Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional: A Guidebook (Helping Children with Feelings)

This is a guidebook to help children who:

1. are insecure or worry too much; suffer from phobias or nightmares
2. find it difficult to concentrate to let go and have fun
3. have suffered a trauma; are worryingly good or seem like little adults
4. use order and routine as a way of coping with 'messy' feelings
5. retreat into dullness as a way of managing their being in the world
6. and, develop obsessive-compulsive behaviour in order to ward off their too-powerful feelings.

Margot Sunderland is Founding Director of the Centre for Child Mental Health, London. She is also Head of the Children and Young People Section of The United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling. In addition, she formed the research project, ‘Helping Where it Hurts’ which offers free therapy and counselling to troubled children in several primary schools in North London. She is a registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and registered Child Therapeutic Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer. Margot is also Principal of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education – a fully accredited Higher Education College running a Diploma course in Child Therapy and Masters Degree courses in Arts Psychotherapy and Arts in Education and Therapy. Margot is a published poet and author of two non-fiction books – one on Dance (Routledge Theatre Arts, New York and J Garnet Miller, England) and the other called Draw on Your Emotions (Speechmark Publishing, Milton Keynes and Erickson, Italy).