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Book SynopsisEngaging, Creative, and Practical - Lakitta D. Johnson, Jackson State University Introduction to Family Counseling: A Case Study Approach presents basic knowledge about family counseling and applies various theoretical models to a case example looking at one nuclear family, along with its extended family members, that readers follow throughout the text. Judy Esposito and Abbi Hattem's multi-generational family is constructed from their experiences as professors and family therapists to exemplify the concepts and theories of family counseling. Beyond the theories of family counseling, students learn about the family life cycle and various tools for assessing families as well as the history of family counseling. Ethical issues relevant to family counseling are also included along with transcripts from hypothetical family counseling sessions throughout the book. In addition, the book focuses on working with diverse families and takes special care Trade Review"Working with Families: A Case Study Approach offers a much needed approach to engaging students in the process of understanding and helping families. By using a multi-generational family case study, the authors open a window into working with families." -- Garry M. Breland"Engaging, Creative, and Practical" -- Lakitta D. Johnson"You get a first-hand experience of being a family counselor as you undergo the experiential process of learning terms, skills, and concerns as you work with a family throughout this text." -- Drew Curtis"Students will enjoy learning family systems from this engaging and comprehensive text." -- Shannon Wolf"[Working with Families: A Case Study Approach] is extremely thorough and provides many thought provoking exercise and activities that can be used in the classroom." -- Judith E. BeechlerTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction to the Family Chapter 1: The Manning-Kelly Family Cast List Genogram Presenting Problem History of the Presenting Problem Social Support Clinical Observations and Impressions Preliminary Assessment Theoretical Conceptualization Conclusion Chapter 2: Families and the Family Life Cycle The Family Life Cycle Conclusion Chapter 3: Assessing Families Traditionally and Creatively Traditional Assessment Methods Lifestyle Questionnaire Family Sculpting Christina′s Family Sculpture Family Scripting Family Play Therapy Family Puppet Shows Family Build-A-House Family Aquarium Family Play Genograms Conclusion Part II: Theories of Family Counseling Chapter 4: The Family Systems Approach to Family Counseling Origins of Family Counseling Family Systems and Family Dynamics Family Subsystems Circular Causation and Feedback Loops Homeostasis and Equilibrium Family Rules First and Second Order Change Second Order Cybernetics Function of the Presenting Problem in the Family Family Resiliency Systemic Assessment of the Manning-Kelly Family Conclusions Chapter 5: Multi-Generational Family Counseling Emotional Fusion and Differentiation of Self Triangles Nuclear Family Emotional Process Family Projection Process Cut-Offs Multigenerational Transmissions Family Roles Sibling Position Societal Emotional Process Genograms Conclusions Chapter 6: Structural Family Counseling Structural Family Counseling Concepts Structural Family Counseling Using Structural Family Counseling with the Manning-Kelly Family Summary and Conclusions Chapter 7: Experiential Family Counseling What is Experiential Counseling? Experiencing the Emotional Layer of the Family The Family System Experiential Counseling Interventions Virginia Satir′s Family Growth Model Using Experiential Counseling with the Manning-Kelly Family Conclusions Chapter 8: Other Approaches to Family Counseling Introduction Adlerian Family Counseling Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Post-Modern Integrative Family Counseling Conclusion Part III: Other Aspects of Family Counseling Chapter 9: Special Topics in Family Counseling Multicultural Families LGBTQIA Families Single-Parent Families Blended Families Families with Aging Members Families with Biomedical Conditions Families Coping with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders Domestic Violence Conclusions Chapter 10: The Counselor′s Experience Working with Families The Power of Family Systems How Families Induce Family Counselors Managing Multiple Relationships Comfort with Diversity Experiencing the Family Experiencing the Manning-Kelly and Jones Family Self-Awareness, Self-Care, & Ethical Practice [+plan, bal own fam] The School Counselor′s Experience Conclusions Chapter 11: Ethics of Family Counseling Introduction Protecting Clients Reporting Laws Law and Ethics Referrals Self-Care Scope of Practice Ethical Decision-Making Model Conclusions Part IV: Current Trends in Family Counseling Chapter 12: Family Issues Requiring Services Beyond Counseling Cultural Competence Working with Multicultural Families LGBTQIA Single-Parent Families Blended Families Families with Aging Members Families with Biomedical Conditions Families Coping with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Disorders Domestic Violence Conclusion Chapter 13: Services Available to Families Social Services School Counselors and School Social Workers In-Home Services Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Respite Care in Group Homes Wilderness Therapy Programs and Camps Employee Assistance Programs Support for Military Families Faith-Based Support Programs Non-Profit Agencies Referral Process Chapter 14: What′s Next for the Manning-Kelly Family? Introduction Family Counseling What′s Next for the Manning-Kelly and Jones Family? What′s Next for the Individual Family Members? Family Secrets Termination What′s Next for You as a Family Counselor? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWith its practical, experiential approach, the Second Edition of Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers to look at every situation differently and draw from their embedded knowledge to best serve the individuals in their care. Authors Leah Brew and Jeffrey A. Kottler weave humor and passion into their engaging prose, effectively conveying their excitement and satisfaction for doing helping work.Trade Review"Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives, Second Edition discusses profound principles of helping in a simple conversational manner." -- Monte Gray"This is a great text, as it provides an accessible approach to the essentials of applied helping skills and demystifies the helping profession." -- Theresa Benson"The simplicity in the delivery of this text book is a key component is helping students at undergraduate and graduate learn the key principles involved in helping people to transform their lives. This textbook offers the student an insight into developing excellent skills in becoming therapists." -- Marian ConnellTable of ContentsPart I: Foundations for Skills Chapter 1: The Process Revealed Reading Minds and Other Superpowers My Psychic Powers Secrets Revealed How Therapists Enhance Their Powers Power and Influence You Gotta Be Desperate It’s All About Leverage Amateurs Versus Professionals A Few Missing Ingredients The Perfect Counseling Student Chapter 2: Clients in Need: Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors Cultural Context of the Client Experience Cultural Skills and Competencies Become Familiar With Cultural Differences Assess Stage of Cultural Identity Overview of a Client Concern Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Helping Skills How to be a Good Client Decisions, Decisions Chapter 3: Models of Helping Theories and Their Offspring An Integrated Model Part II: Skills to Use With Individuals Chapter 4: Skills for Builiding Collaborative Relationships Your Best Relationships Uses of the Therapeutic Relationship About Empathy Relationship Skills Chapter 5: Skills of Assessment and Diagnosis The Mental Status Exam The Basics of Conducting an Intake Interview Structured Intake Interviews Special Considerations in Assessing Addiction Special Considerations in Assessing Physical or Sexual Abuse Special Considerations for High Suicide Risk Special Considerations for Crisis Situations Objective and Subjective Sources of Information Models of Diagnosis Remembering What You See and Hear Making Things Fit Your Style Chapter 6: Exploration Skills An Overview of the Exploration Stage Structuring the Conversations Opening With a Story Asking Questions Reflecting Skills Putting Reflecting Skills Together Exploring the Past Summarizing Themes Chapter 7: Promoting Understanding and Insight The Uses of Insight The Limits of Insight Selected Skills for Promoting Understanding What Happens Next? Chapter 8: Facilitating Action Transition From Insight to Action Dealing With Resistance The Miracle Question Setting Goals Generating Alternatives Reinforcing Behavior Relaxation Training Using Rehearsal and Imagery Using Role-Playing Using the Empty Chair Using the Transference Chapter 9: Maintaining Progress and Evaluating Results Some Assessment Challenges Skills of Evaluating Outcomes and Measuring Results: The Client’s Efforts Skills of Evaluating Outcomes and Measuring Results: The Therapist’s Efforts Ending Therapy Effectively Part III: Skills to Use With Multiple Clients Chapter 10: Skills for Family Therapy and Other Roles for Therapists A Different Way of Looking at Things Structuring a Family Interview Couples Counseling Specialized Skills for Working With Children The Roles You Take as a Therapist Chapter 11: Group Leadership Skills Group Stage Development Group Dynamics Group Leadership Approaches Unique Ethical Challenges Chapter 12: Where to Go Next What If I Don’t Know What to Do? What If My Supervisor Finds Out How Little I Know? What If I Hurt Someone? What If I Don’t Have What It Takes? Some Advice About Where to Go Next

