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
• Counseling by the Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist
• Contemporary Theories of Counseling
• The Erikson Life Cycle and Relationships
• The Emotions of Communication Disorders
• Counseling and the Diagnostic Process
• Techniques of Counseling
• The Group Process
• Working With Families
• Counseling and the Field of Communication Disorders
• Summing Up
• References