Tough kids, cool counseling : user-friendly approaches with challenging youth /

• Main Author: Sommers-Flanagan, John, 1957-
• Corporate Author: American Counseling Association
• Other Authors: Sommers-Flanagan, Rita, 1953-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria, VA : American Counseling Association, [2007]
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Subjects: Problem youth > Counseling of.; Psychotherapy > methods.; Psychology, Adolescent > methods.; Counseling > methods.; Jeunes difficiles > Counseling.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Adventures in child and adolescent counseling
• Establishing rapport, gathering information, and informal assessment
• Resistance busters: quick solutions and long-term strategies
• Rapid emotional change techniques: teaching young clients mood management skills
• Behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal change strategies
• Constructive and communication-based change strategies: storytelling and hypnotherapy
• Ecological theory and parent education strategies
• Assessment and management of young clients who are suicidal
• Medication evaluations and evaluating medications
• Ethical endings.