Child and Adolescent Counseling: An Integrated Approach

"I am impressed with the layout, the writing, and the integrative nature of this volume. It should have a long shelf life, for it is extremely comprehensive and will be relevant for years to come."

-Samuel T. Gladding, PhD, LPMHC, CCMHC, NCC

Professor of Counseling
Wake Forest University
Fellow in the American Counseling Association
Past President of the American Counseling Association

This the first text to fully integrate the developmental, systemic, multicultural, and relational elements of child and adolescent counseling. This unique approach emphasizes the powerful interconnections supporting effective child and adolescent counseling with creative and time-efficient methods. Supported by CACREP standards, competencies, and outcomes, this book features best practice strategies and techniques to aid counselors-in-training who will be assisting children, adolescents, and their families in developing transformative coping methods while navigating contemporary issues. This textbook is distinguished by its broad and holistic focus as a means of increasing counseling efficacy and applies to a range of therapeutic modalities.

The text advocates for a multisensory approach, using creative props, expressive arts, and interactive activities that helps to foster change by harnessing the learning styles best suited to individual children and adolescents. Based in theory yet highly practical, time-efficient, real-world counseling methods are illustrated through case studies, vignettes, and verbatim counseling sessions that are tailored to the needs of today's child and adolescent counselor. The book presents a comprehensive toolkit to foster engagement and assist the future counselor in grasping key concepts. Pedagogical aids include learning objectives, key terms, learning activities, case studies, points to remember, chapter summaries, and questions for further study. Abundant instructor resources include sample syllabi, an instructor's manual with experiential activities and assessment rubrics, additional chapter discussion questions and resources, a test bank, and PowerPoint slides. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.

Key Features:

• Grounded in a unique integrated approach encompassing developmental, systemic, multicultural, and relational elements and innovative and time-efficient practices
• Applies to a range of therapeutic modalities including school, marriage, couples and family, clinical mental health, clinical rehabilitation counseling, and more
• Illustrates time-efficient counseling methods through case studies, vignettes, and examples from actual client and counselors-in-training sessions
• Highlights contemporary issues including incarcerated parents, sexual minorities, military influences and same-sex parents.
• Infused with CACREP standards, competencies and outcomes to help with accreditation and prepare students for exams
• Edited and authored by educators and authors with a wealth of professional expertise
• Includes learning objectives, key terms, charts, tables and figure, questions for further study and chapter summaries

Brenda Jones Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CSC's educational experience in the public-school system spans over 30 years with nine years of high school teaching experience, over 13 years of high school professional school counseling experience, and eight years of clinical and head counseling experience. She is a Ph.D., National Certificated Counselor, Certified School Counselor, and a Licensed Professional Counselor. She earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Education and Supervision. This year completes her twelfth year as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She teaches Child and Adolescent Counseling in a System Context; Counseling in a Multicultural Setting, School Counseling Internship, Clinical Mental Health Internship, and Practicum in Counseling. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, the Journal of School Counseling, and is the past president for Texas Association of Counselor Education and Supervision representing school counseling and clinical mental health issues. She has published and presented on related issues at the local, state, and national levels; and has actively served in American Counseling Association, Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, and American School Counseling Association, and their related divisions. She is the recipient of the Texas Counseling Association, 2017 Professional Writing Award for the book, Child and Adolescent Counseling Case Studies: Developmental, Relational, Multicultural, and Systemic Perspectives. In 2018, she, along with three other authors, Avent, Robertson, and Prado, became the recipient of a national award from the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Article Award.

Beth Durodoye, Ed.D, NCC is professor and chair of the Department of Leadership, Technology and Human Development at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Durodoye earned her EdD in Counselor Education from the University of Virginia, and her MA Degree in Counseling from Marshall University. She is a board-certified counselor through the National Board of Certified Counselors. During her tenure as a faculty member at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she held an appointment as a Provost Faculty Fellow. Her Fellow responsibilities emphasized campus internationalization efforts and the recruitment, retention, and progression of underrepresented graduate students. Her research and scholarly interests include multicultural competency, race and education, and ethnic identity development. She has authored numerous international, national, and state publications, with her most recent being her co-edited book From Disagreement to Discourse: A Chronicle of Controversies in Schooling and Education. She is past-president of the Texas Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, and a former associate editor of the Counseling and Values journal. Dr. Durodoye is the co-chair of the Faculty Interests and Needs Committee of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, and currently serves as a Consulting Elder for the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.