As a professional association, ACA offers professional development courses (post-degree for licensure or certification renewal credit). We have a number of "products" that are designed to assist practitioners in their ethical responsibility of staying current in the field. Please verify with your licensure board or certification body, prior to registration, that these ACA credits are accepted.

Please note that once you have completed registering for an online course, you will receive two (2) emails from acamemberservices@counseling.org within one (1) hour. The first email is a confirmation of your purchase, and the second provides you with the website and access information needed to get started on the course. In order to ensure receipt of these two emails, you should add acamemberservices@counseling.org to your address book.

After purchasing an online course, you will have two years to access and complete the accompanying test. You must score 75% or better on the online course tests, and 100% on the three-question book chapter or JCD article test in order to receive your certificate. Once you have successfully passed the test, you will be able to print a CE certificate for your records.

For questions or other comments, please contact Debbie Beales, Manager, Learning Resources (DBeales@counseling.org).

Free CE of the Month

Play and Humor in Counseling

Please note that in the email sent to members announcing this offering, the incorrect Samuel Gladding book was mentioned. We apologize for the confusion. The correct book can be found here. Purchase of the book is not required in order to take this course.

Book: Counseling as an Art: The Creative Arts in Counseling

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.

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Addictions

Developmental Approaches in Treating Addiction

Book: A Contemporary Approach to Substance Abuse and Addiction Counseling

Ford Brooks and Bill McHenry

Chapter: Developmental Approaches in Treating Addiction

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

From our professional view, clients are multidimensional and complex. We believe each client possesses both the ability to grow and the ability to self-destruct. As counselors, we are privileged to be a part of this therapeutic journey. Along the way we use tools such as an empathic heart, an inquisitive mind, and an archeological and environmental perspective to human development. Our clients' lives are like complex tapestries. Collectively, they represent blended families, wellsprings of culture, and unique genetic creations. Depending on where we meet our clients in their unique stories, we have the opportunity to explore the rich variety of backgrounds from which they have come and to help them generate the missing patches of fabric in their experiences so they may achieve wholeness. For some clients, such missing patches, or gaps, have been filled with drugs and alcohol. When these chemicals are removed (which occurs in the treatment process and subsequent recovery), the developmental deficits still remain.

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Assessment, Testing and Program Evaluation

Adults With ADHD: Assessment and Treatment Strategies

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. The identification of the genetic and neurological features of ADHD has led to improvements in evaluation and treatment. Assessment of ADHD requires knowledge of the defining characteristics, subtypes, comorbid features, and functional aspects of ADHD. Effective treatments include both medical management and counseling to address psychosocial deficits.

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Assessing Violence Risk: A Review and Clinical Recommendations

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.

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Best Practices

Best Practices for Counseling in Cardiac Rehab Settings

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.

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Career Development/Employment Counseling

Empowering Individuals With Disabilities Through 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). These changes are having a substantial impact on the life roles of individuals with disabilities, the settings in which these persons live and work, and the events that occur in their lives (National Council on Disability, 2008). At the same time, current disability policy in the United States focuses on the inclusion, independence, and empowerment of people with disabilities (Kosciulek, 2000; United Cerebral Palsy Association, 2007).

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Out of the Box: A Model for Counseling in the 21st Century

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. By acknowledging the relational and sociological contexts that nurture our career clients, we as counselors are better equipped to help clients consider those factors in their career decision making.

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Comprehensive Assessment Programs for Career and Life

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. All of these programs include a means for identifying academic, career, or social environments that would be compatible with a person's preferences and abilities. Some of the programs are informal, nonstandardized programs. Others adhere to test standardization procedures that include systematic item selection, establishment of representative norms, and ongoing studies of reliability and validity. Both types of comprehensive assessment programs are discussed in this chapter. Only those standardized programs with objective tests of ability are reviewed in this chapter.

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Child and Adolescent Counseling

Animal-Assisted Play Therapy

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. Through animals, children learn about social interactions, boundaries, emotional reciprocity, and responsibility. Studies have shown that children who own pets have more empathy for others, higher self-esteem, and better social skills than other children. The child animal bond is unlike any other relationship a child may have.

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Designing Developmentally and Culturally Responsive

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.

