Child Agency and Voice in Therapy - New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies

Child Agency and Voice in Therapy offers innovatory ways of thinking about, and working with, children in therapy.

List of contents

List of figures; Authors; Forewords; Introduction; Glossary; Part 1 Debates and Key Concepts; 1 Child Agency, Voice and the Arts Therapies: A New Paradigm; 2 The Constructions of Children in Therapy; 3 Rethinking the Therapeutic Process; 4 The Arts Therapist: Revising Roles and Relationships; 5 Research, Children and Therapy; Part 2 Research; 6 Contexts and Collaboration: Part 2 - Research; 7 The Therapeutic Process: Research into Children's Views on their Therapy; 8 Therapist Perspectives on Child Agency and Voice: Opportunities and Challenges; 9 First Contacts: Referral, Consent and Assent Revisited; 10 Opinions of Worth: The Art of Researching CHild Cllient Views about Their Therapy; 11 Child Agency, Voice and the Arts Therapies: Key Concepts Revisited; Appendices; Index

About the author

Phil Jones, Professor of Children's Rights and Wellbeing, Institute of Education, University College London.
Lynn Cedar, CEO of Roundabout, Dramatherapy charity.
Dr Alyson Coleman, Lecturer in drama and movement therapy, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Deborah Haythorne, CEO of Roundabout, Dramatherapy charity.
Daniel Mercieca, Clinical Coordinator of Adolescent Services, Caritas Malta.
Dr Emma Ramsden, Practitioner-Researcher and Clinical Supervisor based in London.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Cedar, Alyson Coleman, Deborah Haythorne, Haythorne Deborah, Phil Jones, Phil (Institute of Education Jones, Phil Cedar Jones, Daniel Mercieca, Emma Ramsden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2020
• EAN: 9780367861650
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86165-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, Psychotherapy, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Creative therapy / Expressive therapies