Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their Families: A Manual for Clinicians

by George H. Shames

Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their A Manual for Clinicians, Second Edition, written by George H. Shames, emphasizes the development of specific interviewing and counseling skills for speech-language pathologists and audiologists, which is a requirement of ASHA's clinical certification standards.

The book offers a clear, basic definition of counseling, then builds a picture of the multidimensional role of counseling in speech-language pathology and audiology using anecdotal references to clinical cases.

Among the changes in the Second Edition, Dr. Shames, a licensed speech-language pathologist as well as a licensed clinical psychologist, has expanded the theoretical overviews that ground the "learning by doing" skill development feature of this updated edition.

Practicing clinicians and students in communication disorders programs, in addition to social workers and clinical psychologists, will find this book invaluable to their training as focused, helpful evaluators and counselors of the communicatively disabled. It will also apply to training in other contexts and circumstances wherein counseling is appropriate.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Gwendolyn Caithness Cameron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read, removes emotional intensity around the subject by focusing on skills. Anyone skittish about working with this population will find this a refreshing and empowering book.