Counseling Persons With Communication Disorders and Their Families

Counseling Persons With Communication Disorders and Their Families is a seminal work that has become a standard text in counseling courses within the field of communication disorders. First published in 1979, this sixth edition provides updated and extensive references to the counseling literature and a new chapter summarizing 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 1 Counseling by the Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist 2 Contemporary Theories of Counseling 3 The Erikson Life Cycle and Relationships 4 The Emotions of Communication Disorders 5 Counseling and the Diagnostic Process 6 Techniques of Counseling 7 The Group Process 8 Working With Families 9 Counseling and the Field of Communication Disorders 10 Summing Up References