Transforming Child and Adolescent Counseling: A Comprehensive Approach

This groundbreaking textbook, edited by LPC Jones, Brenda L., PhD, NCC, and Beth A. Durodoye, EdD, is a game-changer in the field of child and adolescent counseling. Dr. Samuel T. Gladding, PhD, LPMHC, CCMHC, NCC, Professor of Counseling at Wake Forest University, praises this volume as “extremely comprehensive” and “relevant for years to come.”

A Holistic Approach to Counseling

This text is the first to fully integrate the developmental, systemic, multicultural, and relational elements of child and adolescent counseling, providing a unique and powerful approach to effective counseling. By incorporating creative and time-efficient methods, this book offers best practice strategies and techniques to aid counselors-in-training in developing transformative coping methods for children, adolescents, and their families.

Supported by CACREP standards, competencies, and outcomes, this comprehensive textbook applies to a range of therapeutic modalities, including school, marriage, couples and family, clinical mental health, clinical rehabilitation counseling, and more.

Fostering Engagement and Change

The text advocates for a multisensory approach, using creative props, expressive arts, and interactive activities tailored to individual children and adolescents’ learning styles. This approach helps to foster change and engagement, as demonstrated through case studies, vignettes, and verbatim counseling sessions.

Practical and Theory-Based

By including learning objectives, key terms, learning activities, case studies, points to remember, chapter summaries, and questions for further study, this book provides a comprehensive toolkit for counselors-in-training. Abundant instructor resources, such as sample syllabi, an instructor’s manual, chapter discussion questions, and a test bank, make it an invaluable resource for educators.

Key Features

• Integrates developmental, systemic, multicultural, and relational elements of child and adolescent counseling
• Applies to a range of therapeutic modalities
• Illustrates time-efficient counseling methods through real-world case studies and vignettes
• Highlights contemporary issues, including incarcerated parents, sexual minorities, military influences, and same-sex parents
• Infused with CACREP standards, competencies, and outcomes for accreditation and exam preparation
• Edited and authored by educators and experts with a wealth of professional expertise

Publication details: Published by Springer Publishing Company on May 14, 2021, in English, with digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.