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Counselor/Educator Practices That Promote Student Resiliency

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. Today, he sees his ADHD as a benefit in his job. People with regular attention spans would not be successful in a hectic kitchen with hundreds of different tasks that have to come together in a meal that will please the customer's palate.

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Adventures in Child and Adolescent Counseling

Book: Tough Kids, Cool Counseling

John Sommers-Flanagan and Rita Sommers-Flanagan

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

When working with children or adolescents, counselors should prepare for a journey filled with the unexpected. Connecting with young clients can be like dodging avalanches, avoiding road agents, and crossing rickety bridges. Counseling young clients is an adventure; depending on your perspective, it is fraught with peril or filled with excitement.

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Separation Anxiety: Helping Children Feel Safe

Book: Critical Incidents in Counseling Children

Suzanne M. (Hobson) Dugger and Laurie A. Carlson

(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. The respondents discuss the diagnosis and treatment of separation anxiety disorder and explore alternative ways to conceptualize the case. In particular, Adlerian counseling, gender socialization, family systems, and narrative therapy approaches are explored.

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What Is Adventure Therapy?

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? What do kids get out of it? Does it work? How do you use it in schools and in mental health settings? And importantly, What does it look like? This chapter explores the ways we typically respond to these types of questions and then consider what adventure therapy looks like.

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Exploring Relational Aggression: Counseling Girls

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. This chapter explores the nature of relational aggression (RA), first describing the socialization processes that drive it. I then turn to the dynamics of RA and how it is related to girls' pursuit of popularity.

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College Counseling/Student Personnel Services

From Blue Collar To Ivory Tower: Counseling First Generation, Working-Class Students

Book: Special Populations in College Counseling

J.A. Lippincott & R.B. Lippincott

(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. These students are often the first member within their entire extended families to attend college. Although these students may come from virtually any socioeconomic class, the majority are from what have been traditionally described as blue-collar or working-class backgrounds.

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Counseling Theory

Relevance and Outcomes of Motivational Interviewing

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.

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Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling

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.

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Freud, Skinner, Rogers and Other Dialogues

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. Two of these, as radically different from each other as they were from the ideas of the psychoanalysts, were to leave their own indelible marks on the psychotherapeutic landscape. Each has become a part of the thinking-the psychological worldview—of virtually every therapist in practice today. These two schools of thought were behavioristic learning theory on the one hand, and the client-centered therapy of Carl Rogers on the other.

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Crisis in Context Theory: An Ecological Model

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. A graphic representation denotes key components and premises of CCT, while a proposed formula summarizes the theory. Recommendations for future research are also included.

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Preparation, Action, Recover: A Conceptual Framework

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. The authors present a conceptual framework that defines the actions required at the different phases of a client crisis and identifies potential constraints to effective counselor action that must be acknowledged and overcome at each phase.

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Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling

Work-Family Conflict and Career Development Theories: A Search for Helping Strategies

JCD Fall 2009

Rebecca Slan-Jerusalim and Charles P. Chen

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The authors discuss the connection between the work-family conflict literature and some career development and counseling theories, attempting to use theoretical tenets for the development of effective helping interventions. The focus is on female workers' experience of work-family conflict, given that this group is more exposed and negatively affected by such conflict in their personal and vocational lives. Career counseling implications are discussed in an effort to identify more effective helping and coping strategies.

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The Infertility Experience

JCD Fall 2004

Kathryn J. Watkins and Tracy D. Baldo

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Infertility affects many individuals and couples. This article begins with a case study of a couple who has experienced infertility yet do not identify infertility as their presenting problem. Clients and counselors alike often overlook infertility. 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.

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Sibling Maltreatment: The Forgotten Abuse

JCD Spring 2007

Mark S. Kiselica & Mandy Morrill-Richards

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

Great advances have been made in the study of family violence in the past 30 years. However, sibling abuse and its prevalence in the family have largely been overlooked. 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.

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Creativity In Counseling

Humor in Counseling: Leader Perspectives

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.

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Diagnosis and Treatment

Borderline Personality Disorder

JCD Fall 2003

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

The increasing prevalence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses among women illustrates problems and limitations of the medical model system (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition; American Psychiatric Association, 1994). In particular, diagnoses of BPD continue the trend of overpathologizing women's issues and reinforcing a patriarchal system of diagnosis and treatment. A PTSD diagnosis, with similar criteria, is preferred for traumatized women because it portrays them in a more positive context. 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.

