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Counseling Links
Aging
An extremely comprehensive view of issues around aging and mental health.
This is another useful site and one that may be beneficial to your older clients.
This site will provide specifics for evaluation and prove as part
of work aging clients who face serious cognitive issues.
Bilingualism
Useful help in working with and understanding bilingual families.
No longer can we think about bilingual individuals as "disadvantaged." Evidence is now clear that those who master two languages are advantaged.
Cancer And Counseling
Experiencing cancer is a major trauma and virtually every who reads these words has had cancer, has known cancer in the family, or has friends who have had the disease. Links to cancer support groups and cancer information
Cancer Support Guides
Careers
This is a superb source for all university people. You'll enjoy their approach.
This is the premier commercial site. You will find it very
valuable to explore and understand their information. You will
learn and you will have a valuable resource for your clients.
This web page provides information about Internet resources to
students and individuals interested in developing a career plan
and exploring career options. This page is intended to provide
additional tools to students, career specialists, and individuals
interested in career resources. This page is not intended to
replace the job conducted by career professionals.
Children And Adolescents
The Emma Clark library has assembled a comprehensive set of links and references for work with children.
The National Institute of Mental Health Guide. You'll find it
highly detailed.
Community Counseling
Visit a community counseling center and see their many activities.
Here you will find a vast array of possibilities this is a searchable site.
Counseling And Psychotherapy Theories
Person-centered Counseling
Frankl's Logotherapy And Meaning Issues
A detailed summary of logotherapy and its many possibilities.
An amazing and important figure in counseling and psychotherapy.
A vast array of resources relating to meaning issues.
Decisional Counseling And Problem-solving Counseling
Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Brief Therapy And Solution-oriented Approaches
Psychodynamic Theory
Gestalt Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Feminist Therapy Guides
Integrative Therapy
Person-centered Counseling
Frankl's Logotherapy And Meaning Issues
A detailed summary of logotherapy and its many possibilities.
An amazing and important figure in counseling and psychotherapy.
A vast array of resources relating to meaning issues.
Decisional Counseling And Problem-solving Counseling
Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Brief Therapy And Solution-oriented Approaches
Psychodynamic Theory
Gestalt Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Feminist Therapy Guides
Integrative Therapy
Crisis And Trauma
A comprehensive view of issues of trauma.
Another comprehensive source of information.
Common reactions expected in clients who may be dealing with trauma.
Click for information on working with children on issues of crisis and trauma.
Helping children and adolescents deal with crisis.
Common reactions expected in clients who may be dealing with trauma.
Click for information on working with children on issues of crisis and trauma.
Training Manual for Mental Health and Human Service Workers in Major Disaster
The American Psychological Association provides some very helpful guidance for coping with extreme stress
Death And Dying
This is her personal site and you can gain a sense of her wisdom on many of life's personal issues.
Old age can be seen as a succession of losses, gradual or sudden. This can be helpful in counseling elders.
Disability
This carefully designed site is updated frequently and provides information on most types of disability. While developed in Singapore, it covers important sites throughout the world. Many would prefer that the title should be the "People with Disabilities Association", thus using current language. Perhaps by the time you reach this site, the name will have changed.
Ethics
Family Counseling And Therapy
Provide information and links to the family counseling profession.
Provide information and links to the family counseling profession.
You can generate your own family tree and search family history at this site.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints presents the premier site for serious genealogy searches.
If you are a US citizen your family were immigrants, important site may help you identify the specific ship and other information concerning their coming to the United States.
Key in the words family or family genealogy and you will find many useful links on Google.
Feminist Counseling And Women?s Issues
This Institute at Wellesley College has been central in the development of the self-in-relation, also known as "being-in-relation."
A good summary of a major contribution to theory in counseling and psychotherapy.
Exactly what it says. More links than you would think possible.
Gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered
Sexual Orientation & Youth:
A Primer for Principals, Educators and School Personnel
A comprehensive and concise summary. Very good for an introduction in this area.
An immense amount of information and seemingly endless links.
Health Psychology
Mediation
This is an exceptional site with comprehensive links to many related areas.
Stephen Marsh is a mediator in Dallas, Texas. He has developed a very valuable site including many essays on important topics.
Microskill Related Links
An excellent summary.
Reflection of feeling is an important part of active listening. You will find several useful exercises here that appear to be based on microskills history and research.
A superb site for all information on emotional experience. You can get definitions, practice ideas, information about neuropsychology and brain functioning, and many other issues.
Multicultural (general Links)
Useful information and links
What does it take to become multiculturally competent?
