Supporting the Mental Health of Children in Care

Evidence-Based Practice
Herausgeber: Guishard-Pine, Jeune; Coleman-Oluwabusola, Gail; Mccall, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering evidence-based suggestions for improving the mental health of children in care, this book looks at some of the common problems children encounter, describes effective therapeutic interventions and shows what professional agencies can do to improve outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781849056687
• ISBN-10: 1849056684
• Artikelnr.: 42787254

Autorenporträt

Jeune Guishard-Pine OBE is a chartered psychologist with significant experience and specialism in child and family psychology. She is currently Consultant Psychologist and Director of Bespoke Psychology. Gail Coleman-Oluwabusola is clinical lead for the Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wakefield and previously worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in a secure adolescent inpatient setting. Gail is also an honorary lecturer within the Clinical Psychology Unit at Sheffield University. Suzanne McCall is a counsellor at the Luton Family Consultation Clinic working with adolescents, parents and foster carers and also works from her own private practice. She was previously a qualified social worker with over ten years of experience working with children in care and children in need and at risk.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction. 1."I try hard not to scream": Responding to the
distress of children in care. Siobain Bonfield and Jeune Guishard-Pine,
Child and Family Psychologists. 2. Children under 5 in care: what a shame!
Christine Cork, Senior Primary Mental Health Worker. 3. "Working with
children in care who self-harm: Understanding coping, communication and
suicide". Sam Warner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. 4. Drugs and
alcohol as a form of self-medication from trauma and past abuse amongst
children in care. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Child and Family Psychologist and
Lisa Robinson, Children and Young Peoples Drugs and Alcohol Centre Manager.
5. Run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man":
Siblings in care and 'safe therapy'. Olatayo Afuape , Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist. 6. Working with sexually inappropriate behaviour and
incest. Tonie Lawrence-Mahrra, CAMH Practitioner and Transpersonal
Therapist. 7. "Can I go home?" Art psychotherapy with foster children
returning to their birth family. Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Art
Psychotherapist. 8. The anarchy and the ecstasy: The therapeutic journey
for Children in Care. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Child and Family Psychologist
and Hannah Baron, Clinical Psychologist. 9. Professionalising Foster
Carers. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Devinia Malcolm and Sheri Mosuro, Psychology
Well-being Practitioners. 10. Therapeutic boundaries - or 'pass the
parcel'?: Ethical challenges and boundaries. Suzanne McCall, Clinical
Adolescent Counsellor. 11. The Illusion of individual psychotherapy for
LAC: Integrated working as a 'kaleidoscope. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Child and
Family Psychologist. 12. On becoming a mental health 'specialist' with
children in care: a polemic. Zoe Lander, Services for Children and Young
People. 13. Culturally-competent practice for children in care. Gail
Coleman-Oluwabusola, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. 14. 'Safe therapy':
Involving children in care in developing mental health services. Sidra
Aslam, Educational Psychologist. 15. Kith and Kin: Providing a therapeutic
space to kinship carers. Olatayo Afuape, Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist. 16. Child sexual exploitation and multi-dimensional safety
for children in care. Lucie Shuker, International Centre for Social Science
Research, University of Bedfordshire. Conclusion. References. About the
contributors.