Counseling Nexus: ACA’s Digital Press
Elevating Access to Counseling Knowledge
Counseling Nexus is a state-of-the-art digital publishing platform designed to support counselors, counselor educators and students, and other mental health professionals and their clients with unparalleled access to essential resources and cutting-edge scholarship. Hosted on the dynamic Manifold platform, this hub fosters an interactive and evolving repository of counseling knowledge including enhanced digital books, ethical guidelines, practice briefs, archived publications, and gray literature.
Research-Based Summaries of Best Practices
Practice Briefs are short, peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of client-presenting issues and counseling topics. Written by experts in the field, the Briefs present research-based summaries of best practices, evidence-based practices and research-based approaches. Each Practice Brief includes current references and has been peer-reviewed by two Subject Matter Experts before being accepted for publication. They can serve as quick go-to guides for the clinician needing to brush up on existing ideas or gather new information.
Published from 2004-2017, VISTAS were a digital publication designed to capture ideas, research, and practical experiences shared at the American Counseling Association (ACA) Annual Conference & Expo, select ACA Division conferences, and through independently submitted papers on effective counseling programs and practices. The articles were produced through a partnership between Counseling Outfitters, LLC, and ACA and were hosted on the ACA website until 2024.
Available articles from the collection are now online as a public archive through Counseling Nexus. These materials are presented for historical reference and are provided in their original form, without updates or edits.
Please note:
- The information in VISTAS articles may be outdated, incomplete, or no longer reflect current best practices.
- ACA does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, or quality of this content.
- Readers are encouraged to verify any information independently before citing or applying it.
- PDF versions do not meet current accessibility standards; accessible HTML versions are provided.
