Counseling Adolescents Competently (Counseling and Professional Identity) - Softcover

Underwood, Lee Anthony; Dailey, Frances L. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483358852 ISBN 13: 9781483358857

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Counseling Adolescents Competently is a comprehensive text for students and professionals compiling foundational and emerging skills in the counseling field. Authors Lee A. Underwood, Ph.D. and Frances L.L. Dailey, Ph.D. review extensive interventions ranging from assessment to diagnosis as well as fresh perspectives on working with this often challenging group.  Employing clinical case scenarios and profiles that demonstrate key issues, this book helps the counselor-in-training to understand the relevant theories and research around adolescents to better engage in culturally relevant interventions and treatment planning. 

 Key Features

• Unlike most literature related to behavioral health services for adolescents, this text is crafted specifically for the profession of counseling, yet is applicable for all behavioral health providers.
• Case scenarios address critical issues impacting today’s adolescents including their characteristics, technology issues, diagnoses and typologies, special needs, and interventions involving treatment planning.
• Themes that are commonly faced by teens, including trauma, grief, loss, emotional issues, sexual development, and peers are covered.
• A diverse range of adolescents from both urban and non-urban settings are examined.
• This book addresses a broad audience that includes students in behavioral health training, counseling, and school programs; the practicing provider; and administrative/clinical supervisors and educators.

About this title

About the Author:

Lee A Underwood, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in several states and certified sex offender treatment provider and is affiliated with Regent University School of Psychology and Counseling and Youth Development Institute (YDI).  He has 30 years of experience counseling adolescents and has published over 50 professional articles in refereed journals, 20 scholarly activities including monographs, technical reports and training manuals and has authored a supplemental text book on Adolescents in Conflict. His written work has focused on juvenile sex offending, adolescent mental health and substance use, trauma needs of females, forensic and cultural needs of persons involved in the juvenile justice and mental health systems, as means of distributing the findings of his research. He has served as an executive clinical officer for several large residential treatment, juvenile justice and criminal justice programs for adolescents and adults. Dr. Underwood is a renowned specialist in the area of juvenile sex offender formation.  As Director of the Center for Addictions and Offender Research operated by Regent University, he and his research team are responsible for some of the cutting edge research taking place. Dr. Underwood has been recognized by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) as one of the leading program innovators for juvenile justice and community treatment programs. Dr. Underwood has held a number of policy oriented research, academic, clinical and consulting positions over his career with federal, state and private agencies for research, program design, development, implementation and evaluation of services.

 

Dr. Underwood performs training activities, develops treatment curricula, designs programs and performs program evaluations for private and public organizations throughout the country.  He consults with the Federal Department of Justice’s civil rights division regarding fair and equitable treatment for adolescents in systems of care. He served as a Senior Consultant with the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, an affiliate of Policy Research Associates. Dr. Underwood has provided support to the forensic psychology program at Argosy University, served as an affiliate faculty for Louisiana State University Health Science Center and visiting lecturer with Rutgers University Criminal Justice program. Dr. Underwood serves on the editorial board of The Juvenile Mental Health Report and The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy. His research interests are geared toward questions of clinical significance for professionals in Counseling. Out of these interests, he writes this book. 

 

Frances L. L. Dailey, Ph.D. is affiliated with Regent University School of Psychology and Counseling and Argosy University College of Counseling, Psychology and Social Sciences.  Dr. Dailey has 15 years’ experience counseling families, couples, and individuals with a wide spectrum of mental health, substance use, relationship, and career challenges. She is a consultant and Research Director to a national mental health and juvenile justice consulting firm.  In this capacity she provides mental health counseling, psychological and psychosexual evaluations for human services and juvenile justice, criminal justice programs with clients for several residential treatment and community-based programs, and oversees both quantitative and qualitative research projects throughout the country. She has authored a supplemental text book on Adolescents in Conflict. Her written work has focused on juvenile sex offending, adolescent and mental health, trauma related issues, forensic and cultural needs of persons involved with the juvenile justice and mental health systems, as means of distributing findings of her research.  A graduate of Regent University’s CACREP accredited Counselor Education and Supervision doctoral program, she was awarded by her professors awarded as the “Outstanding Student of the Year Award.”  The American Counseling Association identified her as an “Emerging Leader” within the Counseling field.  She worked with several home-based service organizations in the role of Family Therapist, Family Preservation Supervisor, and Home-based Counseling Services Contracts Program Manager. Her family preservation expertise allowed her to contribute to developing Bonding Assessments and Comprehensive Family Profiles as a National Family Preservation Network board member. Dr. Dailey’s research and scholarly activities include multiple refereed journal articles. Dr. Dailey was recognized by Routlege Behavioral Sciences journals for the published article titled “Mental Health Treatment in Juvenile Justice Secure Care Facilities: Practice and Policy Recommendations”, published in the Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice. This was featured as the most downloaded articles published in Routeldge Behavioral Sciences journals in 2014.

 

 

 

 

Review:

"This is a text that is long overdue, I am excited to see such talented and experienced counselors come together to write such an informative updated text on counseling today’s adolescents." Author: Jennifer Jordan

"This textbook is very comprehensive in covering not only the issues faced by adolescents but also in helping the counselor to consider the best treatment approaches to use in different situations." Author: Wendy K. Killam

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1483358852
• ISBN 13: 9781483358857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496