This article is a reply to Hansen's (2012) call for the counseling profession to embrace a purely humanistic ideology for counseling. The authors suggest the relationship between humanities and science set forth by Hansen does not emphasize the both-and aspects of these ideologies.An integrative framework is considered for counseling.

The narrative approach views clients' problems as restraining narratives or dominant stories that are influenced by their culture (Denborough, 2014;White & Epston, 1990). In narrative therapy, clients are helped to replace problem-maintaining dominant stories with preferred narratives about their lives (

Limited research exists on workplace aggression within the counseling profession despite its negative ramifications for clinical practice. The authors conducted a descriptive study to explore the prevalence and common forms of workplace aggression experienced by a sample of practicing counselors (N = 117). More than 50% of counselors reported the experience of at least 1 aggressive act, and nearly 25% met the threshold for workplace aggression. The authors discuss the implications of these results and consider workplace aggression's incongruity with professional counseling values.

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