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Working with Challenging Youth: Lessons Learned along the Way

by Bren Richardson, Richardson Bren
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Overview

Stressing the importance of self-awareness, genuineness, and empathy in effective counselors, this book will be a practical, reader-friendly guide through the pitfalls and problems that arise when working with challenging populations. Building on a solid theoretical base in Reality Therapy, Humanistic Philosophy, Solution-Focused therapy, MRI Brief Problem-focused therapy, and Systems theory, the book identifies specific considerations and strategies for counselors.

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

Synopsis

Stressing the importance of self-awareness, genuineness, and empathy in effective counselors, this book will be a practical, reader-friendly guide through the pitfalls and problems that arise when working with challenging populations. Building on a solid theoretical base in Reality Therapy, Humanistic Philosophy, Solution-Focused therapy, MRI Brief Problem-focused therapy, and Systems theory, the book identifies specific considerations and strategies for counselors.

Counseling Today

[A]n understandable, coherent approach to counseling those youth who 'share an inability to manage their emotions ... and an inability to responsibly meet their needs.' This reviewer recommends the book to both neophyte and experienced practitioners.

About the Author, Bren Richardson

Richardson, Brent, EdD (Xavier Univ)

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Counseling Today

[A]n understandable, coherent approach to counseling those youth who 'share an inability to manage their emotions ... and an inability to responsibly meet their needs.' This reviewer recommends the book to both neophyte and experienced practitioners.

Richard B. Gilbert

Youth become challenging for many reasons, including the lack of healthy examples from the adults in their world. The book doesn't moralize, nor does it offer hype. It sticks to the issues surrounding the identification of youth that challenge and ways to rise to that challenge (both within the young person and within those that surround them.

Booknews

Richardson (Xavier University) presents tools that combine several different treatment methods for working with challenging youth, within a framework based on six general principles that distinguish effective counselors from the rest. A chapter is devoted to each principle, with discussion of both theoretical support and anecdotal evidence of the utility of specific innovative and traditional techniques. Some 45 "lessons learned along the way" are demonstrated with case vignettes and transcripts of counseling sessions. There is a general focus on the practitioner's own emotional needs and responses and how they impact their work with at-risk youth. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
January 1, 2001
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781560328919

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