Core Principles of Assessment and Therapeutic Communication with Children, Parents and Families: Towards the Promotion of Child and Family Wellbeing

by Ruth Schmidt Neven

Book Overview

Practitioners today are confronted by a bewildering array of therapies as 'cure alls.' This book provides an integrated approach to working with children, parents and families that can be applied by all professionals in a variety of settings. Informed by a psychodynamic perspective, it identifies how we can avoid pathologising the behaviour of children by instead considering:

the meaning of behaviour as an important source of communication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415552427
• ISBN13: 9780415552424
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"