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The continuum of self theory attempts to identify and quantify complex human relational behavior, offering possible insights into why people remain in bad relationships despite feeling lonely, frustrated and resentful.

The responsibility of providing documentation that would allow individuals to have an emotional support animal live with them should not be taken lightly.

As a counselor, which of the following elements are absolutely essential for you to do your job well?

What is the connection between ADHD and these other deficits?

When young children, ages 2 to 9, are experiencing emotional and behavioral problems, the usefulness of talk therapy is limited because they often cannot communicate effectively using words.

Working with individuals with sex offense convictions is a specialized area of counseling. There are also “specialties within the specialty” when factoring in the different venues for treatment.

Counselors-in-training are often encouraged to be aware of and discuss issues that they think would be difficult for them to address with clients in counseling.

Disasters are on the rise, including both human-made and natural disasters. To clarify, human-made disasters include terrorist acts, mass shootings, industrial errors and epidemics, whereas natural disasters involve events such as hurricanes...

The idea of countertransference — the counselor’s unconscious feelings that emerge as a result of working with the client — is most often attributed to Sigmund Freud

An integration of cognitive, existential, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives, Adlerian counseling theory is a holistic, phenomenological, socially oriented and teleological (goal-directed) approach to understanding and working with people.