Provides resources and advocacy competences
"Culture Counts" U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher speaking at the 2001 APA Convention in San Francisco commented that racial and ethnic minorities face "striking disparities" in access to adequate mental health care. Visit this site for perhaps the most important statement ever on mental health issues and diversity.
Many resources covering multiple issues.
Neuroscience And Neuropsychology
There are several important and very readable articles on this site. They provide a solid introduction showing the relationship of physiology to the empathic process.
There are several important and very readable articles on this site. They provide a solid introduction showing the relationship of physiology to the empathic process.
A superb site showing us that counseling and therapy need to give much greater attention to the realtionship of exercise to mental health and brain functioning.
This includes a very good free video and you have students use the video as a supplement to your course.
Explores cognition and behavior as it relates to the concept of mind.
Nonverbal Communication
There are several interesting photos illustrating the ideas and research around nonverbal communication. There is good information on cultural difference as well.
Just about everything you'd want to know about nonverbal communication, but it will take some patience to work through the many links.
Race/ethnicity
"Culture Counts" U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher speaking at the 2001 APA Convention in San Francisco commented that racial and ethnic minorities face "striking disparities" in access to adequate mental health care. Visit this site for perhaps the most important statement ever on mental health issues and diversity.
An extensive list of sites for information on People of Color and the Muslim tradition follows.
African American
This site introduces African American resources, including a beginner's guide, slave data, state resources, worldwide resources, surname data, etc.
This site provides resources for African-American History, which include articles, poetry, and speeches of famous African-Americans.
This site, hosted by U.S. State Department's International Information Programs, includes documents, articles, Internet sites and other resources which honor and acknowledge the accomplishments of African-Americans.
Asian (asian American)
A wide-ranging list, invaluable for its links and conceptual foundations.
Asia Society, focusing on Asia-Pacific region, provides more than thirty countries broadly from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands. It presents the diverse materials and programs of Asia to students and teachers and the American people.
Hosted by Taipei Economic and Culture Office in New York, this site provides information about Republic of China on Taiwan, including Visa, events, news, culture, scholarly research, and links.
Hispanic/latino American
This site, a leading on-line forum for Latinos living in the USA, offers chat rooms, message boards and issues and links of interest to the Latino community.
This site, hosted by the Arizona State University, performs research on topics related to Hispanic and provides public service for Hispanics.
This is a WWW Virtual Library about Latin American studies, which covers resources from countries, economics, government to social, culture, and technology.
This is a radio journal of news and culture, the only national English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective, provides cultural resources and issues affecting Latinos for educators, students, and Latinos.
Site provides a variety of information regarding Latina/os in the US
Native American Indian
A highly sophisticated site with many links and extensive information about Native American Indians.
This site provide immense resources of Native American with links on Culture, History, Education, Language, Health, Indigenous Knowledge, a big collection of Native American Art.
Muslim Americans
Here you will obtain some key facts and background concerning Islamic religion.
This is a general site with many suggestions for working with racism and injustice. There is an excellent section of Muslim issue. Key in the word "Muslim" in their search engine.
Elijah Muhammad's comments on African Americans and the Islamic tradition.
Racism
One of the most challenging traumas to People of Color is to deal with racism.
An important site with a useful perspective
Visit this site and the pictures of an Auburn University fraternity. To many, this site will be shocking, but it shows clearly that racism is alive and well in this country.
Then, click on the extensive information available through Tolerance.
Religion/spirituality And Counseling
This search site will take you from Advaita Vedanta to Zoroastrianism. The references to spiritual resources are immense.
Social Class
There are those who believe the most troubling "ism" is that of social class and wealth. You will find the ideas on this site challenging.
Links and information about national and international poverty in its many guises.
Another challenging discussion of the distribution of goods in our society.
You will find a vast array of data on this problem, one to which counseling and therapy pay insufficient attention.
Suicide
This website is designed specifically for mental health professionals, substance abuse counselors, school counselors, primary care physicians, and psychiatric nurses, who are looking for information on the development of suicide prevention skills, crisis intervention skills, and advanced clinical interviewing skills.
Wellness
White Privilege
A site full of information, ideas, and exercises related to White privilege.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Links to this paper vary constantly. Please use your search engine to find this important article.
This the influential article that defined White privilege. As you read this article, you may also think about other forms of privilege, power, and dominance such as class privilege, male privilege, the dominant spiritual orientation privilege (e.g., Christian in the U.S. and much of Europe, Jewish in Israel, Muslim in the Middle-east, Hindu in India), and still other forms of power and dominance.