Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

Volume 20, Issue 3, Spring 2001

Counseling and CriticaI Thinking

The Impact of Conceptualization Skills in Counseling Children

This article addresses the importance of client conceptualization skills in counseling as well as the limitations of child conceptualization skills in counseling. Furthermore, the article provides a rough overview of the applicable points in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and a discussion of how these points relate to conceptualization skills in counseling.