Counselling with Children and Young People provides a distinctive focus on child therapy in school settings, addressing in a unique level of detail. The authors adopt a broad ecosystematic, integrative approach that takes into account the factors of family, school and wider community, placing emphasis on significant development and attachment issues. As well as providing your students with 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) allow students 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 working with children from infancy to secondary school, this book is an essential resource for both trainees and practising therapists who wish to work in schools. Contents: PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXT Introduction - Colleen McLaughlin The Child, The School, Counselling and Psychotherapy - Colleen McLaughlin PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE Infancy: The foundations of learning and relating - Julia Buckroyd Pre-school and the Early Years - Fiona Peacock The Primary School Years - Clair Lewoski Working with the Developmental Tasks of Adolescence during the Secondary School Years - Tracey Fuller PART THREE: WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN SCHOOLS The Therapeutic Relationship: Building a working alliance with children and adolescents - Carol Holliday The Therapeutic Relationship: Conditions and processes - Carol Holliday Working with Thinking, Feeling and the Importance of the Body - Carol Holliday Creative Therapeutic Interventions - Carol Holliday Intervening to Work with Other Relationships - Fiona Peacock PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN COUNSELLING WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Professional and Ethical issues in the Beginning and Ongoing Phases of Therapy in Schools - Tracey Fuller ‘Just because we can’t talk about the sessions, doesn’t mean we can’t talk’: Professional and Ethical Issues in the On-going and Ending Phases of Therapy in Schools Psychotherapeutic Counselling in a Multi-Disciplinary Multi-Agency Environment - Fiona Peacock
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