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Book SynopsisThis book serves as an important link between conflict resolution practice and education by providing research from the unique perspective and approach of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, one of the world's leading academic programs for PACS research: storytelling, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation. Each chapter presents original research in critical issues in the field of PACS, and provides recent research for the future development of the field and the education of its practitioners and academics. The book has a wide audience targeting students at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. It also extends to those working in and leading community conflict resolution efforts as well as humanitarian aid workers. Exploring the issues facing the field provides a means by which academics, students, and practitioners can develop theory, practice, pedagogy, and methodology to confront the complexity of contemporary conflicts while expanding opportuniTrade ReviewThis book stands as a testimonial to the profound impact of the Mauro Centre and its Ph.D. program on the field of Peace and Conflict Studies. The range of topics covered by these authors, all relatively new scholars who share insights from their doctoral dissertations completed at the Mauro Centre, demonstrates the breadth and vitality of this young and growing discipline. The chapters of the book move smoothly from research based within the local Winnipeg, Manitoba, scene to inquiries spanning national, international, and global contexts. The collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the current questions and the new directions explored through the academic study of conflict and peace. -- Neil Funk-Unrau, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Associate Dean of Menno Simons College, a College of Canadian Mennonite UniversityStories define our identities. And they define our “Others” be they antagonistic or friendly. This book is about stories—who tells them, for what reason, to whom, in which context. In doing so it nudges the field of peace and conflict studies (PACS) in the direction of narrative. A dozen doctoral graduates of the Arthur Mauro integrate a range of methodologies—ethnographic, phenomenological, qualitative, historical—to take us into the lives of conflict stricken individuals and groups, showing how stories, and research on stories, can be used for healing transformation. Though conscious of starting in Winnipeg, their work takes us outward to immigrants crossing into the United States, to confronting racism at the ’68 Olympics, to Afghanistan, and the contested narratives of Israelis and Palestinians in five universities in Israel. It should be required reading for those taking PACS related degrees. -- Vern Redekop, professor emeritus, Saint Paul UniversityThe practice of peacebuilding and the transformation of conflict take shape within this book. This new and rapidly developing field tackles the complexity of transformative change. Here the application takes shape through the work of the 12 authors. In writing the story of their research, the authors move from theory to practice. There are treasures here that highlight the use of conflict transformation and peacebuilding in multiple contexts and at many levels from the personal to the interpersonal to the communal. Gems exist in each chapter with exemplars at multiple levels--intergroup and intragroup, organizational, and community. Complex issues of conflict are addressed from the local to the national and from immediate to intractable. Systemic issues of oppression are tackled across multiple dimensions. At each level the centering of local control and practices are highlighted. -- Cathryne L. Schmitz, University of North CarolinaTable of ContentsChapter 1. Sharing Circles: The Benefits and Limitations in Peacebuilding Initiatives -- Cathy Rocke Chapter 2. Applying the Conflict Transformation Lens to Understand Why Indigenous Canadians Drop Out of School -- Laura Reimer Chapter 3. Peacebuilding Projects as a Conflict Transformation Tool: A Meso-level Perspective from Winnipeg -- Kawser Ahmed Chapter 4. The Power of Stories in Qualitative Research Editorial Warning: Contains graphic and disturbing material -- Bob Chrismas Chapter 5. Hermeneutic Phenomenological Understandings of Canadian Soldiers’ Experiences in Peace Support Operations -- Patlee Creary Chapter 6. Racialized and Gendered Peacebuilding in the U.S.-Mexico Border Justice Movement-- Jodi Dueck-Read Chapter 7. The Role of Transitional Justice in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in Kenya -- Peter Karari Chapter 8. Living with Others: Learning for Peace and Global Citizenship Lloyd Kornelsen Chapter 9. Players or Pawns? Protest, Participation, and Principled Nonviolence at the 1968 Summer Olympics -- Chris Hrynkow Chapter 10. Towards an Integrated Framework of Conflict Resolution and Transformation in Environmental Policymaking: Case Study of the North American Great Lakes Area -- Olga Skarlato Chapter 11. “You’re sitting in my desk!” Researching the ‘Past in the Present’ in Israel -- Katerina Standish Chapter 12. The Challenge of Local Ownership of Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: Dependency, Biased Coordination, and Scant Timelines -- Chuck Thiessen

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Book SynopsisRape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.Trade ReviewFor those of us exhausted by the ineffectual and insincere efforts to contain the problem of sexual assault on our college and university campuses, Meredith Minister’s Rape Culture on Campus is a welcome reprieve. Minister’s book is written for an audience of academics, in our native language (that of Bourdieu, Edelman, and Ahmed), but recognizes this audience as one deeply in need of both analytical and pedagogical practices that resist rape culture. To this end, Minister deploys the work of feminist, womanist, queer, crip theorists to re-frame the issue, one that is all too often reduced to compensatory damages. Using her background in Religious and Theological studies, Minister effectively situates the problem as an outgrowth of the cultures of purity and law enforcement that remain ignored. Coercion, sexism, and religion, she argues, maintain the culture of violence that animates rape culture on campus. Beyond her astute assessment of the problem, Minister provides her readers with concrete approaches to institutional policies and pedagogical practices that offer a vision of higher education that can not only prevent, but resist the foundational and practical entrenchment of rape culture. For anyone concerned about their students, survivors of sexual assault, and the integrity of institutions of higher education, Rape Culture on Campus is essential reading material. -- Sara Moslener, Central Michigan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Section I: Untying the Knot of Rape Culture Chapter 1: Purity Culture Chapter 2: Violence and Policing Section II: Rape on Campus Chapter 3: Exploring Institutional Structures Chapter 4: Assumptions of Autonomy in Co-Curricular Responses to Sexual Violence Section III: Sexual Violence and the Classroom Chapter 5: De-individualizing Sexual Violence in the Classroom: Trauma and the Trigger Warning Debates Chapter 6: Transforming Rape Culture through the Classroom Conclusion Bibliography About the author

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Book SynopsisRape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.Trade ReviewFor those of us exhausted by the ineffectual and insincere efforts to contain the problem of sexual assault on our college and university campuses, Meredith Minister’s Rape Culture on Campus is a welcome reprieve. Minister’s book is written for an audience of academics, in our native language (that of Bourdieu, Edelman, and Ahmed), but recognizes this audience as one deeply in need of both analytical and pedagogical practices that resist rape culture. To this end, Minister deploys the work of feminist, womanist, queer, crip theorists to re-frame the issue, one that is all too often reduced to compensatory damages. Using her background in Religious and Theological studies, Minister effectively situates the problem as an outgrowth of the cultures of purity and law enforcement that remain ignored. Coercion, sexism, and religion, she argues, maintain the culture of violence that animates rape culture on campus. Beyond her astute assessment of the problem, Minister provides her readers with concrete approaches to institutional policies and pedagogical practices that offer a vision of higher education that can not only prevent, but resist the foundational and practical entrenchment of rape culture. For anyone concerned about their students, survivors of sexual assault, and the integrity of institutions of higher education, Rape Culture on Campus is essential reading material. -- Sara Moslener, Central Michigan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Section I: Untying the Knot of Rape Culture Chapter 1: Purity Culture Chapter 2: Violence and Policing Section II: Rape on Campus Chapter 3: Exploring Institutional Structures Chapter 4: Assumptions of Autonomy in Co-Curricular Responses to Sexual Violence Section III: Sexual Violence and the Classroom Chapter 5: De-individualizing Sexual Violence in the Classroom: Trauma and the Trigger Warning Debates Chapter 6: Transforming Rape Culture through the Classroom Conclusion Bibliography About the author

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Students, beginning and seasoned mental health professionals will be better prepared for diversity practice by this accessible, timely, provocative, and critical work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, Fifth Edition. Author Tracy Robinson-Wood demonstrates, through both the time honored tradition of storytelling and clinically-focused case studies, the process of patient and therapist transformation. This insightful, practical resource offers behavioral health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability. With a keen focus on quality patient care, this important text aims to help professionals better serve patients across sources of diversity. Readers will recognize their roles and responsibilities as social justice agents of change, while identifying the ways in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate clients’ feelings of stuckness and inadequacy, in both the therapeutic alliance and within the larger society. This remarkable text reveres the lifelong commitment of using knowledge and skills as power for good to make a meaningful difference in people′s lives.

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Book SynopsisCrisis and Trauma Counseling: Unique Forms of Helping introduces students to the nature of crisis and provides them an overview of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required by mental health professionals to successfully assist in a time of crisis. The book begins by providing readers with a definition of crisis and an explanation of the nature of crisis work. Section I discusses what a crises is and how it differs from other events, why crises have a significant impact on those who experience them, the crisis cycle, an individual’s physical, psychological, and emotional responses to crisis, and the unique practice of crisis intervention. Section II teaches students how to assess the severity of a crisis, how to identify clients at risk of self-harm or harm of others, and how to recognize disorders such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, and acute stress disorder.Section III addresses the many faces of crisis, presenting information on intimate violence, disaster recovery, terrorism, mass shootings, and hostage situations. This section also provides students with setting-specific crisis intervention techniques, strategies for developing an identity as a crisis counselor, and an overview of legal and ethical issues in crisis intervention. Written to provide students with a comprehensive look into the world and complex responsibilities of a crisis counselor, this text is ideal for courses in clinical mental health counseling, addiction counseling, social work, family counseling, and school counseling.

