Communicating with children and adolescents : action for change / edited by Anne Bannister and Annie Huntington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bannister, Anne.

Huntington, Annie, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and adults.

Interpersonal communication in adolescence.

Interpersonal communication in children.

Parent and teenager.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource for those interested in exploring and understanding why action methods are particularly useful when working with young people. Discussion of the application of action methods to work with young people focuses on differing issues and populations.

Contents:

Cover; Communicating withChildren and Adolescents:Action for Change; Contents; SPECIAL NOTE: CONFIDEBTIALITY STATEMENTS; Part I -The Curtain Rises; 1. Warming up:Introducing Action Methods and Work with Young People; 2. Setting the Scene:Child Developmentand the Use of Action Methods; 3. Pause for Thought:Action or Stillness with Young People; Part II -Action Across Organisational Divides: Health, Education and the Juvenile Justice System; 4. Freeing the Self:Using Psychodrama Techniques with Childrenand Adolescents who Stammer

5. Where there is Dramathere can also be Art:Using Creative Media with Children Livingwith Life-Threatening Illness6. Can We Do Something?:Young People Using Action Methodsto Support Each Other in School; 7. Let's Make A Bridge!:Working in Action with Autistic Children; 8.Providing Dance Movement Therapywithin a Mainstream School; 9. Psychodramas with 'At Risk' Youth:A Means of Active Engagement; 10. DRAGO-DRAMATM:Archetypal Sociodrama with Adolescents; Part III -Action Methodsand Child Maltreatment

11.The Use of Action Methodsin the Treatment of the AttachmentDifficulties of Long-Term Fosteredand Adopted Children12. The Yellow Brick Road:Helping Children and Adolescents to Recover aCoherent Story following Abusive Family Experiences.Facilitated Contact with Birth Parents using theTherapeutic Spiral ModelTM; 13. Touch Me - No!:Creative Therapies with Young Sexually Abused Children; Part IV -The Curtain Falls; 14. Resisting Change:What Stops Us Acting for Young People; ENDNOTES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-90387-3

1-4175-0171-5

1-84642-333-3

OCLC:

53369826