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Understanding and Treating Social Phobias

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. Effective behavioral and pharmacological approaches are reviewed, and counseling implications are discussed to increase counselors' confidence in providing treatment to people with social phobia.

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Communication Counseling As Part of Treatment for Depression

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. The author maintains that published literature supports a communication-skills-centered approach to alleviating the symptoms of depression and recommends that professional counselors assert their ability to provide their clients with effective and healthy treatment for depression.

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Assessment of Core Issues & the Nature of the Client's Story

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. The societal ideal for people, especially women, to be thin and attractive promotes greater pressure for women with regard to appearance and places them at greater risk for developing anorexia and bulimia.

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The Secret and All-Consuming Obsessions: Eating Disorders

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. Countries that commonly experience the threat of famine have historically had virtually no cases of anorexia or bulimia, and obesity has been considered desirable. In previous eras in the United States, larger bodies were associated with prosperity, in contrast with current mores that associate thinness with affluence. Obesity is now considered a correlate of the lower class. Continuous images indoctrinate the public with the message that to be considered successful, masterful, and acceptable, one must display a thin physique.

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Integrating Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorder

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. The authors provide guidelines for screening and as¬sessment, treatment services, and workforce and organizational development that are designed to facilitate integrated PTSD•SUD treatment. Case examples illustrate the necessary precautions related to and the potential benefits of integrating treatment of PTSD and SUD.

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Gender and Diagnosis

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.

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Ethics and Legal Issues

The New ACA Code of Ethics

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.

All ACA members agree to abide by the ACA Code of Ethics. In addition, more than twenty state licensing boards use the ACA code as the basis for their standards of practice and the adjudication of client complaints. This course will ensure that you are up to date on the most current concepts in ethics and know what must be done to fully comply with the ACA Code of Ethics and its focus on promoting client welfare.

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Transcultural Integrative Model for Ethical Decision Making

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. This transcultural model incorporates state-of-the-art concepts from multicultural theory into an ethical decision-making model that is adapted primarily from the Integrative Model developed by V. M. Tarvydas (1998). When appropriate, this transcultural model includes aspects of other ethical resolution models, such as R. R. Cottone's (2001) Social Constructivist Model and A.H. Davis's (1997) Collaborative Model. The proposed model is presented in a step-by-step, linear format that can be used by counselors facing ethical dilemmas in a variety of settings and with different cultural groups.

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Building a Foundation for Ethical Practice

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.

Designed as a primer, this course will provide you with a foundation of knowledge that can be applied immediately to your work, regardless of your work setting. With a solid understanding of the ethical principles at play in counseling, you will reduce your risk of getting sued or losing your license. Many state licensing boards mandate continuing education in ethics and successful completion of this course may meet this requirement in your state. The content of this course is aligned with the 2005 ACA Code of Ethics.

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Sexual Dual Relationships

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.

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Online Counseling and Electronic Records

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. In addition, since the 1996 passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), there has been an ongoing controversy about the storage and transmission of electronic data as well as various interpretations of pertinent law.

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Duties To Report, Warn And/or Protect

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. For example, if you determine that a serious and foreseeable threat of harm exists to a client or some third person, you may have both an ethical obligation and a legal duty to disclose certain information to the proper authorities and/or to notify the potential victim or take other appropriate measures.

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Clinician Ethics, Malpractice and Doc. Related To Suicide

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. The right thing comes in many forms (ethics, legalities, moral issues, etc.). According to Bongar (1991, 1992, 2002), a basic understanding of legal and ethical ramifications of treating suicidal clients is necessary in today's mental health community.

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Online Test: The Counselor and the Law

DO YOU WANT MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK?

1) Purchase and read The Counselor and the Law, Fifth Edition. The book is written by Nancy Wheeler, an attorney in private practice who has advised counselors on legal and ethical issues for more than 20 years and who manages the ACA Insurance Trust's Risk Management Helpline, and Burt Bertram, a counselor, consultant, and counselor educator, provide a broad overview of the law and the potential areas of liability that you may encounter in your day-to-day practice. Order the book online now, or call 800-422-2648, x222, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. (If you've already purchased this book, go to the next step below.)

