Book: Multicultural Issues in Counseling: New Approaches to Diversity, Third Edition
Edited by Courtland Lee
Chapter: When Eagle Speaks: Counseling Native Americans
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.

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.

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.

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: Career Counseling: Contexts, Processes, and Techniques
Norman C. Gysbers, Mary J. Heppner, Joseph A. Johnston
Chapter: Empowering Individuals with Disabilities Through Career Counseling
John F. Kosciulek
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The world of work is changing at a rapid pace, and the changes are likely to accelerate during the 21st century. Employment arrangements, such as temporary employment, short-term hires, contractual positions, leased workers, and on-call and part-time workers, have influenced and will continue to influence the career development of all workers (Institute on Rehabilitation Issues, 1999).

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: Compelling Counseling Interventions: VISTAS 2009
Edited by Garry R. Walz, Jeanne C. Bleuer, and Richard K. Yep
Chapter: Animal-Assisted Play Therapy: Canines As Co-Therapists
Mary J. Thompson
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Research has shown that animals are significant in the overall development of children.

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.

Book: Active Interventions for Kids and Teens: Adding Adventure and Fun to Counseling!
Jeffrey S. Ashby, Terry Kottman, and Donald DeGraaf
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

What exactly is adventure therapy? Why use adventure therapy intervention strategies with children and teens?

Book: Girls’ and Women’s Wellness: Contemporary Counseling Issues and Interventions.
Laura Hensley Choate
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Critical developmental issues surface for girls in early adolescence, including their rapidly changing bodies, emerging sexuality and relationships with/attention from potential romantic partners, and academic pressures.

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.

JCD Summer 2009
Michael J. Mason
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Very little work regarding C. Rogers's (1961) client-centered counseling has been published in the counseling discipline's journals over the last 20 years. However, during this time there has been an impressive output of empirical research using motivational interviewing (MI) in which C. Rogers's theory and approach are foundational. A review of MI's basic theoretical premises and applications for a multitude of behavioral problems are presented. Justification for integrating MI into counseling practice, training, and research is offered.

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.

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 Fall 2008
Charles R. McAdams III and Harry J. Keener
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Despite increasing requirements for counselor proficiency in crisis response, there is an absence in the standards for counselor preparation, certification, and supervision of consistent criteria on which best practice in crisis prevention and intervention, and postcrisis recovery can be gauged.

Book: The Life and Work of Carl Rogers
Chapter: Freud, Skinner, Rogers and Other Dialogues
Howard Kirschenbaum
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

"During the psychologically fertile years of the 1940s and 1950s," wrote textbook authors Moursund and Erskine, "new schools of thought were taking hold in the U.S. psychotherapeutic community.

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.

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 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).

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 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: 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.

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.

Book: Boundary Issues in Counseling: Multiple Roles and Responsibilities
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: Developing Clinical Skills in Suicide Assessment Prevention and Treatment
Jason M. McGlothlin
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

In many circumstances, clinicians' feelings arise from a fear of malpractice or wondering if they are doing the right things.

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

Earn 6 CEs while protecting your practice and your clients!

Book: Compelling Counseling Interventions: VISTAS 2009
Edited by Garry R. Walz, Jeanne C. Bleuer, and Richard K. Yep
Chapter: Tears of Blood: Understanding and Creatively Intervening in the Grief of Miscarriage
Kristin I. Douglas and Joy R. Fox
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Imagine the excitement that comes with a long awaited pregnancy, only to have that joy and excitement shattered by a miscarriage.

JCD Spring 2009
James L. Werth Jr. and Laura Crow
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Although "End-of-Life Care for Terminally Ill Clients" is a section of the ACA Code of Ethics (American Counseling Association, 2005), neither the Code nor the counseling literature provides much direction for counselors who work with clients who are dying and with the clients' loved ones.

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.

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

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

Book: Counseling Strategies for Loss and Grief
Keren M. Humphrey
Chapter: Thinking Differently About Loss and Grief in the 21st Century
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The experience of loss is a universal phenomenon that, while frequently challenging and distressing, is often transformational.

JCD Winter 2009
Sondra Medina and Sandy Magnuson
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

In this article, the literature on motherhood is reviewed. Intensive mothering expectations are critiqued, and the impact of these expectations on employed mothers, mothers on welfare, and stay-at-home mothers is discussed.

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: Counseling Multiple Heritage Individuals, Couples, and Families
Written and edited by Richard C. Henriksen Jr., Derrick A. Paladino
Chapter: Counseling Multiple Heritage Couples and Families
Kelley R. Kenney and Mark E. Kenney
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The following chapter examines trends and provides perspectives on contemporary interracial dating and marriage and discusses the lives and worldview experiences of current-day interracial couples and their families.

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
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.

Book: Compelling Counseling Interventions: VISTAS 2009
Edited by Garry R. Walz, Jeanne C. Bleuer, and Richard K. Yep
Chapter: The Imposter Phenomenon Among African American Women in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education: Implications for Counseling
Frances K. Trotman
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The literature on the counseling and psychotherapy of African American women is relatively new.

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 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 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.

Book: Suicide Prevention in the Schools, David Capuzzi
Chapter: Legal Challenges in Counseling Suicidal Students
Theodore P. Remley, Jr.
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

All professionals who counsel clients, including school counselors, may at some point have to manage a suicidal client.

Book: Developing & Managing Your School Guidance NS Counseling Program
Norman C. Gysbers and Patricia Henderson.
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The traditional way of organizing guidance and counseling in the schools, first as a position, and then as a position in a service, is continuing to give way to the organizational framework of a comprehensive guidance and counseling program.

Book: Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools, Second Edition.
John J. Murphy.
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The conversations we have with clients influence the way they view themselves, the problem, and potential solutions.

JCD Summer 2008
Fred Bemak and Rita Chi-Ying Chung
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The transformed role of school counselors as advocates is key in reducing the academic achievement gap.

Book: Integrating Spirituality and Religion Into Counseling
Alan Basham and Mike O'Conner
Edited by Craig S. Cashwell and J. Scott Young
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This chapter focuses on the use of a client's beliefs as a means of helping her or him reach therapeutic goals.

John Bloom, Ph.D., Garry Walz, Ph.D. and Donna Ford, MS.
(3) Hour Course

This course is designed for counselors who are interested in Cybercounseling.

JCD Winter 2006
Robert J. Reese, Collie W. Conoley, & Daniel F. Brossart
(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Telephone counseling clients reported that convenience, accessibility, control, and inhibition were the most attractive attributes of receiving counseling (not crisis intervention) via telephone.