Instructors nor colleagues ever spoke to me . . . in a classroom, as a supervisor, one on one, or even in a text about therapists' mishaps and what to do about them. No one ever spoke about them being opportunities for learning and growth.
Instead, when errors were made, I was taught that they {...}
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Ethics
When Mental Health Professionals Mock Their Clients
"Fat . . . Borderline . . . Retard . . . ."
It is always shocking to me how easy it is for medical and mental health professionals to reduce their clients to less-than-desirable and less-than-accurate one dimensional labels behind closed doors.
I've heard excuses that range from minimizing {...}
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Online Resources For Evidence-Based Treatment In Counseling
Although I'm not a fan of "manualized" treatment of clients, according to professional standards of care and the American Counseling Association's Code of Ethics (Section C on Professional Responsibility), a professional counselor has a "responsibility to engage in counseling practices that are {...}
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What Should Happen In Your Consultation Group?
Now that you know that you need to engage in clinical consultation on a regular basis and you know how to put your own peer consultation group together, do you know what is supposed to happen during your meeting with your consultation group? You actually have lots of options but my point is that you {...}
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