Counseling Theories will help students and professionals “find their theories” and enable them to become congruent in theory and practice. This volume addresses specific applications with young populations and emphasizes the application of concepts to group and classroom settings. Leading experts in the field collaborate with practicing school counselors to contribute to each chapter. They address individual, group, and classroom applications as well as how to work with parents and teachers and how to adapt applications to multicultural environments. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of two case studies, one with a child and the other with an adolescent, to illustrate how to address the same problems from multiple theoretical perspectives.

FEATURES

• Overview and major constructs of each theory as they apply specifically to children and adolescents in school settings
• Practical Applications: individual, group, and classroom guidance applications and interventions; strategies for working with parents and teachers & multicultural applications
• Case studies: each theory is applied to the same two case studies to illustrate how to address the same problems from multiple theoretical perspectives

CONTENTS

1. Practical Person-Centered Theory Application in the Schools
2. Partners in the Schools: Adlerian School Counseling
3. Multimodal Child Counseling in School Settings
4. Brief Counseling: Problem-Solving and Solution-Focused
5. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
6. Perceptual Control Theory and School Counseling

240 pages/2009
0802/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-335-1
$42.00