Inspiring and Creative Ideas for Working with Children
How to Build Relationships and Enable Change
Published on 21. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-84905-651-9 (ISBN)
Description
Employing a range of innovative and creative ideas, this book is full of tips to engage children and promote their wellbeing.
Children are vulnerable to low self-esteem, stress and anxiety because they are still growing and learning. This book looks at what we can do to minimise children's vulnerability to issues such as these, help them to build emotional resilience and teach them effective strategies for dealing with life's ups and downs. The book offers a host of different approaches that adults can use with children, including image-making, storytelling and puppetry. Chapters are brought to life with the voices of parents and professionals describing how these techniques worked for them. They also include guidance on how the principles can be used by professionals in the home, in schools or in therapeutic settings.
Children are vulnerable to low self-esteem, stress and anxiety because they are still growing and learning. This book looks at what we can do to minimise children's vulnerability to issues such as these, help them to build emotional resilience and teach them effective strategies for dealing with life's ups and downs. The book offers a host of different approaches that adults can use with children, including image-making, storytelling and puppetry. Chapters are brought to life with the voices of parents and professionals describing how these techniques worked for them. They also include guidance on how the principles can be used by professionals in the home, in schools or in therapeutic settings.
Reviews / Votes
By taking completely natural and fun ways of engaging with children and backing them with evidence, structure and ideas for differentiation, Plummer has created an approach that will both enable and enthral. Children and their supporting adults will experience genuine joy and personal growth as they work through these ideas which draw on both modern and traditional ideas from a range of cultures. -- Dr Pooky Knightsmith, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Specialist This refreshing book combines clear core principles for developing relationships with an enthusiastic and helpful 'have a go' approach to collaborative storytelling with children, providing many useful examples. -- Dr Vivien Norris, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, The Family Place In this wonderful guide, Deborah Plummer offers a treasure trove of of creative approaches for engaging and working with children. -- Christopher Willard, PsyD, Faculty, Harvard Medical School and Author of Growing Up Mindful As a children's counsellor, I would...recommend the book's direct use in my own field, and also as a source of inspiration for teachers and parents. -- Judith Sonnenburg, Child and family counsellor * Children and Young People, BACP *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84905-651-9 (9781849056519)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Deborah Plummer
Inspiring and Creative Ideas for Working with Children
How to Build Relationships and Enable Change
E-Book
10/2016
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
€19.99
Available for download
Person
Deborah M. Plummer has over 30 years' experience of facilitating groups and working individually with both children and adults. Formerly a clinical lead therapist working within the NHS, she also has extensive experience as a senior lecturer in aspects of health psychology and counselling. She ran workshops and short courses on the uses of imagery, games and story-telling in the promotion of well-being. Deborah is now retired.
Content
Acknowledgements. 1. Context. 2. Meeting the protagonists. 3. Twelve down to earth principles for building relationships and enabling change. 4. Imagination and creativity. 5. Image-making. 6. Oral story-telling. 7. Making a story. 8. Puppetry. 9. Stories about relationships and nurturing. 10. Stories about skills and qualities and facing challenges. 11. Stories about building knowledge and confidence. 12. Stories about gaining mastery and achieving goals. 13. The next steps. Activities index. Subject index. Author index.