Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals (The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men)

This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practicalВ tool for school and mental health practitioners who need to understand and respond to the developmental and special issues of boys and adolescent males, __Counseling Troubled Boys__ creates a bridge between young men andВ helping professionals. Key content includes adjustment issues, strategies for establishing rapport, interventions, case studies, and suggestions for future training and research. Front cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Series Editor's Foreword......Page 10 Preface: The Struggles and Strengths of Boys and How We Can Help Them......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 20 About the Editors......Page 26 Contributors......Page 28 Part 1: Understanding and Establishing Rapport With Boys......Page 32 CHAPTER 1. The Psychological Development of Boys......Page 34 CHAPTER 2. A Positive Psychology Perspective on Helping Boys......Page 62 CHAPTER 3. Establishing Rapport with Boys in Individual Couseling and Psychotherapy: A Male-Friendly Perspective......Page 80 Part 2: Helping Special Populations of Boys......Page 98 CHAPTER 4. Surviving in a Sea with Few Lifeboats: Couseling Boys from Impoverished Families......Page 100 CHAPTER 5. Promoting Strength and Recovery: Couseling Boys Who Have Been Sexually Abused......Page 128 CHAPTER 6. Examining Depression and Suicidality in Boys and Male Adolescents: An Overview and Clinical Considerations......Page 156 CHAPTER 7. Improving Self-Control: Couseling Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder......Page 194 CHAPTER 8. Couseling Aggressive Boys and Adolescent Males......Page 222 CHAPTER 9. Moving Beyond "Drinking Like a Man": Tailoring Substance Abuse Couseling Strategies to Meet the Needs of Boys......Page 250 CHAPTER 10. Finding Inner Peace in a Homophobic World: Couseling Gay Boys and Boys Who Are Questioning Their Sexual Identity......Page 274 CHAPTER 11. "Boys Are Tough, Not Smart": Couseling Gifted and Talented Young and Adolescent Boys......Page 304 Index......Page 324 Back cover......Page 336 The psychological development of boys / John Robertson and David Shepherd A positive psychology perspective on helping boys / Mark S. Kiselica ... [et al.] Establishing rapport with boys in individual counseling and psychotherapy: a male-friendly approach / Mark S. Kiselica and Matt Englar-Carlson Surviving in a sea with few lifeboats: counseling boys from impoverished families / Joseph M. Cervantes and Matt Englar Carlson Promoting strength and recovery: counseling boys who have been sexually abused / Mark S. Kiselica, Jerry Novack Examining depression and suicidality in boys and adolescent males: an overview and clinical considerations / Mark Fleming and Matt Englar-Carlson Improving self-control: counseling boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder / George Kalpalka Counseling aggressive boys and adolescent males / Le'Roy E. Reese ... [et al.] Moving beyond drinking like a man: tailoring substance abuse counseling strategies to meet the needs of boys / Mark Woodford Finding inner peace in a homophobic world: counseling gay boys and boys who are questioning their sexual identity / Mark S. Kiselica, Maryann Mule, Douglas C. Haldeman Boys are tough, not smart: counseling gifted and talented young adolescent boys / William Ming Liu, Samuel Shepard, and Megan Foley Nicpon.

This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practical tool for school and mental health practitioners who need to understand and respond to the developmental and special issues of boys and adolescent males, Counseling Troubled Boys creates a bridge between young men and helping professionals. Key content includes adjustment issues, strategies for establishing rapport, interventions, case studies, and suggestions for future training and research.

"Counseling Troubled Boys provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. A practical tool for school and mental health practitioners, this book supplies case examples and covers topics such as adjustment issues, cultural factors, interventions, and strategies for establishing rapport. In this volume, the authors have created a bridge between young men and helping professionals who need to understand and respond to the developmental and special issues of boys and adolescent males."--BOOK JACKET Counseling Troubled Boys provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys.