American Counseling Assn.

Case incidents in counseling for international transitions.

Sixty-five international academics, counseling professionals, military personnel, and intercultural specialists contribute 19 chapters exploring the experiences of international workers, students, immigrants, refugees, and military and peacekeeping personnel as they transition through the various stages of cultural adjustment from their initial entry into a host culture to reentry into their home culture. Each chapter includes an anecdotal description and analysis of a critical incident — an important, essential, or valuable event taking place within a five- or ten- minute period of time — and discussion of transition outcomes, key issues, plus reader reflection questions and two responses to the sample case. Issues addressed include culture shock, acculturation, dual career transitions, isolation, family expectations, identity confusion, career concerns, immigration obstacles, post traumatic stress syndrome, and reentry culture shock. For counselors and counselor educators serving clients in an international context. No subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Compelling counselling interventions; celebrating VISTAS' fifth anniversary.

Focusing on issues that affect clients across the life span, these papers from the 2008 conference of the American Counseling Association include descriptions of successful techniques and studies. Topics touch all the bases and include treating the effects of trauma on adolescents, needs assessments of adolescent mothers, storytelling in bereavement counseling, therapeutic interventions for children who have witnessed domestic violence, outreach intervention to reduce recidivism in juvenile delinquents, stressors associated with marriage, therapeutic partnerships, military families, internally adopted children, interfaith marriage, culturally sensitive career development, counseling across generations, treatment of fibromyalgia and substance abuse, spirituality and wellness, suicide prevention, cultural competence in schools, client-based assessment, expressive arts in group, positive leadership skills, disaster response and HIPAA for dummies. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)