Articles

Dissecting Depression
Recognizing and Dealing with Depression
The weight of financial burdens combined with an increasingly tough economic state is enough to make anyone stressed. Mounting credit card debt, a failing housing market, a sharp decline in job security, and rising gas prices are just a few of the challenges that could attribute to stress and/or depression.
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Dying for a High
The “Choking Game” Epidemic
Adolescents have discovered a new way to get high for free. Nationwide, adolescents are ‘playing’ the “Choking Game” and using strangulation to achieve a high. While many youth consider the game to be a safe way to get high, increases in accidental deaths across the United States prove differently.
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IS WORKPLACE STRESS CONSUMING YOUR LIFE?
Tips for the Effective Management of Stress
Work and stress seem to go hand-in-hand. Contributing to workplace stress are extended work weeks, technological advances, and recent economic downturns. The physical, emotional, and psychological effects stress induces can negatively affect professional performance and personal relationships.
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Childhood Stress and Anxiety on the Rise
Tips for Helping Children Cope
Today, children and adolescents are required to manage increasing amounts of stress. Between pressures at school, hectic schedules full with various afterschool
commitments and coping with adult situations, children are commonly experiencing intense feelings of anxiety... Click here to read more.

Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents
White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
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Familial influences on the moral reasoning of adolescent first-time offenders
by Giunta, Stephen, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2002, 151 pages;
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Mediation or Litigation with Abusing or Neglectful Families: Emerging Roles for Mental Health Counselors
by Stephen Giunta, PhD.
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Podcasts

CAS029 - Custody Evaluation Interviewing w/ Dr. Stephen Guinta
Airdate 7/20/2006 - Runtime 37:33
Dr. Stephen Guinta speaks about his training and practice related to custody
evaluation interviewing with Dr. James Messina.

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CAS009 - An Historical Perspective on the field of Mental Health Counseling w/ Dr. James Messina
Airdate 3/2/2006 - Runtime 32:04
Dr. James Messina speaks about his history with the formation of mental health counseling as a licensed profession. Dr. Stephen Guinta dialogues with Dr. Messina about his role as co-founder of the American Mental Health Counseling Association and his efforts on behalf of professional counselor licensure.

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