Full Description
For graduate courses in Child & Adolescent Counseling.This award-winning supplement presents a realistic picture of therapy's rewards and challenges through 16 actual cases involving children and adolescents. Readers are exposed to a variety of counseling theories and the real, live counselors who use them. Since the cases deal with major problem areas such as sexual abuse, dual diagnoses, seriously dysfunctional families, and addictions, students will not only find this text useful in coursework, but they will also reference it again and again as they begin their journey as therapists.
Contents
1. The Flight of the Lego Plane, Susan M. Hobson. 2. Billy, the Teddy Bear Boy, Terry Kottman. 3. Too Afraid to Talk, Bruce St. Thomas. 4. Oh No-Not Again!, Jules Spotts and Jane Brooks. 5. Family Secrets, Laura A. Granato. 6. The Defense Never Rests, Arthur J. Clark. 7. Mandy: Out in the World, Barbara Herlihy. 8. The Boy Who Trashed His Final, Larry B. Golden. 9. Will He Choose Life?, J. Jeffries McWhirter. 10. The Girl with Painful Steps, Barbara Peeks Dunn and Ray L. Levy. 11. Ringo: Scars of Violence, Vimala Pillari. 12. A Peaceful Solution, Kirk Zinck and John M. Littrell. 13. Weathering an Adolescent Storm, Dorothy Breen. 14. Where Do I Fit?, Marijane Fall. 15. Oh, Give Me a Home, Scottie Sue Landess and Nola Christenberry. 16. Raising Martin, Patrick O'Malley.
