Main description:

Counseling Children and Adolescents focuses on relationship building and creating a deep level of understanding of developmental, attachment, and brain-based information.

Chapters place a clear emphasis on building strengths and developing empathy, awareness, and skills. By going beyond theory, and offering a strengths-based, attachment, neuro- and trauma-informed perspective, this text offers real-world situations and tried and true techniques for working with children and adolescents. Grounded in research and multicultural competency, the book focuses on encouragement, recognizing resiliency, and empowerment.

This book is an ideal guide for counselors looking for developmentally appropriate strategies to empower children and adolescents.

Contents:

Part 1: Knowledge 1. Introduction and Recognition of the Privilege of Counseling Children and Adolescents 2. Strategies and Interventions for Empathic Connection 3. A Review of Theories as related to Children and Adolescents 4. Understanding Attachment and Development Aspects of Children and Adolescents Part 2: Awareness 5. Legal and Ethical Implication for Working with Minors 6. Family Counseling 7. Parents, Caregivers, and Supportive Adults 8. Trauma and the Child and Adolescent Brain 9. At-Promise Children and Adolescents Part 3: Specific Skills, Theories, and Techniques 10. Children and Adolescents with Myriad Presenting Concerns 11. Grief and Loss Issues in Children and Adolescents 12. Working with Trans and Gender Expansive Children and Adolescents 13. LGB Children and Adolescents 14. Celebrating Diversity 15. Play Therapy 16. Sandtay Therapy 17. Mindfulness Techniques for Working with Children and Adolescents 18. Expressive and Experiential Techniques Appendix