| Ann Vernon, University of Northern Iowa
This highly practical third edition combines innovative techniques with solid theory for helping children. It is a developmental approach with major revisions in all chapters. The new chapter on counseling culturally and ethnically diverse youth shows how to develop cultural, ethnic, and racial self-awareness as a counselor. The book offers a plan for designing a developmental counseling curriculum from primary through high school. It presents empirically based strategies and shows how to assess needs and design helpful interventions. Play therapy, brief counseling, rational emotional therapy, small group counseling, working with at-risk youth, and working with parents are all part of this text. The rich experiences of the authors as both practitioners and clinicians in addition to being counselor educators brings a wide array of innovations and creative techniques to this new volume.
Special Features
- Shows how to assess needs and design helpful interventions.
- Addresses the current emphasis on developmental counseling.
- Includes empirically-based strategies for effective counseling.
- Discusses new ideas for working with at-risk and special populations.
- Responsive to diversity and the special needs of multicultural populations.
Contents
- Working With Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents: Practical Application of Developmental Theory
- The Individual Counseling Process
- Using Innovative Techniques for Counseling Children and Adolescents
- Play Therapy
- Brief Counseling With Children and Adolescents: Interactive
- Culturally Responsive, and Action-Based
- Applications of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy With Children and Adolescents
- Counseling With Exceptional Children
- Counseling Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Youth
- Counseling Children and Adolescents With Special Needs
- Counseling At-Risk Children and Adolescents
- Small-Group Counseling
- Designing a Developmental Counseling Curriculum
- Working With Parents
- Working With Families
Instructors Manual
484 pages
0307/Hardback/ISBN 0-89108-304-9
$76.00
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