John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan

Tough Kids, Cool Counseling (eBook, PDF)

User-Friendly Approaches with Challenging Youth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tough Kids, Cool Counseling offers creative techniques for overcoming resistance, fostering constructive therapy relationships, and generating opportunities for client change and growth. This edition includes a new chapter on resistance busters and updated and fresh ideas for establishing rapport, carrying out informal assessments, improving negative moods, modifying maladaptive behaviors, and educating parents. Suicide assessment, medication referrals, and therapy termination are also discussed. John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan clearly enjoy working with kids--no matter how tough--and their infectious spirit and proven techniques will help you bring renewed energy into the counseling process. *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com. *To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA website *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [e-mail].

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119026921
• Artikelnr.: 42009878

Autorenporträt

JOHN SOMMERS-FLANAGAN, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor of counselor education at the University of Montana. He is a longtime member of both the American Counseling Association and the American Psychological Association. RITA SOMMERS-FLANAGAN, PhD is a professor emeritus at the University of Montana. As a clinical psychologist, she has worked with youth, families, couples, and women for many years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix About the Authors xi PART I USER-FRIENDLY Foundations CHAPTER 1 Adventures in Child and Adolescent Counseling 3 CHAPTER 2 Establishing Rapport, Gathering Information, and Informal Assessment 27 CHAPTER 3 Resistance Busters: Quick Solutions and Long-Term Strategies 49 PART II USER-FRIENDLY Strategies CHAPTER 4 Rapid Emotional Change Techniques: Teaching Young Clients Mood Management Skills 69 CHAPTER 5 Behavioral, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Change Strategies 85 CHAPTER 6 Constructive and Communication-Based Change Strategies: Storytelling and Hypnotherapy 111 CHAPTER 7 Ecological Theory and Parent Education Strategies 131 PART III SPECIAL TOPICS in Treating Young Clients CHAPTER 8 Assessment and Management of Young Clients Who Are Suicidal 153 CHAPTER 9 Medication Evaluations and Evaluating Medications 185 CHAPTER 10 Ethical Endings 205 References 219 Index 239