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Child and adolescent therapy
Child and adolescent therapy concentrates on how to approach young people when it comes to understanding their emotions and counselling them.
Getting started as a counsellor of children and young people can be challenging. For instance, knowing exactly how to get an aggressive, misbehaving or scared child to open up and talk, is a skill that can take time to learn. Have a look at some of our recommended texts that can guide you with practical skills, examples and advice.
Our featured book
Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction, Sixth Edition
The market leading textbook for trainees and practitioners counselling children. This new edition explores the influence of technology on children, the role of remote counselling, and issues of diversity, difference, and intersectionality. It also provides an updated conclusion and expanded end of chapter further resources. This highly practical guide is a vital resource for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses, and teachers working or training to work with children.
Exclusive preview! Free chapter from the 6th edition.
Recommended reading
The counselling and psychotherapy hub is full of useful links, book chapters, interactive videos and more. Here are a few books to add to your resources:
The Handbook of Counselling Children and Young People
This landmark handbook brings together the fundamentals of counselling children and young people, across theory, research, skills and practice. It addresses what every successful trainee or practitioner needs to know in a way that is comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free. Expert authors from a wide range of backgrounds bring together the fundamentals of counselling practice with children and young people in this landmark handbook. It covers all your students need to know about theory and practice approaches, the counselling process, and practice issues and settings.
"Readable and engaging. I enjoyed the various challenges to traditional thinking, which ensure that the reader has the most up-to-date knowledge."
- Lynn Martin, BACP
Counselling Adolescents: The Proactive Approach for Young People
This established book written by well-known authorities in the field, has introduced thousands of trainees and practitioners to the theory, principals, skills and techniques of proactively counselling this client group. The new edition includes over 4 hours of online video resources to illustrate theory and concepts in practice, teaching students step-by-step how to put the skills they have learnt into practice.
“This clearly written comprehensive book is a must for those people choosing to counsel young people. The engaging writing style makes it a pleasure to read. The book is full of creative ideas and strategies to use, whilst also embedding the approach in theory.”
Mrs Hilary McNair
Kent Adult Education, Hilderstone College
Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction
This is the definitive guide to the skills and techniques used when working with children who are experiencing emotional problems. The Fifth Edition includes new discussions of wellbeing and resilience concepts.
The book is supported by a new companion website that provides training materials and handouts on a range of skills for counselling children. This highly practical guide is vital reading for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses and teachers working or training to work with children.
It's important to establish goals for counselling children. Have a read of our sample chapter for some examples of what these goals should be.