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.COUNSELING HEADLINES
American Counseling Association Announces First New CEO in 23 Years
 After a nationwide search, the American Counseling Association (ACA) announced that Shawn E. Boynes, CAE, FASAE is the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective July 20, 2022. Boynes will succeed Richard Yep, CAE, FASAE, ACA's CEO of 23 years.
The tenth chief staff officer in ACA's 70-year history, Boynes is ACA's first African American CEO and second CEO of color. A recognized leader in the association community, he is an active member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), sits on the Certified Association Executive Commission, and served on ASAE's Board of Directors for three years.
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Clients rely on telehealth to access critical mental health services. The TeleMental Health Training Certificate (THTC) is an evidence-based, comprehensive training that prepares counselors to provide telehealth services while remaining ethically and legally compliant. Register for the self-study to earn your THTC today! (15.5 CE)
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Study of Justice-Involved Teens Supports Use of Online Interventions Post-COVID
ACA Publications
 With the post-pandemic return to in-person education, some may be wondering whether online counseling or psychoeducation programs should continue — particularly in mandatory-treatment settings. A study in the Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling focused on teens who completed a mandatory anger management program, which had been modified for online use, during COVID-19. About half of the 88 adolescents, who were all under community supervision in Texas, were on probation for some form of assault. After completing the online program — and regardless of gender, ethnicity or grade level — the teens showed statistically significant decreases on an anger rating scale, with promising findings regarding recidivism as well. The researchers suggest that clinicians should consider cost, accessibility and other advantages of continuing to offer remote learning modules as an option in both agency and private-practice settings, despite relaxation of COVID-19 safety measures.
Note: Full-text content from JAOC is free to International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors members by logging into the ACA website and available on pay-per-view to nonmembers.
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Mental Health Access: Your Voice Matters and Your Help Is Needed Today
 We're getting closer with each message you send to your member of Congress! The Mental Health Access Improvement Act now has 25 of the 50 U.S. senators as co-sponsors. But ... we still need more members of Congress to co-sponsor S. 828/H.R. 432 to support Medicare reimbursement for licensed professional counselors. Your voices on Capitol Hill go a long way! Take action today and let your representatives know that the Mental Health Access Improvement Act will help close the mental health provider gap using ACA's Take Action Center.
We would also encourage you to join us at ACA's 2022 Virtual Hill Day, which will be held Wednesday, June 15, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Eastern). Attendees will be provided with advocacy resources and gain an opportunity to speak directly with congressional leaders on issues affecting the counseling community. Registration will go live on May 16. Please visit counseling.org to register.
For questions, please reach out to the Government Affairs and Public Policy team by email at advocacy@counseling.org.
We hope to see you soon!
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NFL Players Association Seeking Mental Health Professionals
The NFL Players Association is seeking to build an exclusive list of professionals who provide world-class service to active and former players as well as their households. While we are happy to accept applications from any location, we are specifically looking in the following areas: Arizona, Colorado, Florida (Jacksonville and Miami), Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York (Buffalo), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), Ohio, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin.
All applicants MUST have five (5) years of relevant clinical experience post-independent licensure. We are looking for solid clinicians, first and foremost, though experience with elite and professional athletes is desirable. If you are interested, please submit an application. Also, please feel free to forward this correspondence to anyone else who is qualified and may be interested in this opportunity.
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.INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Mental Health Hygiene Can Improve Mood, Decrease Stress
Stanford University
For most people, the concept of hygiene conjures up images of brushing your teeth, applying deodorant or taking a shower: simple, daily practices to keep your body clean and healthy. However, mental health providers say your mind can also benefit from a quick morning tuneup. Spending even 15 minutes on mental health hygiene each day can bring a host of benefits, from improved mood and better relationships to even deeper concentration and enhanced creativity.
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Living With Night Terrors and Daymares
Psychology Today
Bruce Bauman writes: Three weeks ago, I awoke from a screaming nightmare that my wife Suzan said was as loud and petrifying as any she's heard during our 30 years together. I do not need to read my diary filled with hundreds of dreams and nightmares to replay the turbulent sounds I emit during my nocturnal inner life, even if I don't always remember the content.
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Newport Healthcare’s Dr. Michael Roeske, PsyD discusses the apparent changes in American adolescent mental health and how they arguably relate to sociohistorical shifts. While divergent, all of these factors impact caretakers’ and adolescents’ biological imperative to seek connection and to achieve physical, emotional, and existential/spiritual well-being.
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Same-Race Friends Help Teens Connect to School
Cornell University
In diverse schools, friends of the same race or ethnicity are influential in shaping teenagers' sense of belonging, finds new research by a multidisciplinary team including Cornell's Adam Hoffman, an expert in psychology and human development. Though "same-ethnic" friends exert more influence, the researchers found other friends also contribute to how connected to school adolescents feel — a key indicator of teens' well-being.
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Power Diary now includes a complete Health Practice Operations Manual, a new in-platform feature available exclusively to all Power Diary customers! Developed by a team with over 50 years of industry experience, this game-changing feature provides a set of policies and procedures that practices can configure to meet their businesses' needs, set standards for the workplace, and maintain professional operations. So, whether you're running a solo practice or managing a larger health clinic, Power Diary’s practice management software takes care of business so you can take care of your clients.
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Nurses Crucial to Detecting Postpartum Depression in New Mothers
UPI
Nurses can be trained to detect postpartum depression in new mothers and could be crucial in spotting the condition early, researchers report. Postpartum depression affects about 15% of new moms and can cause persistent sadness, fatigue, feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness, and trouble sleeping or eating. Some women with the condition struggle to care for their baby.
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How to Resist People Who Manipulate Nicely
Psychology Today
Manipulation shows itself in different ways, ranging from flattery to bullying. This article focuses on people who manipulate nicely. They do not directly threaten, but they do coerce by questioning one's character, ignoring boundaries, encouraging guilt and overlaying their own version of reality on others.
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You're Not Broken: The Mental Health Effects of Infertility
PsychCentral
Andrea Rice writes: For most of my life, I didn't give the prospect of motherhood much thought. My mother wasn't around very much, which means that I don't understand — or remember — the primal connection of a mother-child bond. The word "mother" used to make me sad and angry, but when I think of what "mother" means to me now, all that comes to mind is "unknown."
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Motivo connects therapists with experienced clinical supervisors from the beginning to end of the licensure process. We are on a mission to increase the number of licensed clinicians by providing accessible, affordable supervision in a completely virtual environment. Visit motivohealth.com to learn more.
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Analysis: Seeking Balance in the Hyperactive Mental Health Tech Market
HIT Consultant
The prevalence of mental and behavioral health conditions has been on the rise in recent decades, further aggravated by the pandemic in the last two years. Social isolation, grief from the loss of loved ones, fear of contracting the virus and financial worries were all major stress factors that increasingly affected the mental well-being of the population, and the resulting statistics are startling.
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5 Indicators to Find Effective Digital Mental Health Solutions and Avoid Work Burnout
Forbes
May is Mental Health Awareness month. If you're like most American workers, you've had job stress at some point. However, when it's cumulative and chronic, it leads to burnout. According to research from Indeed in 2021, 52% of employees said they were burned out. Those who worked virtually were more likely to say burnout worsened over the course of the pandemic than those working on-site.
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Young People and Eco-Anxiety
JSTOR Daily
As coverage of Earth's climate emergency increases, so does a worrying side effect — anxiety. Eco-anxiety, specifically, is described by the American Psychology Association as "the chronic fear of environmental cataclysm that comes from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change and the associated concern for one's future and that of next generations."
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