Product Description: This book is essential reading for any helping professional who work with children, adolescents, and adults who have experience trauma, whether it is a loss, violence, medical emergencies or serious illness, or natural or man-made catastrophic events...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text offers practitioners a set of practices and procedures for working with low-income, urban African-American families withina practice-oriented format. It incorporates the authors' own research and case examples are used throughout.

Product Description: A student in crisis often signifies a family in crisis. When this is the case, school personnel can most effectively help the student by working with the whole family. Although school counselors are constrained by time considerations and a limited scope of responsibility, many times they are the first helping professionals to know there is a problem and they are often the only mental health workers who will come into contact with these families...read more