Counseling Children and Adolescents, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (2 March 2026) © 2027

  • Victoria E. Kress
  • Matthew J. Paylo Youngstown State University
  • Nicole Stargell The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
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Counseling Children and Adolescents empowers you to thoughtfully, deliberately help young clients tackle complex issues and difficulties in your counseling career. It covers the principal approaches to counseling children and adolescents, discusses common issues that bring children and adolescents to counseling, and helps you understand what counseling younger people looks like.

The 2nd Edition updates each chapter with the most current research and new content; expands discussion of telehealth along with ethical and legal considerations in youth counseling; adds more applications and examples throughout; and much more.

Table of contents

  1. Developmentally Informed Youth Counseling
  2. Systemically Informed Youth Counseling
  3. Individual Counseling in Action: Principles, Techniques, and Best Practices
  4. Ethical and Legal Foundations
  5. Counseling Theories That Focus on Thought and Behavior Change and Action
  6. Counseling Theories That Focus on Background Experiences and Relationships
  7. Counseling Theories That Focus on Family Change Processes
  8. The Use of Play and Creative Arts in Counseling
  9. Conceptualizing Young Clients’ Situations and Directing Counseling
  10. Youth Suicide, Self-Injury, and Homicide
  11. Family-Related Transitions and Struggles
  12. Academic and Social-Emotional Transitions and Concern
  13. Neurodiversity and Neurodivergences
  14. Externalized Behavior Concerns
  15. Abuse and Trauma
  16. Substance Use and Addictions
  17. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
  18. Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
  19. Physical Health-Related Counseling Concerns

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