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According to a joint statement by the US National Academy of Sciences and the UK Royal Society, it is now more certain than ever that human activity is a leading cause of rapid, accelerated climate change. Our volatile anesthetics have up to 2,000 times more greenhouse gas contributing potential than the same amount of carbon dioxide, yet no emission regulations have been imposed. The carbon footprint of volatile agents exists in all anesthesia practices, indirectly affecting all humans. It manifests daily in the clinical practice of over 30,000 certified registered nurse anesthetists in the United States, as their anesthetic choices directly impact the environment. However, education about anesthetic choice and its impact has been overlooked, making many anesthesia providers unaware of meaningful ways to reduce ecological and economic costs. Decreasing the use of volatile agents by low-flow techniques and the use of a total intravenous anesthetic could dramatically reduce carbon footprint produced by anesthesia. The authors review other advantages of limiting or avoiding volatile agents beyond green anesthesia such as decreased costs, reduced postoperative nausea and vomiting, and lowering the risk of malignant hyperthermia.

This article explores the development of college athletics as a cultural phenomenon and highlights some of the problems that have evolved. Implications for college counselors are discussed, including the recommendation that they assist student-athletes to achieve a more rewarding balance between athletics and academics.

A former editor (A. S. McGowan) of The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, currently the editor of the Journal of Counseling & Development, and the current editor (M. B. Scholl) present strategies and guidelines for prospective authors to enhance the chance of successful publication in this and other American Counseling Association--refereed journals. This article is an updated version of one that was written by A. S. McGowan and that appeared in 1997 in the Journal of Humanistic Education and Development. ********** Getting published is a great joy that generally is preceded by hard work and frustration for both the neophyte author and the established scholar. Although the process of becoming published can be harrowing and exasperating, it is also a rewarding one, from the development of an idea to its appearance in print. The goal of seeing a work published is achievable if the author possesses most, if not all, of the following characteristics, abilities, and attitudes: writing competency; self-discipline regarding a writing regime; strong scholarly and theoretical foundations underlying the research of the professional ideas being proposed or advanced; ability to create and present practical counseling strategies that work in the field; willingness to accept constructive criticism from peer reviewers and editors; and stamina, strength, and patience to persevere in the face of criticism. Thompson (1995) offered the following perspective on successful publishing efforts: The most productive scholars are (sometimes) distinguished by extraordinary intellect, but some are primarily distinguished by willingness to be systematic and persistent. Success in publishing requires a willingness to tolerate rejection and a willingness to learn from it. Success also will sometimes occur primarily by luck. (p. 342) Although we agree that luck can play a part in getting published, we believe that luck happens only when it meets with preparation and competency. The determined author who has at least the vestiges of a viable manuscript that contributes to the scholarly base of the profession can get it published. As published researchers and authors, we know what it is like to have hopes temporarily dashed by a suggestion to "rewrite and resubmit" of to be rejected after having spent months and weeks on a particular research project or article. We know how disappointing it can be to wait expectantly and hopefully for 2 or 3 months for a response and then receive one of those messages. In truth, when that happened to us, we felt like an autopsy had been performed on the body and soul of manuscripts that we had been certain were of sterling quality. In such instances, we put our manuscripts aside and postponed deciding whether to continue with the project or to move on to another area of research interest. Often, we had to admit that the reviewers' critiques, as painful as they were, allowed us to be more objective and critical of our own work. We found that by accepting and acting on most, if not all, of the critical suggestions, we improved the manuscripts; in all instances, the manuscripts were eventually published. As one of us has noted before (McGowan, 1996), one study was rejected by four journals before it was finally accepted. Because the study was not itself fatally flawed, I (McGowan) was able to improve the manuscript until, finally, it was publishable. In retrospect, I understand and accept that I had to go through that excruciatingly painful process because it resulted in a final product that was finely crafted and well received by the profession. I can now look back on that study with pride. In addition, those rejections made me realize that prior planning is necessary before beginning a study or article if it is to be published. It is extremely important for prospective authors to be willing to accept constructive criticisms. The editor guards the identity of each author, and the reviews are masked ones. …

The author outlines the efficacy of publishing research, theoretically based articles, and in-the-field articles in refereed, professional branch journals of the American Counseling Association (ACA). Means and ways of writing successfully for publication are addressed.

