Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

ISBN-13: 9781403997913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 184 str.

Linda Hopper

Opis

Offering a judicious balance of theory and practical discussion, this book focuses on the essential knowledge needed to work therapeutically with children and thus represents an ideal foundation text for students undertaking training in child counseling. Drawing on the work of Bowlby, Winnicott, and others, it promotes understanding of children's emotional development and examines how they use play and other creative means to express their inner feelings. A comprehensive guide, it also discusses issues of difference and identity, the counseling process and ethical issues in counseling children.

Spis treści

An Introduction to Children's Counselling.- Emotional Development.- Psychodynamic Understanding of Children's Problems.- Play Therapy.- Using Creative Opportunities in Play Therapy.- Working with Diversity.- Ethical Issues.- The Process of Counselling a Child.- The Child in Context.- References.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

LINDA HOPPER is an accredited psychodynamic therapist with the BACP and a member of COSCA. She works in private practice, supervises counsellors working with adults and children and delivers training for agencies. She is working with Middlesex University for validation of a Diploma in Counselling Children, which has recently been updated. She has considerable experience as a teacher and therapist working with children who have suffered social deprivation, physical disability and emotional disturbance. As the founder Director of the Sycamore Tree Children's Counselling Service, Linda created courses for counselling adults and children and prepared them for university validation.

Blurb

It is increasingly understood that to counsel children and adolescents effectively requires specialized skills: simply adapting techniques developed for adults will not work.

Drawing on the work of Bowlby, Winnicott and others, Linda Hopper here gives a brief introduction to the emotional development of young people and shows how play and other creative means can be used to help them to express their inner feelings. In a comprehensive overview of the area, she also discusses issues of difference and identity, the counselling process and ethical issues in counselling children. The author's wide experience of working with children and adolescents shines through in vivid case studies covering a range of clients, contexts and difficulties.

Offering a judicious balance of theory and practical discussion, Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents focuses on the essential knowledge needed to work therapeutically with children. It is thus an ideal foundation text for students undertaking training in child counselling, either as part of their initial training or in post-qualification professional development.