Counseling Children and Adolescents, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (18 September 2020) © 2021

  • Victoria E. Kress
  • Matthew J. Paylo Youngstown State University
  • Nicole Stargell The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
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Title overview

Counseling Children and Adolescents is a practical, evidence-based introduction on counseling children and adolescents. It empowers counselors to thoughtfully and deliberately help young clients tackle complex issues and difficulties. The text covers the principal approaches to counseling children and adolescents, discusses the common issues that bring children and adolescents to counseling and helps you understand what counseling younger people looks like. What sets this work apart are its concrete applications and its clear, accessible writing.

As one reviewer put it, the 1st Edition's key strengths are a “practical synthesis of theory into clinical and school counseling..., engaging case studies that are diverse and multiculturally sensitive..., [and] real world application.”

Table of contents

PART 1: Developmental and Systematic Foundations of Youth Counseling

  1. Developmentally Informed Youth Counseling
  2. Systemically Informed Youth Counseling

PART 2: Foundations of Youth Counseling: Theory and Practice

  1. Individual Counseling Foundations
  2. Ethical and Legal Foundations
  3. Counseling Theories That Focus on Thought and Behavior Change and Action
  4. Counseling Theories That Focus on Background Experiences and Relationships
  5. Counseling Theories That Focus on Family Change Processes
  6. The Use of Play and Creative Arts in Counseling
  7. Conceptualizing Young Clients’ Situations and Directing Counseling

PART 3: Common Presenting Concerns and Counseling Interventions

  1. Youth Suicide, Self-Injury, and Homicide
  2. Family-Related Transitions and Struggles
  3. Academic and Social—Emotional Transitions and Struggles
  4. Neurodevelopmental and Intellectual Impairments
  5. Disruptive Behavior Problems
  6. Abuse and Trauma
  7. Substance Abuse
  8. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
  9. Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
  10. Physical Health-Related Counseling Issues: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, and Chronic Illness/Disability Counseling

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