Casebook in Child and Adolescent Treatment: Cultural and Familial Contexts

This practical, compelling, and clinically authentic text will help counselors in training work more effectively with children and adolescents from diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this training casebook is to provide students with a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of the treatment process and how change occurs. The book emphasizes the child's experience so that the reader can feel with and understand this young person and the counseling relationship that unfolds.

About the author

Faith Holmes McClure is a psychology professor at California State University, San Bernardino and is an adjunct professor at Loma Linda University. Dr. McClure is also the co-author for the Student Workbook, Instructors Manual and CHALLENGING THERAPEUTIC INTERACTIONS clinical training video with Edward Teyber. Her research interests include multicultural & relational issues in mental health; violence, child abuse & chemical dependence; and developmental psychopathology. Dr. McClure grew up in South Africa during apartheid and hopes she can contribute to psychology in post-apartheid South Africa as a mixed-race person.

Product details

• Authors: Faith Holmes McClure, Edward Teyber
• Publisher: Wadsworth Inc Fulfillment
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780534529406
• ISBN: 978-0-534-52940-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 234 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology