1st Edition
Psychotherapy with Young People in Care Lost and Found
By Margaret Hunter
Copyright 2001
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Whilst there is a wealth of literature on working with children and adolescents, very little focuses on those who are in residential or foster care. Psychotherapy with Young People in Care is a practical guide to working with this group from a psychoanalytic therapeutic perspective. Drawing on the author's years of experience and illustrated with a wealth of clinical examples, as well as a... Read more
Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Beginings. A View from the Bridge. Confidentiality. Joseph - A Therapy in Pictures. Charlotte. Child Sexual Abuse. The Longing in Belonging. Identity Crisis. Restless Children. Trauma and its Treatment. Epilogue. Bibliography.
Biography
Margaret Hunter is a Child Psychotherapist, with seventeen years' experience of working with children in care. Trained at the Tavistock Clinic, she is now head of Child psychotherapy at the Maudsley NHS Trust and continues to work with fosteresd children at the Integrated Support Programme in Kent. She Contributed to the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (Routledge 1999).
'...This book will be invaluable to all concerned - foster parents, social workers, teachers and many others - in learning about what it really takes to listen to children' - Peter Wilson of Young Minds, in his Foreword
