Dear Colleague:
Another year… and another decade. Now that’s hard to believe.
It seems like just yesterday that we were all anxious about the potential for a Y2K crisis. It is amazing how the pages of our lives journey so quickly! As a team, we marvel at God’s blessings on AACC over the last 10 years and [...]

by Eugene R. Schlesinger and Sam R. Williams, Ph.D.
Depression is a distressingly common problem in our contemporary setting. Advertisements for anti-depressant medications bear ample testimony to this reality. Statistically, one in four individuals will suffer its pain at some point in their lives. Because of the frequency and prominence of this problem it is incumbent [...]

If we look a little closer we will find many women in our counseling room using many different styles of self-medicating their pain and escaping their brokenness. Many common styles of pre-addictive denial are what I call “cocoon” comforters.

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Frank sat there, immobilized as he watched his three adult sons weeping and embracing their sister, Amy. His wife of 30 years sat next to him, crying. Frank’s questions whirled: “Do they think I’m a monster? Was my anger that bad?” Amy had severe anorexia.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Google’s Updated Email Security Change Does Not Make Online Counseling Secure: Majority of Online Counseling Clients and Counselors Risk Confidentiality Breach
eCounseling Therapists Must Adopt More Stringent Security Protocols to Ensure Client Confidentiality
Google recently updated Gmail’s security standards. Users of the webmail service will notice that Gmail’s default URL setting has changed from HTTP:// [...]

An old children’s rhyme says, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” While this playground quotation should be true, anyone involved in counseling knows it is rarely reality.

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by James and Lynelle Buchanan, M.S.
When it comes to the topic of depression, one must also discuss the difficult issue of anti-depressant medication. There are at least two major “camps” on the issue: those who believe that medication can and at times should be used, and those who believe that using medication is often a [...]

Today, I was sent a great email from Karen Sladick at www.Organize4Results.com regarding a success strategy for keeping goals in 2010.  It is an important reminder to keep goals that are attainable and measurable…Karen says, “How Are You Going To Keep Your 2010 Goals?
I’m not a believer in New Years resolutions. Why? Because most people [...]

Merry Christmas AACC family,
We want you all to know how much we have appreciated serving you in 2009 and look forward to serving you again next year.  Be on the lookout for many new resources to come!  We also want you to know that we appreciate your feedback and opinions regarding the services we provide.  [...]

Have you ever been hiking in the woods and come across a dark, murky pond? It’s back in the swampy area down the path a little ways, and it has that black oily liquid that just sits there. With the exception of some green seedlings that float on the surface of this quagmire, no signs [...]