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.

The book:

• considers different practices such as respecting the rights of the child in therapy and recognising and listening to children as ‘active agents’ and ‘experts’;
• features approaches that: access children’s views of their therapy; engage with them as researchers or co-researchers; and that use play and arts-based methods;
• draws on arts therapies research in ways ...