Counseling Troubled Boys

This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practical tool for school and mental health practitioners who need to understand and respond to the developmental and special issues of boys and adolescent males, Counseling Troubled Boys creates a bridge between young men and helping professionals. Key content includes adjustment issues, strategies for establishing rapport, interventions, case studies, and suggestions for future training and research.

"At long last, we have a really useful volume for helping troubled boys. Dr’s. Kiselica, Englar-Carlson and Horne have performed a terrific service for the field in editing this boy-friendly book, one that will benefit students and mental health practitioners alike. This is a “must read”!" - Ronald F. Levant, Ed.D., A.B.P.P., Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Akron and 2005 President, American Psychological Association "Counseling Troubled Boys is a one-of-a-kind, desperately-needed, and comprehensive publication. It focuses on the plethora of problems boys encounter as they develop into men. The text concentrates on both understanding and helping. It examines strengths and possibilities as well as difficulties and barriers. The health of humanity depends on the wellness of everyone. Boys have been a neglected sub-population. This book rightfully addresses how to help this segment of society in multiple ways. As the father of three sons, I have seen first hand many of the issues included in this volume. I highly recommend it!"- Samuel T. Gladding, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Counseling, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina“Troubled boys become troubled men, if not helped. This book is the definitive guide for those who want to help. Each chapter is a gem, written by experts in helping our troubled boys. The authors tackle head-on the big problems of aggression, depression, sexual abuse, suicide, and ADHD. From poor boys to gay boys to the sometimes overlooked travails of gifted boys, this book provides a roadmap to helping boys move to an adulthood where they can reach their full potential as human beings.”- Mark Pope, EdD, NCC, MCC, MAC, ACS, Professor and Chair, Division of Counseling and Family Therapy, University of Missouri – Saint Louis and Past-President of the American Counseling Association (2003-2004), "Counseling Troubled Boys takes welcomed steps in providing clear analysis and guidance for those providing psychotherapy to boys and adolescents. Its reasearch basis is excellent, and the examples these assembled clinicians provide are both illustrative and instructive...the strength of the book is its overall clarity and excellent grounding in research." - Brad DeFord, Ph.D., in Illness, Crisis & Loss

Mark S. Kiselica Ph.D., is professor and former chairperson of the Department of Counselor Education at the College of New Jersey. He earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA and has counseled hundreds of boys in schools, mental health centers, psychiatric hospitals, and prisons Director of the School Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the author of several books, see below.Matt Englar-Carlson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of counseling at the California State University at Fullerton. He received his doctoral degree in counselor education from the Pennsylvania State University and has worked with men, boys, and families in community mental health centers and schools. He has co-authored two books, see below.Arthur M. Horne, Ph.D., is a distinguished research professor of counseling psychology at the University of Georgia. He completed his Ph.D in counseling and educational psychology at Southern Illinois University. He was the co-investigator of ACT EARLY, a federal program for at-risk children, and has been a trainer for agencies addressing male issues of violence and aggression. He is a prolific author, see below.