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The Safety Session: A Prerequisite to Progress in Counseling Families with Physically Aggressive Children and Adolescents

Charles R. McAdams, III

The College of William & Mary

Victoria A. Foster

The College of William & Mary

Strategies are needed that assist both current practitioners and counselors-in-training in working safely and effectively with potentially aggressive young people and their families. To emphasize with at-risk client families the seriousness of violence, all or part of an initial or early counseling session with an at-risk family should be devoted exclusively to prescribed risk assessment and crisis planning processes. This safety session is intended to reduce the risk of client violence by opening a forthright dialogue regarding the risk of violent behavior, specifying appropriate behavior, and setting limits and consequences for noncompliance. The specific framework for a safety session and a case study illustrating its application are presented.

The Family Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, 49-56 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1066480702101008
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