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Book SynopsisThe book includes contributions from Audrey Adeyemi, Tasha Bailey, Kelly Brackett, Jamie Butterworth, Alix Hearn, Evania Inward, Irene Mburu, Sasha Morphitis, Magda Raczynska, Nadja Rolli, Zisi Schleider, and Anna Tuttle.
One Tree, Many Branches: The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the pioneering child and adolescent psychotherapy and counselling training organisation Terapia and the achievements of its trainees , tutors, and staff, who provide highly specialised counselling, psychotherapy, and bespoke mental health services for young people, children, parents, and families. Terapia works with individuals, organisations, schools, and the statutory and non-statutory sector and is a strong voice for child psychotherapy as a distinct and specialist profession. Therapeutic work with children requires a different set of skills and knowledge to that of adult psychotherapists. For example, much of the work is non-verbal and uses play and metaphor alongside talking. It also requires involvement with the system around the child, such as parents, families, and professionals, and the management of conflicting agendas and politics to act on behalf of the child.
Subjects discussed within its pages include ecopsychotherapy, autism, the lack of male psychotherapists, working with refugees, racial trauma, female genital mutilation, working in closed communities, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The book is essential reading for all who work with children and opens up exciting and pioneering new approaches for meeting the multifarious needs of our children and adolescents today.
Trade Review'This most welcome book addresses a significant gap in the literature regarding the practice of integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy. It sensitively tackles a multitude of important topics, bringing the client’s experiences, and the reparative relationships formed with the therapist, to life in a warm and inspirational way. This is a beautiful text, a must-read for all humanistic and integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists.'
-- Eileen Prendiville, psychotherapist, play therapist, and author; Director, Academic Affairs, Children’s Therapy Centre, Ireland
'This excellent book demonstrates how integrative child psychotherapy has more than come of age. Brave, moving, clinically and intellectually rigorous, its chapters interrogate and illuminate essential contemporary therapeutic subjects, from neurodiversity to race to the body to displacement to systems and so much more. This is a marvellous and rich resource for experienced and newer therapists and anyone working with children.’
-- Graham Music, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, Tavistock Centre, London, and author of 'Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology'
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
About the editors and contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Seeds sown
Bozena Merrick and Di Gammage
Part I: Therapeutic holding
1. Ecopsychotherapy with children and young people in mind: attachment to place, nature, and landscape
Alix Hearn
2. Airy creatures: using somatic countertransference to ground autistic states in child psychotherapy
Magda Raczynska
3. The absent other: reflections on the absence of male, integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists
Jamie Butterworth
Part II: Race and cultural identity
4. Meet them where they are: integrative psychotherapy with refugee children and young people
Evania Inward
5. Unveiling racial trauma in the practice of the integrative child and adolescent psychotherapist
Audrey Adeyemi
6. Understanding the trauma and implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through child psychotherapy
Irene Mburu
7. Working with children and young people in the Orthodox Jewish Community
Zisi Schleider
8. Go well: Exploring themes of grief and loss in therapy with children and young people
Tasha Bailey
Part III: Neurodivergence and differently wired brains
9. Working therapeutically with uniquely wired children
Sasha Morphitis
10. Is it too late? The contribution of the integrative child psychotherapist to those affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Anna Tuttle
Part IV: Systemic issues and working within systems
11. An ongoing conversation…What (really) works in therapeutic residential care
Kelly Brackett
12. Working through play on the mentalizing capacity of controlling-caregiving children who suffered early relational trauma
Nadja Rolli
Index
