In recent years society is more open to the concept of accept gay marriage and parenting as a healthy‚ normal family structure. Critics of the model focus on the effects of gay families on children. Religion argues that it is unnatural for two same sex individuals to raise children as a family. Conservatives and traditionalists worry "gay genes" will be passed along blood lines or instilled in adoptive children. Still others wrongfully assume that homosexual parents are child molesters in the
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Online Therapy Paula Smith BSHS/352 August 27‚ 2012 Macie Smith Online Therapy Online therapy is a new form of receiving therapy. Online therapy is a different form of therapy then the typical face to face therapy one is use to. Interaction with online therapy happens through different forms of communication such as video chat‚ e-mail‚ and instant messaging. Security issues can happen with online therapy. State and professional associations review online therapy this paper will also address
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The Impact of History and Counseling Theories on Culturally Diverse Populations Michelle Harmolin Walden University There are many important factors a counselor must keep in mind when counseling clients from various and diverse cultural groups. Clients of these various and diverse cultural groups may find the counselors approach and overall treatment to be unsuccessful due to that the majority of American counselors are trained in the Western approach (Hayes‚ 2008). In order to prevent
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Behavior Therapy Behavior therapy is a short-term approach that has wide applicability. It emphasizes research into and assessment of the techniques used‚ thus providing accountability. Specific problems are identified and attacked‚ and clients are kept informed about the therapeutic process and about what gains are being made. The approach has demonstrated effectiveness in many areas of human functioning. The concepts and procedures are easily grasped. The therapist is an explicit reinforcer
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Counselor Interview Paper Jessica Peacock I plan on going into the School Counseling field‚ so for my interview I went to a long time family friend Kay Weems. Kay is a school counselor currently at Madison Station Elementary‚ but she has 19 years of experience at different levels of education in counseling and in different environments as well. She also was an elementary teacher for 10 years prior to becoming a school counselor. Kay went to school at Mississippi State and received a bachelor’s
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Background and Significance Outline PROBLEM STATEMENT: The current food system that exists for all people in the world needs to be more equitable. More focus needs to be placed on initiatives that are created in order to help create food justice‚ and specific focus on goals and execution of goals put in place to attempt in creating food justice. I will look to school food programs to illustrate program implementation that attempt to create food justice. PROBLEM: SOCIAL EQUITY AND FOOD JUSTICE
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Suehil Abdurrahman English 201 Literature Review Consanguineous Marriage Consanguineous marriage in clinical genetics is defined as a marriage between two related individuals. The individuals come from close kin or are second cousins exhibiting inbreeding coefficient higher or equal to 0.0156. Consanguinity is more prevalent amongst the world population residing in North Africa‚ West Asia‚ and Middle East‚ and among these communities’ emigrants who are currently residing in Australia‚ Europe
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most is Confidentiality. Confidentiality‚ which is equally important to a client’s right to privacy‚ is at the core of effective therapy; furthermore it is the counselor’s ethical duty to protect private client communication. As has been noted by Corey‚ Corey‚ Corey‚ & Callanan‚ (2014). AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION (2014). At the creation and throughout the counseling process‚ counselors inform clients of the limitations of confidentiality and seek to identify situations in which confidentiality
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the application of systemic family therapy to working with children. Family Therapy-defining concepts At first‚ family therapy was an experiment. In the post-World War II‚ many psychologists and psychiatrists strove to comprehend the multiple influences on human behaviour and adjustment. This is the common background of the biopsychosocial approach‚ the systemic approach‚ or family systems theory. Gurman‚ Kniskern‚ and Pinsof (1986) state that the ‘Family therapy may be defined as any psychotherapeutic
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The Fundamentals of Counseling course is designed to teach student counseling skills used in the helping process. The course included Fishbowl activities that depicted scenarios in the helping relationship of counseling and valuable information was received for improvement in future counseling sessions as a professional. The paper discusses the lessons learned about counseling techniques and fundamentals over the course. The strengths and weaknesses that the student possess as a counselor will be
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