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More What Works When with Children & Adolescents: A Handbook of Individual Counselling Techniques

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Ann Vernon

  • More What Works When with Children & Adolescents

384 pages
2009
ISBN: 9780878226146

This popular second volume provides additional creative counselling strategies, expanded coverage of developmental applications, and over 80 entirely new interventions.

This book is a companion manual to the author’s best-selling, What Works When with Children and Adolescents.

The book addresses both internalising and externalising disorders, such as anxiety, depression, stress, grief, low frustration tolerance, anger, bullying, and acting out. It also covers self-defeating behaviours such as self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, and suicidal behaviour. The interventions teach behavioural and emotional self-control by helping young people understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Activities include games, imagery, art and music activities, bibliotherapy, experiential activities, behavioural rehearsal, and more. Reproducible forms, worksheets, and student handouts are available to download.

The counselling strategies are designed to motivate young clients to participate in their own therapy and learn coping skills that they can use throughout their lifetime for dealing realistically with situational and developmental problems. The counselling approach is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)—a short-term, problem-solving approach that is particularly useful in school settings. The counselling strategies presented are designed to help young people not just feel better, but to help them get better.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Considerations in Working with Young Clients

  • Developmental Considerations
  • Early Childhood
  • Middle Childhood
  • Early Adolescence
  • Mid-Adolescence
  • Implications of Developmental Stages
  • Relationship Between REBT and Development
  • The Therapeutic Relationship
  • Building Rapport
  • Strategies for Building Rapport with Children (Ages 5 to 10)
  • Strategies for Building Rapport with Adolescents (Ages 11 to 18)
  • Establishing Goals

Chapter 2: Basic Principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

  • Basic Principles: The ABC’s of REBT
  • Rational and Irrational Beliefs
  • Disputation
  • Effective New Philosophy, Feelings, and Behaviors
  • Specific Applications to Children and Adolescents
  • Problem Assessment
  • The ABC Process
  • The A—Activating Event
  • The C—Emotional and Behavioral Consequences
  • The B—Beliefs
  • The D—Disputing Irrational Beliefs
  • The E—Effective New Philosophy (Thoughts)
  • The F—Effective New Feelings
  • Homework
  • Evaluation

Chapter 3: Interventions for Internalizing Problems

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Stress
  • Grief

Chapter 4: Interventions for Externalizing Problems

  • Low Frustration Tolerance
  • Anger
  • Acting Out
  • Bullying

Chapter 5: Interventions for Typical Developmental Problems

  • Self-Acceptance
  • Relationships
  • Transitions

Chapter 6: Applications for Parents and Teachers

  • Problem Assessment
  • Identifying Irrational Beliefs
  • Disputing Irrational Beliefs
  • Teaching and Parenting Styles
  • Authoritarian Style
  • Permissive Style
  • Authoritative Style
  • Solving the Practical Problem
  • Logical Consequences
  • Communication Techniques: What Doesn’t Work and What Does
  • Rational Emotive Education
  • Case Study
  • Summary of Case Study

Appendix: Game Board