Download or read book Counseling the Defiant Child written by John B. Mordock and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an instructional book for those who work with latency-aged children, with a special emphasis on the defiant and agressive child. It presents basic principles of counselling, and a discussion of the developmental failures children referred for counselling. The use of developmental orientation honours the fact that children are children first and troubled children second. It gives concrete examples of what to do in specific situations, such as when the child won't leave the counselling room or when the child continually subjects you to verbal abuse. Clear language is used to describe interactions between counsellors and children in a variety of situations, and the underlying clinical judgements that inform these interactions.