Other Mental Health Resources

Counselors in many specialty areas help clients achieve their fullest potential in many ways throughout a lifetime. The American Counseling Association is here to help you reach your full potential as a counselor by offering resources to assist you in your work with:

Children and Youth
Parents
Individuals Changing Jobs or Careers

For counselors working with children and youth

COUNSELING TODAY ARTICLES

• Becoming shameless
• Addressing religion and spirituality in counseling with bullying survivors
• Empowering youth victimized by cyberbullying
• Helping children and families address and prevent sibling abuse

Practice Briefs

The ACA Center for Counseling Practice, Policy and Research offers Practice Briefs for ACA members. Practice Briefs, written by scholars in the counseling profession, are research-based summaries of best practices, evidence-based practices, and research-based approaches covering a wide variety of client-presenting issues and counseling topics. Each Practice Brief is several pages in length, includes references, and has been peer-reviewed by two co-editors before being accepted for publication. The Practice Briefs are available to ACA members only.

• Practice Brief: Suicide Prevention With School-Age Students
• Practice Brief: School-Based Suicide Intervention with Children and Adolescents
• Practice Brief: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth
• Practice Brief: Youth Bullying Prevention
• Practice Brief: Treating Adolescents Who Have Co-Occurring Disorders
• Practice Brief: Divorce and Children

Educational Sessions

Every year during the ACA Conference and Expo, presenters share their expertise and provide practical knowledge on a wide array of counseling topics.

• Educational Session: Creative Counseling: 25 Expressive Play Ideas To Make Sense of Emotional Chaos
• Educational Session: “How Do I Handle This?” Limit Setting in Play Therapy

 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION

• Counseling for Social Justice, Third Edition, Edited by Courtland C. Lee
• Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People, Edited by Misty M. Ginicola, Cheri Smith, and Joel M. Filmore
• Active Interventions for Kids and Teens: Adding Adventure and Fun to Counseling!, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Terry Kottman, and Don DeGraaf
• Reality Therapy and Self-Evaluation: The Key to Client Change, Robert E. Wubbolding

Additional Continuing Education (CE) sessions

• Creative Approaches in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Sixth edition
• Efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Among Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Program
• Meta-Analysis of Counseling Outcomes for Youth With Conduct Disorders
• Check-In/Check-Out Intervention With Peer-Monitoring for a Student With Emotional-Behavioral Difficulties

For counselors working with parents

COUNSELING TODAY ARTICLES

• Parenting in the 21st century
• Retaining family focus
• Parent-child relationship problems: Treatment tools for rectification counseling
• Counselors and conflicted parenting

Practice Briefs

The ACA Center for Counseling Practice, Policy and Research offers Practice Briefs for ACA members. Practice Briefs, written by scholars in the counseling profession, are research-based summaries of best practices, evidence-based practices, and research-based approaches covering a wide variety of client-presenting issues and counseling topics. Each Practice Brief is several pages in length, includes references, and has been peer-reviewed by two co-editors before being accepted for publication. Practice Briefs are available to ACA members only.

• Practice Brief: Parenting Education

for counselors working with individuals in career transition 

COUNSELING TODAY ARTICLES

• Midcourse corrections
• The lingering crisis of the Great Recession

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION

• Postmodern Career Counseling: A Handbook of Culture, Context, and Cases, Edited by Louis A. Busacca and Mark C. Rehfuss
• Career Counseling: Holism, Diversity, and Strengths, Fourth Edition, Norman C. Gysbers, Mary J. Heppner, and Joseph A. Johnston