"This title provides school counselors with the research, knowledge, and skills they need to implement interventions that will impact the academic, social, and emotional outcomes of traumatized students. It offers background information on the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and offers support for "counselors to lead school-wide programs, and tools and strategies for school counselors to implement in personal practice."
"This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse--an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue."
Using a case-based approach, "this book helps school counselors and other school personnel .... learn to take a methodical approach to critical cases and to be prepared for the difficult situations they will encounter including cases involving violence, cases of an existential nature, cases involving inappropriate adult behavior, and cases impacting the school community."