ACAF Sponsored Newspaper Columns Continue To Grow

How do we educate the public about the counselors, the services they provide and the needs they meet? Building such public awareness has been an ongoing challenge for the counseling profession and it's one that the ACA Foundation has addressed in recent years through the sponsorship of a weekly newspaper column, "The Counseling Corner.".

Today, approximately 275 publications, reaching more than 10 million readers, carry this weekly ACA column offering advice and insight on a variety of issues related to the counseling profession. Recent columns have addressed issues such as coping with anger, improving parent-teen communications, helping elderly relatives, handling stress and similar issues related to modern life.

Through these columns the ACA Foundation is helping to make the general public more aware of the various services counselors provide and of the common issues and problems that signal that counseling help is needed. The columns have generated a number of positive comments from both readers and editors. At the latest count the columns were being carried by publications in 44 states, as well as in a number of Canadian newspapers.

Recent columns are available through the ACA website (www.counseling.org) at the Counseling Corner link in the Publications section.

Counselors across the country are invited to help with placement of these columns in their local papers (there is no cost or obligation to the editors or papers for the use of the columns). Editors or counselors can contact John Lough, coordinator for the Counseling Corner by email at counselingcorner@counseling.org for additional information.