Helping The Struggling Adolescent: A Counseling Guide (Helping Teenagers)

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A practical resource tool and handbook for everyone striving to help young people through times of struggle. Most of the book is a reference guide to 30 common teenage problems arranged alphabetically--from abuse to suicide. "We need all the help we can get, and Les Parrott has provided a lot of it. Youth workers will find this book invaluable".--Tony Campolo.

This counseling guide is for all the people who have found "Helping the Struggling Adolescent" the versatile, handy, and authoritative resource it was meant to be. As a companion book, this guide is an additional reference tool for counseling and working with teenagers. The first part concerns special issues in counseling, such as: common pitfalls in counseling adolescents, legal and ethical issues related to counseling, and avoiding burnout. Part two contains more than forty rapid assessment tools and instructions on how to use them. The tests, collected from a wide range of professional sources, are cross-referenced to specific chapters and issues discussed in "Helping the Struggling Adolescent." With each tool is an explanation of its purpose, the means of scoring it, and the source where permission may be obtained for using it.
Adolescent Psychotherapy / Teenagers - Counseling Of / Teenagers/ Counseling Of / Teenagers/ Psychological Testing