Sandra Polding, Clinical Specialist SLT, National Child Psychiatric In-patient Unit Scotland, Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists, (2014): Aimed at SLTs, this book advocates that we need to develop counselling skills to e ectively help our clients and their families achieve optimal quality of life. The authors encourage the development of optimism and resilience in clients using normality and wellness, the underpinning tenets from positive psychology. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Using clients' stories is central to the work and the book includes many excellent examples. The authors are very skilled and present their ideas with passion. They provide detailed information of the skills required in an easy-to-read format. They also discuss the training required to take the SLT on the journey to become a communication counsellor. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 8 is a highlight and provides a workshop format to develop optimism and resilience skills, which SLTs could use in their clinical work. I would recommend this book as a starting point to developing counselling skills. ================================================================== Martin Fujiki, Professor, Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Brigham Young University, (2013): This is an important text that should be required reading for speech language pathologists and audiologists. Michael J. Flahive, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair, Department of Communicative Disorders, Saint Mary's College, (2013): I believe the second edition provides a stronger melding of principles of positive psychology and continues to deliver content replete with real life examples. ================================================================== Nina Simmons-Mackie, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, Professor & Scholar in Residence, Department of Health & Human Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, (2013): I absolutely love the revised Counseling in Communication Disorders: A Wellness Perspective. It is a lucid, practical and inspiring book -- a must-have for clinicians or students in the field of speech-language pathology. Instead of the traditional focus on 'what's wrong', the Holland and Ryan text helps clinician's focus on what is right... helping clients and their families build optimism and resilience, and move forward towards the goal of a life well lived. The book encourages, educates, and enlightens us to help deal with emotional and coping issues that invariably accompany communication disabilities, but are often faced with trepidation by clinicians. It is filled to the brim with thought provoking exercises and examples, and the orientation towards wellness and positive psychology is both valuable and refreshing. Counseling in Communication Disorders not only has information of critical relevance to clinicians, students and anyone who deals with communication disorders, but also the book has 'heart' -- it is pervaded with an essence of respect and hope. Every clinician in the field of communication disorders should read this book! ================================================================== Roberta J. Elman, Ph.D., F-CCC-SLP, Board Certified-ANCDS, President & Founder, Aphasia Center of California, Oakland, CA, (2013): Counseling in Communication Disorders: A Wellness Perspective, Second Edition is an absolutely essential text for speech-language pathologists and audiologists who are striving to help their clients live successfully with communication problems. Building on a positive psychology framework, the authors provide the specific clinical tools needed for counseling clients across the spectrum of communicative disorders, from infancy through end-of-life needs. Holland and Nelson's text is truly a gift - for students, clinicians, and ultimately for the millions of people who have been impacted by a communicative disorder. ================================================================== Sherine Ramzy, American Psychological Association, (2008): What makes this book an informative and interesting read for even a layperson is Holland's goal to enhance the potential of positive psychology to change people's attitudes about how to deal with disorders by using her whole life experience in a simple manner that allows readers to use it as a reference. [This text refers to the first edition.] ================================================================== Lyn Turkstra, PhD, Department of Communicative Disorders and Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Written by an expert on the life consequences of aphasia, this counseling text should be a staple in communication disorders courses. The author combines disorder-specific guidance with general principles of counseling, creating a text with broad application to individuals with communication disorders and the important people in their everyday lives, and the approachable writing style will appeal to audiences from undergraduate students to seasoned practitioners. [This text refers to the first edition.] ================================================================== Leonard LaPointe, Francis Eppes Professor of Communication Disorders, Florida State University, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology: Audrey Holland's book on counseling is a most welcomed bit of navigation on this largely unblazed path... This book is a perfect example of the infusion and marinade of humanism into our craft. [This text refers to the first edition.] ================================================================== Anthony DeFeo, PhD, Director, University of Arizona Speech Language and Hearing Clinic: This text on communication counseling is brilliantly conceived, organized, and written. I can't remember the last time I interacted with a text in our field wherein I was looking to the 'boxes' for the content. They made me realize how much I was glued to the text and the flow. It is obvious that, in terms of positive psychology, Holland has been walking the walk, becoming an expert by immersing herself as a student. What is impressive in this new book is that she's been able to cull the critical information that will allow clinicians to embrace this perspective on counseling without feeling as if they must retreat to high altitudes and study under a guru in order to adopt these principles. And the exercises are wonderful. [This text refers to the first edition.]
