Counseling Youth: Foucault, Power, and the Ethics of Subjectivity

by Tina Besley

The author develops a critical history to examine the nature, limits, and realities of contemporary school counseling, which tends to be student- or client-focused with a nonjudgmental and nondirective ethos. The book is concerned with the shifting notions of self and identity and develops a Foucauldian analysis that examines these inherently philosophical notions in relation to adolescents and youth as the primary clients for school counseling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897898559
• ISBN13: 9780897898553
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.7"