My guest is Dr. Jason King, Student Development Coordinator for the Department of Counseling at Walden University. He specializes in couples counseling and treating compulsive and addictive behaviors. Dr. King is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in the State of Utah and has served as the Governor-appointed chair of the Utah Clinical Mental Health Counselor licensure board since 2009. Additionally, Dr. King served as a committee member on the DSM-5 Revision Task Force for the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), and he co-edited the book DSM-5 and Family Systems.

Dr. King highlights strategies for working with challenging and resistant clients, shares about his efforts to embrace critical feedback and overcome self-doubt, describes the various ways that he incorporates humility and humor into his clinical work, explains how to effectively utilize diagnosis within the framework of the wellness model, and discusses systemic approaches to using the DSM-5.

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