This book serves as a useful tool for teachers designed to enhance their human relations and therapeutic counseling skills so they might better meet the personal, social, educational and vocational needs of children and adoloscents.

Jeffrey A. Kottler and Elaine K. McEwan do a masterful job of offering counseling guidelines for elementary school principals. Every school principal should read it!

This simple, yet enlightening text illustrates how counselors and psychologists can use themselves as a way to implement positive change in the therapeutic relationship. It's a book worth reading for anyone who is a therapist.

A passionate and lucid introduction to a contemporary model of treatment. The authors' commitment to and advocacy of their point of view provide for an illuminating discussion, whether or not one agrees with their conclusions, and the book should be especially useful to beginning therapists interested in exploring the psychodynamic perspectives.

This book should be required reading for students who are considering entering into the mental health field. It is thorough, helpful and straightfoward. Personal anecdotes from practitioners offers a nice touch.

Readable and compelling, this book will be a valuable resource for teachers, parents and others dedicated to helping children in school. Perhaps even more importantly, it will enlighten, affirm and buoy teachers who accompany the children on their courageous and daunting journey through their school years.

Sometimes with tragic consequences, dealing with difficult students continues to be arduous and profoundly discouraging. Dr. Kottler offers educators a sturdy framework and practical strategy for facing these overwhelming cases. He offers a sound and comprehensive approach to the difficult task of bringing out the child's full humanity.

A courageous, innovative and sensitive work

Jeffrey Kottler has filled this hands-on guide with self-assessment exercises and activities -- all designed to facilitate candid self-expression, growth, and change.

Kottler's extensive experience, and his appreciation of issues of class, gender, and pwer, are the bases for a detailed account of an alternative approach founded on trust...This important book charts a new path of educators.