Creative Therapy for Children in New Fam - Softcover

Hobday, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631236007 ISBN 13: 9780631236009

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Synopsis

This book contains a range of activities designed to help children who have moved to new families, for example through fostering or adoption, to overcome emotional difficulties.

• Encourages creativity in therapy with children who have moved to new families through fostering, adoption, or other means.
  
  
• Contains a broad range of activities designed to help these children overcome emotional difficulties in a gentle and positive atmosphere, as well as guidelines about how, when, where, and at what age to use them.
  
  
• Includes activities such as 'Family Web', 'Pick up a Privilege', 'The Anger Debugging Kit' and 'I Can Do It (Now)' that can be used by therapists or caregivers as part of, or to supplement, many different therapeutic approaches.
  
  
• Most are appropriate for use where the child is in long-term care, or when the plan is that they should not return to their birth family.
  
  
• All are suitable for both boys and girls.
  
  

About this title

Book Description:

This book encourages creativity in therapy with children who have moved to new families through fostering, adoption, or other means. It contains a broad range of activities designed to help these children overcome emotional difficulties in a gentle and positive atmosphere, as well as guidelines about how, when, where, and at what age to use them. Activities such as 'Family Web', 'Pick up a Privilege', 'The Anger Debugging Kit', and 'I Can Do It (Now)' can be used by therapists or caregivers as part of, or to supplement, many different therapeutic approaches. Most are appropriate for use where the child is in long-term care, or when the plan is that they should not return to their birth family. All are suitable for both boys and girls. The book builds on the information and activities already published in two previous books, Creative Therapy: Activities with Children and Adolescents (CT1) and Creative Therapy 2: Working with Parents (CT2).

From the Back Cover:

This book encourages creativity in therapy with children who have moved to new families through fostering or adoption. It contains a broad range of activities designed to help these children overcome emotional and behavioural difficulties in a gentle and positive atmosphere. Guidelines are included about how, when, where and at what age to use the activities.

Activities such as ‘Family Web’, ‘Pick up a Privilege’, ‘The Anger Debugging Kit’ and ‘I Can Do It (Now)’ can be used by therapists or caregivers as part of, or to supplement, many different therapeutic approaches. Although most are appropriate for use where children are in long-term care, or when the plan is that they should not return to their birth family, some will help build resilience in children who will undergo multiple moves. All are suitable for both boys and girls.

Although it stands as a text on its own, the book builds on the information and activities already published in two previous books by Angela Hobday and Kate Ollier, Creative Therapy: Activities with Children and Adolescents and Creative Therapy 2: Working with Parents.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631236007
• ISBN 13: 9780631236009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148