Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction - Hardcover

Geldard, Kathryn; Geldard, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761955518 ISBN 13: 9780761955511

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

`I like the interactive style in which the book is written, whereby the reader is invited to consider how they might deal with a situation... following which the authors explain how they approach it.... The book is for counsellors in training and a resource for practising counsellors. The methods described can be adapted to different settings, for example school and home.... I would recommend this comprehensive and stimulating book to anyone who is interested or involved in working in a therapeutic way with children' - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

This introductory guide to the practice of counselling children, and to the practical issues of communicating with children in a counselling context, has been designed specifically for practitioners and students who are engaged in or wish to engage in counselling with emotionally disturbed children.

The authors: detail specific counselling skills for use with children, illustrating their discussions with case examples; provide detailed guidance on how to select and use a range of media, activities and play when counselling children; include worksheets for use in specific areas such as self-esteem and protective behaviours; and describe a new model of the internal processes of change in a child during therapy.

About this title

About the Author:

KATHRYN GELDARD, PhD, is a lecturer and counsellor supervisor in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Her research interests include adolescent peer counselling and counselling effectiveness as perceived by the adolescent client in the QUT Psychology and Counselling Clinic.

Kathryn is currently conducting research with Australian Aboriginal adolescents with regard to developing a culturally sensitive peer support program in a regional community. She is the author of a number of textbooks on counselling and has several years experience in supervising and training counsellors.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0761955518
• ISBN 13: 9780761955511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240