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Is School Counseling Effective? CounselingTodayOctober 2010 Cover Story 28 Success stories with challenging clients By Lynne Shallcross ACA members share the approaches that have worked for them when clients aren’t initially receptive to help or otherwise appear “stuck” in their problems. Features 36 The confidence factor 28 By Emil Vernarec Keeping four touchstones in mind can help counselors at any stage of the professional journey to weather periods of self-doubt and emerge stronger. 42 Improving students’ career and college readiness Interview by Frank Burtnett The president of the Southern Regional Education Board discusses the importance of challenging and engaging students and the key role school counselors should play. 36 44 Opinion Extending the humanistic vision By James T. Hansen A counselor educator argues that contemporary counseling culture is largely structured by scientific assumptions that have had a detrimental impact on the profession. 48 Reader Viewpoint Unlocking the grip of PTSD nightmares By Wayne A. Hankammer 42 Motivated by the memory of a former client, a counselor and his colleagues set out to develop an effective protocol to treat veterans tormented by nightmares. Extras 50 ACA president-elect candidates share their views 54 2010/2011 Division and Region goals 62 Bragging on the Big Easy Compiled by Jonathan Rollins ACA members who live and work in New Orleans give recommendations for making the most of the host city for the 2011 ACA Annual Conference & Exposition. Contents 68 Leading the way By Lynne Shallcross Participants reflect on ACA’s Institute for Leadership Training held this past summer. October 2010 | Counseling Today | 3 CounselingTodayOctober 2010 Columns 10 Washington Update 12 Counselor Career Stories Numbersby the Numbers 16 New Perspectives Counseling on campus University counseling services are tasked with assisting more 18 Private Practice in Counseling college students with severe mental illness than they were a decade ago, according to a study presented at the American 20 Resource Reviews Psychological Association’s annual convention in August. On a positive note, researchers found that student thoughts concerning suicide have declined. The study was drawn The Digital Psyway 24 from records of more than 3,250 college students who accessed college counseling services between 26 ACA Blog Sampler September 1997 and August 2009 at a midsized private university. Need to Know 5 From the President 7 Executive Director’s Message 8 Letters to the Editor 70 CSCORE Perspective 72 Division, Region & Branch News 76 Bulletin Board 77 News & Notes 79 FY 2010 Membership Statistics 80 Classifieds 4 | Counseling Today | October 2010 From The President CounselingToday Counseling Today Staff Publisher Developing Richard Yep Associate Publisher depth Carol Neiman Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Rollins Marcheta Evans 800.347.6647 ext. 339 [email protected] Senior Writer Lynne Shallcross have a question for you to ponder: This month, our cover story focuses on 800.347.6647 ext. 320 How do we develop depth with how we work effectively with challenging [email protected] clients, and the topic got me to thinking I regard to our character, insight and Advertising Representative empathy? Is it something that is part of again about how we grow as professionals. Kathy Maguire our genetic makeup? Is it based on our How did I develop the skills and comfort 607.662.4451 life experiences? Or is it a combination level to work with a diverse population [email protected] of these? as a professional? In answer to my own Graphic Designer As a parent, this is a question I question, I kept coming back to the Carlos J. Soto II have contemplated for many years. challenges I faced in my professional 800.347.6647 ext. 377 development. What aided in my growth [email protected] My husband and I have engaged in was taking risks, trying something new discussions about how our six children CT Column Editors or working with a client/student/patient were developing and what kind of person who required me to stretch beyond what Washington Update we believed each would grow up to be. Scott Barstow I had done previously. Would they be smart? Would they be 800.347.6647 ext. 234 Some of you may remember the [email protected] insightful and empathic? Would they acronym YAVIS, which, when I was have depth? originally trained as a counselor, was Counselor Career Stories I remember teaching a counseling Rebecca Daniel-Burke used to describe a client who was young, 800.347.6647 ext. 230 course and talking about issues of depth. attractive, verbal, intelligent and social. [email protected] But even figuring out how to define this The presumption was that everyone construct is challenging. Still, at times we would want to work with YAVIS clients. Resource Reviews Ruth Harper find ourselves saying, “Well, that person As I thought about this, however, I [email protected] doesn’t have much depth” or “He/she concluded that this type of client would is really a very shallow person.” What provide very limited growth on my Private Practice in Counseling part. They were purportedly insightful Robert J. Walsh and Norman C. Dasenbrook exactly does that mean? [email protected] Going back to my ponderings enough to work through the process very regarding my children for a moment, successfully. Of course, that was a major Spotlight on Journals assumption on my part. Nonetheless, Sheri Bauman I used to think, “How could they have [email protected] much depth or empathic understanding they were presented as the ideal. But when their lives have been so privileged? what about the other clients? The ones New Perspectives They have never had to struggle, supposedly not so desirable? Donjanea L. Fletcher If you look back on some of [email protected] wondering about their housing or food. your greatest accomplishments as a They did not grow up in the South The Digital Psyway professional, what do you see? I see the during the fifties, sixties or seventies when Marty Jencius times when I had to struggle and work a [email protected] we struggled for equal rights. Will they little harder for success. Those challenges really understand the struggle of African are what have assured me that I am Americans in this country? How can here for a purpose and really making they possibly appreciate these issues, not a difference in people’s lives. Those having had these experiences themselves?” challenges have caused me to push myself All of these questions floated through my to get better and to take risks. head as I stood there thinking about their development. Continued on page 77 October 2010 | Counseling Today | 5 New Releases From ACA! Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and diverse workforce; forming a productive alliance with the client; Interventions, Fifth Edition using assessment inventories and instruments; and developing CLIENTACTIONPLANSsPGS edited by David Capuzzi and Douglas R. Gross /RDER )3". This student-friendly introductory text ,IST0RICE ACA Member Price: $45.95 PROVIDESATHOROUGHOVERVIEWOFWIDELY used theories. 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