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Book SynopsisDo you want to be an inspiring teacher for everyone you teach, even the trickier cherubs in your class? Or maybe you just want to get through a lesson without a desk flying at you or a blazer being set alight? In this down-to-earth book Adele Bates shares practical approaches, strategies and tips from the classroom on how to help pupils with behavioural needs thrive with their education. Packed full of real-life classroom scenarios, student voice and relevant theory, every chapter offers an Action Box helping you to implement these strategies – next lesson, next week and long term. From relationship building and teaching self-regulation, to fostering inclusivity, paying attention to your own self-care and schoolwide approaches, Adele Bates unpicks some of the most difficult aspects of being a teacher and empowers you to grow as a confident classroom professional. Trade ReviewA humorously-written book detailing all you need to know about creating effective relationships in the classroom and revolutionising the way we view teaching and learning. -- FJ KingLooking for a breath of fresh air when it comes to behaviour management? Look no further. With wit and wisdom, passion and compassion, Adele Bates not only puts the relationships between teacher and young person at the heart of the educational endeavour, but also gives that young person a voice. -- Ian GilbertThis book offers an in-depth, detailed and nuanced overview of the subject of behaviour, with a particular focus on building relationships, helping pupils to feel safe and on teacher self-care. It is a must read book for all teachers, and will be particularly helpful for those working in the most challenging contexts, staff in alternative provision and those working with children who have SEND and SEMH. -- Sue CowleyAdele Bates has written a highly readable book brimming with practical ideas, exuberant optimism and encouragement of experimentation. She urges practitioners to see beyond the so-called bad behaviour to the human being in context. This is a book that celebrates the importance of reflection, empathy and care, including the all vital task of self-care. -- Melissa BennTable of ContentsChapter 1: “Miss, you look sh*t”: Boundaries, negotiations and care – for you Chapter 2: “Miss, there’s no way I’m coming to your class”: Safety first (learning second) Chapter 3: “Miss, you are not my Mum”: Building Relationship Chapter 4: “Miss, you don’t even know me”: See the child, not the behaviour Chapter 5: “Miss, but I am being quiet”: Explicitly teaching behaviour and self-regulation Chapter 6: “Miss, you are the worst teacher ever”: Don’t take it personally Chapter 7: “Miss, I’m too thick to be in this class”: Inclusivity, belonging and bias Chapter 8: “Miss, do you live in this classroom?”: Be part of a team Chapter 9: “Miss, this school is dead”: Schoolwide approaches to behaviour Chapter 10: “Miss, do you actually know what you’re doing?”: Troubleshooting

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Book SynopsisContemporary Case Studies in School Counseling is not a guide to school counseling, but rather a conversation starter on the challenges that school counselors face on a daily basis. From cyber sexting to unmotivated students to anxiety disorders, school counselors must be ready for the unexpected. Throughout the 15 case studies in this text, readers will be guided through therapies, strategies, and solutions from a school counselor’s perspective. The text is written with the school counselor as narrator, providing readers with a first-hand look into the counselor’s rationale, biases, and experiences that guide the counseling process. From this school counselor’s perspective, readers will be vividly drawn into the varying situations and approaches for each case study. The reader will be guided through various therapy approaches as well as given questions for discussion in small groups or large classroom discussions. This book will help train better school counselors as the audience will be presented with current situations and problems that school counselors in the twenty-first century face.Trade ReviewThis text offers a refreshing approach to sharing the voices and experiences of school counselors working with today's diverse children and adolescents. Each case study is grounded in a theoretical orientation that drives the reader to consider the purpose behind the interventions and strategies applied in a real-world setting. This must-read book provides readers, especially school counselors-in-training, with the opportunity to bridge theory and practice and can foster rich and lively discussions at any stage of a counselor's professional growth and development. -- Elizabeth Villares, Florida Atlantic UniversityContemporary Case Studies in School Counseling is a text worth incorporating into any school counseling masters/specialist program, particularly in a theories or practice course. Through detailed case studies, the authors describe current challenges that school counseling practitioners can and will face. Each is then followed by discussion questions that can assist the counseling student or practitioner in thoughtful reflection. -- Melissa Mariani, Florida Atlantic UniversityThis outstanding book for school counselors focuses on the counseling application of each theory, with clear examples of real-life case studies and personal reflections of the authors who lived these cases, detailing their struggles and triumphs. It is a must-read for school counseling students before entering their field experiences and for professional school counselors who would like to feel more confident in their counseling work. -- Colette Dollarhide, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Humanist Theory Chapter 1: Elementary: LiamLiam is a new student and is struggling to make new friends in his first grade classroom. He was a strong student prior to moving mid-year, but now is struggling to focus and is refusing at times to do any work. The school counselor tried to connect with Liam using a person-centered humanistic approach, where he focuses on building's Liam's sense of self. Chapter 2: Middle School: SarahThe school counselor explores the need of a middle school aged girl with generalized anxiety. By exploring the therapeutic relationship and resistance, the counselor works with the student to identify healthy coping strategies and approaches to managing her anxiety in a school setting. 3. Chapter 3: High School: DeeDee A fourteen year old girl, DeeDee, from a minority population struggles with conflict resolution. A critical look at a school counselor's role in understanding and navigating a different culture, this case discusses the importance of person-centered counseling strategies and self-awareness in the counseling process. Part II: Adlerian Theory 4. Chapter 4: Elementary: Xavier Elementary school is hard for 4th grader, Xavier, who is constantly in trouble due to his high level of energy in the classroom and lack of respect for classroom rules. He is referred to his school counselor to develop energy managing skills; however the school counselor utilizes an Adlerian approach to help the child and teacher celebrate his cultural norms, while finding success in the classroom setting. 5. Chapter 5: Middle School: Parker An 8th grader, Parker, has identified as LGBTQ to their school counselor. With the support from Parker's parents and family, Parker would like to work on enhancing the middle school climate for other LGBTQ students. The school counselor works with Parker with an Adlerian lens to promote a positive school culture for all students. 6. Chapter 6: High School: Graham A young freshmen in high school struggles with the school setting, although he is extremely bright and verbal. He is failing classes, struggles with friendships, and does not have support at home. The school counselor works with Graham on his anger management, ADHD, and developing social skills to utilize his strengths with Adlerian counseling. Part III: Reality Choice Theory 7. Chapter 7: Elementary: Mia An anxious second grade student, Mia, is referred by her parents to her school counselor for nail biting and avoiding school. Mia struggles with large groups and school triggers these responses. The school counselor works with Mia and her family to develop relaxation and breathing techniques. By helping her meet her physiological needs, the school counselor is helping Mia control her own reality. 8. Chapter 8: Middle School: Mason and Alexander Two 7th grade boys, Mason and Alexander, are sent to the school counselor's office for fighting during lunch time. The counselor works to better understand the situation and lack of understanding between the two young men. With a reality choice theoretical perspective, the school counselor teaches Mason and Alexander basic counseling skills so that they can better understand each other and develop a positive partnership. 9. Chapter 9: High School: Zoey Zoey storms into her school counselors office, upset that her parents are pressuring her to go to their alma mater for college. She is frustrated and feels that she is not being given the autonomy she is deserved. The school counselor works to help Zoey advocate for herself and develop strategies to gain back the freedom she is lacking. Part IV: Family Systems Theory 10. Chapter 10: Elementary: Olivia An elementary child in 2nd grade challenges her school counselor as she struggles with communicating with school staff. Olivia would bark or twirp, but would refuse to communicate verbally with words. As her verbal skills developed, her behaviors became more aggressive that often endangered others and herself. Over two years, the school counselor worked with Olivia and her family support to find resources to meet her varying needs. 11. Chapter 11: Middle School: Mikaela Mikaela is in 6th grade, and she is referred to her counselor when her parents discover that she's been sending revealing photos to older men. The counselor works to understand the client's family system and uses a psychoanalytic lens to help her client establish appropriate boundaries as she moves through a highly dynamic developmental phase in her life. 12. Chapter 12: High School: Jamal Jamal was an advanced student in a high school setting. Following a sports injury, Jamal was diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury and developed new personality traits that negatively impacted his relationships and schoolwork. Jamal's school counselor worked closely with his parents and guardians with a Family Systems approach to navigate the challenges of his diagnosis and to come to the terms of Jamal's changed future. Part V: Cognitive Behavior Theory 13. Chapter 13: Elementary: Kendra Kendra is constantly removed from her third grade classroom for being disruptive and for aggressive behaviors to her classroom teacher. Kendra struggles to identify her triggers and developmentally, she is still learning that her thoughts and behaviors are connected. The school counselor helps Kendra focus on her cognitions and their connections to her behaviors through CBT interventions. 14: Chapter 14: Middle School: Hailey The middle school counselor receives an angry voicemail from Hailey's mother, who declares that her daughter is being bullied at school and via Snapchat. Hailey's mother accuses the school of doing nothing to put a stop to the bullying and threatens a lawsuit. When the counselor meets with Hailey, she uncovers a history of relational aggression between Hailey's group of girlfriends and works to educate the girls on how to communicate more effectively and resolve conflicts more compassionately. The counselor focuses on Existential and Cognitive Behavioral strategies in her counseling sessions with Hailey. 15. Chapter 15: High School: Kyle An eleventh grader, Kyle is in danger of not graduating, but he remains unmotivated to engage in his education and planning for his future. The counselor uses strategies based in Person-centered and Cognitive Behavioral theories to meet the needs of this student.

