Title: Self-Care for the Counseling Profession

Presenters: John P. Duggan, EdD; Deneen Robin, PhD; Kevin Skiles; and Madelyn (Maddy) Buxton

Description: Self-care is an ethical responsibility shared by counselors across the entire span of their professional development, starting when they are student counselors and transitioning to new professionals and seasoned counselor educators and practitioners. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides graduate student counselors, new professionals, and counselor educators with a rationale to recognize the relevance of engaging in self-care, understand the implication of practicing self-care, and identify strategies for implementing self-care.