Title: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Career Paths for Counselors

Presenters: Danielle Irving-Johnson, EdS; Kristen Gidel Kelly, MEd; Elizabeth A. Prosek, PhD; and Elizabeth E. Burgin, PhD

Description: This CE provides professional counselors with a video on the overview of education, credentials, and skills needed to gain employment in crisis intervention and to best serve the clients in need of crisis intervention services. Danielle Irving from the Center for Counseling Practice, Policy, and Research at the American Counseling Association, interviews Kristen Gidel Kelly, LPCC-S, LICDC, CTTS, Senior Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Suicide Prevention Team from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The article, ´Counseling Military Populations: A Content Analysis of Counseling Journals from 1998 to 2018’, by Prosek and Burgin (2020) is included to provide counselors with a rationale to know military population research trends within the counseling literature and understand suggestions for incorporating the philosophical principles of counseling into future research.

Title: Best Practice Guidelines for Publishing Rigorous Research in Counseling

Authors: Amanda L. Giordano, PhD; Michael K. Schmit, PhD; and Erika L. Schmit, PhD

Description: Best Practice Guidelines for Publishing Rigorous Research in Counseling (Giordano, Schmit, & Schmit, 2021) provides guidance for writing rigorous manuscripts for publications in counseling journals. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to understand the process of constructing a manuscript, identify essential components to include in various section of the empirical paper, and discuss aspects to consider while pursuing publication.

Title: Climate Change and Mental Health

Presenters: Debra Sturm, PhD and John P. Duggan, EdD

Description: Part 1: The climate crisis is not only a threat to physical health, but also to mental health. In this video, Dr. Debbie Stern discusses how the role of professional counselors is impacted by the need to address environment-related anxiety and trauma concerns within the therapeutic relationship.

Part 2: The climate crisis impacts professional counselors on both a professional and personal level. In this video, Dr. Debbie Stern describes the importance of advocacy and social justice for achieving environmental justice, and how professional counselors must determine their degree of engagement with this issue.

Part 3: Counseling ethics infuse every aspect of clinical practice, including how counselors respond to issues stemming from environmental concerns. In this video, Dr. Debbie Stern discusses some of the ways the ACA Code of Ethics can be applied to working with clients whose mental health has been impacted by climate change.