Counseling Persons With Communication Disorders and Their Families–Sixth Edition

Details: 240 pages • softcover, 6 x 9

ISBN13: 978-1-416-41057-7

Release Date: 2017

Counseling Persons With Communication Disorders and Their Families is a seminal work that has become a standard text in counselling courses within the field of communication disorders. First published in 1979, this sixth edition provides updated and extensive references to the counselling literature and a new chapter summarising the author’s extraordinary 50-year career in the field. This edition is useful for professionals in the field as well as students in training. An instructor’s manual is also available.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP
• Introduction
• Counselling by the Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist
• Contemporary Theories of Counseling
• The Erikson Life Cycle and Relationships
• The Emotions of Communication Disorders
• Counselling and the Diagnostic Process
• Techniques of Counseling
• The Group Process
• Working With Families
• Counselling and the Field of Communication Disorders
• Summing Up
• References