Crisis Counseling with Children and Adolescents
Overview
Here is a book for parents, teachers, concerned relatives, clergy, guidance counselors, medical personnel—anyone who cares for children. It offers guidance for helping kids through traumatic experiences such as death, divorce, sickness, hospitalization, handicaps, as well as aggression, and defiance. It identifies how and when to make a referral to a professional helper, and is based on the latest findings of child psychologists. This text provides helpful case histories, methods, essential references, and a useful bibliography.
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- Discusses a variety of case studies and methods
- Offers advice for guiding children through traumatic experiences
- Presents tips on caring for children’s emotional health
Top Highlights
“A child’s initial reaction to loss of control leads to protest, anger, and defiance. Repeated loss leads to helplessness. This helplessness is most often expressed as passivity or retreat when challenged. Fearfulness, depression, and physical illness are expressions of this helplessness. Helplessness is actually a perception that control can never be regained; children with repeated loss of control become those with lack of control.” (Page 7)
“The problem child is a child with a problem. Ironically, children who display behavioral problems often are the children who receive the least understanding. Adults usually deal with the problem child instead of trying to understand the child with a problem.” (Page 4)
“The first specific reaction to a crisis is initial shock followed by high anxiety” (Page 5)
“Definitions of crisis emphasize that a crisis creates a turning point, in this instance a turning point for the child and for you as well. Crises can turn one in different directions. The mediators in a crisis situation can enable children to turn in a positive direction. They can turn them when they know approaches to take and are aware of their own limits.” (Page 1)
“To understand the child, you need to understand the feelings, conflicts, and crises from which the behavior has evolved” (Page 5)
Every parent should keep this book on the shelf right next to the nutrition, medical, and Dr. Spock books.
—Marriage and Family Living
This superb book is indeed a guide for nonprofessional counselors, and is written for all who work with children.
—Books Unlimited
- Title: Crisis Counseling with Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors
- Authors: William Van Ornum, John B. Mordock
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Crisis intervention (Mental health services); Child psychotherapy; Adolescent psychotherapy; Crisis intervention › In infancy and childhood; Crisis intervention › In adolescence; Counseling › Methods
- ISBNs: 9781579109264, 1579109268
- Resource ID: LLS:CRSSCNSLDLSCNTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:01:20Z
William Van Ornum is professor of psychology at Marist College and director of research, development, and grants at American Mental Health Foundation in New York City. He studied theology and scripture at DePaul University. He is the coauthor of Psychological Testing across the Lifespan
John B. Mordock is a child and family psychologist. He is the author of Counseling the Defiant Child: A Basic Guide to Helping Troubled and Aggressive Youth, The Other Children: An Introduction to Exceptionality, and the coauthor of A Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children.