A collection of professional essays on counseling related topics.
 Harm Reduction
Tips |
These are simple suggestions to assist individuals in making changes in their drinking and smoking behaviors. |
 Student Blogs: Virtual Communities of Menus for Predators? |
Student blogs like the Facebook.com may present the potential to significantly affect the personal lives of today’s collegians, just not necessarily in the ways they intend or may be expecting. |
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Choosing
Our Language Carefully |
A look at the importance of language as we communicate about alcohol and other drug related issues with contemporary college students. |
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Medical
Amnesty |
A look at Medical Amnesty or "good Samaritan" policies...are they professional enabling or indicated prevention? |
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Groundhog
Day |
Stubborn high-risk drinking rates: The "Groundhog Day" explanation |
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On-Campus
Taverns |
A look at the pros and cons of opening an on-campus tavern. |
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Addressing
Campus Substance Use Problems: Does One Size Fit All? |
A look at the importance of an integrated approach to addressing substance use problems on campus, employing both the ecological and environmental models for changing the campus drinking culture. |
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Faith or Why Bad
Things Happen to Good People |
A perspective from which counselors can approach clients that are having a difficult time accepting difficult times. |
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What Makes Counseling Different From Other Human Services? |
A look at professional counseling in order to explore how its benefits differ from the those proffered by practitioners of other human services. |
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The Significance of the Clinical Relationship in Client Growth |
A look at the importance of the clinical relationship in delivering effective counseling. Particular attention is given to Motivational Interviewing and the client's sense of self-efficacy. |
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Information Processing and Attribution Errors:Potential Problems For the
Counselor Treating Addictive Disorders |
A look at the role counselors may play in orchestrating client resistance to treatment. |
| Hardening
of the Attitudes |
A review of the common denominators used by student affairs professionals to avoid burnout and personal frustrations work in higher education |
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The Dilemma-Resolution Continuum |
A proposed paradigm shift from the traditional problem-solution continuum in counseling to a dilemma-resolution continuum: A Post-Modern consideration of counseling objectives. |
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Spirituality in the Treatment of Alcoholism |
A consideration of spirituality as "worldview" and therefore an important aspect of effective alcoholism counseling |
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Message in a Bottle |
A letter found in a bottle on the beach in Nags Head, NC from a suffering recovering addict and my response published in "Recovery Times." |
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Preventing Burnout When Working With Substance Abusers |
A consideration of why burnout may occur and how to prevent it. |
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Alcohol and Collegiate Life |
A literature review and introduction to my dissertation, "When They Drink: Student Perspectives on Alcohol, Drinking, and Collegiate Life." |
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Parental notification |
A look at parental notification as a tool in addressing high-risk collegiate drinking. |
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Letter to the editor of "About Campus |
A review of the controversy regarding the term "binge drinking." |
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A Tripartite Model of Counseling |
A brief review of an "integrative" or eclectic model of counseling. |
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The significance of the clinical relationship in client growth: Which came
first, the Chicken or the egg? |
An argument for the primacy of the relationship in effective counseling and therapy. |
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Cultural Bias in Alcoholism Counseling |
A consideration of how cultural issues may well explain much of what is viewed as "denial" by alcoholism counselors who work with the culturally different. |
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A Belly Full of Beer: Another Look at Drinking, Hazing, and Collegiate Life |
A look at the phenomena of "just world hypothesis" and "groupthink" as possible explanations for hazining and alcohol poisoning. |
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Billy Joel: Professional Counselor? |
A review of Billy Joel's "River of Dreams" album and consideration of its lyrics as tools for the professional counselor. |
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Language as a Counseling Tool |
A look at how the language counselors employ plays an important role in teaching clients about alcohol and other drugs. |
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Bram Stoker's Dracula |
A consideration of Stoker's book and Coppola's film as a metaphor for alcoholism/addiction, including a link to a virtual copy of Stoker's original text. |
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Home for the Hellidays |
A look at collegiate students who return to a dysfunctional family at Thanksgiving/Christmas break. |
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Beer, Booze, and Behavior |
A review of the literature regarding the correlation between alcohol consumption and behavior. |
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The Myth of Amethyst |
A tongue-in-cheek look at the Roman myth of Amethyst and its implications for solving the problem of collegiate alcohol abuse. |
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Travelogue |
My thoughts and comments regarding alcohol and other drug use following a brief trip to the Netherlands in December of 1996 |
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Writing as a counseling skill |
A consideration of the importance of writing as a counseling skill and argument for its inclusing in the training of counselors. |
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ACoA's |
An argument that the ACoA acronym should stand for adult children of "alcoholism." |
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A Different Christmas Carol - 1997 |
A look at Christmas, specifically, and living in general, and what these mean to the author. |
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A Counselor's Holiday Wish - 1998 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
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A Counselor's Holiday Greeting - 1999 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
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A Counselor's Holiday Greeting - 2000 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
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A Counselor's Holiday Wish-2001 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
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A Counselor's Holiday Wish-2002 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
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A Counselor's Holiday Wish-2003 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
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Counselor's Holiday Wish-2004 |
The author's annual holiday message. |
