Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326) and index.
Contents:
Counseling in clinical practice : overview -- Positive psychology : in brief -- Good counselors : knowledge, skills, characteristics, and attitudes -- Communication counseling with parents of children with or at risk for disability -- Counseling issues with children who have communication disorders -- Communication counseling with adult clients and their families for whom progression is toward improvement -- Communication counseling with adult clients and their families for whom expected progression is toward deterioration -- Teaching resilience and optimism to families and persons with communication disorders : some workshop formats -- There's an elephant in the room : issues in death and dying / Stan Goldberg.
Summary:
Counseling in Communication Disorders: A Wellness Perspective, now in its second edition, is a textbook for graduate counseling courses in speech-language pathology and audiology programs. The counseling skills introduced in this book are based on the model of positive psychology, a rapidly growing branch of psychology that focuses on mental health and well-being and how to achieve and maintain these states. By incorporating the key elements of positive psychology into clinical practice, speech pathologists and audiologists can more effectively help patients live productively and successfully with their communication problems. The authors offer examples, exercises, and specific techniques for working with individuals and families who have communication disorders acquired in adulthood, for working with parents of children with catastrophic conditions that are present at birth, and for working both with children and families of those whose communication disorders are incurred in childhood or adolescence. In addition, they also feature one-on-one activities and model workshop examples for use with groups. With its updates and additions, this Second Edition, is destined to remain a popular resource and teaching tool for developing SLPs and audiologists.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.