Equipping Counselors to Become Forensic Mental Health Evaluators.pdf

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Laws related to emotional support animal (ESA) letters have evolved since NBFE published its first article published in December 2018.  Get updated by reading our article published in the Winter 2022 issue of the American Mental Health Counselors Association's The Advocate Magazine. 

Read the article online or download a PDF.

Please click here to access article. 

Dr. Norman Hoffman, President and Founder of NBFE, wrote an article entitled "First Person Singular: What Can We do to Stop the Growth of Mass Shootings?" published in AMHCA's The Advocate Magazine in August 2015.  Given recent events such as the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, we are reposting this article.  Click here to read it.    

Counseling Today, the official magazine of the American Counseling Association, published an article today authored by NBFE's Executive Director, Dr. Aaron Norton, providing mental health professionals with an update on changes in the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5-TR.  Click here to read it. 

NBFE's Executive Director and researchers from the University of South Florida and New York University published findings on the relationship between the political ideologies of clinical mental health counselors and their perceptions and treatment decisions related to client firearm storage at home in Psychotherapy and Politics International.  Access the full article here.  

NBFE's Executive Director, Dr. Aaron Norton, created a decision tool to help mental health professionals implement practice guidelines offered by national associations with respect to clients using medical cannabis in treatment, leading to interviews published in April 2022 and August 2022.  Click on the links below for more information:

Bray, B. (2022, April). The impact of legalized marijuana on professional counseling. Counseling Today, 64(10), 28-34.

Karlis, N. (2022, August 11). Yes, marijuana can be addictive — but it's not like other addictive drugs. Here's why. Salon.