Counselling Children : A Practical Introduction. This item is unavailable.Counselling Children : A Practical Introduction

Counselling Children is an introductory guide to the practice of counseling children and to the practical issues of communicating with children in a counseling context. This valuable resource teaches specific counseling skills for use with children; contains detailed guidance about how to select and how to use a range of media, activities, and play when counseling children; includes a selection of worksheets to use when counseling children in specific areas, such as self esteem and protective behaviors; and describes a new model of the internal processes of change in the child during therapy. Providing a theoretical overview, this volume is clearly written, jargon-free, and assumes little background knowledge. Counseling Children has been designed specifically for students and practitioners who are engaged in or wish to engage in counseling with emotionally disturbed children. It will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in counseling, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, mental health and psychiatry, 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.