Brown Douglas T. - Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents Theory and Practice for School and Clinical Settings

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents : theory

and practice for school and clinical settings / edited by H. Thompson

Prout, Douglas T. Brown.4th ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-0-471-77091-6 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Child psychotherapy. 2. Adolescent psychotherapy. 3. Children

Counseling of. I. Prout, H. Thompson. II. Brown, Douglas T.

[DNLM: 1. Psychotherapy. 2. Adolescent. 3. Child. 4. Counseling.

WS 350.2 C855 2007]

RJ504.C64 2007

618.928914dc22

2006025191

To our now young adult children, Alex, Lauren, and Adam who have continued to teach us lessons not available in books.

Contributors

Preface

As we began preparing the fourth edition of this book, it was interesting to review the Prefaces to the earlier editions. Most interesting was the Preface to the first edition: We noted that there really wasnt much scholarly work devoted to therapeutic interventions with children and adolescents. The impetus to the first edition was the lack of options in choosing textbooks for courses in counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents. At the time, books were either focused on single theories or were downward extensions of adult-based theory. Gratifyingly, this has changed.

Our aim in this edition is similar to the earlier editionsto offer comprehensive overviews of major theoretical approaches to interventions with children and adolescents. We continue to place great value on the understanding of theory while acknowledging the need to integrate approaches and to have multiple options for dealing with the array of child and adolescent social-emotional difficulties. We also strongly feel that legal, ethical, and multicultural issues cut across all intervention areas and that issues in working with children and adolescents with disabilities and health conditions is a major role for mental health professionals.