While recent psychological literature emphasizes family therapy, most counselors spend a great deal of their time counseling children alone. Mordock helps them to consider whether individual or family therapy is the best route for a particular child, and offers proven principles and methods for them to help troubled children in a variety of situations. He provides numerous counseling dialogues between an adult and a child, many of them interchanges with aggressive-defiant children, the most difficult to counsel.

Adolescence Magazine

Mordock uses his wealth of experience to produce a well-written, well-organized, and easy-to-read volume that focuses heavily on understanding and producing therapeutic verbal encounters with children.

Contemporary Psychology

John Mordock has written a book that will be helpful to parents, relatives, foster, and adoptive parents-those who will be in a position to refer a troubled child for counseling, and the many persons ranging from psychologists, school staff, nurses, child care agency workers, and others who, as part of their work, assist troubled children every day.

William Van Ornum, Ph.D., Marist College