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Book SynopsisContemporary Case Studies in School Counseling is not a guide to school counseling, but rather a conversation starter on the challenges that school counselors face on a daily basis. From cyber sexting to unmotivated students to anxiety disorders, school counselors must be ready for the unexpected. Throughout the 15 case studies in this text, readers will be guided through therapies, strategies, and solutions from a school counselor’s perspective. The text is written with the school counselor as narrator, providing readers with a first-hand look into the counselor’s rationale, biases, and experiences that guide the counseling process. From this school counselor’s perspective, readers will be vividly drawn into the varying situations and approaches for each case study. The reader will be guided through various therapy approaches as well as given questions for discussion in small groups or large classroom discussions. This book will help train better school counselors as the audience will be presented with current situations and problems that school counselors in the twenty-first century face.Trade ReviewThis text offers a refreshing approach to sharing the voices and experiences of school counselors working with today's diverse children and adolescents. Each case study is grounded in a theoretical orientation that drives the reader to consider the purpose behind the interventions and strategies applied in a real-world setting. This must-read book provides readers, especially school counselors-in-training, with the opportunity to bridge theory and practice and can foster rich and lively discussions at any stage of a counselor's professional growth and development. -- Elizabeth Villares, Florida Atlantic UniversityContemporary Case Studies in School Counseling is a text worth incorporating into any school counseling masters/specialist program, particularly in a theories or practice course. Through detailed case studies, the authors describe current challenges that school counseling practitioners can and will face. Each is then followed by discussion questions that can assist the counseling student or practitioner in thoughtful reflection. -- Melissa Mariani, Florida Atlantic UniversityThis outstanding book for school counselors focuses on the counseling application of each theory, with clear examples of real-life case studies and personal reflections of the authors who lived these cases, detailing their struggles and triumphs. It is a must-read for school counseling students before entering their field experiences and for professional school counselors who would like to feel more confident in their counseling work. -- Colette Dollarhide, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Humanist Theory Chapter 1: Elementary: LiamLiam is a new student and is struggling to make new friends in his first grade classroom. He was a strong student prior to moving mid-year, but now is struggling to focus and is refusing at times to do any work. The school counselor tried to connect with Liam using a person-centered humanistic approach, where he focuses on building's Liam's sense of self. Chapter 2: Middle School: SarahThe school counselor explores the need of a middle school aged girl with generalized anxiety. By exploring the therapeutic relationship and resistance, the counselor works with the student to identify healthy coping strategies and approaches to managing her anxiety in a school setting. 3. Chapter 3: High School: DeeDee A fourteen year old girl, DeeDee, from a minority population struggles with conflict resolution. A critical look at a school counselor's role in understanding and navigating a different culture, this case discusses the importance of person-centered counseling strategies and self-awareness in the counseling process. Part II: Adlerian Theory 4. Chapter 4: Elementary: Xavier Elementary school is hard for 4th grader, Xavier, who is constantly in trouble due to his high level of energy in the classroom and lack of respect for classroom rules. He is referred to his school counselor to develop energy managing skills; however the school counselor utilizes an Adlerian approach to help the child and teacher celebrate his cultural norms, while finding success in the classroom setting. 5. Chapter 5: Middle School: Parker An 8th grader, Parker, has identified as LGBTQ to their school counselor. With the support from Parker's parents and family, Parker would like to work on enhancing the middle school climate for other LGBTQ students. The school counselor works with Parker with an Adlerian lens to promote a positive school culture for all students. 6. Chapter 6: High School: Graham A young freshmen in high school struggles with the school setting, although he is extremely bright and verbal. He is failing classes, struggles with friendships, and does not have support at home. The school counselor works with Graham on his anger management, ADHD, and developing social skills to utilize his strengths with Adlerian counseling. Part III: Reality Choice Theory 7. Chapter 7: Elementary: Mia An anxious second grade student, Mia, is referred by her parents to her school counselor for nail biting and avoiding school. Mia struggles with large groups and school triggers these responses. The school counselor works with Mia and her family to develop relaxation and breathing techniques. By helping her meet her physiological needs, the school counselor is helping Mia control her own reality. 8. Chapter 8: Middle School: Mason and Alexander Two 7th grade boys, Mason and Alexander, are sent to the school counselor's office for fighting during lunch time. The counselor works to better understand the situation and lack of understanding between the two young men. With a reality choice theoretical perspective, the school counselor teaches Mason and Alexander basic counseling skills so that they can better understand each other and develop a positive partnership. 9. Chapter 9: High School: Zoey Zoey storms into her school counselors office, upset that her parents are pressuring her to go to their alma mater for college. She is frustrated and feels that she is not being given the autonomy she is deserved. The school counselor works to help Zoey advocate for herself and develop strategies to gain back the freedom she is lacking. Part IV: Family Systems Theory 10. Chapter 10: Elementary: Olivia An elementary child in 2nd grade challenges her school counselor as she struggles with communicating with school staff. Olivia would bark or twirp, but would refuse to communicate verbally with words. As her verbal skills developed, her behaviors became more aggressive that often endangered others and herself. Over two years, the school counselor worked with Olivia and her family support to find resources to meet her varying needs. 11. Chapter 11: Middle School: Mikaela Mikaela is in 6th grade, and she is referred to her counselor when her parents discover that she's been sending revealing photos to older men. The counselor works to understand the client's family system and uses a psychoanalytic lens to help her client establish appropriate boundaries as she moves through a highly dynamic developmental phase in her life. 12. Chapter 12: High School: Jamal Jamal was an advanced student in a high school setting. Following a sports injury, Jamal was diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury and developed new personality traits that negatively impacted his relationships and schoolwork. Jamal's school counselor worked closely with his parents and guardians with a Family Systems approach to navigate the challenges of his diagnosis and to come to the terms of Jamal's changed future. Part V: Cognitive Behavior Theory 13. Chapter 13: Elementary: Kendra Kendra is constantly removed from her third grade classroom for being disruptive and for aggressive behaviors to her classroom teacher. Kendra struggles to identify her triggers and developmentally, she is still learning that her thoughts and behaviors are connected. The school counselor helps Kendra focus on her cognitions and their connections to her behaviors through CBT interventions. 14: Chapter 14: Middle School: Hailey The middle school counselor receives an angry voicemail from Hailey's mother, who declares that her daughter is being bullied at school and via Snapchat. Hailey's mother accuses the school of doing nothing to put a stop to the bullying and threatens a lawsuit. When the counselor meets with Hailey, she uncovers a history of relational aggression between Hailey's group of girlfriends and works to educate the girls on how to communicate more effectively and resolve conflicts more compassionately. The counselor focuses on Existential and Cognitive Behavioral strategies in her counseling sessions with Hailey. 15. Chapter 15: High School: Kyle An eleventh grader, Kyle is in danger of not graduating, but he remains unmotivated to engage in his education and planning for his future. The counselor uses strategies based in Person-centered and Cognitive Behavioral theories to meet the needs of this student.

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Book SynopsisThe call for trauma-informed education is growing as the profound impact trauma has for the children’s ability to learn in traditional classrooms is recognized. For children who have experienced abuse and neglect their behavior is often highly reactive, aggressive, withdrawn or unmotivated. They struggle to learn, to make positive relationships or be influenced positively by teachers and school staff. Students become more and more at risk for mental health difficulties. Teachers become more and more frustrated and discouraged as they attempt to teach this vulnerable group of students. Even though it is relationships that have hurt students with developmental trauma, it is known that they must find safe relationships to learn and heal. Forming those relationships with children who have been hurt and no longer trust adults is not easy. This book focuses on three important and comprehensive areas of theory and research that provide a theoretical, clinical, and integrated intervention model for developing the relationships and felt sense of safety children with developmental trauma need. Using what is known from attachment theory, intersubjectivity theory, and interpersonal neurobiology, the reader is helped to understand why children behave in the challenging ways they do. This book offers successes and ongoing challenges as a means to continue the conversation about how best to support some of our most at-risk youth.

