Counseling Children
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Books › Psychology › Psychotherapy › Child & Adolescent
ISBN: 0534340024 / Publisher: Brooks Cole, November 1995
Acclaimed for its ability to translate theory into practice, this easy-to-read revision of Charles Thompson and Linda Rudolphs Counseling Children covers the most practical and up-to-date methods for helping children with developmental, social, or behavioral problems such as fighting, stealing, lying, cheating, withdrawal behaviors, shyness, and destructive behaviors toward themselves and others. The authors include real case examples of various counseling and consulting techniques and use transcripts of actual sessions to demonstrate applications of theories and procedures.
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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.
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