Counseling and life-span development

Author(s)

• Thomas, R. Murray (Robert Murray)

Bibliographic Information

Counseling and life-span development

R. Murray Thomas

Sage Publications, c1990

• pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. 347-360

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA13327991
• ISBN:
  • 0803936133
  • 0803936141
• LCCN: 89034766
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Newbury Park, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: 367 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF637.C6
  • DC20 : 158/.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Counseling
  • LCSH : Developmental psychology