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide shows counselors how to make the healing benefits of psychodynamic “talk therapy” available to any client, including those limited in available sessions by insurance, financial restrictions, or agency policy.The current mental health system relies on a single model of medication and behavior therapies, motivated by economic expediency rather than treatment quality, which results in a revolving door of treatment that leaves society constantly vulnerable to the impact of mental illness. As a remedy, Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments: The Patient as the Center offers the integration of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapies and practices that are consistently evaluated for effectiveness and customized to each patient’s needs. These include recognition of the complexity of mental illness, possible need for intervention throughout the life cycle, open access to treatment, adequate funding, long-term facilities, consistent retrofitting of treatments, and duration and frequency determined by patient-therapist arrangement. This resource is particularly useful for clinicians in training or early in their careers who are in the process of making decisions about the treatment approaches that make sense for them and their clients, as well as for the more seasoned clinicians jaded by bureaucracy that obstructs best treatment practice and seeking alternative approaches.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Mental Health TreatmentThe Modern Treatment AreaCurrent Mental Health DeliveryThe Next StepIntegrated PsychotherapyChapter 2: The Clinical Value of PsychoanalysisDistinctionsPsychoanalytic TherapyIdentity Diffusion/ConfusionThe Personalized ApproachDoing What WorksSymptom ReliefCustomized TreatmentChapter 3: Pluralism: Pathways to IntegrationPluralism in PsychoanalysisIntegrationDrive ReconsideredAnother Step AwayDistinctions from Traditional PsychoanalysisDiagnosisOverall ApproachThe Relational TurnNext StepChapter 4: Session Notes and CommentsCase #1: Slow MotionCase #2: If OnlyCase #3: The Other RealityCase #4: More DelusionsCase #5: Not My FaultCase #6: I am AddictedCase #7: No RespectCase #8: Sort of TrueCase# 9: The DreamWhen It Does Not WorkChapter 5: The Crooked Path of EffectivenessIntersectionalityIntegrationSome ConsiderationsPsychoanalytic TrainingDisruptionsFurther CommentsIntegrative SpecificsEtiologyThe Non-Analytic PatientConcluding RemarksChapter 6: Psychotherapy Research Outcomes: Possibilities and LimitationsOn Determining Core Ingredients for Therapeutic ChangeOn the Role of Common FactorsA Shifting of Responsibility for ChangeWhere Are We in Our Scientific Enterprise?What Are We Left With?Uniqueness of Psychoanalytic-Focused InterventionsCrisis in the AcademyConcluding Thoughts: In Search of Intellectual HumilityChapter 7: Language and Its Vicissitude in Bilingual TreatmentsA Case of Intersectional Trauma: A Search for MeaningThe Case Synopsis of Ms. GMultigenerational TraumaVicissitudes of a Traumatic LifeI Have Feelings Too: Navigating Her Emotions in Two LanguagesIn Search of Her FatherOn Relying on a Second Language to Forge a New IdentityConcluding ThoughtsChapter 8: On the Neuroscientific Basis of Intersectional-Colored Trauma and Its SequalaeTrauma and Its Neurological and Psychic RepresentationOn the Vicissitude of Self-Development in Traumatic ContextsOn the Intimate Interplay Between a Victim and a PerpetuatorCritical Moments and Trauma DevelopmentThe Anatomy of Our Affective StateClinical ImplicationsWhere Can We Go from Here?ConclusionChapter 9: On Inherent Psychological Factors in Some Criminal BehaviorsIs There a Reasonable Explanation for Criminal Behaviors?A Psychological Explanatory Model of Criminal BehaviorA View of Criminality in Psychoanalytic ContextsThe Role of Trauma in Criminal BehaviorsConcluding ThoughtsChapter 10: Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide shows counselors how to make the healing benefits of psychodynamic “talk therapy” available to any client, including those limited in available sessions by insurance, financial restrictions, or agency policy.The current mental health system relies on a single model of medication and behavior therapies, motivated by economic expediency rather than treatment quality, which results in a revolving door of treatment that leaves society constantly vulnerable to the impact of mental illness. As a remedy, Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments: The Patient as the Center offers the integration of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapies and practices that are consistently evaluated for effectiveness and customized to each patient’s needs. These include recognition of the complexity of mental illness, possible need for intervention throughout the life cycle, open access to treatment, adequate funding, long-term facilities, consistent retrofitting of treatments, and duration and frequency determined by patient-therapist arrangement. This resource is particularly useful for clinicians in training or early in their careers who are in the process of making decisions about the treatment approaches that make sense for them and their clients, as well as for the more seasoned clinicians jaded by bureaucracy that obstructs best treatment practice and seeking alternative approaches.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Mental Health TreatmentThe Modern Treatment AreaCurrent Mental Health DeliveryThe Next StepIntegrated PsychotherapyChapter 2: The Clinical Value of PsychoanalysisDistinctionsPsychoanalytic TherapyIdentity Diffusion/ConfusionThe Personalized ApproachDoing What WorksSymptom ReliefCustomized TreatmentChapter 3: Pluralism: Pathways to IntegrationPluralism in PsychoanalysisIntegrationDrive ReconsideredAnother Step AwayDistinctions from Traditional PsychoanalysisDiagnosisOverall ApproachThe Relational TurnNext StepChapter 4: Session Notes and CommentsCase #1: Slow MotionCase #2: If OnlyCase #3: The Other RealityCase #4: More DelusionsCase #5: Not My FaultCase #6: I am AddictedCase #7: No RespectCase #8: Sort of TrueCase# 9: The DreamWhen It Does Not WorkChapter 5: The Crooked Path of EffectivenessIntersectionalityIntegrationSome ConsiderationsPsychoanalytic TrainingDisruptionsFurther CommentsIntegrative SpecificsEtiologyThe Non-Analytic PatientConcluding RemarksChapter 6: Psychotherapy Research Outcomes: Possibilities and LimitationsOn Determining Core Ingredients for Therapeutic ChangeOn the Role of Common FactorsA Shifting of Responsibility for ChangeWhere Are We in Our Scientific Enterprise?What Are We Left With?Uniqueness of Psychoanalytic-Focused InterventionsCrisis in the AcademyConcluding Thoughts: In Search of Intellectual HumilityChapter 7: Language and Its Vicissitude in Bilingual TreatmentsA Case of Intersectional Trauma: A Search for MeaningThe Case Synopsis of Ms. GMultigenerational TraumaVicissitudes of a Traumatic LifeI Have Feelings Too: Navigating Her Emotions in Two LanguagesIn Search of Her FatherOn Relying on a Second Language to Forge a New IdentityConcluding ThoughtsChapter 8: On the Neuroscientific Basis of Intersectional-Colored Trauma and Its SequalaeTrauma and Its Neurological and Psychic RepresentationOn the Vicissitude of Self-Development in Traumatic ContextsOn the Intimate Interplay Between a Victim and a PerpetuatorCritical Moments and Trauma DevelopmentThe Anatomy of Our Affective StateClinical ImplicationsWhere Can We Go from Here?ConclusionChapter 9: On Inherent Psychological Factors in Some Criminal BehaviorsIs There a Reasonable Explanation for Criminal Behaviors?A Psychological Explanatory Model of Criminal BehaviorA View of Criminality in Psychoanalytic ContextsThe Role of Trauma in Criminal BehaviorsConcluding ThoughtsChapter 10: Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisThe Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ Advocate, Second Edition, is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy. This fully revised second edition includes: The most current information on identities and LGBTQ+ language; Tips for respectfully sharing, gathering, and using pronouns; LGBTQ+ etiquette, including common language bloopers to avoid; Tools for navigating difficult conversations; Best practices for creating LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces; Appropriate actions to take after messing up; and Techniques for self-care and sustainable allyship. This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians and college professors, as well as the non-freaked out parent who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but doesn’t know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to build the reader’s confidence in their ability to have respectful and useful conversations for and with LGBTQ+ individuals, and to offer tools to be effective advocates for change.Table of ContentsAuthor’s NotePreface1 - Getting StartedThank YouWhat You Can Expect from This BookDefining Ally BroadlyBringing My Friends Along for the RidePractice Makes Pretty Darn GoodThe Power of the AllyAllies Can Help Validate a CauseAllies Can Be a Cultural BridgeAllies Can Take the Heat Off of LGBTQ+ PeopleAllies Can Be Possibility ModelsAllies Can Get Special AccessWhat’s Your Story?NotesPart I: Becoming Knowledgeable Allies2 - Caution: Identities Being Defined!CisgenderLGBTQ+QueerWhy Do There Have to Be So Many Identity Words?Note3 - Coming Out as LGBTQ+Why the Big Reveal?The Coming-Out ProcessIdentity ConfusionIdentity ComparisonIdentity ToleranceIdentity AcceptanceIdentity PrideIdentity SynthesisIn SummaryFrom Theory to RealityComing Out Is a Lifelong ProcessThe Process Is Not Always LinearIt’s So Much Fun, Some Folks Do It Twice!It’s Not Just for LGBTQ+ PeopleComing Out Is Not Always the Immediate GoalResponding When Someone Comes Out to YouA Better Metaphor for Coming OutWhat to SayWhat Not to SayFuture FantasiesNotes4 - Orientations, Identities, Behaviors—Oh My!A Basic Diagram of the Components of Sex, Gender, and SexualityBiological SexGender IdentityGender ExpressionAttraction (Also Known as Orientation)Intimate BehaviorsWhere Do I Fall?Biological SexGender IdentityGender ExpressionAttractionIntimate BehaviorsAn Advanced Diagram of the Components of Sex, Gender, and SexualityAnswers To Our QuestionsWhat the Heck Does Nonbinary Mean?Can Transgender People Also Be Gay?How Can I Tell If Someone Is Gay?How Can Someone Be Asexual but Still Have Sex?Key Ally TakeawaysNotesPart II: Building Skills for Having Respectful Conversations5 - Pronouns: Sharing, Gathering, and UsingWhy Are Pronouns So Important?SharingGatheringOne on OneIn a Small GroupIn Large NumbersUsingSingular TheyNeopronounsMore