Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, Fifth Edition offers mental health professionals and students coverage of the latest thinking and practice using the major approaches to counseling and psychotherapeutic interventions. It covers Psychodynamic, Adlerian, Person-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Rational-Emotive, Reality Therapy, Solution Focused, Family Systems, and Play Therapy. This expert resource also covers ethical and legal implications of working with children and adolescents, culturally responsive counseling with younger clients, and interventions for children and adolescents with disabilities and health care needs. Each theory chapter covers the history of the theory and its current status, an overview of the theory, how to apply the theory to children, how to apply the theory to adolescents, using the theory in groups of children or adolescents, applications to parents, and the efficacy of the theory. Each chapter also includes a case study, annotated bibliography, and discussion questions, and these pedagogical tools make it particularly suited for classroom use.