December 2009
What if...? Anxiety in young people is on the rise. Margot Levinson discusses its role and possible resolution; and four practitioners share case studies- When women abuse children
As organisations review safety measures for young children, Maggie Mealy updates us on the 'myth' that females do not abuse - How teenagers become violent
An excerpt from Camila Batmanghelidjh's chapter in Teenagers and attachment - When shame leads to violence
Jonathan Asser describes his Shame/Violence Intervention with young offenders, which he is upstreaming to secondary schools - Coaching or counselling?
Suzannah Wallace acknowledges similarities, but believes that many anxious teens can be helped before needing therapy - Classroom Link 4
Marie Delaney finishes her series on how counsellors can help teachers who struggle with very difficult pupils - Thomas's butterflies
Ros Baldwin describes work with a boy who conducted his own therapy in pictures - Reflective guidance
Joost Dross writes about groupwork with acting-out youngsters - Emotional first aid
An innovative training from Southampton CAMHS provides a first line of defence for children's workers. Paul Jetten reports - Smarty the hedgehog
Dennis Neill describes a systemic approach to dealing with encopresis - Combating bullying
Nicky Sworder introduces findings from her research - A Welsh celebration
Report of an event to celebrate school-based counselling

September 2009
Now we are 30 Ann Beynon, Joyce Sharples, Susan MacIver, Wendy Hardy and Belinda Harris cast an eye over the CCYP division and their own experience of young people’s counselling in the last three decades-
The Northern Ireland story Kathy Bell explains the process that led to all post-primary schools having on-site counselling - Scottish diary
Anna Hamilton surveys provision for youth counselling north of the border -
Agony or ecstasy? Is being a school counsellor just fine 30 years on? Janet Edwards writes about her research - Sand unlimited
Eleanor Patrick takes up the case for general sand play in therapy sessions, and four practitioners offer case studies - Weaving patterns of help
The Maypole Project is a crucial package around young people with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses and their families. Sally Flatteau Taylor reports - Playing, cheating, winning, losing
Information about how the child experiences life is readily available while playing board games with them in therapy. Jill Bellinson explains - ClassroomLink 3
Marie Delaney continues her series on how counsellors can help teachers who are struggling with very difficult pupils - Putting back the pieces
Maggie Mealy writes about the Jigsaw service in Cornwall, working with children who disclose sexual abuse - China in need
Tim Woodhouse explains the theory and multiagency approach to working with a teenager who sexually self-harmed

June 2009
Not home from home Aida Alayarian describes the needs of refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people, and three practitioners offer case studies- The relationship’s the thing
An excerpt from Kathryn and David Geldard’s book Relationship counselling for children, young people and families – plus a book offer from Sage -
Containing not blaming Graham Music on the challenge of delivering the right kind of therapeutic help in schools - ClassroomLink 2
Marie Delaney continues her new series aimed at helping counsellors to input psychological understanding around difficult-to-teach children - Surviving the crunch
Richard Evans and his colleagues at the charity Kids & Us track how they went from drowning to waving in their counselling service - Interventions for foster children
Kim Golding delves into the complexity of this work, where creativity and eclecticism are needed alongside a multi-agency, holistic stance - Illuminated by lost light
Maggie Mealy looks at the rewards as well as the difficulties for counsellors working with sexually abused young people - Doing what they’ve always done
Research into early adolescents’ use of social networking sites to communicate emotionally. Barbie Clarke reports - Emotionally blocked
Jacky Davies reviews and illustrates her work with emotionally challenged children - Red and green writing
Erica Ruse describes how she nurtures her young clients’ new voices

March 2009 -
When low mood strikes -
Therapeutic thinking in schools - Getting started with EMDR and children
- Surviving the split
- Classroom Link 1
- The healing power if drama
- Drawing on our strengths
- Shayna, Ty and trauma survival
- Solution-focused practice with suicide-bereaved youngsters

December 2008

September 2008 - ADHD: a complex issue
- Interview: Angela Southall
- Taming the lion
- NLP toolbox: part 3
- Reporting child abuse
- The development of play
- The bullying game
- A good time to be autistic
- Infant observation

June 2008

March 2008 -
Attachment in schools - Essay: Is anybody there?
- The context of poverty
- NLP Toolbox 1
- Research on EBD interventions
- NLP groupwork
- Deconstructing young people's behaviour
- Solution-focused therapy
- Every counsellor matters
- CPD: develop or die

December 2007 -
LGB teens -
Human Givens approach - Supervision in the virtual world
- Placing counsellors in schools
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Circus intervention with ADHD children
- A resource for learning mentors
- Spiritual counselling with teens
- Research design
- Skills survey results

September 2007
Human Givens approach -
Trauma in young people -
Girls gone wild - Commissioning counselling services
- Play or abuse? A tricky question
- Teens and family breakup
- A service for bereaved children
- Counselling in Glasgow schools
- Music therapy
- Therapeutic storytelling
- TA and Cycles of Development

June 2007

March 2007

December 2006 
October 2006 - Imprisoned and innocent
- Artfully educating the grieving
- Only-child challenges
- Solution-focused sculpting
- Solution-focused software

June 2006 -
Grief and loss -
What lesbians do in bed - Pioneering work in schools by Cruse
- ADHD and ODD
- Open Door agency, Leicester
- Training for work with children and adolescents
- Eating disorders
- A client's voice

Winter 2005 -
Young men and masculinity - Young men in secure settings
- Containment in prison
- Developing capable youth
- When university is the wrong choice
- Eating disorders pt 2

Autumn 2005
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