Full Description
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.
The authors explore how this form of group work can strengthen resilience and prevent an increase in antisocial behavioural tendencies among children. Based on a process of shared meaning communication, the book explains how professionals can help children to engage in in-group creative play and allow them to experience their self in relation to others. Castrechini-Franieck and Bittner draw on their experiences of working with children in groups, supplemented with therapeutic elements from Gestalt therapy and ontological psychoanalysis. This approach helps children to achieve a stable state of emotional well-being while improving their behaviour at school, along with their social skills.
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children will be a key reading for psychotherapists and other professionals working with vulnerable children including psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers.
Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Foreword "Together We Are Strong!" T-WAS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Appendix to the introduction
PART ONE
Conceptual source of inspiration
Chapter 1. The interplay between antisocial tendencies and aggression
Chapter 2. The intersection of Gestalt therapy and ontological psychoanalysis
Chapter 3. Running children's groups in partnership: what does this mean?
PART TWO
Together We Are Strong (T-WAS)
Chapter 4. The challenges behind the scenes
Chapter 5. Eclectic group conductors
Chapter 6. Setting
Chapter 7. Creative play
Chapter 8. Three different children's groups
Chapter 9. Direct challenges to the eclectic group conductors posed by the children
Chapter 10. Reflections on T-WAS (Together We Are Strong)
