Therapy with Children and Young People
Integrative Counselling in Schools and other Settings
- Colleen McLaughlin - University of Sussex, UK
- Carol Holliday - University of Cambridge, UK
Therapy with Children and Young People addresses the practice of child therapy in school settings in a unique level of detail. The authors adopt a broad ecosystematic, integrative approach that considers the influence of family, school and the wider community, placing emphasis on significant development and attachment issues.
As well as providing a solid ground in developmental theory, the authors explore the contextual and professional issues of working in a school setting. A wide range of activities and exercises (including using the creative arts to engage with young people through play, story, metaphor and imagery) help you to apply theory to practice in a new way. Challenging ethical dilemmas, such as sharing sensitive information and communicating with parents and teachers, are explored with the support of lively case studies.
Covering therapy with children from infant to secondary school, this book will be your essential resource if you wish to work therapeutically in schools.
a great insight to counselling children.
Thoroughly informative read with considered and organised approach to the unique field of counselling young people
An excellent overview, particularly helpful for trainee therapists in school placements. Well written, clearly structured, accessible and informative.
This is a great, practical book that is very user-friendly.
This is a really useful text book as it covers so much. I intended to flick through it when I received it and quickly got hooked and ended up reading for hours.
The book is interesting and easy to understand, it would be better when equipped with illustrations
An essential read for every Play Therapist or Counsellor and Psychotherapist working with Children and Adolescents. Post Graduate students would also find this text extremely beneficial for their clinical placement hours.
This is an easily readable book that should be essential reading for anyone who is counselling children and young people, not just in schools but in any setting. I highly recommend this as a core text.
Clear and well grounded in practice.
