A Straight-talking Introduction to Children's Mental Health Problems
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : 2009
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 132
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 36575
- ISBN 13 : 9781906254155
- ISBN 10 : 190625415X
About the Author(s)
Sami Timimi is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and author of Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood, and Naughty Boys: Anti-social behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture.
Pete Sanders was white British. He worked as a volunteer at 'Off The Record', Newcastle-upon Tyne, in 1972 before completing a degree in psychology at the university there, and then the postgraduate diploma in counselling at Aston University. He practised as a counsellor, educator and clinical supervisor for more than 30 years, and published widely on many aspects of counselling, psychotherapy and mental health, as well as co-founding PCCS Books in 1993. After practising and teaching counselling, he continued to have an active interest in developing person-centred theory, the politics of counselling and psychotherapy and the demedicalisation of distress. He died in February 2022.