The Counseling Handbook: Practical Strategies to Help Children with Common Problems*

This useful guidebook provides treatment options for the most common problems children face. Each chapter focuses on a topic: divorce, trauma, grief, ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Giftedness, depression, step families and blended families, and eating disorders. Each chapter goes through all the steps of intervention, from intake to treatment, as well as discussing complications and long-term concerns.

An excellent resource for the busy counselor and therapist.

About the author:
Throughout her life Bo Flood has enjoyed reading, writing, and the sharing of stories. Her work has focused primarily on children and young adults, as counselor, teacher, or parent. She has conducted workshops on child abuse, learning disabilities, play therapy, as well as creative writing.

Through either work or research, Bo has lived in Malawi, Africa, Hawaii, Japan, the western Pacific, and, most recently, the Navajo Nation Reservation. Legends and folklore are of particular interest to Bo, for they hold the magic and mystery of other peoples or generations beliefs. When we read, we learn about ourselves and about someone, somewhere or sometime else.

Harcover: 192 pages