Mental Health News: Practical Free Download Counseling Skills Articles

Aug. 25, 2011 - PRLog -- The vision and philosophy of the College of Mental Health Counseling is to disseminate counseling skills and knowledge for the healing and health of individuals, couples, and families.

This report provides a summary of practical articles available as free downloads from the College website. To register for the practical online counseling skills course for the general public visit http://www.collegemhc.com

Common Issues In Marriage Counseling
Hands-on ways of healing problems of infidelity, time spent together, physical abuse, sexual intimacy, sharing household duties, child care, finances, and more.

How To Heal Childhood Abuse And Loss Of Parental Caring
The experience of loss of parental caring is the root cause of most difficulties in adult life and relationships. This short article goes to the heart of the matter and reveals the process of healing.

Effective Counseling Skills Sample
Counseling skills can benefit you in nearly all areas of your life and are easy to acquire. As you read this article you will discover how easy it is for you to learn these skills and how you can apply them in all your relationships.

Counseling For Depression And Anxiety
Depression can be caused by chemical changes in the body, physical illness, and different types of loss. Very often, depression and anxiety are the result of self-defeating life patterns that can be helped by incorporating caring self-talk and by supporting self-worth and assertiveness. We tend to do to ourselves and to others that which was done to us in childhood. Now as adults we must give to ourselves all the healthy things we needed from healthy parents. This article describes the practical self-healing process.

Steps To Making Peace In Relationships
A practical structured approach is detailed in a specific outline form that can be used to solve problems for the individual and for couples, families, and organizations. This safe method is easy to use and only requires all participants to be on board.

Healing The Pain Of Grief
This article gives details for moving through the three goals of grief counseling: 1) to identify and process the painful emotions of grief, 2) to identify unhealthy behaviors  related to the loss and adopt new healthy behaviors, and 3) to complete unfinished business and say goodbye in order to say hello.

These articles are adapted from the content of "Effective Counseling Skills" found in many academic and public libraries, and in digital and hard copy here http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Counseling-Skills-therape...

Daniel Keeran, MSW, has been a professional counselor and therapist for over 30 years. He has provided counseling and training to thousands of professionals and the public through his private practice and in hospital settings.

Watch this Practical Counseling Skills video from the author http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodrYDAo9xk



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