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Counseling Today
Counseling Today
April 2015
Cover Story
26 Embracing the ongoing push for progress
By Laurie Meyers
The LGBT community has had many victories to celebrate during the past several years, but counselors dedicated to working with this population understand the various challenges that continue to confront these clients on a daily basis.
Features
34 Addressing counseling’s portability crisis By Bethany Bray
ACA and AASCB are proposing state-level changes
to improve licensure uniformity and portability across the United States.
40 Knowledge Share
A visual picture of the human psyche
By Michele Takei
The Mandala Assessment Research Instrument offers counselors a client-centered tool based in wholeness that accesses both conscious and unconscious information.
48 Reader Viewpoint
The end of counseling as we know it
By R. Rocco Cottone
Depending on one’s viewpoint, a futuristic portrayal of counseling in the age of intelligent machines may be either exciting or frightening.
Special Item
54 Fiscal Year 2015 Election Results
Need to Know
5 From the President 6 Letters to the Editor 7 CEO’s Message
8 Washington Update
10 Private Practice Strategies 12 Neurocounseling: Bridging
Brain and Behavior 16 Ethics Inquiries
18 Counselor Career Stories: Helena Rindone
20 Recent Book Releases 25 Risk Management
for Counselors 37 CT Learning Test
56 Bulletin Board
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Recent exclusives at CT Online
n Four questions for Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health
n Family-centered, child-inclusive divorce: Keeping family in the center of family change
n What would Yalom do? Wisdom for counselors old and new
n The Hope Chest: Helping clients stay committed to the process of change
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