| Fostering Good Relationships: Partnership Work in Therapy with Looked After and Adopted Children Contributor(s): Richardson, Miriam (Author), Peacock, Fiona (Author), Brown, Geoff (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367102854 ISBN-13: 9780367102852 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Pediatrics - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 618.928 |
| Series: United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy |
| Physical Information: (1.12 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adoption - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different theoretical approaches. It focuses on practice, showing how practitioners can draw on their varied theoretical approaches to enhance the way they work together and in partnership with carers and with professionals from other agencies. The book provides a context that looks at the needs of children and young people in the care and adoption systems, the overall importance for their mental health of joined up 'corporate parenting', and national and local approaches to this. It then moves to focus on practical ways of working therapeutically in partnership with others who contribute diverse skills and perspectives, using specific case examples. Additional chapters look at collaborative ways of working with key carers to enhance their therapeutic role. Finally, some of the main elements of partnership collaboration are explored, as well as the challenges of work across agencies and disciplines. |
Contributor Bio(s): Richardson, Miriam: - Miriam Richardson is a Systemic Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She worked with the NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) from 1999 to 2008, initially in a Community Psychotherapy Project, and then as Lead Clinician with a specialist Children Looked After Service. Since leaving CAMHS she has developed an independent practice to include work with Looked After and Adopted children and other young people. She has tutored on the MSc program in Systemic Therapy at the University of Bedfordshire, and the Institute of Family Therapy's Agency Based Training program for social workers, inter alia.Peacock, Fiona: - Fiona Peacock is a BACP Senior Accredited Counselor, Certified Theraplay(R) Therapist and Trainer. She is also in training as a Theraplay Supervisor. For twenty years she has worked as a counselor in various educational settings and in CAMHS. Currently she teaches at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and runs a private practice providing a generic school counselling service and delivering a highly specialist service for Looked After and Adopted Children. The highly specialist work is usually commissioned by Local Authorities and often delivered in educational settings. |