Archive for November 4, 2009

Part II: Pets in practice: Can they really be co-therapists?

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
-Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )
As humans, I believe we often give ourselves a little too much credit, believing that only we, the superior species, can be helpful [...]

So Near and Yet so Far: The State of Cultural Competence Training

Cultural competencies- how far we’ve come! There are so many real and transforming learning experiences being shared within ACA- this is a truly amazing time in our evolution as a profession. Yet, I also wonder this- at what point do we transform multicultural training so that, outside of the multicultural counseling class that is standard [...]