http://www.aacc.net Nearly 50,000 Members and Growing Stronger Every Day! Fri, 09 May 2008 03:44:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (By Anthony Centore Ph.D.) All eCounselors provide some crisis counseling. Crisis situations are a common concern for eCounselors - and rightly so. To be ethical, counselors of all philosophies and practice settings need to handle these situations carefully. If you haven’t been concerned, consider that failures to make efforts to ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/08/ecounseling-clients-in-crisis/ No one likes to talk about sexual betrayal. Let me rephrase that. No one likes to talk about sexual betrayal when it happens to him or her. Not long ago, Debra Laaser experienced a wife’s worst nightmare. And today, she is ready to tell her story. And a well-told story it ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/08/book-review-shattered-vows-dabra-laaser/ Since AACC sponsored its official launch in November 2007, eCounseling.com has become the premier Christian counseling website on the Internet. The Best Christian Counseling Content Today eCounseling.com contains nearly 1000 Christian counseling articles (many taken from the award-winning Christian Counseling Today magazine), with over 100 easily searchable topics. Add to the article ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/08/ecounselingcom-update-first-quarter-2008/ n these days when counseling has gripped the popular psyche, pastoral care has been denigrated and devalued in favor of its big cousin…even by Christians. Yet this seems sad for pastoral care. Pastoral care should have been complemented rather than eclipsed by Christian counseling, with its qualifications and professionalism. There can be no doubt ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/06/the-place-and-importance-of-pastoral-care-2/ Although a book could easily be written on the subject of men counseling women, on a page or two it is necessary to get straight to the main dynamics of transference and countertransference in therapy. (And while I am not a Freudian or psychoanalytic therapist, I do believe that all ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/06/men-counseling-women/ Doctoring the body does not begin with the treatment of illness, but with the preventative maintenance of health. Knowing how to keep the body healthy requires that we understand what the body needs. What diet? What nutrients? So it is with doctoring the soul. What does the soul need? What nutrients? We ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/04/life-is-a-wedding-and-a-war-2/ In mid-February I was deathly sick, or so it felt. I’d been ill for three weeks with this season’s flu bug—feverish, nauseous, vomiting for a 24-hour stretch, with an intense, continuous headache, and a flaring pain throughout my body. I hated it. Sickness is so self-absorbing. I was always scanning my ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/04/sharing-his-suffering-and-choosing-his-way-memorializing-the-life-ethic-of-john-paul-ii/ A video by John Baker, founder of Celebration Recovery. Click here to watch the video http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/04/how-do-i-know-if-i-have-a-drinking-problem/ Greetings readers! I am very excited to write the first installment of a new column on eCounseling practice. We have only 500 words together each issue, so it will be a challenge for me to scribble something with both interest and take-home value. I am already wasting precious space; what ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/01/about-online-and-telephone-counseling-ecounseling/ Rapport may be the single most important aspect of a counseling relationship. It has been found to increase client interest, motivation, and comfort, all which contribute to clinical efficacy. But can rapport exist in an eCounseling relationship? Theorists Debate Early theorists held that online text communication (OTC) was insufficient for rapport development ... http://www.aacc.net/2008/05/01/rapport-in-the-online-counseling-relationship/