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Counseling and Life-Span Development
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Counseling and Life-Span Development


December 1989 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Does a client's age affect the counselling process? What special challenges do older clients present for the counsellor? This book links life-span concepts directly to the daily concerns of counsellors. With the focus on major types of problems that bring clients to counselling, Thomas integrates current research with counselling techniques to enable counsellors to better understand the relationship between changes in personality traits and counselling elderly clients. He identifies key decisions that are typically made in the counselling process and determines what kinds of age-related information will positively influence the counselling process.

 
PART ONE: BACKGROUNDS OF DEVELOPMENT AND COUNSELING
 
The Use of Age-Related Normative Information
 
Normal Development and Life-Span Stages
 
Types of Counseling Techniques
 
PART TWO: LIFE-SPAN STAGES AND COUNSELING
 
Infancy and Early Childhood - The Prenatal Period Through Age 5
 
Later Childhood - Ages 6 to 12 - The Elementary-School Years
 
Adolescence - Ages 12 to 21 - The Secondary-School and Post-Secondary Years
 
The Early Adult Years - Ages 21 to 40
 
The Mid-Life Years - Ages 40 to 60
 
The Final Decades - Age 60 and Beyond
 
PART THREE: POSTSCRIPT
 
The Search for More Answers

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ISBN: 9780803936140
$129.00