Time to listen to children : personal and professional communication / edited by Pat Milner and Birgit Carolin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milner, Pat, 1936-

Carolin, Birgit, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Services for--Great Britain.

Children.

Children--Services for.

Children and adults.

Interpersonal communication in children.

Great Britain.

Interpersonal communication in children--Great Britain.

Children and adults--Great Britain.

Listening.

Physical Description:

xiii, 237 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Summary:

Time to Listen to Children is an enlightening and practical guide to effective communication with children. Stressing the importance of learning to listen, professionals working with children in a variety of settings examine the skills required to help children articulate their problems and feelings. They discuss issues such as training, cultural background and religion and give accounts of their work in contexts such as education, social services, voluntary organizations, medical settings, and law. Contributors practice a variety of therapeutic techniques, including play, music and art therapy.

Contents:

Part I Setting the scene

1 A medley of children's voices / Birgit Carolin, Pat Milner 17

2 Pleasures, pitfalls and perplexities: the content of counselling and supervision / Dorothy Eddi Piper 29

3 Learning to listen, learning to hear: a training approach / Penny Toller 48

Part II Multicultures, multifaiths

4 Communicating with a black child: overcoming obstacles of difference / Lennox K. Thomas 65

5 Children, spirituality and religion / Margaret Crompton 79

Part III At work with children

6 Children as teachers: listening to children in education / Colleen McLaughlin, Mary Carnell, Lynne Blount 97

7 Child protection: facing up to fear / Barbara Smedley 112

8 'Will it hurt?' Children and medical settings / Penny Cook 126

9 'Working with hope' in voluntary organizations / Birgit Carolin 139

Part IV Listening creatively

10 'I'm going to do magic ...' said Tracey: working with children using person-centred art therapy / Heather Giles, Micky Mendelson 161

11 Listening to children through play / Carol Dasgupta 175

12 Listening: the first step toward communicating through music / Amelia Oldfield 188

Part V Children, research and the law

13 'It's cool ... 'cos you can't give us detentions and things, can you?!': reflections on research with children / Virginia Morrow 203

14 Children and the law / Pat Monro 216.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415171970

0415171989

OCLC:

39465016