Building Creative Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Young People: The Playfully Serious Practitioner (Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy)

By: Jim Wilson

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Synopsis: This textbook elucidates core systemic ideas, methods and skills which are useful and effective in building creative therapeutic relationships with children and young people in family/systemic therapy and practice. The aim of the book is to invite practitioners and therapists working with this client population to extend their &“repertoire&” of skills and ideas towards better therapeutic outcomes. This book outlines key elements to help practitioners find useful, effective means to meet, engage and help children and their families, alongside illustrating a range of skills through vignettes and in-depth case studies to highlight creative possibilities underpinned by a clear conceptual framework. It also offers a condensed and accessible insight into what contributes to creative practice in meeting children and young people. This approach allows a degree of spontaneity in practice, centering therapy as a process of humanisation. The book also provides a detailed exploration of the practitioner&’s style of work, ethics and an examination of the social, organisational and political aspects of the contexts of practice