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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers worked long hours and experienced burnout. Physician suicide rates are already more than double the rate of the general population.

Imagine a Hispanic student who doesn’t speak English at all and the teacher refers him to you because he does not make any effort to respond in class and stays to himself every day.

For most of us, expressions of frustration from clients have likely become a very present feature of our sessions. Frustration can have even become an all too present part of our own experiences. The anxiety of the unknown that was such an intense feature of the first weeks of the pandemic in the US has often by now given way to fatigue and frustration.

Until the COVID-19 crisis, we had not experienced a pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The field of epidemiology aims to prevent and control diseases such as COVID-19.

Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic are often times for reflection. As counselors, we can think about how the profession is responding to this crisis. There has been a rush toward telemental health implementation to assist clients during this troubling time, but what about the prevention efforts of our profession?

Infectious disease efforts have their roots in preventing and controlling an outbreak. These diseases require quick actions to stop the spread of the disease. But they also leave long-lasting impacts on employment, social safety networks, food and housing security, loss of health insurance, and many others.

The first thing you, as a school counselor, needs to do is have an important conversation with you administrator about your role as a school counselor. It is important and vital to the school counseling program and the well-being of the students that your administrator understands your role as the counselor.

Approximately 300,000 women give birth each month in the United States, which means that since the beginning of stay at home orders in the US, more than 600,000 women have delivered a child.

As a mental health professional I am used to being the one helping others. It’s what I trained for and what I enjoy. I am not always successful of course, but I do what I can. Sadly, during this pandemic I have found myself feeling powerless in so many ways.

What are the things dads do that make them great fathers? Today the message is about putting the Zen back in Citizen and in our kids. During this time of uncertainty, chaos, tension, and conflict we as dads are called on for consistency, calmness, reassurance, hopefulness, and managing moods to avoid impulsive and frenetic results with our families.