Than One PronounMessing Up ProperlyNotes6 - LGBTQ+ Etiquette Tips, Common Bloopers, and Outdated TermsLGBTQ+ Etiquette TipsTip #1: Ungender Your LanguageTip #2: Mirror TermsCombining Tip #1 and Tip #2Tip #3: Implement the “Switch It” TechniqueTip #4: Use the Correct Name and PronounTip #5: Focus on What You Need to KnowCommon LGBTQ+ Language Bloopers to AvoidGetting Creative with the Word TransgenderConfusing the Terms Transgender Man and Transgender WomanTalking About Preferred PronounsUsing the Word Preference Instead of OrientationUsing Language That Implies That Transitioning is CompletedFocusing on the PastAsking a Gay Couple Which One is the Man and Which One is the WomanOutdated Terms and Better Language ChoicesUse Transgender Instead of TranssexualUse Cross-Dresser Instead of TransvestiteUse Gay Instead of HomosexualUse Typical Instead of NormalUse Intersex Instead of HermaphroditeUse Different Sex or Gender Instead of Opposite Sex or GenderUse Are Instead of Identify AsAvoid These Terms AltogetherNotes7 - Gaydar and Other Problematic AssumptionsGaydarLGBTQ+ Myths and StereotypesMyths and Stereotypes About Straight/Cisgender AlliesIntersectionalityNotes8 - Good Talk: The Art of Having Useful ConversationsWe Are All Resistant LearnersTips for Having Respectful and Useful ConversationsPut Yourself in the Hot Seat (Prep Work)Set Your Listen/Share Dial to At Least 50/50 (Prep Work)Assume GoodwillAvoid Labeling the Comment or BehaviorUse “I” StatementsFind Common GroundEducate with Examples, Not DefinitionsTry the “Switch It” TechniqueListen for Those Myths and StereotypesBe Aware of Your Hot ButtonsA Night Out with Lou the Lunchroom AideAn Ally’s GiftNotesPart III: Taking Action to Create More Inclusive Spaces9 - Straight Pride Parades and Special Snowflakes: Addressing Common QuestionsI Just Treat Everyone the Same; What’s Wrong with That?Why Do LGBTQ+ People Have to Flaunt Their Sexuality and Get in My Face with It?The Falsely Accused FlaunterThe Temporary FlaunterThe Fulltime FlaunterI Know My Friend Is Gay—How Can I Get Him to Come Out to Me?Aren’t We in a Good Place Now with LGBTQ+ Rights and Inclusion? What’s Left to Do?Why Isn’t There a Straight Pride Parade?Reality Check #1Reality Check #2Reality Check #3Reality Check #4Apparently, I’m Cisgender. How Can I Be Something That I’ve Never Heard Of? Do I Have to Go Around Telling People I’m Cisgender Now?1) How Can I Be Something That I Don’t Even Know About and Why Does Someone Else Get to Define Me? (Confused/Irritated)2) Is This New Word Really “A Thing” Or Will It Be Gone Next Month? (Skeptical)3) Do I Have to Embrace This New Term? My List of Identity Terms Seems to Be Constantly Growing. Which Ones Do I Have to Share in Order to Be Respectful? (Overwhelmed)Why Are LGBTQ+ People So Angry?My Lesbian Friends Call Each Other Dykes. Why Is It Okay for Them to Do That But Not Me?I Thought People Were “Born That Way”; Now You’re Telling Me That Being LGBTQ+ Can Be a Lifelong Journey of Changing Identities? WTF?I Feel Like I Can’t Say Anything Anymore Without Offending Someone. Don’t You Think We’ve Gone Too Far with All of This PC Language?Notes10 - Duct Tape Patch-up Jobs and Big FixesEducating OthersDuct Tape Patch-Up Jobs with Our Educational OpportunitiesBig Fixes with Our Educational OpportunitiesIncreasing LGBTQ+ VisibilityDuct Tape Patch-Up Jobs for Increasing LGBTQ+ VisibilityBig Fixes for Increasing LGBTQ+ VisibilityRevising FormsDuct Tape Patch-Up Jobs for Revising Forms and PaperworkBig Fixes for Revising Forms and PaperworkUpdating PoliciesDuct Tape Patch-Up Jobs for Updating PoliciesBig Fixes for Updating PoliciesFixing Gendered FacilitiesDuct Tape Patch-Up Jobs for Fixing Gendered Restrooms and Other FacilitiesBig Fixes for Fixing Gendered Restrooms and Other FacilitiesA Special Note about SignageNotes11 - Creating LGBTQ+ Inclusive Spaces in Different SettingsIn Your HomeIn Health and Mental Health SettingsCaring for LGBTQ+ People of ColorCaring for Transgender IndividualsCaring for Older LGBTQ+ AdultsIn the WorkplaceIn Faith CommunitiesIn SchoolsNotes12 - Taking It to the StreetsRallies, Marches, Protests, and LobbyingTalking with PoliticiansFundraisingPrideNotes13 - Now What? Questions from Allies in the Real WorldQuestions About Terms and IdentitiesQuestions from Family MembersQuestions from the WorkplaceQuestions from Teachers and School StaffNotesPart IV: Allying Responsibly14 - Messing Up ProperlyAccidentally Misgendering SomeoneOffer an Apology or a Thank YouForgive YourselfGet it Right the Next Time Try Again Right Away Practice in Your Head Write It Down Add Pronouns to Your Phone Contacts Practice on Your Pet Imagine a Mouse Making an Offensive or Hurtful CommentOffer a Thank You and an ApologyForgive YourselfGet It Right the Next Time Do Your Homework Use-it-or-Lose-it Share What You’ve Learned with Someone Else Remind Yourself that Catching Yourself Is the First Step to Success Blundering AgainNotes15 - Backlash Against AlliesAlly Is a Practice, Not an IdentityShut Up and Listen“A” Is for AsexualKey Ally TakeawaysPay It ForwardNotes16 - SustainabilityTake Care of YourselfBe on Your Own TeamTreat Yourself the Way You Would Treat Your Best FriendGive Yourself Permission to FailUse Positive Self-Coaching TipsKeep a Joy JournalKnow Your Recipe for Wellness and Follow ItThink About What’s Not WrongPace YourselfContinue Your EducationEvery So Often, Return to “Why?”NotesDiscussion GuideGlossaryBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisClinicians know that clients are much more complex than any textbook suggests, and they come into our offices with myriad, interacting problems. No one theory or school of psychotherapy will help each and every one of them. Nor do we yet understand human behavior sufficiently to have a grand, unifying theory.Modern Integrative Counseling and Psychotherapy is a practical guidebook showing clinicians how to systematically, coherently, and sequentially integrate multiple research-based approaches in treatment planning. This book provides examples of ways to structure sessions and also to get buy-in from clients by using strategic homework between sessions. It also shows practical ways that clinicians can incorporate neuroscience, genetics, and mindfulness in practical ways with clients.Designed for counselors and therapists who want evidence-based advice on how to provide up-to-date, integrative therapy, this book incorporates techniques drawn from many different approaches and outlines a flexible, step-by-step structure for effective treatment. F. Michler Bishop’s work over the past thirty years has given him a unique position from which to observe and experience the pluses and minuses of current popular approaches. Dr. Bishop employs an innovative, integrative, individualized approach that honors the unique therapy needs for each client, for plans that must be created and adjusted and re-adjusted over time. This book combines the clinical experience and research for the best therapeutic strategies, and provides hope for doing more effective therapy with diverse clients.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Modern Counseling and Psychotherapy Chapter 1: Moving Beyond Schools of Counseling and PsychotherapyChapter 2: Guiding Principles for Modern Integrated Counseling and PsychotherapyPart II: Initial In-Session and Between-Session Work: Step-by-StepChapter 3: Step 1: Build the Working Relationship: Enhancing Hope and Motivation Chapter 4: Step 2: Initial Assessment Chapter 5: Step 3: Agreeing on the Therapeutic GoalsChapter 6: Step 4: Set the AgendaChapter 7: Step 5: In-Session Work Chapter 8: Step 6: Agree on Between-Session Work Chapter 9” Working with Diverse ClientsPart III: Subsequent SessionsChapter 10: On-going Assessment, Evaluating Between-Session Work, Checking on TherapeuticChapter 11: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Mindfulness, Metastability and Existential/Humanist IssuesChapter 12: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Emotion-focused and Imagery-Focused WorkChapter 13: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Genetics, Neurochemistry and NeuroplasticityChapter 14: Moving Forward, Sliding Back: Managing Change and MetastabilityChapter 15: If Needed, Dig Deeper: Past-focused Work, Trauma and Childhood IssuesChapter 16: Subsequent Between-session ExercisesPart IV: Other Issues Chapter 17: Self /Selves, Identity/Identities and ChangeChapter 18: Integrating CoachingChapter 19: Medications: Are They Right for Your Client?Chapter 20: Build Your Practice, Protect Yourself and Prevent BurnoutReferencesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisClinicians know that clients are much more complex than any textbook suggests, and they come into our offices with myriad, interacting problems. No one theory or school of psychotherapy will help each and every one of them. Nor do we yet understand human behavior sufficiently to have a grand, unifying theory.Modern Integrative Counseling and Psychotherapy is a practical guidebook showing clinicians how to systematically, coherently, and sequentially integrate multiple research-based approaches in treatment planning. This book provides examples of ways to structure sessions and also to get buy-in from clients by using strategic homework between sessions. It also shows practical ways that clinicians can incorporate neuroscience, genetics, and mindfulness in practical ways with clients.Designed for counselors and therapists who want evidence-based advice on how to provide up-to-date, integrative therapy, this book incorporates techniques drawn from many different approaches and outlines a flexible, step-by-step structure for effective treatment. F. Michler Bishop’s work over the past thirty years has given him a unique position from which to observe and experience the pluses and minuses of current popular approaches. Dr. Bishop employs an innovative, integrative, individualized approach that honors the unique therapy needs for each client, for plans that must be created and adjusted and re-adjusted over time. This book combines the clinical experience and research for the best therapeutic strategies, and provides hope for doing more effective therapy with diverse clients.