­
Our Blog 2 - Deaf Counseling Center

Deaf Counseling Today

Blog

CHAT NOW Videophone: 240 380 2577   |   frontdesk@deafcounseling.com
Deaf Counseling Center
  • About
    • About the Center
    • Why Choose Us
  • Founders
  • Services
    • Our Approach
    • National Counseling Services
    • Accepted Insurance
    • Get Started
    • Payment & Donations
    • Counseling Topics
    • FAQs
    • Assessments
    • Client Forms
    • Emergency Services
  • Resources
    • Deafhood
    • Links
    • Books
    • Films
  • Blog
  • Contact
    • Get in Touch
    • Join Our Team
    • Search the Site
22
Jun
2006

Who Decides What is Normal and What is Not?

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Books, Psychology

The Big Book: Following up on this week’s earlier postings on labeling, today we thought we’d take a look at the DSM, the hefty 943-page widely used Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM is used by mental health professionals as a diagnostic tool. Every mental disorder, from autism to depression to …

Read More
21
Jun
2006

Label Jars, Not People

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Counseling, Language

What’s in a label?: Labels are everywhere. We label people by gender, race, sexual orientation, body size, personality, politics, and so on. With every label comes an image, and with this image comes a prescribed set of behaviors. Girls should be polite and follow the rules; boys have lots of energy and sometimes can’t help their unruliness. People with bodies …

Read More
20
Jun
2006

Intersex and Cochlear Implant Surgeries

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Children, Counseling, Gender

What Do Intersex and Cochlear Implant Surgeries Have in Common? Last summer we had a learning experience when we attended the American Psychological Association’s annual conference and found ourselves in the audience of an intersex workshop. Intersex refers to certain conditions that occur when someone is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to meet society’s expectations …

Read More
19
Jun
2006

Majority Privileges

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Audism, Books

Identity and Privilege: Understanding White Privilege is a book that has made us think a lot about our own privileges and power as white people. Like the author says, white people don’t often realize how much we take for granted, how easy it is to overlook what it means to be white. We basically assume, for example, that the people …

Read More
16
Jun
2006

Cotton Balls in Ears

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Psychology

A Desire to be Deaf: Here is an interesting case of a hearing woman with such a compelling desire to be Deaf that she resorted to putting cotton balls soaked in oil into her ears. See the article. In this case, the woman experienced negative reactions to sounds and reported feeling so much more “at home” in the Deaf community, …

Read More
15
Jun
2006

Jumping Through Hoops Part II

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Audism, Counseling

What Does “Qualified” Mean Anyway?: Yesterday’s post brings us to another gripe with insurance companies and their in-network lists. When therapists decide to join a company’s in-network list, they fill out a stack of papers, listing their background, specialties, qualifications, etc. There is usually a list of languages that you can check off, to indicate your “fluency” in any number …

Read More
14
Jun
2006

Jumping Through Hoops with Insurance Companies

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Audism, Counseling

An Unfair Practice: Another day, another round of emails with an insurance company, trying to get an authorization for a prospective client’s psychotherapy sessions. This insurance company, like most insurance companies, is clueless when it comes to providing services to its Deaf members. Because the company doesn’t have any qualifed in-network therapists that the Deaf client can see, the client …

Read More
13
Jun
2006

Anxiety: Does It Keep You from Seeing Happy Faces?

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Perception, Psychology, Research

Happy Faces: A study that shows that the more anxiety people have, the more difficult it is for them to recognize happy faces. This makes sense because anxiety influences how we view the world and others. Keeping our anxiety to a minimum is healthier for us both emotionally and physically. Being able to recognize happy faces is just one small …

Read More
12
Jun
2006

Implicit Associations

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Audism, Psychology, Videos

The Stoop Effect in Our Daily Lives: Thinking about interference (see Stroop Effect post on June 9th) and what it really means for us in our everyday lives. Jules made a good point in the comments section, noting that it can be hard to look past our first impressions sometimes and that we often need to remind ourselves to pay …

Read More
9
Jun
2006

Interference: The Stroop Effect

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Psychology

Don’t read the words on the right–just say the colors they’re printed in, and do this aloud as fast as you can. You’re in for a surprise! If you’re like most people, your first inclination was to read the words, ‘red, yellow, green…,’ rather than the colors they’re printed in, ‘blue, green, red…’ You’ve just experienced interference. When you look …

Read More
  • 1
  • …
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26

Contact Us

Start the conversation

frontdesk@deafcounseling.com Text: 240 701 5155 Videophone: 240 380 2577 Fax: 301 493 6044

For a faster response, it is best to EMAIL.

If you are in a crisis or any other person may be in danger – do NOT use this site. Call 911 or text, call or chat 988 (National Suicide & Crisis Center) or use these resources which can provide you with immediate help.

    Copyright © 2024 Alternative Solutions Center, Inc. All rights reserved.
    Videophone: 240 380 2577 | frontdesk@deafcounseling.com