Practice Briefs

Approximately 57 million people (20% of the total population) in the United States report having one or more disabilities, and as people age, the prevalence of disabilities becomes higher.

Although there are numerous definitions for the term rural, most often, rural encompasses the geographic and population particulars not accounted for when defining urban (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012).

The American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2013) defines an intellectual disability (ID) as a disorder that begins during early development and is characterized by intellectual and adaptive functioning deficits.

Historically, sexual health has been primarily considered with respect to physiological well-being and from the aspect of adverse health outcomes (e.g., HIV/AIDs, sexual abuse; Anderson, 2013; Burnes, Singh, & Witherspoon, 2017).

BDSM is an overlapping acronym that includes bondage and discipline (BD), dominance and submission (DS), and sadism and masochism (SM).

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ)-affirmative counseling embraces and validates clients’ diverse sexual and gender identities and proactively addresses the impact of heterosexism and transgender...

Sue et al. (2007) described racial microaggressions as ‘‘brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights...