This is a Text Book, for case study work, counseling work, therapy work, and etceteras.

This book version is for professional personnel, such as psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), sociologists, psychiatrists, university students in this career field, and other legal professional personnel only. This book is not authorized to be sold in any other way. Only qualified trained professional personnel that have the knowledge, skills, abilities, and talents to properly understand the many aspects this career field, and of this book, and utilize this book in their therapy practice to help other people (e.g., clients), are authorized to purchase this book, and to have access this book, for use in their professional practice.

The purpose of this book Growing Up An American Boy! For Counselors Only is to assist, help, aid, and support professional personnel, including professional counselors, to aid, assist, and help their clients. This help includes (the list is not all inclusive):

Learn.

Recognize.

What helps.

Recover.

Heal.

Gain vision for the future.

Live a healthy today.

Being a good citizen.

‘But you said to me, ’ returned Estella, very earnestly, ‘God bless you, God forgive you!’ And if you could say that to me then, you will not hesitate to say that to me now - now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, pages 684 and 685.

We are each profoundly affected by our family life, …

Come, Follow Me - For Individuals and Families, year 2021 page 7.

Like Estella, I also have been bent and broken, yet I hope also it has been into a better shape.

The Author