Being named editor of the Journal of Counseling & Development (JCD) is honorific, humbling, and challenging. I follow in the footsteps of prestigious editors and scholars, each of whom has left his or her mark on JCD, the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association. When my appointment as editor elect became effective in July 2001, we began a transition year during which all manuscripts that had undergone the process of a masked review, at least for the first time, were forwarded to me by then editor Dr. Earl Ginter for a decision--either to accept, accept provisionally, reject but invite a revision, or reject. Because of Dr. Ginter's trust and confidence in me and his willingness to share his expertise and sound thinking, the transition has gone smoothly. Dr. Ginter has been editor of JCD for 5 years, and his contribution to the advancement of the scholarly base of the counseling profession is apparent vis-a-vis the quality of the journal issues that he has published. I hope to continue in that vein. As past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, the refereed journal of the Counseling Association for Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, and of The Journal for the Professional Counselor, the award-winning journal of the New York Counseling Association, and having served on several editorial review boards, I do bring 12 years of editorial experience with me as I assume this new position. However, I still have much to learn, especially in terms of JCD. The sheer volume of manuscripts received can be overwhelming, and I will be relying on proven expertise of the associate editors and the members of the editorial board, the largely unsung heroes in the world of refereed journals, for their insights and sound recommendations. Although the editor has the final say and the responsibility in terms of what is to be published, he or she does not make such decisions in a vacuum. The recommendations and critiques of the editorial board and the associate editors do count heavily in any such decisions. In addition to the reviewers' critiques and recommendations, which are based on a masked review, the editor must also weigh the merits of a particular manuscript as compared with others, which may cover the same topic. As editor, I must also consider the limited space available in the journal, the needs and interests of our readership who are primarily professional counseling practitioners, and, perhaps most important, the manuscript's contribution to the scholarship base of the profession. I must also resolutely maintain a proper balance of published work between articles addressing issues involving practice and those dealing with theory. Because of the limited space previously noted, JCD can only publish between 18% and 20% of manuscripts received. I cite that figure not to discourage but to encourage. My goal as editor is not to reject, although rejection is most surely a reality, but to encourage authors and researchers to strive for excellence. What that figure means is that primarily only carefully selected manuscripts are published in JCD, and achieving acceptance says much about the author and the manuscript. It is important to note that rejection by JCD does not mean that a manuscript is not worthy of being published or that it is not publishable. JCD may not be the appropriate vehicle. Authors who receive rejection letters should actively pursue publication in other refereed journals if they ascertain that there are no fatal internal flaws that make the manuscript (usually a research one) unpublishable. Indeed, publication elsewhere is certainly possible if the author is able to put aside the very natural feelings of discouragement or anger at receiving a rejection letter, and is willing to objectively consider and implement at least some of the critiques and suggestions of the reviewers. Thompson (1995) noted The most productive scholars are (sometimes) distinguished by extraordinary intellect, but some are primarily distinguished by willingness to be systematic and persistent. …

The authors reviewed publication patterns of articles in the Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development (JHCEAD) from 1994 to 2009. Author demographic characteristics and article content for trends over time were analyzed, as well as research articles published in JHCEAD specifically for design, sampling, and statistical analyses used. ********** The Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development (C-AHEAD) has a long and proud tradition of contributing quality publications to the counseling literature through its Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development (JHCEAD). (Note. In 2010 the association's name changed to Association for Humanistic Counseling [AHC] and the journal became The Journal of Humanistic Counseling.) C-AHEAD, formerly known as the Student Personnel Association for Teacher Education, was one of the original counseling associations that merged to form the American Counseling Association (ACA), called the American Personnel and Guidance Association in 1951. Editors of JHCEAD over the past 2 decades have included the following: Richard J. Hazler (September 1991-June 1994); A. Scott McGowan (September 1994-June 1998); Roger D. Herring (September 1998-Spring 2002); Karen Ferguson (Fall 2002-Fall 2003); and Mark B. Scholl (Spring 2004-Fall 2009). The current editor is Colette T. Dollarhide. JHCEAD publishes creative, humanistically focused practice and research articles on important issues of interest to humanistic educators, counselors, and counselors-in-training. Constructs important to the paradigm of humanistic counseling include personal growth and development, a focus on the humanistic counseling process/theories, the importance of multicultural issues and applications, and the application to counselor education and supervision. Just as the counseling profession, in general, and C-AHEAD, specifically, have evolved over the past few decades, so too has the focus of JHCEAD. The present article reviews the content and article and author characteristics of JHCEAD publications over the past 16 years in order to identify trends and timely issues related to the discipline of humanistic counseling, education, and development. Erford, Miller, Duncan, and Erford (2010) reported three processes by which a journal's evolution can be documented. First, special issues/sections published in the journal often indicate essential, timely issues of critical importance to the discipline and thus, by extension, within society. Since 1994, the following 10 special issues/sections were published in JHCEAD: Case Studies in Social Action (March 1995); Professional Counselor Impairment and Renewal (March 1996); Humanistic Counseling and Education in a Multicultural Society (September 1996); Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy--A Humanistic Approach (December 1996); The Creative and Expressive Arts as Counseling Tools for Wellness Throughout the Lifespan (December 1997); Educational Preparation and Practical Professional Practice (September 1998); Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling (Spring 2001); Toward a Culture of Counselor Wellness (Spring 2007); Strength-Based Counseling (Fall 2008); and Social Justice Counseling, Education, and Advocacy (Fall 2011). A second approach proposed by Erford et al. (2010) requires a systematic, qualitative content review and trend analysis by skilled and knowledgeable scholars. No recent, comprehensive, qualitative review of JHCEAD has been undertaken. A third investigative method is a quantitative, descriptive approach, called a metastudy, which is the approach taken in the current study. Like qualitative reviews, metastudies frequently reveal specific article and author characteristics, but often focus on the characteristics of research articles and statistical methods. Metastudies present these characteristics statistically, sometimes combined into convenient time intervals to facilitate trend analyses. …

