Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is a practical text designed to help students learn essential interviewing and counselling skills through a practical action-oriented approach and scenarios situated in common professional CYC settings such as group homes, treatment centres, or outreach services. This invaluable text features examples, reflection questions, role-play exercises, and case studies that demonstrate how counselling skills are used outside of the typical one-hour counselling session, impacting the daily life of children and youth in their lifespaces. Students will develop essential skills within the field with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression. Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is an essential must-read resource for Child and Youth Care, Social Work, and Human Services programs at colleges and universities in Canada and the United States.
Patricia Kostouros is a psychologist and Full Professor in the Department of Child Studies and Social Work at Mount Royal University. Prior to her career in academia, she worked in a number of child and youth care settings as a frontline practitioner and administrator. Jill Thompson has spent time in the CYC field in a variety of settings and eventually completed her graduate studies in counselling psychology. Jill is a registered psychologist with a small private practice focusing on topics related to sexuality and gender and has provided workshops and presented widely on these topics. Jill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child Studies and Social Work at Mount Royal University.
Chapter 1: Before We Begin I. Importance of Land Acknowledgement II. Stories of Child and Youth Care III. Situating Ourselves IV. Trauma-informed Practice Chapter 2: Framing the Work I. Conceptual Framework: Being, Interpreting, Doing II. Being III. Interpreting IV. Doing V. Ethics and Policies VI. A Decision Making Model VII. Legal Considerations VIII. Being in a Therapeutic Relationship IX. Interpreting the Relationship X. Domains Chapter 3: Nurturing Wellness I. Wellness II. Self-care and Self-soothing Chapter 4: Skills I. General Overview II. Basic Skill Described III. Advanced Skills Described IV. Examining Context V. The Change Process VI. Application Chapter 5: Contextualizing for the Other 23 Hours I. Contextualizing the 25 Characteristics Chapter 6: Practice with Theories I. Counselling theories for Child and Youth Care Practice II. Early Renditions of Counselling III. Behaviour Therapy IV. More than Behaviours V. Understanding Dialectical Behaviour Therapy VI. Person Focused VII. Existential VIII. Motivational Interviewing IX. Transtheoretical Model X. Solution Focused Brief Therapy XI. Strengths-based XII. Narrative XIII. Experiential, Play, and Expressive Arts XIV. Feminist and Queer Affirming Approaches XV. Neurodevelopment Wrapping Up Appendix: I. Skills Chart II. Unhelpful Thinking Styles References Authors' Bios
