Full Description
This compelling casebook integrates critical incidents, spirituality, and counseling with diverse populations dealing with issues across the life development continuum. It offers counselor educators, students, and clinicians a highly useful educational tool for more effective teaching and practice that will foster lively discussion, case conceptualization, and intervention skills.
Using an applied format, the book is organized in seven sections: life span issues, spirituality and wellness, specific disorders, substance abuse, career, diverse populations, and spiritual interventions. More than 50 contributors-a veritable who's who of counselors with expertise in their topical areas-have been selected either to present specific incidents or to react to them. After each case is described, an expert practitioner answers the questions posed and provides additional insight and alternative strategies. The editors then offer their reflections, providing a concise summary of counseling outcomes.
Contents
Section I: Life Span Issues
1. Children
2. Adolescents
3. School Counseling
4. Emerging Adulthood
5. Motherhood
6. Couples
7. Women in Midlife Transition
8. Older Adults
9. End of Life
Section II: Spirituality and Wellness
10. Grief and Loss
11. Family Sexual Abuse
12. Healing and Trauma
13. Disaster Mental Health
Section III: Spirituality and Specific Disorders
14. Eating Disorders
15. Sexual Addiction
Section IV: Substance Abuse
16. Alcoholics Anonymous and Addiction
17. Families and Addiction
Section V: Career
18. Career Issues Over the Life Span
19. Job Loss XX
Section VI: Diverse Populations
20. Islamic Identity
21. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients
22. Integrating Religion into Counseling
23. Military Families
24. Offenders
Section VII: Spiritual Interventions
25. Mindfulness Meditation
26. Use of Prayer
27. Group Work and Trauma