One of the more interesting and exciting trends in counseling today is the internationalization of counseling services. This spread of counseling is being facilitated by the Internet and other types of high-speed, far-reaching computer technology. However, counseling is but one of many professions going global. As a result, virtually every aspect of one's life is being influenced by international forces in one way or another, whether it is multinational business, medicine, military, religion, banking, education, or entertainment. Nations throughout the world recognize that positive mental health is a valuable asset, regardless of political orientation, and that counseling is one of the helping professions that can improve mental health. Counseling personnel from the United States have consulted with various developing countries about expanding counseling services while recognizing these services must be adapted to the needs of the host countries rather than being transferred wholesale from one country to another. Each country must assess how counseling can be helpful and select and develop services that best meet its needs. It is through publishing about the unique needs and mental health services in various countries that the world family can learn from each other, keeping in mind that what works for one culture or country may or may not work for others (Hohenshil, 2010). Editors of the Journal of Counseling & Development (JCD) have long recognized the importance and growth of counseling in other countries and published numerous articles devoted to the international aspects of counseling. Ed Herr, during his first term as JCD editor more than 15 years ago, initiated a section of the journal dealing with international counseling. He believed nations around the globe were wrestling with many of the same human conditions that individuals experience in the United States, including general mental health, career development, and diversity issues (Herr & Fabian, 1993). Publication of international articles continued through the editorships of Earl Ginter and Scott McGowan. The Trends section of JCD placed emphasis on international counseling during the last year of McGowan's second term, and a special series of articles was developed on international counseling that was published in the Winter 2010 issue. The current JCD editor, Spencer Niles, also elected to devote a special section of JCD to international issues because he believes counseling must move beyond our current levels of knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding our work in a diverse and global society (Niles, 2008). Given this brief history, what are some of the guidelines for authors who wish to make international contributions? The remainder of this article is a description of two general categories of articles published in the international section, followed by a description of the review process and a listing of international journals. Guidelines for "Past, Present, Future" Articles In the past, many international articles dealt with the process of counseling students from other countries while they were temporarily in the United States, usually to attend college. Those articles were frequently focused on the stress and cultural shock experienced by international students and their families. Although these are important and useful areas of practice and research, our present international focus is different. Currently, the JCD approach is to consider the counseling services that actually exist in different countries. That is, the focus is on the development of counseling services in other countries that serve the mental health needs of their own citizens. Good examples of this are included in the Winter 2010 issue of JCD, which featured a major section on counseling services provided in several different countries. Following is a listing of those eight articles, plus one from Venezuela that had been published previously. Ayyash-Abdo, H. …

