Bøker av Victoria Kress

Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Case Conceptualization and Treatment offers students and new counselors specific treatment planning, implementation, and intervention strategies in addition to background information on clinical issues and DSM-5 diagnoses and interventions. A strength-based framework for conceptualizing and treating clients guides students through the process of selecting and implementing treatments. Real-life examples illustrate how critical counseling concepts and approaches are applied in actual practice. Updated with current, evidence-based treatment techniques, a new chapter on culture and ethics, and even more applications and examples, this highly practical resource empowers counselors to thoughtfully and deliberately help their clients tackle complex issues and difficulties.

For courses in child and adult counseling and play therapy.A practical, evidence-based introduction on counseling children and adolescentsCounseling Children and Adolescents empowers counselors to thoughtfully and deliberately help young clients tackle complex issues and difficulties. The text covers the principal approaches to counseling children and adolescents, discusses the common issues that bring children and adolescents to counseling, and helps readers understand what counseling younger people looks like. What sets this work apart are its concrete applications and its clear, accessible writing. As one reviewer put it, the text’s key strengths are a “practical synthesis of theory into clinical and school counseling..., engaging case studies that are diverse and multiculturally sensitive..., [and] real world application.”Also available with MyLab Counseling MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Counseling organizes all assignments around essential learning outcomes and the CACREP standards–enabling easy course alignment and reporting. Learn more about MyLab Counseling.