Therapy with Children and Young People

Colleen McLaughlin is a Professor of Education at the University of Sussex School of Education and Social Work. For over twenty-five years she worked at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where she directed a child and adolescent psychotherapeutic programme. She has written, researched and spoken on child and adolescent care and wellbeing, which is her passion. She is also concerned to promote the wider role of schools and teachers. She taught in schools and worked as a counsellor. She is a Fellow of BACP. Carol Holliday is an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, where she now leads the programme for child and adolescent psychotherapy. She is an United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy registered Arts Psychotherapist who works therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults. She has twenty years experience of clinical practice and also works as a clinical supervisor. Carol has particular interests in relationships between children and adults, and in working with images: in therapy, education and research. Her doctoral research explored the contributions of psychotherapy to the teacher/child relationship and she is an award-winning author of publications helping teachers to understand and work with children’s feelings.

• PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXTIntroduction - Colleen McLaughlinThe Child, The School, Counselling and Psychotherapy - Colleen McLaughlinPART TWO: UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCEInfancy: The foundations of learning and relating - Julia BuckroydPre-school and the Early Years - Fiona PeacockThe Primary School Years - Clair LewoskiWorking with the Developmental Tasks of Adolescence during the Secondary School Years - Tracey FullerPART THREE: WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN SCHOOLSThe Therapeutic Relationship: Building a working alliance with children and adolescents - Carol HollidayThe Therapeutic Relationship: Conditions and processes - Carol HollidayWorking with Thinking, Feeling and the Importance of the Body - Carol HollidayCreative Therapeutic Interventions - Carol HollidayIntervening to Work with Other Relationships - Fiona PeacockPART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN COUNSELLING WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTSProfessional 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 - Eileen ArmstrongPsychotherapeutic Counselling in a Multi-Disciplinary Multi-Agency Environment - Fiona Peacock

Drawing together the latest research, and filled with clear practice examples, this book is an excellent resource for counsellors and therapists in schools, as well as those who supervise and co-ordinate this work. Richly informed by theory and practice, the authors have also produced a readable, engaging and accessible text which will prove valuable to everyone involved in this area of therapy.