The Art of Mentoring
The dictionary defines a mentor as “a trusted counselor or guide” (Merriam-Webster, 2018). We have all been influenced by mentors in our…
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The Need for Cross-Cultural Counseling in Addiction Treatment
The new push for addiction counselors these days is to be client centered. This means a focus on compassion, collaboration, and especially…
Change: The Only Constant
Longtime readers of Counselor will recognize that we are smaller, down from sixty-four pages to forty-eight pages. Let me assure you that…
Prescription Drug Misuse and Addiction, Part I: An Overview of the Problem
This first article discusses the problem of prescription drug misuse and addiction. It reviews signs and symptoms, reasons for using these drugs,…
Embracing the Quality of Patience, Part II
This is the final installment in a two-column series focusing on embracing the quality of patience in enhancing both the successfulness and…