Communication Disorders and Counseling

Syllabi examples from past courses
- William Rosenthal - California State University-Hayward.
- J. Scott Yaruss - University of Pittsburgh (You must have Adobe's Free Acrobat Reader to access this information. You can download it at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Ethics
- ASHA's preferred practice standards in the area of counseling
Shared Class Materials
- An annotated bibliography of first person accounts from our clients - started by Ray Kent and continued by Judy Kuster and others.
- Online personality tests - from Judy Kuster
- Grab Bag questions - Charleen Bloom
- Movies and Videos suggested for class use.
Links to counseling therapy/theory sites
- Theoretical approaches to counseling
  - Psychodynamic theories
    - Psychodynamic/Freudian
      - psychoanalysis & Sigmund Freud from the Skeptic's Dictionary
      - The American Psychoanalytic Association
    - Social Psychodynamic
      - Adlerian
    - Transcendental/Psychodynamic
      - C.G. Jung Page
  - Humanistic/Experiential/Existential/Phenomenological
    - Gestalt - Frederick Perls
    - Rogerian
      - Papers on Client-Centered Therapy
  - Cognitive/Behavioral/Action-Oriented
    - Albert Ellis/Rational Emotive (also called Cognitive Behavioral Theory).
      - Albert Ellis Institute
    - Eric Berne/Transactional Analysis
      - International Transactional Analysis Association i
      - Papers related to Transactional Analysis and Communication Disorders
        
        Stuttering Scripts: The Transactional Analysis of Stuttering Therapy by William Rosenthal
        
        Relationship of Change in Ego-State to Outcome of Stuttering Therapy: Preliminary Findings by William Rosenthal
        
        Ego-State Change and Objective Fluency Measures in Stuttering Therapy by William Rosenthal
    - The Beck Institute
    - San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy
  - Behavioral counseling - B.F. Skinner
- Additional counseling therapy approaches/sites
  - Art Therapy
    - Art Therapy on the Web
  - Marriage and Family therapy
  - Neuro-Linguistic Programming
    - Neuro-Linguistic Programming
  - Trait-factor theory
  - Reality therapy - Glasser
  - Personal Construct theory - Kelly
Additional resources
- How do you help grieving friend? - 4-minute YouTube by Megan Devine
- Connections Between Stuttering and Social Anxiety Disorder by Arlin Cuncic, MA in Clinical Psychology and Reviewed by Steven Gans, MD, Board Certified in Psychiatry
- HumorMatters provides information and resources about the healing power of therapeutic humor.
- A classic chapter on Counseling, Principles of counseling people who stutter from the Stuttering Foundation book, Effective Counseling in Stuttering Therapy edited by Jane Fraser
Links to activities that may be worth exploring
- In class activities for a course in Clinical Psychology, provides several exercises that can be conducted in one class period
Powerpoint presentations
- Developing skills for counseling people who stutter and their families - powerpoint presentation by Scott Yaruss, ASHA, 1999
- Listening and Responding Skills and a Framework for Helping People Change - pdf file of a powerpoint presentation by Scott Yaruss, ASHA, 2001

created November 21, 2001
last updated September 9, 2018