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Counseling Children and Adolescents
A reading path through related lessons. Shared lessons can appear in more than one path. View curriculum coverage and limits →
What this path helps you do
- Practice supported here
- Adapt language and inquiry to developmental capacities and consider caregiver roles, learning, and family context.
- Preparation
- Review developmental context and distinguish the young person’s account from adult reports.
- Where to go further
- The path does not cover every child treatment protocol, jurisdiction’s consent rules, or specialized pediatric assessment.
Developmentally responsive work with children & adolescents
Adapt a learning formulation to developmental capacities and family context.
Development in context
Use developmental models as lenses rather than rigid labels.
Attachment, relationships & developmental hypotheses
Use attachment concepts without diagnosing from a single interaction.
Learning and behavior change
Distinguish reinforcement from punishment and extinction.
Think in family interaction patterns
Distinguish a relational cycle from blaming one family member.
Explaining privacy and caregiver involvement to a young client
Separate legal consent, a young client’s participation, caregiver involvement, and record-access rights.
Developmentally responsive counseling: adapting language and activities
Choose an adaptation from observed communication and learning needs rather than age alone.
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