CS Features – Expert Interviews, Guides, Professional Advocacy & Research in Counseling
Joining a counseling profession is about more than understanding licensing requirements and reading step-by-step guides. This is a profession committed to continued education, listening, and learning. To be a successful counselor or therapist, you have to be engaged with and aware of the larger conversations in the community.
Whether you are just starting your counseling career or already working in the field, CS features cover topics relevant to you. It holds scholarship and resource guides, expert interviews, tips for avoiding burnout and compassion fatigue, discussions of the latest academic research, and detailed analyses of the most pressing advocacy issues within counseling professions. Overall, we bring you into the conversation around the biggest issues in counseling and professions today.
Why Are Mental Health Issues More Prevalent Among Certain Groups?
09/01/20
There are four common underpinnings to struggles with mental health: isolation, a lack of access to fundamental rights and services, exclusion, and prejudice.
The Other Looming Crisis: How Covid-19 is Impacting Our Mental Health
08/28/20
While people from all walks of life are vulnerable to mental struggles during this time, some of those living with pre-existing mental disorders have been suffering disproportionately.
Interview with a Professor: Empowering Florida’s School Counselors
08/17/20
Something is broken in America’s schools. In the last 18 years, there have been more victims of school shootings than in the entire 20th century combined. No other nation has anything remotely resembling this problem.
Interview with a Certified Sex Therapist – What to Know About This Growing Career
08/04/20
Well-trained and dedicated sex therapists can play a life-changing role for their clients and for a sexually-empowered world.
How to Avoid Mental Health Professional Burnout – Interview with an Expert
08/03/20
As the economic burden of COVID-19 continues to rise, the WHO said it anticipates a direct effect on societies’ mental health.
Telebehavioral Health During Covid-19
08/03/20
The demand for online services like TalkSpace and BetterHelp has grown since the onset of the pandemic.