School Counsellors Working With Young People and Staff ─ A Whole-School Approach

Luxmoore, a school counselor, trainer, teacher, youth worker, and psychotherapist in the UK, shows school counselors how to make their work a normal, visible part of school life using a whole-school approach. He addresses the school context and the role of the counselor, the counseling process, school rules, and skills, then describes key therapeutic aims: helping people learn to speak about rather than enact their anxieties, develop a capacity to tolerate ambivalence, become less reliant on a false self to protect the true self, develop a sense of personal worth or self-esteem, and bear the anxieties of not knowing why bad things happen. The last section details how to develop a school counseling service and the roles of the principal, volunteer counselors, peer supporters, and parents. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nick Luxmoore is a school counsellor, trainer, teacher, youth worker and UKCP registered Psychodrama psychotherapist. He has over 35 years' experience of work with young people and with the professionals who support them. He has previously published Listening to Young People in School, Youth Work and Counselling; Working with Anger and Young People; Feeling like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-esteem; Young People in Love and in Hate; Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness and Young People, Death and the Unfairness of Everything, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. He currently works as the Counsellor at King Alfred's Academy, Wantage, UK.