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Using an Ecological Perspective Using an ecological perspective Also inside: n Transitioning successfully into retirement n Reflecting “as if” with diverse populations n Drawing clients out of avoidant behaviors n Counseling students after sexual assault CT0213_CT0213 11/29/12 4:30 PM Page 1 Counseling Today Alleged unprofessional conduct and inappropriate treatment – lead to a malpractice suit. The client, a 51-year-old woman uses her email correspondence with the counselor to mount a formidable legal case, suing for $500,000 in damages. Read the details of this case study and how coverage through HPSO responded to protect our insured counselor at www.hpso.com/ct2 This program is underwritten by American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, a CNA company, and is offered through the Healthcare Providers Service Organization Purchasing Group. Coverages, rates and limits may differ or may not be available in all states. 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CT0213 Endorsed by: Counselor’s Professional Liability Insurance Learn the value of having your own ACA-endorsed plan by visiting www.hpso.com/ct2 Counseling Today Counseling TodayApril 2013 Cover Story 30 Building a more complete client picture By Lynne Shallcross An ecological perspective in counseling involves identifying how a client’s environment affects his or her well-being and development, and using interventions that move beyond exclusive focus on the individual. Features 40 Life without an alarm clock By Stacy Notaras Murphy On the surface, retirement looks like paradise, but unless counselors are prepared to redefine themselves and make new connections, even they can get tripped 30 up while making the transition. 48 Knowledge Share Reflecting ‘as if’ By Richard E. Watts This brief, encouragement-focused counseling process integrates Adlerian and constructive theory and practice perspectives and can be useful for work with diverse populations in a variety of settings. 54 Reader Viewpoint Emerging from the cave By Kim Johancen-Walt 40 It is human nature to withdraw for a time when wounded, but clients who engage in long-term avoidant behavior run the risk of amplifying their pain and creating larger problems. 58 Reader Viewpoint After an assault By Margaret Edwards & Charlotte Chapman Consider following these first-session do’s and don’ts when counseling college students who have experienced a sexual trauma. Extras 62 McDonald, Nodar earn recognition in ACA Foundation essay contest focused on the future of the profession 48 64 FY 2013 Election Results April 2013 | Counseling Today | 3 CounselingCounseling TodayToday April 2013 Columns 10 Washington Update 11 The Two-Minute Advocate 12 Through a Glass Darkly 16 New Perspectives 18 Private Practice Strategies 20 Recent Book Releases 24 Risk Management for Counselors 26 The Digital Psyway Join the conversation online 29 Counselor Career Stories Here’s what your colleagues have been saying about articles they have read on Counseling Today’s website at ct.counseling.org. n “Q&A with Brandon Ballantyne: From aspiring tornado chaser to counseling teens” Need to Know “Creative approaches such as the ones you shared meet kids where they are. They are so powerful in helping young clients express feel- 5 From the President ings in ways words cannot touch. 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Those trained to recognize and identify need to be more accessible and on the ‘home front’ ready to support and educate …” n “Bully pulpit” “I am so glad that the Counseling Today article was written. This is an issue that no matter how much exposure it receives, those in charge of the schools more often than not do not know how to appropriately respond. My hope [is that] in the future we can instill in youth the necessary levels of empathy that would reduce this situation.” 4 | ct.counseling.org | April 2013 From the President Counseling Today Counseling Today Staff Publisher Counseling Today Richard Yep Mentors matter! Associate Publisher Carol Neiman Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Rollins 800.347.6647 ext. 339 Bradley T. Erford [email protected] Associate Editor and Senior Writer e owe so much to those ideas about the way things were or should Lynne Shallcross who have supported, be, and I didn’t always see the big picture 800.347.6647 ext. 320 Winfluenced and nurtured or where I fit in. Today we joke that [email protected] our development as professionals and Skip learned everything he knows about Staff Writer people. After completing a master’s advising from me — mainly, what not Heather Rudow degree in school psychology and working to do. I still hope I didn’t scar him for 800.347.6647 ext. 307 in the public schools near Richmond, life. He was constantly super busy, but [email protected] Va., in a hybrid role of school counselor/ he always took the time to understand, Senior Graphic Designer psychologist, I decided to pursue my converse and care. Carlos J. Soto II doctoral degree in counselor education Skip and I have since become good 800.347.6647 ext. 377 at the University of Virginia (UVA). colleagues and friends. We served [email protected] I still remember the day I walked up together on the American Counseling the hallway for my initial advising Association Governing Council a few Contributing Writer appointment with a brand new faculty years ago, and I was honored to put Stacy Notaras Murphy member just out of his own doctoral forth the motion that he be appointed Advertising Representative program at Penn State University. UVA editor of ACA’s Journal of Counseling & Kathy Maguire and Penn State happened to be playing Development. I was thrilled, as were his 607.662.4451 each other that weekend in football, so I other mentees, when Skip was selected [email protected] wasn’t sure what to expect when I saw a to receive mentoring awards from both sign on this faculty member’s door that ACA and the Association for Counselor CT Column Editors read “Go Nittany Lions.” Openly rooting Education and Supervision. for the rival was a pretty bold move for I remember asking Skip a decade ago Washington Update an untenured assistant professor who had about his secret to great mentoring. Scott Barstow been at UVA only a few weeks. I took a He told me, “There is no secret. Good Counselor Career Stories deep breath, walked through the doorway mentoring begets good mentoring.” You Rebecca Daniel-Burke … and my life changed forever. see, Skip was mentored by counseling Danielle Irving Skip Niles is everything you could legend Edwin Herr, distinguished Private Practice Strategies hope for in a mentor. Nurturing, professor emeritus at Penn State Anthony Centore understanding and humorous, he is University and a former president of a dynamic teacher, prolific scholar, ACA. Ed once joked that that made him New Perspectives exceptional editor and dedicated servant my grandmentor! Donjanea Fletcher Williams of the counseling profession. I was his I first met Ed more than a decade ago The Digital Psyway very first doctoral advisee and the first when he insisted on holding the door for Marty Jencius doctoral graduate he was supposed to me at the ACA convention in Anaheim Learning Curve: Notes From a Novice “hood.” I don’t think he ever forgave me — even though I am nearly 30 years his Suze Hirsh for blowing off the hooding ceremony at junior. Recognizing each other’s names, Through a Glass Darkly the UVA Rotunda! we sat inside that door and talked for I wasn’t easy to mentor. Like many an hour. I could feel myself growing Shannon Hodges graduate students, I was working full professionally and personally in his Risk Management for Counselors time in the school system, taking classes, presence. I have learned most everything Anne Marie “Nancy” Wheeler seeing clients in private practice in the evenings and raising a family. I had my Continued on page 67 April 2013 | Counseling Today | 5 HotHot OffOff thethe PressPress FromFrom ACA!ACA! Assessment in Counseling: A Guide to the Use Multicultural Issues in Counseling: New of Psychological Assessment Procedures, Approaches to Diversity, Fourth Edition Fifth Edition edited by Courtland C. Lee Danica G. Hays The latest edition of this widely adopted, seminal text provides direction for culturally competent Now more user-friendly than ever, while practice with diverse client groups in a variety of continuing the legacy of excellence that Albert Hood settings.
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