Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction Book

This book is an introductory guide to the practice of counselling children and to the practical issues of communicating with children in a counselling context.The authors: · detail specific counselling skills for use with children, illustrating their discussions with carefully chosen case examples · provide detailed guidance on how to select and how to use a range of media, activities and play when counselling children · include a selection of worksheets for use when counselling children in specific areas such as self-esteem and protective behaviours · describe a new model of the internal processes of change in a child during therapy. Supported by useful resource material and also providing a theoretical overview, the book is clearly written, jargon-free and assumes little background knowledge. Counselling Children has been designed specifically for students and practitioners who are engaged in or wish to engage in counselling with emotionally disturbed children, and will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in counselling, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, mental health and psychiatry, nursing and education.Read More