Child-Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach

by Jim Wilson

Overview

The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes traditional and contemporary theories and explains them in the context of how he works with children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855752047
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1998
Series:	The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jim Wilson is a Consultant Psychotherapist with Foster Care Associates and in this capacity he also provides training, consultation and practice projects throughout the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and Ireland. Increasingly he has been asked to provide workshops seminars and conferences about his approach to colleagues in Belgium, Germany and the USA. His publications span the last eighteen years, covering his interests in the training of family therapists and the enhancement of practice. His book Child Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach (Karnac, 1998) focuses on the enhancement of practice with children in therapy. In his other book, The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of the Family Therapist, he turns to enlarging the scope of family therapy practice and the development of the therapist's personal style.

Table of Contents

Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , A framework for child-focused practice , The child in the therapeutic context: convening and consulting with the significant people , Making a connection: the first encounter , Child-focused questioning , Playful dramas for serious problems , Forms of writing in therapy with children , Preoccupying questions , Children’s views , End notes , Appendix