Building Children’s Resilience in the Face of Parental Mental Illness: Conversations with Children, Parents and Professionals
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 228
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 95284
- ISBN 13 : 9780367183127
- ISBN 10 : 9780367183
About the Editor(s)
Alan Cooklin has worked as a family therapist, psychiatrist, and child and adolescent psychiatrist for some 45 years. For the past 20 years he has developed the multi-family Kidstime Workshops for the children of parents with mental illness and their families, and in 2012 established the charity (The Kidstime Foundation, later Our Time) to disseminate this approach. He has published widely.
Gill Gorell Barnes works as a family, marital, and couple therapist in private practice and consults to other therapists of different modalities. For ten years she worked as Consultant to Family Court Proceedings in the UK Family Courts, both as therapist and expert witness. She has written a book on family life in transition following divorce, as well as a book on working with children and parents and a research project on stepfamilies. She has also written a number of publications that focus on working with highly acrimonious post-divorce relationships.