This step-by-step guide is for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. The author evaluates the forms of counselling that are currently practised alongside direct treatment of the disorders themselves, and argues for greater training opportunities and a wider provision of counselling in this field.

Peggy Dalton also explores the effects of communication problems on the person's sense of self, relationships and perceptions of the world. She stresses the need for a greater understanding of the experiences of people whose lives may be severely limited by their communication problems and shows how important it is to find ways of discovering the personal meaning of experience when it is unable to be expressed in words.

Introduction
The People, the Problems
A Personal Construct Approach to Communication Problems
Crucial Issues in Counselling People with Communication Problems
Beginning Counselling
The Counselling Process over Time
Ending Counselling
Towards Continuing Change
Working with People Who Stutter
Counselling and Vocal Rehabilitation
Counselling People with Neurogenic Communication Problems
Working with Children and Their Parents
An Experience of Counselling People with Communication Problems

Peggy Dalton is Consultant Clinician at the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology, London