How much should you be reading?

If you enjoyed reading then counseling is definitely a career for you ( because you will be doing a lot of it). Even after you've achieved your masters degree and you're in your registered internship phase you should be reading. However, how much should you be reading?

Respectfully you should be reading at least one journal a week or three chapters of a book on something in  counseling. Even though you don't have your license yet and you're not required to get continuing education credits to maintain your license you should still be keeping current. This is a part of your professional ethics and something that you must maintain in order to remain a competent therapist.

You owe this not only to yourself but you also owe this to your clients. However to make things easier on yourself you can alternate the topics that you read. And example being for every journal or book that you read that is on a topic that you don't really care for ; you can offset the boredom and sleepiness that you may encounter be reading a chapter of something that dose interest you.

Issues in counselor Development: Doubt and client honesty

Best place for apa formatting

As many of you already know all of our papers have been in the APA format. APA stands for American Psychological Association. and the format is a specific way to organize as well as write your references in a paper or journal.

Many of you who are past your master's degree or even your bachelor's degree will know of this site already.  The owl at Purdue is the next next thing to having the spa Manuel itself and its free. Below is the link that will connect you to this website.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Weel of fortune

This item is also available on Amazon and it a great sedative to groups where you want to ask questions, give out prizes, present scenarios to discuss.

It can be attached to any white board or metallic service as it has 2 powerful magnets on the back.

You can buy it here for 34 dollars at
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Business Cards

Beach ball ice breaker

This is a great ice breaker exercise for groups of any age and/ or from any population.

Simply put all you need is a beach ball and a marker. In my case I also needed tape because the beach ball I had was waaay to dark to write on.

Anyway, after you have your items you just need to determine what sort of ice breaker/mental health questions do you want to ask.

Totika

This is an individual and or group of atoms that is very useful in interactive. I've used it with children adults and teenagers all from diverse populations with great success. it basically works like a Jenga game. however each of the wooden blocks is a different color and each of these colors corresponds to a question on one of the sets of cards.

Each of these sets of cards has a theme. Here are some examples of the themes offered: self esteem, ice breakers, life skills and many more. If you follow the link below you can buy one of your very own on Amazon 52 dollars.

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