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We all know that conflict between a husband and wife affects the entire family, and that children of all ages are deeply impacted when their parents fight. What isn’t widely known is how parental conflict can cause conflict between a mother and daughter.
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The Practicum and Internship experience is one of the most significant milestones in a counseling student’s graduate school experience. This is the point of your program where the “rubber meets the road” and you will begin practicing all of the knowledge and skills you have been learning.
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Mister Rogers did not shy away from discussing challenging topics on his program, and he helped children understand ways for dealing with sadness and death. Let’s explore three tools he provided his television neighbors for this necessary struggle.
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As a counselor, an orientation toward social justice is something that I am called to on both personal and professional levels. In addition to NMAAHC's infusion of social justice movements throughout history, I also appreciated that the museum’s exhibits represented African Americans as a group of people who continually built new efforts toward freedom that have benefited all Americans to this date.
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Exposure therapy focuses on changing your response to the object, or situation that is causing your anxiety. Gradually repeating exposure to the source that causing fear may help a child manage his or her thoughts and feelings about what is making him or her anxious.
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As a counselor, I now know that conversations about death and end-of-life are challenging to have -- even for professionals who encounter it regularly.
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History has long elevated men’s voices and achievements over women’s voices and achievements, and the psychotherapy profession is no exception.
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As I reflect on when I was a child, I recall having passing thoughts about death and what it might mean to die and to age when I was at this stage. I did not, however, spend a significant amount of time or energy attending to these thoughts.
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One of the hardest lessons I have had to learn as a beginning counselor is that I can’t save every client from their issues if they don’t want to be saved.
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When I reflect on how my supervisory style and theoretical orientation to supervision have evolved, I recognize that it continues to be a goal of mine to do whatever I can to facilitate a space for my supervisees that is inviting and facilitates growth.
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