The Essentials of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools

The book is targeted at practitioners working with children and young people, and will make essential reading for anyone undertaking training in the helping professions where elements of psychotherapy and counseling are requisite to practice.

The book also speaks to advancing practitioners insofar as essential elements of the therapeutic relationship, such as containment, trust and transference, are re-cast in light of the modern challenges of working with children, especially young children. There are an increasing number of courses in the UK (and abroad) which focus on developing practitioners who are delivering early interventions for mental health issues and so Essential Ingredients offers a strong underpinning with a particular focus that offers a marker for the development of the special interest section of the UKCP.

Psychotherapy with children and young people has traditionally routed practitioners in psychoanalytic theory. Essential Ingredients pays heed to this lineage with fresh perspectives on the ingredients in practice which will tackle the impediment to flourishing in children.