Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction

Counseling Children is a highly acclaimed, introductory guide to counseling children and to the practical issues of communicating with children in a counselling context. In this Second Edition, Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard relate the theory and practice of counseling children in a highly accessible, practical, and jargon-free style.

Key Features:

• Teaches specific counseling skills for use with children, illustrated with carefully chosen case examples
• Sets out a new model for counseling children which sequentially integrates ideas from a number of therapeutic approaches 
• Provides advice on how to select and use a range of media, activities, and play when counseling children 
• Gives guidance on the benefits and practicalities of combining individual work with children and family therapy 
• Includes worksheets to use when helping children in specific areas such as developing self-esteem and managing emotions

Counseling Children is an invaluable resource for students and professionals in many fields including counseling, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, mental health, nursing and education.

Dr Kathryn Geldard is now retired from clinical practice. She continues to conduct training workshops for counsellors and organisations and facilitate professional development supervision groups. Her academic career as senior lecturer in counselling at Queensland University of Technology and in the faculty of Arts and Business at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia includes programme leadership of the Counselling programme as well as development of the postgraduate Master of Counselling degrees. She is the author of a several textbooks founded on her extensive clinical counselling background with children, young people and their families.

David Geldard had extensive experience in working as a counselling psychologist with troubled children and their families. He worked in mental health and community health settings, and in private practice.