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List of contents
Part 1. Therapeutic Themes. 1. Containing Care. Judith Woodhead. 2. Making Sense of Symbolic Communication. Christine Bradley. 3. Whose Feelings am I Feeling? Using the Concept of Projective Identification. Robin Shohet. 4. Exploring the Language: a Practice-Based Glossary. Andrew Collie. 5. Support and Supervision. David Challender. 6. Understanding the Research. Michael Little. Part 2. Direct Work. 7. Assessing the Emotional Needs of Children and Young People: Using a Need Assessment Programme. Christine Bradley and Andrew Hardwick. 8. Using a Therapeutic Model of Thought and Practice. Anna Maher. 9. Healing Play. Linnet McMahon. 10. Adolescence: a Time of Transitions. Kevin Healy. 11. The Difficulties of Working with Violence in Young People. Andrew Collie. 12. Working with Sexually Abused Children in the Context of the Family. Annie Bousfield. 13. Throughcare: Supporting Young People as They Make the Transition from Residential Care to the Wider Community. Mick McCarthy and Prue Hardwick. Part 3. The Carer, the Family, the Group and the Organisation. 14. Working in Substitute Care Settings with Sexually Abused Children: Issues for Carers. Ros Fanshawe. 15. ‘Residential Staff Should Not Touch Children’: Can We Really Look After Children in This Way? Adrian Ward. 16. Adolescence and the Struggle to Feel Real. Judith Woodhead. 17. The Re-enactment of Family Dynamics in Child Care. Babs Seymour and David Reeves. 18. Working with Unconscious Dynamics in Groups. David Challender. 19. Coping with Anxiety and Complexity: a Model of Management. Andrew Hardwick.
About the author
Andrew Hardwick, Judith Woodhead
Summary
This book has been written to provide practical guidance and useful theoretical frameworks for a dedicated and often neglected group of people – those who work in and manage schools, residential homes, foster care and day centres where troubled children and young people come for help or show worrying behavioural symptoms.