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Modern Counseling and Psychotherapy Chapter 1: Moving Beyond Schools of Counseling and PsychotherapyChapter 2: Guiding Principles for Modern Integrated Counseling and PsychotherapyPart II: Initial In-Session and Between-Session Work: Step-by-StepChapter 3: Step 1: Build the Working Relationship: Enhancing Hope and Motivation Chapter 4: Step 2: Initial Assessment Chapter 5: Step 3: Agreeing on the Therapeutic GoalsChapter 6: Step 4: Set the AgendaChapter 7: Step 5: In-Session Work Chapter 8: Step 6: Agree on Between-Session Work Chapter 9” Working with Diverse ClientsPart III: Subsequent SessionsChapter 10: On-going Assessment, Evaluating Between-Session Work, Checking on TherapeuticChapter 11: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Mindfulness, Metastability and Existential/Humanist IssuesChapter 12: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Emotion-focused and Imagery-Focused WorkChapter 13: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Genetics, Neurochemistry and NeuroplasticityChapter 14: Moving Forward, Sliding Back: Managing Change and MetastabilityChapter 15: If Needed, Dig Deeper: Past-focused Work, Trauma and Childhood IssuesChapter 16: Subsequent Between-session ExercisesPart IV: Other Issues Chapter 17: Self /Selves, Identity/Identities and ChangeChapter 18: Integrating CoachingChapter 19: Medications: Are They Right for Your Client?Chapter 20: Build Your Practice, Protect Yourself and Prevent BurnoutReferencesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisA concise, readable introduction to systems theory (and especially second-order cybernetics) with practical applications to family therapy.This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice. This meta-perspective focuses on viewing problems in context. The difference between first-order and second-order cybernetics is explicated. Readers then are invited to see themselves as parts of the systems with which they are working consistent with a second-order cybernetics perspective. Along the way a difference between modernism and post-modernism as well as constructionism and social constructionism also are described. In addition, theories of individual and family development are presented with implications for their use in family therapy. The book concludes with more than 100 examples of how the meta-perspective of systems theory can be used in work with families. In addition to providing concise descriptions of essential systems concepts, the book explains the process of change that occurs with family systems, especially those that the family finds difficult to adapt to. The text is replete with ideas for therapists to identify those changes and work with the family through their identified challenges according to the family’s narrative.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword Sally St. George and Dan WulffPrefaceRaphael J. BecvarIntroductionChapter 1: About TheoriesChapter 2: Systems Theory/Cybernetics: A Paradigm ShiftModernismPostmodernismConstructivismSocial ConstructionismFirst-Order and Second-Order CyberneticsChapter 3: First-Order Cybernetics: Definitions of ConceptsBoundariesCommunication/Information ProcessingContextEntropy and Negative EntropyEquifinalityHomeostasis, Morphostasis, and MorphogenesisOpen and Closed SystemsPositive and Negative FeedbackRecursionRelationshipWholenessSummary and ConclusionChapter 4: Second-Order Cybernetics: Definition of ConceptsAutopoiesisConsensual DomainsEpistemology of ParticipationFeedbackNon-Purposeful DriftOpenness and ClosednessReality as a MultiverseStructural CouplingStructural DeterminismWholeness and Self-ReferenceSummary and ConclusionChapter 5: Family Interpretive Systems/StoriesChapter 6: Family Development Through the Life CycleChapter 7: The Family as SystemChapter 8: A Critique and Defense of the Systems PerspectiveChapter 9: Patterns to PonderChapter 10: Implications for Family TherapyStability and ChangeGeneral PrinciplesEngaging the Family, Assessment, and Therapeutic GoalsPragmaticsFinal ThoughtsChapter 11: In ConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisReady your school counseling program for the kids who need it the most! For many students, elementary school is a time of tough transitions. When a student struggles in class, has difficulty making friends, experiences a life-changing event or crisis, or faces other challenges, your support is essential. Finding the right intervention for each identified student can be the key to that child’s future success. In this companion book to The Use of Data in School Counseling and Hatching Results for Elementary School Counseling, Trish Hatch, Ashley Kruger, Nicole Pablo and Whitney Triplett offer a systematic, evidence-based approach to creating and implementing high-quality interventions within a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS). This hands-on guide features: • Thorough exploration and explanation of Tier 2 and Tier 3 activities • Guidelines for progress monitoring and collaboration with teachers and family • Templates for developing lesson plans and action plans • Web-based resources, including downloadable templates and a discussion guide • Personal stories and vignettes from practicing school counselors and teachers of the year Every student deserves a quality education in a positive, healthy, safe environment. When you provide targeted, data-driven interventions for students in need, you make that possible for them—and improve school life for their classmates and teachers as well.Table of ContentsForeword by Carey Dimmitt Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1. Multi-Tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports: A Framework for Tier 2 An Introduction to MTSS in Education Connecting MTSS to School Counseling Domains: MTMDSS Multi-Tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports (MTMDSS) MTMDSS Alignment to Text MTMDSS Assessment Chapter 2. Using Data to Drive Tier 2 Interventions School Counselors and Data Proficiency Tier 2 Intentional Interventions Chapter 3. Determining the Appropriate Tier 2 Interventions Direct Tier 2 Services Indirect Tier 2 Services Tier 2 Services Based on a Demographic Indicator Disaggregating School Data and Closing the Gap Chapter 4. Franchising Tier 2 Interventions No More Random Acts of Intervention Referral Forms Menu of Services Chapter 5. Planning for Small Groups Types of Counseling Groups Using Data to Determine Small Group Counseling Topics Scheduling Groups Preparing for Small Group Facilitation Chapter 6. Selecting and Developing Small Group Curriculum The Art and Science of Small Group Counseling Curriculum Data-Driven Curriculum Decisions Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and Small Group Counseling Lesson Plans Lesson PowerPoint Chapter 7. Facilitating Small Groups: What Works and What Doesn’t School Counselor Toolbox Final Considerations Chapter 8. Assessments and Progress Monitoring Types of Data Conceptual Diagram Revisited Creating Pre-/Post-Assessments How to Collect Pre-/Post-Assessment Data Ongoing Assessments: Progress Monitoring for Small Groups Chapter 9. Tier 3 Intensive Interventions Tier 3 Types of Tier 3 Interventions Types of Direct Tier 3 Interventions Types of Indirect Tier 3 Interventions Chapter 10. Other Tier 2 and 3 Evaluations and Sharing Results Collecting Outcome Data Why Report Results? Analyzing Data for Effectiveness Evaluating the Intervention Sharing Results Appendix A Appendix B References Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of creative lessons offers ideas for integrating design thinking, literacy and STEAM to drive SEL skills including self-awareness, self-management, mindfulness, responsible decision-making and social awareness.Research shows that creativity can be beneficial for mental health and can help build critical skills such as empathy and introspection, while social-emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development.This book bridges these two ideas with a series of creative projects that foster SEL learning by promoting growth mindset, supporting mindfulness, offering ways to cope with anxiety and stress, and encouraging and guiding positive social activism.Opening with an overview of research behind the integration of SEL and creativity, the book then features a variety of lessons based on the above themes, illustrating how to deepen SEL by integrating the arts and STEAM learning in creative and authentic ways. The activities are drawn from the work of the authors and a diverse group of educator contributors to provide engaging, insightful and culturally responsive learning opportunities appropriate for traditional or online/blended learning environments.The book:Highlights a diverse array of educators, innovators and design-thinkers who share their insights on SEL, STEAM and creativity.Offers an accessible and fun approach to teaching SEL, which is critical to education and human development.Guides teachers in implementing the following ISTE Standards for Students: Creative Communicator, Innovative Designer and Knowledge Constructor.This book invites teachers to consider a variety of formats — print and digital, audio, video games and more — and shows how helping students become creators and design-thinkers can foster SEL.Audience: K-12 educators

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Book SynopsisThe at-risk population is a growing segment of the American school population and one demanding the utmost from its teachers and program coordinators. Dr. Peterson's book is a welcome addition - straight forwards, though honest and hopefull of powerful ideas for class use.Trade Review...classroom teacher oriented and practical. Thank you from the trenches. -- Lionel Alves"...classroom teacher oriented and practical. Thank you from the trenches." -- Lionel AlvesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgment Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 About the Author Chapter 4 The teacher shall honor the presence of parents in at-risk schools Chapter 5 The teacher shall explore and implement strategies to help frustrated at-risk students deal with conflict Chapter 6 The teacher shall seek to understande the fluctuating emotions of at-risk students Chapter 7 The teacher shall seek to help at-risk students with appropriate social skills for coping with everyday life Chapter 8 The teacher shall provide opportunities for at-risk students to have successful educational experiences Chapter 9 Closing Remarks Chapter 10 Index

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Book SynopsisTrauma-Responsive Strategies for Early Chilhood offers an overview of trauma and its impact on young children, as well as specific strategies and techniques educators and administrators can use to create classroom and school communities that improve the quality of care for this vulnerable population. The authors have synthesized research-based information in an accessible way. Focusing on the four different domains of cognitive, language, physical, and social-emotional, the authors use vignettes to explore how trauma can be expressed in the classroom and what teachers can do about it.

