Unparalleled in its translation of theory into practice, COUNSELING CHILDREN covers the most practical and up-to-date methods for developing effective approaches to counseling children. The authors provide a comprehensive yet easy-to-read text that includes useful strategies and case studies from actual counseling sessions to present a realistic look at the field.
Counseling Children FROM THE PUBLISHER This detailed explanation of the counseling process and examination of the major theoretical approaches for helping children with developmental, social, or behavioral problems will help you develop the skills you'll need as a considerate, effective counselor of children. Real case examples and transcripts of actual sessions show how to apply the techniques you've read about. Plus, you'll find a new chapter on play therapy that describes the play therapy process and offers a case illustration; practical, up-to-date methods for helping children overcome problem behaviors such as fighting, stealing, lying, cheating, shyness, withdrawal, and destructiveness; coverage of counseling concerns associated with children in homeless families, suicidal children, children in satanic cults, children living in a violent world, and children living with AIDS; specific suggestions for counseling children who are exceptional, who are part of a non-mainstream culture, or who are affected by such factors as divorce, death, abuse, homelessness, or alcoholism; an annotated bibliography of children's literature, updated to include a variety of special concerns; a revised chapter on psychoanalytic counseling with applications to counseling children; a reworked chapter on counseling families that details the differences among various approaches; coverage of brief counseling in the reality therapy chapter; a study guide and an expanded instructor's manual new to this edition.
SYNOPSIS Thompson (counselor education and educational psychology, University of Tennessee) presents 12 established counseling theories and associated techniques and their specific application to children with developmental, social, educational, personal, or behavioral problems, in this text for counselors, psychologist, social workers, and students. This sixth edition contains new material on personality types, managed care, and counseling children from different cultures. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
FROM THE CRITICS Booknews Details methods for helping children with developmental, social, and behavior problems. Part I looks at theories of development and the counselling process. Part II examines nine established counselling theories and includes case histories. Part III discusses counselling in school and mental health settings, children with special concerns, and legal and ethical issues. Includes specific alternatives for intervention in children's conflicts, and codes of ethics. This fourth edition contains new material on play therapy and brief counseling. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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