Overview

The definitive guide to the skills, techniques, and concepts used when working with children experiencing emotional challenges. It covers all you need to know about:

• The child-counsellor relationship
• Practice frameworks for working effectively
• Play therapy and the use of different media and activities
• Building self-esteem and social skills through the use of worksheets
• The concepts of wellbeing and resilience

New to this edition

• Technology: its influence on children and ways it can be used in counselling
• Counselling in a post-pandemic world and the role of remote counselling and ‘telehealth’
• More discussion of issues of diversity, difference, intersectionality, implicit bias, and an inclusive practice
• Updated case studies to affirm diversity and represent wider populace
• Expanded and updated end of chapter further resources
• Updated conclusion (with reflections on the pandemic)
• Greater focus on inclusive practice and how SPICC model can be applied across various social/cultural groups

Online resources include digital picture books, worksheets and a list of further reading to support your professional practice and help you extend your learning.

This highly practical guide is a vital resource for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses, and teachers working or training to work with children.