Ottawa University Graduate Counseling Department

What a wonderful week hosting our MAC residency students! Great students and great food for today’s lunch!

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OUAZ #MannequinChallenge Ottawa University - Arizona campus - well done!!!

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This is a great resource!!!
http://www.nctsn.org/resources/public-awareness/human-trafficking

Human Trafficking Awareness Month (January 2014) | National Child Traumatic Stress Network -... In support of Human Trafficking Awareness Month, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is providing resources for mental health professionals, law enforcement personnel, health care professionals, and survivors on how to recognize signs of trafficking and provide services for human tra...

Look at the MAPC blackboard.
Next field placement workshop has been calendared

Gila River Behavioral Health is looking for:
(2) Expressive art therapists
(2) trauma therapists
(1) substance abuse therapist
The like Ottawa and would really like it if our folks applied for the positions.
Here is their website
http://www.gilariverrbha.org/

Gila River Regional Behavioral Health Authority

I have had a request from John C. Lincoln for counselors or interns that are bilingual Spanish speakers, if you would like to ask me questions about this my email is [email protected]

Student Testimonial - Neal:

PYC 8410 has been a class to teach me all the things that I don't know. I'm going to take this class as a catalyst for future study. I need get a better understanding of neurobiology and how development effects cognitive, physical, and emotional functioning. There is so much that children need to learn and internalize as they grow up, in order to effectively work with children it's essential to know how the child is developing. I feel the need to begin to prepare now and always to be an effective counselor. I'm taking from this class a greater understanding of the different parts of the brain and their function. I have also come to a greater respect for how challenging it is make the purposeful changes in our lives. In the end we learn what is intended to help us make changes. Knowing about development can help us encourage change. The key is to make sure that we are encouraging functional changes without dictating what those changes are. That really is the key, I know that I need to be much better at encouraging functional changes without passing judgment, through modeling we can be a model of stability. The key is to provide all the options and by allowing choices people begin to make changes. I hope that I can become a conduit through which people make functional changes, but the only way of doing that is getting out of my way and becoming fully present with those that I work with.

For more information about the Ottawa University Counseling Department and its degree program, visit our website at: http://ow.ly/mZDKg

Read Entitled Self-Hood: The Problems with Self-Love and Power Tactics, Part 2 of 2, by Professor Robert Rhoton. http://ow.ly/qdEW1. Overview: Society has become self-focused. Some might call the entitled self-selfish or self-centered. Begin to free one’s self from the tyranny of power tactics, ego, and the relational havoc they generate.

Read Entitled Self-Hood: The Problems with Self-Love and Power Tactics, Part 1 of 2, by Professor Robert Rhoton. http://ow.ly/q6u4N. Overview: The difficulty that many people run into in relationships IS that they are true to whom they have been and strongly love themselves. This self-love is expressed in an ego focused approach to life that leads to the exertion of power tactics in the place of relationships and defensive self-protective strategies to avoid true relationships of equality and intimacy.