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Book SynopsisDoes the college application process overwhelm you? Are you unsure about the topic for your main essay? How about which school is the right fit, or how you are going to pay for college? All the students in this book faced a similar task of trying to figure out which college would be the best fit for them and how best to communicate what made them unique to that college. While many books address what you need to do and offer a step-by-step outline, very few show you how and why. Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success offers a different approach. Imagine following eleven students’ journeys in-depth, getting into their heads when they made a decision about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. Imagine having a tool that will help you think about your own process in a more strategic way. Surviving the College Application Process is organized so that you can find profiles of students who resemble yourself. Read all the case studies or just those that resonate with your own circumstances. With the strategies outlined in this book, you will be well on your way to Surviving the College Application Process. Lisa Bleich, founder and president of College Bound Mentor, LLC, is an experienced independent educational consultant, entrepreneur, marketing consultant, and writer. She mentors students from all over the world on the college application process, helping them uncover their strengths and weaknesses and developing a personal plan for success. She regularly gives presentations on the college application and selection process both locally and nationally. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three daughters. Two of them have successfully survived the college application process!Trade Review""You have to be angular to fit into a well-rounded college. Colleges seek to be well-rounded so they can offer varied experiences to their students. Students who express their intimate relationship with themselves are more successful in communicating their uniqueness to the college. By providing a variety of case studies Lisa Bleich shows how it’s done. Kudos to this author."" -C. Claire Law, M.S. Certified Educational Planner and co-author of Find the Perfect College for YouTable of ContentsA Note to Parents: Why I Can Help Your Kid Get into College A Note to Students: How This Book Will Help You Get into College Part 1: What’s an Angular Student and Why Should You Want to Be One? Chapter 1: The Angular Student Chapter 2: Powering Up Your College Application Wheel Chapter 3: Adding Some Apps to Your College Application Part 2: Case Studies: Student Success Stories You Can Learn a Lot From Case Study 1: Noah: The Intellectually Curious Actor Case Study 2: Feydi: The First-Generation Nigerian Pre-Med Runner Case Study 3: Kyle: The Athlete Turned Actor Case Study 4: Hayley: The Reluctant Engineer and Runner Case Study 5: Dan: The Political, Outgoing Musician Case Study 6: Kaden: The Transgender Activist Filmmaker Case Study 7: Jenny: The Reserved Natural Athlete Case Study 8: Adam: The Super Science Nerd Case Study 9: Francesca: The Closet Computer Science Girl and Popular Athlete Case Study 10: Hugh: The Scientist by Day, Theater Aficionado by Night Case Study 11: Veema: The First-Generation Creative Writer and Social Activist Conclusion Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDoes the college application process overwhelm you? Are you unsure about the topic for your main essay? How about which school is the right fit, or how you are going to pay for college? All the students in this book faced a similar task of trying to figure out which college would be the best fit for them and how best to communicate what made them unique to that college. While many books address what you need to do and offer a step-by-step outline, very few show you how and why. Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success offers a different approach. Imagine following eleven students’ journeys in-depth, getting into their heads when they made a decision about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. Imagine having a tool that will help you think about your own process in a more strategic way. Surviving the College Application Process is organized so that you can find profiles of students who resemble yourself. Read all the case studies or just those that resonate with your own circumstances. With the strategies outlined in this book, you will be well on your way to Surviving the College Application Process. Lisa Bleich, founder and president of College Bound Mentor, LLC, is an experienced independent educational consultant, entrepreneur, marketing consultant, and writer. She mentors students from all over the world on the college application process, helping them uncover their strengths and weaknesses and developing a personal plan for success. She regularly gives presentations on the college application and selection process both locally and nationally. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three daughters. Two of them have successfully survived the college application process!Trade Review""You have to be angular to fit into a well-rounded college. Colleges seek to be well-rounded so they can offer varied experiences to their students. Students who express their intimate relationship with themselves are more successful in communicating their uniqueness to the college. By providing a variety of case studies Lisa Bleich shows how it’s done. Kudos to this author."" -C. Claire Law, M.S. Certified Educational Planner and co-author of Find the Perfect College for YouTable of ContentsA Note to Parents: Why I Can Help Your Kid Get into CollegeA Note to Students: How This Book Will Help You Get into CollegePart 1: What’s an Angular Student and Why Should You Want to Be One?Chapter 1: The Angular StudentChapter 2: Powering Up Your College Application WheelChapter 3: Adding Some Apps to Your College ApplicationPart 2: Case Studies: Student Success Stories You Can Learn a Lot FromCase Study 1: Noah: The Intellectually Curious ActorCase Study 2: Feydi: The First-Generation Nigerian Pre-Med RunnerCase Study 3: Kyle: The Athlete Turned ActorCase Study 4: Hayley: The Reluctant Engineer and RunnerCase Study 5: Dan: The Political, Outgoing MusicianCase Study 6: Kaden: The Transgender Activist FilmmakerCase Study 7: Jenny: The Reserved Natural AthleteCase Study 8: Adam: The Super Science NerdCase Study 9: Francesca: The Closet Computer Science Girl and Popular AthleteCase Study 10: Hugh: The Scientist by Day, Theater Aficionado by NightCase Study 11: Veema: The First-Generation Creative Writer and Social ActivistConclusionAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisParenting teenagers is hard enough without feeling locked out of knowing how to apply to and pay for college. With the right information to turn the key, moms and dads can open the gate so their sons and daughters enter successfully into the futures they deserve. Join Pamela Donnelly in her humorous, informative trainings on the four mission-critical strategies you must implement in order to position your teen for independence, not co-dependence.Trade ReviewAs a dad, there is nothing I want more than help my children fulfill their potential. Pamela Donnelly's expertise helps parents like you and me optimize the futures of our sons and daughters. This book needs to be on the shelves of every library and high school in America." -- Larry King, Media Legend (CNN, Larry King Live, Politicking) Imagine my son's delight when he received 11 acceptance letters. His mom and I are so proud. Thanks to Pamela Donnelly and her fine staff for all their support. Now the power is in our hands to decide where he will attend, instead of the other way around. What a feeling! -- Phil Reeves, Professional Actor (Veep, Parks and Recreation)/Dad “Colleges are looking for well-rounded, fully dimensional human beings with the skills and knowledge outlined here. Pamela Donnelly provides invaluable guidance, which she has earned the old-fashioned way. Save yourself a steep learning curve by tapping into her wealth of knowledge.” -- Randall Balmer, Ivy League Professor (Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale), PhD Princeton University "Pamela Donnelly's master class on strategies parents need to successfully help their teens transition to the colleges they desire is nothing short of illuminating. She admirably applies her many years of expertise as an educational consultant, youth advocate and savvy mother to offer real, practical support. Highly recommended read." -- Cynthia Gross Chanin, Educational Specialist, Los Angeles Yale University, USC Alumna Our daughter not only got into the right college, but she was prepared for a successful transition from high school courses to college-level work as a result of working with these strategies. She is now thriving in her second year. Pamela Donnelly's writings and support has uniquely positioned her. Thank you for putting this important information into a book. -- Chuck Pratt, Jr., Emmy Award–Winning Television Writer (General Hospital, All My Children)/Dad, Encino CA My daughter had a wonderful time taking Pamela Donnelly’s Ivy League Writing Immersion class during the summer of her junior year, and it's her writing ability that really ended up making the greatest impact on her college admissions results. Djaq received a card signed by the entire admissions office at her #1 choice, and was told that the Writers' Scholarship she won is the highest amount they’ve ever awarded. She plans to double major there in creative writing and pre-med. Thank you, Pamela, for your guidance and for being our cheerleader every step of the way. -- Cathy Flynn, Television Sound Editor/Mom, Studio City CA My daughter is on her way to her dream school, American University, with $40,000 in scholarships as a result of working with Pamela Donnelly and her colleagues. We counted on her every step of the way during the college applications process and got a great result. ‪-- Julie Napoleon‬, High School Teacher/Mom, Los Angeles CA As the father of the teen actor who played Superman in the motion picture Man of Steel, my wife and I are grateful to Pamela Donnelly. Pamela’s support, strategic direction and quality tutors successfully guide us through the necessary process to help our son accomplish his academic objectives. Because of the scores our son Dylan achieved working with her staff on an important exam, he went from that breakthrough role in a major film to booking a terrific recurring role in the television series Teen Wolf. We look forward to continuing to rely upon her guidance for the road ahead. Congratulations on your next bestselling book, Pamela. -- Carl Sprayberry, Hotel General Manager/Hollywood Dad, North Hollywood CA Pamela Donnelly is an incredible woman, teacher, mentor, and friend. Thanks to her being a key part in my educational journey, I am on my way to University of Miami in preparation to become an entertainment lawyer. I cannot even begin to express my genuine gratitude that I can now help protect other minor performers in the industry I’ve grown up loving. I feel so blessed to have had her guidance in my life, and know that others will benefit when they read her words of wisdom. -- Jennifer Cooke, University of Miami Student, Pre-Law, Miami FL Pamela Donnelly is an educator who honestly cares about the future of students and their long-term success. I got into all 4 University of California schools I applied to after working with her, and had a $48,000 scholarship offered to me. My skills on the SAT increased 28% as a direct result of the strategies she shares. I can’t wait to attend UCLA in the fall. I’m now able to commit my life’s work to solving the riddle of Alzheimer’s Disease, which plagued my grandfather. Anyone who reads her books will be lucky to learn from her. -- Kylie Rostad, UCLA Student, Pre-Med, Studio City CA

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