Counselling Adolescents

This might be the only book you need.

Counselling Adolescents is a comprehensive and assiduously organised book.

Divided into four parts, the first two provide introductory and foundational grounding on the subject matter for the remaining parts to then focus on the ‘proactive’ approaches thereon out. Reading is supported in this text with many figures, highlighted key points, several tables, a chapter on counselling micro-skills and suggested further readings that all help to activate the easy understanding of the processes and strategies of proactive counselling with young people. Three notable chapters lay-out symbolic, creative and psycho-educational strategies with a thorough methodology. I found the sections on metaphor insightful as well as the use of symbols for potentially accessing ‘material from the unconscious,’ with the compact case studies at the end of these chapters providing further consolidation. The book concludes with two fully scripted case studies split into two columns, one of the session text and the other being the skills and strategies used by the counsellor so the reader can examine their application in the field in a real in-time context.

With this book the three co-authors have streamlined their combined decades of experience using completely disentangled language to fashion a tome of maximum use-vale for this field and it shines with excellence. It is also excellent value for money. So much so it is fair to say that this book will get continual use by anyone starting out in counselling with young people and revisited throughout ones career for its speedy reference functionality and accessibility of content. Such user friendliness makes it the ideal purchase for students as the book not only provides online resources for students but also downloadable PDFs that support a twelve session counselling training programme for lecturers also.