2) Purchase and take an online test for 6 continuing education credits. Visit www.counseling.org/catl for further information. ACA members receive a special discount on purchase of the test. The cost for members is only $69 for 6 CEUs! Print out a copy of your CEU certificate as soon as you've passed the test.

3) If you are insured through the ACA-sponsored program, you're eligible for a 10% discount on your professional liability insurance program for 3 consecutive years! After completing and passing the exam, fax a copy of your CEU certificate, along with your policy number, to: 1-800-758-3635. Alternatively, you may mail your CEU certificate and policy number to: HPSO, 159 East County Line Road, Hatboro, PA 19040. The discount will be applied for 3 consecutive years at your next renewal and cannot be combined with other discounts on the policy. Further questions may be directed to HPSO at 1-800-982-9491 or by e-mail at service@hpso.com.

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Human Development Across the Lifespan

Tears of Blood

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. A pregnancy suddenly ended by miscarriage is, unfortunately, not an uncommon experience for women. Many facets of grief often accompany miscarriage loss including emotional turmoil, confusion, shock, disbelief, guilt, fear, depression, anger, stress, frustration, and disappointment. Challenging questions accompany miscarriage such as, “What happened?” “Did I do anything to cause this? Will I be able to get pregnant again and carry a baby to full-term?” or “Will the emotional hurt and pain that I feel right now ever end?” Western culture does not often deal well with death. Cultural and societal expectations accompanying grief and loss create challenges for women and families coping with a miscarriage loss. The stigma associated with grieving a miscarriage can complicate the grief experience. Therapists can better connect with and assist their grieving clients if they identify and understand factors that impact miscarriage loss, honor and validate loss experiences, and help support clients in the grieving process.

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Thinking Differently About Loss and Grief in 21st Century

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. Most people develop skills and attitudes over a lifetime that allow them to manage the distress and assimilate the losses, even difficult losses, into their lives in a satisfactory manner. Nevertheless, loss and grief appear as familiar themes in the lives of psychotherapy clients in a variety of settings. They may be the primary source of client difficulties or just as often serve as contributing or complicating factors in other areas.

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End-of-Life Care: An Overview for Professional Counselors

JCD Spring 2009

Ulrika Haggård-Grann

(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. The authors provide counselors with an overview of the issues that may be relevant when working with such clients.

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Evidence-Based Effective Practices with Older Adults

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. Implications for clinical practice in professional counseling, counselor education and supervision, and research are considered.

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Grief Counseling

Sharon Katz, Ed.D.

(3) Hour Course

Grief is the most universal and painful experience that we encounter in ourselves and in our clients. Our society and the helping professions contain myths about how to handle grief that are at best totally unhelpful to clients and often, potentially destructive. In this course you will increase awareness of your attitudes, beliefs and feelings about grief by exploring your experiences with loss. You will learn about new approaches and understandings of loss and grief, as well as be offered practical strategies to assist your clients.

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Motherhood in the 21st Century: Implications for Counselors

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. Suggestions for mental health professionals are provided.

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International Issues

The Families of International Students in U.S. Universities: 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, applies useful frameworks for exploring and conceptualizing these issues, provides recommendations to counselors and other helping professionals who work with this population, and offers a brief case scenario that illustrates practical applications of these recommendations.

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LGBT Issues

Social Empowerment Strategies As Tools

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. Addressing empowerment for lesbian and gay male populations is critical because of the numerous stereotypical situations that result in their powerlessness. The application of social empowerment strategies as tools for self-advocacy with lesbian and gay male populations is presented as a consideration for counseling.

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Multicultural/Diversity Issues

The Imposter Phenomenon Among African American Women

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. This author has been examining the imposter phenomenon, i.e., an internal experience of intellectual phoniness, among high achieving African American women since the early 1980s. Counselors must be aware of this phenomenon and its antecedents if they are to effectively assist all women who may seek their expertise. Counselors must fully understand the pain and emotional distress often inflicted on and experienced by their African American female clients in academic careers.

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Counseling Multiple Heritage Couples and Families

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. Counseling intervention is discussed within the framework of the multicultural counseling competencies. The terms interracial, multiple heritage, and multiracial are used interchangeably throughout the chapter.

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Understanding Mental Illness Among African American Males

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

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

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. Counselors must admit the devastating and negative effects of racism. Racism must be acknowledged in therapy by both the counselor and the client.

