Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

Author: Liana Lowenstein
Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)
ISBN: 9780968519905
Category : Adolescent psychopathology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This best-selling collection is filled with creative assessment and treatment interventions to help clients identify feelings, learn coping strategies, enhance social skills, and elevate self-esteem. A wealth of innovative tools for practitioners working with children in individual, group, and family counselling. Aimed at 4 to 16 year olds.

More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

Author: Liana Lowenstein
Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)
ISBN: 9780968519912
Category : Adolescent psychotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
MORE creative interventions to engage children, youth, and families in counselling and help them address issues such as feelings identification, anger management, social skills, and self-esteem. Includes techniques to manage challenging client behaviour. A practical resource for practitioners seeking innovative activities to add to their repertoire. Aimed at 4 to 16 year olds.

Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families

Author: Liana Lowenstein
Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)
ISBN: 9780968519943
Category : Child psychotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this comprehensive resource, Liana Lowenstein has compiled an impressive collection of techniques from experienced practitioners. Interventions are outlined for engaging, assessing, and treating children of all ages and their families. Activities address a range of issues including, Feelings Expression, Social Skills, Self-Esteem, and Termination. A "must have" for mental health professionals seeking to add creative interventions to their repertoire.

Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce

Author: Liana Lowenstein
Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)
ISBN: 9780968519936
Category : Child psychotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An innovative collection of therapeutic games, art techniques, and stories to help children of divorce express feelings, deal with loyalty binds, disengage from parental conflict, address anger and self-blame, and learn coping strategies. Includes a theoretical overview for practitioners, a sample treatment plan, and a reproducible handout to give parents. Also contains a ten-week curriculum that can be used in therapy or support groups. A much needed compilation for counsellors, therapists, and group facilitators.

Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children

Author: Cathy A. Malchiodi
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1606237853
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Rich with case material and artwork samples, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book especially practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences addressed include parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Broader approaches to promoting resilience and preventing posttraumatic problems in children at risk are also presented.

Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children

Author: Liana Lowenstein
Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)
ISBN: 9780968519929
Category : Bereavement in children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This volume provides a wonderful treasure-chest of appealing and practical aids to assist mental health practitioners in counseling bereaved school-age children. Numerous exercises and games are included that will encourage children to express their complicated feelings about the death of a loved one. Handouts for parents and teachers as well as guidelines for practitioners serve as important resources to assist adults in their efforts to help bereaved children." -- Nancy Boyd Webb. [from back cover].

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children

Author: P. Gussie Klorer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442268573
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals who work with children an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients. The second edition builds upon cutting-edge research in the neuroscience of trauma and art therapy to examine children’s development alongside their understanding of trauma. Including many new and revised case studies, Klorer illustrates effective treatment strategies to offer patients alternative means of expression. Klorer’s rich and highly accessible teaching voice seamlessly weaves together art therapy theory, research, and cases into an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike.

Creative Play Activities for Children with Disabilities

Author: Lisa Rappaport Morris
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 9780873229333
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Contains over 250 games and activities that help infants to 8-year-olds grow through play.

Creative Family Therapy Techniques

Author: Liana Lowenstein
Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)
ISBN: 9780968519967
Category : Art therapy for children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Bringing together an array of highly creative contributors, this comprehensive resource presents a unique collection of assessment and treatment techniques. Contributors illustrate how play, art, drama, and other approaches can effectively engage families and help them resolve complex problems. Practitioners from divergent theoretical orientations, work settings, or client specialisations will find a plethora of stimulating and useable clinical interventions in this book.

Bullying in Schools

Author: Peter K. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528030
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
A comparative account carried out by educationalists and researchers of the major intervention projects against school bullying since the 1980s.