Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: Theory and Practice for School and Clinical Settings

by H. Thompson Prout (Editor)

Covering all the major approaches to counseling children and adolescents--including psychodynamic, Adlerian, person-centered, cognitive-behavioral, rational-emotive, reality therapy, solution focused, and family systems--Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, Fourth Edition equips you to become familiar with the latest thinking and practice in counseling and psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents.

Genres: Psychology

468 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1983

Reviews

[Joel Hacker]

Solid overview of adaptations to and strategies within a variety of counseling theories specifically for working with Children and Adolescents. A familiarity with the main theoretical schools being discussed is recommended, as it will not go into a lot of background on them. I have seen some complaints that it does not delve deeply enough into specific theories, techniques, or sub-schools with theories (play therapy as a sub-set of psychodynamic, some of the sub-schools within Family Systems Therapy), and in reference to that I can only say it is clearly meant as a survey, not an in depth study of any particular school. There are some excellent annotated bibliographies and reference lists at the end of each chapter to direct the reader to more focused and specialized information.
One oddity is that two of the chapters, specifically the ones over CBT and Reality Therapy, have two to three times the space dedicated to them as the others. I'm not sure what the reasoning for this editorial choice was, but it feels more than a bit skewed.

[Tess]

Best textbook I've ever read. Editors gathered experts on each chapter topic and compiled a really sound resource instead of tackling ever aspect of child therapy themselves. Loved it!

[Evelyn]

Information, techniques, research was done, and how to work with the families when you are are using theories mentioned in the book. I think has good basic information and it was easy to read.

[Emily Ellison]

This was a horrible textbook that I forced to read for one of my classes. Had I not already taken a class on the major theories of counseling (psychoanalytic, CBT, behavior therapy, REBT, Adlerian, and Reality Therapy) I would have been lost by the chapters on these theories. There is very little about play therapy and how to conduct it with children. The text only offers a very general and broad view of working with children with any of the main theories. I found that each week I was frustrated by having to read this text. I do not feel that it has contributed to my learning in this course. Maybe I am being unfair because I do not care for the course I am in, but the textbook certainly did not help. I have loved all of the classes I have taken over the last 9 quarters as part of my graduate program, but this class and this textbook have done nothing but frustrate me. I do not feel I have learned anything new that I could not have already figured out on my own. The chapters on ethics and children with special needs were the only decent chapters in the text. Sorry to be so harsh, but it was a really frustrating quarter with this textbook.