In the summer 2002 issue of the Journal of Counseling& Development (JCD), Dr. Stephen Weinrach of Villanova University published an article titled "The Counseling Profession's Relationship to Jews and the Issues That Concern Them: More Than a Case of Selective Awareness." In this article, Dr. Weinrach (2002) charged that the counseling profession has repeatedly ignored the concerns of Jewish counselors and acted in ways that are anti-Semitic, thereby causing many Jewish counselors to feel ill at ease within the American Counseling Association (ACA). Dr. Weinrach recommended that ACA and Jewish and Gentile counselors take action to ensure that the profession demonstrates greater sensitivity toward, and valuing of, its Jewish members. In an effort to promote additional dialogue on the complex issues raised by Dr. Weinrach, Dr. Scott McGowan, editor of JCD, invited me to write this reaction to Dr. Weinrach's article, which will be followed in this issue of JCD by Dr. Weinrach's rejoinder. In response to Dr. McGowan's complimentary yet humbling and daunting invitation, I have prepared this article, which begins with a brief summary of Dr. Weinrach's (2002) article. Next, I offer my reactions to the topics discussed by Dr. Weinrach. These reactions consist of a blending of intellectual and heart-felt ideas, which I have shared with the hope of validating the concerns of Jewish counselors while suggesting some roles we, as professional counselors, can all assume to heal the rift that has developed between some Jewish and Gentile members of our profession. Before moving on to my summary of Dr. Weinmch's work, a few preliminary comments are warranted. I have provided an overview of Dr. Weinrach's (2002) article to refresh the minds of counselors who have already read it. However, because his work is lengthy and raises some very complicated and emotional issues, I urge any counselor who has not yet read Dr. Weinrach's (2002) article to study it before continuing with this article. On a related note, I encourage everyone to read Dr. Weinrach's article several times for two reasons. First, most people will need to read this work more than once to fully absorb the vast array of problems and the many proposed solutions that are discussed in his article. Second, repeated reading of the article will help many readers to process the strong emotions that it might stir up. So, read his article and then sit with your feelings for a while and reflect on them. Ask yourself, what am I feeling as I read this article? Why am I feeling it? Am I upset because I agree with Dr. Weinrach that anti-Semitism exists in our profession? Or am I upset because I don't believe what I have read? Am I feeling defensive? If so, why? Talk with some trusted colleagues about your feelings. Then, read the article a second time and reflect on and discuss your feelings again and allow yourself plenty of time to do so. I am confident that you will make some important self-discoveries by engaging in this process. I will say more about this process of self-reflection later in this article. One of the most important lessons I have learned on my own multicultural journey is to try to remain aware of my cultural background and biases whenever I cross cultural boundaries. Consequently, because I am about to enter into a cross-cultural exchange pertaining to Jewish-Gentile relations and react to Dr. Weinrach's article, I have a responsibility to review some of the core aspects of my cultural identity. I am a 45-year-old, able-bodied, heterosexual, Catholic, White man of Slovak and Irish ancestry. On the one hand, I was raised in an immigrant, multiethnic, and multilingual family that has struggled against a long history of poverty and religious and political oppression. On the other hand, I have had and continue to enjoy the advantages of privilege that are afforded to White people in the United States. As I read Dr. Weinrach's article and wrote this review, I remained cognizant of my background, which has greatly shaped my personal choices to embrace my family's identification with oppressed groups; to celebrate the profound joys of experiencing culturally different people; and to understand and confront my own ethnocentrism, racism, and White privilege. …

The multicultural counseling movement has taken center stage in the counseling profession. In doing so, it has revolutionized the ways that counselors have traditionally been trained to think about mental health, psychological disorders, and the types of helping strategies that result in positive counseling outcomes when working with persons from diverse cultural groups and backgrounds. Contributing to the rise of this revolutionary force within the profession is the steady increase in the number of publications related to a broad range of cultural factors. These publications have greatly expanded counselors' knowledge of the relevance of many cultural issues for the work that they do. Five main themes have emerged from these publications, which have helped to increase counselor educators' and practitioners' 1. sensitivity to the significant ways that cultural factors affect human development, 2. awareness of the competencies they need to acquire to effectively promote the healthy development of persons from diverse cultural groups and backgrounds, 3. thinking about types of professional training strategies that help foster the development of culturally competent counseling professionals, 4. knowledge of a broad range of research findings relevant to multicultural counseling, and 5. understanding of the present and future challenges that the counseling profession faces within the context of a society that is undergoing a rapid transformation in its racial/cultural demography. In 1991, the Journal of Counseling & Development (JCD) contributed to the emergence of the multicultural counseling paradigm by publishing a special issue that addressed a broad range of topics and issues in this area. The 1991 special issue on multiculturalism was edited by Paul Pedersen, a leading multicultural pioneer. Seventeen years later, JCD has again taken the initiative to update the profession on the state of the multicultural counseling movement by publishing a second special issue on multiculturalism. We are honored to have had Pedersen serve as one of the reviewers of the manuscripts submitted to this special issue and are grateful for his expert consultation on this project. We are also very appreciative of the ongoing support that A. Scott McGowan, the editor of JCD, has consistently provided from the planning of this special issue to its final publication. Without his ongoing support, this special issue would not have come to fruition. The present special issue on multiculturalism builds on the important contributions of previous publications in a number of ways. First, the reader will note that the authors commonly use the terms multicultural/social justice counseling and a multicultural/social justice perspective instead of multicultural counseling and a multicultural perspective, respectively, in many of the articles presented in this issue. In doing so, they remind us that the multicultural counseling movement has traditionally been grounded in efforts to foster a greater level of social justice for the millions of persons from marginalized and devalued groups in our society. The social justice underpinning of the multicultural counseling movement has occasionally been understated over the past several years. We are grateful to the authors for directing the reader's attention to this important aspect of the multicultural movement in their articles. …