not unethical, but acting on that attraction creates problems. This topic has not been fully addressed in counselor training programs and is deserving of more attention.

Book: Documentation in Counseling Records, Third Edition
Robert Mitchell
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Since publication of the previous edition of this monograph in 2001, electronic technology has exploded and has made the requirements for online counseling and electronic records even more challenging for every helping profession.

Nancy Wheeler and Bert Bertram
(6) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Earn 6 CEs while protecting your practice and your clients!

Book: The Counselor and the Law, Fifth Edition
Anne Marie "Nancy" Wheeler, JD and Bert Bertram, EdD
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The general rule is that counselor—client communications are confidential and should be protected. However, there are important exceptions to this rule.

Sharon Katz, Ed.D.
(3) Hour Course

Grief is the most universal and painful experience that we encounter in ourselves and in our clients.

JCD Spring 2004
Jane E. Myers and Melanie C. Harper
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Older persons constitute an increasingly large population with significant mental health challenges. The authors review outcome research for both diagnosable conditions and late-life transitions as a basis for evidence-based practice with this population.

Adjustment Issues and Implications for Counselors
Book: A Handbook for Counseling International Students in the United States
Mary M. Chittooran and Anita Sankar-Gomes
Edited by Hemla D. Singaravelu and Mark Pope
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This chapter addresses the developmental challenges and adjustment issues faced by the spouses and children of international students studying in U.S. universities.

JCD Spring 2005
Todd A. Savage, Debra A. Harley, and Theresa M. Nowak
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Social empowerment is designed to prepare individuals to reconstruct their political, economic, psychological, and social environments.

Book: Contemporary Mental Health Issue Among African Americans
Travis A. Gayles, Reginald J. Alston, and David Staten
Edited by Debra A. Harley & John Milton Dillard

African American males present a unique segment of society. No other group faces the number of institutional obstacles yet is conditioned so heavily to reject the idea of receiving outside help to cope with these burdens.

JCD Summer 2005
Carmen Braun Williams
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Multicultural counseling models have limitations in synthesizing multiple cultural variables such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation.

Book: Multicultural Issues in Counseling: New Approaches to Diversity
Michael Tlanusta Garrett
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

When working with Native people, counselors must make several important considerations based on historical context, level of acculturation, cultural values and worldview, spiritual tradition, and communication style.

Book: Multicultural Issues in Counseling: New approaches to Diversity
Kelley R. Kenney
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

With the continued increase in the numbers of interracial couples, multiracial individuals,multiracial families, and families that have become multiracial through transracial adoption comes the increasing need for counseling professionals to have an awareness of the unique issues, concerns, and strengths of this burgeoning population.

JCD Summer 2004
Jason H. King and Shannon M. Anderson
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The use of psychotropic medications (pharmacotherapy) in conjunction with psychotherapy is regarded as the standard of care for many mental health disorders.

JCD Fall 2005
R. Elliott Ingersoll
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This article provides an overview of the psychological, physiological, cultural, and legal issues associated with herbaceuticals and introduces some of the emerging ethical issues.

JCD Winter 2005
Hanoch Livneh and Richard F. Antonak
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

In this article, the authors discuss 3 broad domains of psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability.

Ellen S. Fabian
Book: Counseling for Social Justice, Second Edition
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Two challenges to understanding disability in a social justice context are that disability itself has no consensual definition and that even an individual's perception of his or her own disability can fluctuate throughout the life span.