Includes bibliographical references and index.

Counseling in clinical practice: overview -- Positive psychology: in brief -- Good counselors: knowledge, skills, characteristics, and attitudes -- Communication counseling with parents of children at risk for disability -- Counseling issues with children and adolescents with later-developing communication disorders / written in collaboration with Patrick Finn -- Communication counseling with adult clients and their families for whom progression is toward improvement -- Communication counseling with adult clients and their families for whom expected progression is toward deterioration -- There's an elephant in the room: issues in death and dying / written by Stan Goldberg.