Abstract
This chapter reviews the intersection between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the counseling field. The first section introduces the Convention and highlights its central tenets regarding the mental health of children. This section also discusses the conceptualization of children as holders of their own rights to comprehensive care and reviews the Convention’s articles most relevant to the work counseling professionals do in schools. The second section presents different ways in which intentional counseling and microskills can help achieve the goals of the Convention, followed by descriptions of such effective counseling practices. The third section introduces the implications of neuroscience for counseling children, as well as the contribution of neuroscience to social justice. The chapter ends with ways to infuse Convention-based counseling practices in schools and in counseling children.
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