Using an ecological perspective

1 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. 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 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.

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3 2013 Affinity Insurance Services, Inc. CT0213. Endorsed by: Counselor's Professional Liability Insurance Learn the value of having your own ACA-endorsed plan by visiting Counseling Today Counseling Today Cover Story April 2013. 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 30. 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 up while making the transition.

4 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 40. Emerging from the cave By Kim Johancen-Walt 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.

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6 Once an image is created, they then see previously unknown parts of themselves tangibly reflected back for 7 Executive Director's Message integration. I would also recommend movement as a mode of expres- sion as well. Thanks again for the great article.. 8 Letters to the Editor n Record number of military suicides begs questions about the path forward . Thank you for this exceptional article. I am a professional counsel- 46 CT Learning Test ing graduate student and also a member of the United States Army Reserve. After completing both active duty time and now as a reserv- 66 Division, Region & Branch News ist, I recognize the need for more mental health counseling in both the active duty side as well as the Reserve side. Soldiers are looking 68 Bulletin Board for answers and show so many signs/cries for help.

7 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 | | April 2013. From the President Counseling Today Counseling Today Staff Publisher Mentors matter! Richard Yep Associate Publisher Carol Neiman Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Rollins ext. 339. Bradley T. Erford Associate Editor and Senior Writer W. 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 ext.

8 320. influenced and nurtured or where I fit in. Today we joke that 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 ext. 307. in the public schools near Richmond, life. He was constantly super busy, but 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 ext. 377. at the University of Virginia (UVA). colleagues and friends. We served 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.

9 UVA editor of ACA's Journal of Counseling & Kathy Maguire and Penn State happened to be playing Development. I was thrilled, as were his each other that weekend in football, so I other mentees, when Skip was selected 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 Washington Update I remember asking Skip a decade ago an untenured assistant professor who had Scott Barstow about his secret to great mentoring. 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.

10 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, New Perspectives ACA. Ed once joked that that made him exceptional editor and dedicated servant Donjanea Fletcher Williams my grandmentor! 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.