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Counseling African American Women

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. The author describes 3 multicultural models-Afrocentric, feminist, and "womanist"-and their application to psychotherapy with African American women. Using a case illustration of an African American lesbian client, the author offers strategies for assisting clients to integrate multiple cultural identities.

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When Eagle Speaks: Counseling Native Americans

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.

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Counseling Multiracial Individuals and Families

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.

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Psychopharmacology

Therapeutic Implications of Pharmacology

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. Counselors, therefore, need to be knowledgeable about psychopharmacology to monitor its impact on the therapeutic relationship and on client outcome. Discussed are potential ethical dilemmas with pharmacotherapy interventions, case studies demonstrating proper support of pharmacotherapy with diverse clientele, and critical elements of master's level training in psychopharmacology.

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Herbaceuticals: An Overview for Counselors

JCD Fall 2005

R. Elliott Ingersoll

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

As more and more people are using unregulated herbaceuticals worldwide, counselors need to be alert to the types of herbs clients may be taking; the effects, side effects, and drug interactions associated with different herbaceuticals; and the ethical implications of treating a client who is taking herbaceuticals. This article provides an overview of the psychological, physiological, cultural, and legal issues associated with herbaceuticals and introduces some of the emerging ethical issues.

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Rehabilitation Counseling and Disability Issues

Psychosocial Adaptation To Chronic Illness and Disability

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. These include the dynamics (basic concepts, psychosocial responses, and coping strategies) typically associated with the process of adaptation to disabling conditions, assessment of adaptation as evidenced by 6 commonly used measures, and intervention strategies applied to facilitating coping with and adaptation to chronic illness and disability.

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Counselor Advocacy for Access

Book: Counseling for Social Justice, Second Edition

Ellen S. Fabian

(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. A second aspect that differentiates disability as a status from race or gender is that an individual may be born with a physical or mental impairment; may develop one through a variety of chronic illnesses throughout life; or may traumatically acquire one through an accident, war injury, or disease. Scholars in disability studies have commented that disability is a universal experience, in that "if we are not disabled now, we probably will be if we live long enough".

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Research Methods

Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Mixed Research in the Field of Counseling and Beyond

JCD Winter 2010

Nancy L. Leech and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie

(1) Hour Continuing Education Credit

This article provides guidelines for conducting, reporting, and evaluating mixed research studies in 3 sections: research formulation, research planning, and research implementation. To date, no such guidelines are available. Detailed descriptions of each subsection are included. The authors hope that these standards assist researchers from the field of counseling and beyond.

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School Counseling

Legal Challenges in Counseling Suicidal Students

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. School counselors are increasingly being called upon to manage students who have the possibility of being at risk for suicide, including those who are depressed, students who self-injure, and girls and boys with eating disorders.

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A Comprehensive School Guidance and Counseling Program

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. Comprehensive guidance and counseling programs are increasingly becoming a reality, not just a promise, in school districts across the United States. This change is not yet complete, however, because school counselors are often unable to spend 100% of their time carrying out a fully implemented comprehensive guidance and counseling program. They are still expected to fulfill multiple, often conflicting roles.

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Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools, Second Edition

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. Our initial contacts with students, parents, and teachers are especially important in setting a tone of collaboration and hope.

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Social Justice

New Professional Roles and Advocacy Strategies

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. Redefining the school counselors' role requires culturally competent practitioners, social justice advocates, and organizational/social change agents. A major obstacle to implementing culturally responsive social justice advocacy and change in schools is referred to as the nice counselor syndrome (NCS). This article discusses the insidious effects of NCS and outlines a set of recommendations designed to assist school counselors in moving beyond this syndrome.

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Spirituality/Religion

Use of Spiritual & Religious Beliefs in Pursuit of Goals

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. Working within the expressed religious or spiritual belief system of the client to help resolve problems or to alleviate suffering necessitates counselor consideration of several important issues.

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Technology in Counseling

The Attractiveness of Telephone Counseling

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. The results mirror many opinions in the literature. Of the 186 counseling clients who responded to the survey, 96% would be willing to seek telephone counseling again compared with 63.1% who reported being willing to seek face-to-face counseling. More than half (58%) of the respondents who had experienced both telephone and face-to-face counseling preferred telephone counseling.

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