Our Position on Cultural Diversity

First let me make our position on Cultural Diversity very clear, then I’ll move on to our stance on requiring Cultural Diversity CE hours. Our Position on Cultural Diversity At AMHP we totally support the traditional professional approach to understanding and taking into account a client’s specific racial and cultural considerations. We need to be…

Be Careful What You Ask For-What If?

By Phillip Crum

I was watching a new documentary on Netflix a few days ago about a Mexican-American fellow in Los Angeles who was arrested for the murder of an eyewitness to a crime his brother had committed. He didn’t do it and his highly skilled attorney proved it but the evidence was the kind of stuff that…

Which Rights Will You Give Up?

By Phillip Crum

Several weeks ago we posed a simple question in the shortest blog post we’ve ever done and told you we’d get back to you on that. We asked you if you knew which profession’s members were being asked to give up their personal beliefs in order to continue practicing? Before we give you our answer…

The Politics of Counseling

By Phillip Crum

The movie, Captain Phillips, is about the politics of counseling. Actually, it’s about the hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates but I’ll make the connection in a minute. In an early scene the crew has just survived an aborted attempt by incompetent pirates to catch and board the ship. The rattled crew is…

Do You Know the Answer?

By Phillip Crum

We just finished recording a podcast with professor Chuck Romig which we will be releasing in a few weeks. He brought up so many insights on the state of our industry specifically, that I found myself listening to the finished recording 3-4 times this weekend. It’s almost 90 minutes in length so that’s quite a…