Carol Holliday

Therapy with children and young people: intergrative counselling in schools and other settings

Therapy with Children and Young People addresses the practice of child therapy in school settings in a unique level of detail. The authors adopt a broad ecosystematic, integrative approach that considers the influence of family, school and the wider community, placing emphasis on significant development and attachment issues. As well as providing a solid ground in developmental theory, the authors explore the contextual and professional issues of working in a school setting. A wide range of activities and exercises (including using the creative arts to engage with young people through play, story, metaphor and imagery) help you to apply theory to practice in a new way. Challenging ethical dilemmas, such as sharing sensitive information and communicating with parents and teachers, are explored with the support of lively case studies. Covering therapy with children from infant to secondary school, this book will be your essential resource if you wish to work therapeutically in schools.

Artists and Arts-Based Method Use in Higher Education: A Living Inquiry of an Academic Programme in a Faculty of Education

We are told that we need new thinking in the current world crises of economics and global environmental concerns. We are also told that, in higher education, a new critically reflexive form of creative teaching and learning is required in order to address the task of reconciling the need for a stable, safe, ethical and empathetic world with the need for a productive, adaptive and creative workforce. In this chapter, we provide compelling evidence of transformative practices—pedagogies of possibility—developed from a funded initiative called Facultartem which featured an artist-in-residence who developed arts-based methods to enhance a Masters programme in a UK university. We critique the crucial role that arts-based methods have to play in understanding organisational learning in HE.

Student motivations for undertaking a child and adolescent psychotherapeutic counselling course

Tutors of a child and adolescent psychotherapeutic counselling programme undertook a thematic analysis of five student assignments, from the same student cohort, designed to investigate their motiv...