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To develop confidence and competence, student counselors need opportunities to practice applying their counseling skills. However, practicing on actual clients before counseling students are developmentally prepared not only can provoke anxiety within students but is also unethical. Counselor educators must find ways to help students practice their skills without the possibility of causing harm to potential clients. Some counselor educators utilize fictional characters to enhance student counselors' understanding of case conceptualization and treatment in a non-threatening environment. Most often, counselor educators apply a semester long approach of using fictional characters. Although the benefits of using fictional characters in counseling education are identified, the semester long approach encroaches on valuable instructional time. The concept of using brief counseling scenarios from fictional characters is introduced and examples of possible cases are provided.

Fandoms are communities, either officially or unofficially organized, that are dedicated to the love of a particular person, team, fictional series or character (Barton & Lampley, 2014). According to the Belonging theory (Gailliot & Baumeister, 2006), people yearn for belonging because it provides them with a sense of identity, self-esteem and self-worth. Gifted individuals often have unique social-emotional characteristics, such as overexcitabilities (OE), which set them apart from their non-gifted, non-bE counterparts because they actually experience life in a very different way (Neihart et al., 2002). The purpose of this study was to examine the role of fandoms in the lives of the gifted who also have an imaginational overexcitability. Using phenomenological and grounded theory methodologies, a comprehensive survey and interview were created in order to gather data in a mixed-methods study (Creswell, 2013). Through the analysis of the data, in conjunction with the theoretical framework of the Belonging theory, it was determined that gifted individuals with imaginational overexcitabilities do tend to join fandoms for the purposes of creating peer groups, providing themselves with a sense of belonging and community, and for acquiring opportunities for escapism.

There are abortion narratives that are considered politically necessary to tell (rape/incest/domestic violence victims' difficulty in obtaining abortion services, clinic personnel's struggles with antiabortion protesters, the risks of illegal abortion to women's health and welfare).

Offers brief descriptions of 25 books, both fiction and nonfiction, that are accessible to struggling readers, provide a high-quality reading experience, and may allow them to break through their difficulties to see reading as something of value to their lives. (SR)

A Massachusetts college instructor continues to grapple with a complicated academic life and a messy marriage in this novel.

Jewish rituals--some timeless, some contemporary--give thematic shape and emotional texture to this debut collection.A bris, a bat mitzvah and a funeral. A high-school trip to Auschwitz and a stint as a Hillel peer counselor. These are just a few of ...

If students are looking for books that will transport them into a mysterious fantasy world, one of these reviews might be just the postcard they need. Ask them to think of their book reviews as postcards to other students; then send them to us at \"Student to Student.\"

The Tagwi (pronounced \"tug-wuh\") story, as it has been told, goes like this: Following years of abuse from bullies, the boy (whose name cannot be revealed under Canada's Young Offenders Act) read his drama classmates a story, which he titled Twisted, about a boy blowing up a school. Though the monologue was fictional, fears of a Columbine-style attack whipped the school into hysteria. Tagwi suspended the student as punishment for what he had written. At Tagwi Secondary School, students laugh when asked whether the defendant might be a victim of censorship. \"Twisted was not the cause of the charges,\" says Grade 11 Tagwi student Marty Partridge, who saw the boy deliver the story in drama class. Black & White Photo: [Ian Derouchic]... ; Black & White Photo: Brigitte Bouvier, National Post / ...and [Kristina Jackson], both members of Tagwi Secondary School's student council, are upset over the bad publicity the Cornwall, Ont., school has received since a student's behaviour landed him in jail. ; Black & White Photo: Chris Mikula, The Ottawa Citizen / The student wrote a story titled Twisted, about a boy bullied at school who plants bombs as revenge. ;