School Counseling: Children & Adolescents

Ready-to-use ideas to improve behaviors: anger & explosive behaviors, disrespectful behaviors Create trust and safety for trauma and depression issues, Techniques to reduce anxiety and stress, Simple steps to better organization, Learning and earning responsibility and independence, Tools for engagement, cooperation and learning.

Book IDs solution-focused strategies and other techniques, illustrating their implementation with vivid case examples. His approach augments individual and family sessions with collaborative meetings that enlist the strengths of the adolescent's social network and key helping professionals from larger systems. User-friendly features include checklists, sample questions to aid in relationship building and goal setting.

Great resource of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. 146 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues of adolescent clients including blended families, substance use, and eating disorders A quick-reference format-the interactive assignments are grouped by behavioral problems including academic underachievement, anger control problems, depression, social anxiety, and sexual abuse.

A Strengths and Well-Being Model presents new insights into successfully working with children by concentrating on their capabilities and resilience. Augmented with case scenarios and studies, empirical findings, and questions for discussion in every chapter, this book will help child service professionals as well as university faculty and students.

Contains over 85 art, music, play and drama directives to use in school or a therapy office. Licensed educational psychologist and registered art therapist Dr. Kimberley Palmiotto has pulled together creative and engaging activities that can be used with children and teens to help manage symptoms and behaviors associated with: Autism Spectrum Disorder Anxiety Selective Mutism ADHD Emotional Dysregulation Intellectual Disabilities

This comprehensive text, written by experts in each topical area, provides research-based approaches designed for work with youth in the difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood. Developmental in its orientation, the text moves from population definition and identification, to causal factors and issues most often identified with placing youth at risk, to a prevention-intervention paradigm specifically created for teens.

Featuring concise, step-by-step protocols supported by evidence-based practice, the book is organized in a logical sequence, from setting the stage for the counseling process to the essentials of active counseling. The second edition is distinguished by a more holistic approach to counseling that focuses on the client's narrative, goal-setting as a partnership between counselor and client, and heightened sensitivity to all forms of diversity.