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Case Book of Brief Psychotherapy With College Students

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This is a good beginning case book for counselors interested in doing college counseling. The authors do a decent job of describing different types of brief therapy, but their cases and their focus was not diverse enough for me. There were no gay people in the cases, not enough racial or ethnic range, and not enough of a therapeutic lens in working with diverse cultures -- especially first or second generation young adults. So, the ability to generalize from the cases is minimized.

Also, this book is dated. It was published in 2001. So much of the forms of communication for young adults are now technological, which has tremendous ramifications for family relationships.

Much communication between students and their friends, families, professors, and yes, sometimes therapists is through email or text, and for friends and families, through Facebook, text messaging, Loopt, and the like. This is a huge oversight that the book does not address. As increased communication means increased questions about identity, and this too, brings in differences in expectations depending upon one's cultural background.

Essentially, this book is a nice starter, but the authors need to update their book to represent the times. And, the reader needs to know there are other books on college counseling out there.