1st Edition
Time to Listen to Children Personal and Professional Communication
Biography
Birgit Carolin has worked as a teacher and counsellor in London schools, at ChildLine and at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. She now works as a BAC accredited counsellor in voluntary and private practice, mainly with children. Pat Milner is an experienced teacher and counsellor of children and students. A Fulbright Scholar, she started the Student Counselling service at University College London, was founder chair of the Association for Student Counselling and tutor to counselling courses at South West London College and Goldsmiths College, London University, in addition to practising as a counsellor and supervisor. For three years she was features editor of Counselling, the journal of the British Association for Counselling.
'The authors ... have compiled with great care and love a varied selection of work by 16 different authors, all of whose work focuses on the concerns of children and who advocate listening to children as people with rights, opinions and ideas, equal to, but different from, those of adults. Beautifully compiled.' - RACE Multicultural Journal No. 19 Summer 1999
'This book is a timely and stimulating work with rich content and wide coverage, and one whose significance for social work with children is readily apparent ... It will be essential reading for all professionals concerned with the practice and teaching of child care, as well as students in social work and education courses.' - Wing Hong Chui, Child and Family Social Work
