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Counseling Youth
Tina Besley
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Description for Counseling Youth
Hardcover. The first book in school counseling to provide a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Michel Foucault and his significance for understanding youth as the subject of counseling, the moral constitution of youth, professional ethics, and the new mode of narrative therapy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
The author develops a critical history to examine the nature, limits, and realities of contemporary school counseling, which tends to be student- or client-focused with a nonjudgmental and nondirective ethos. The book is concerned with the shifting notions of self and identity and develops a Foucauldian analysis that examines these inherently philosophical notions in relation to adolescents and youth as the primary clients for school counseling. Using the work of Foucault, this study examines changing notions of the self and identity and how psychological and sociological discourses have conceptualized and constituted adolescence/youth as the primary client in school counseling. ... Read more
The author develops a critical history to examine the nature, limits, and realities of contemporary school counseling, which tends to be student- or client-focused with a nonjudgmental and nondirective ethos. The book is concerned with the shifting notions of self and identity and develops a Foucauldian analysis that examines these inherently philosophical notions in relation to adolescents and youth as the primary clients for school counseling. Using the work of Foucault, this study examines changing notions of the self and identity and how psychological and sociological discourses have conceptualized and constituted adolescence/youth as the primary client in school counseling. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780897898553
SKU
V9780897898553
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About Tina Besley
TINA BESLEY is Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Glasgow.
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