How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy

Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : May 2021
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 95541
- ISBN 13 : 9781913494285
- ISBN 10 : 9781913494
Also by Tamsin Cottis
Intellectual Disability, Trauma and Psychotherapy
Price £32.99
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Through the stories of individual children, this book will illuminate the process of creative, play-based child psychotherapy. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue that brings a child or a young person to the therapy room, and explores the use and meaning of particular objects and ‘object games’.
Readers will gain a profound understanding through these dynamic stories of therapy channeled through the objects the children choose to bring into play.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Samina: A game of Jenga
Beginnings
Chapter 2. Jake: Toy soldiers in the desert
Children who are hard to reach
Chapter 3. Zara: A life-size soft toy cheetah and a cake made of clay
Supporting children whose parents separate
Chapter 4. Theo: Players and playgrounds
Reluctant talkers
Chapter 5. Hakan: An inflatable globe and the 50 Clip-together Felt Pens
Children who can’t keep still
Chapter 6. Cristina: A bowl of green paint soup
Supporting children who are bereaved
Chapter 7. Polly: Wet sand and emoji cushions
Therapy for children with learning disabilities
Chapter 8. Jordan and Francesca: A full diary and a giant bean bag
Moving on from therapy, moving on from childhood
REFERENCES
INDEX
APPENDICES
Reviews and Endorsements
"Cottis’s illustrations and explanations of how a Child Therapist works flow seamlessly from events and processes in the session with the child and then, quite naturally, the drama of the session takes over – so the reader is never bored, always pulled along by the narrative, yet ever more informed. This is a beautiful book, describing beautiful work." - Anne Alvarez, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, author of The Thinking Heart.
‘This is a wonderful and engaging book. Tamsin is the therapist you'd want every child to have. I learnt so very much.’ - Dr. Susie Orbach, Psychoanalyst and author.
About the Author(s)
Tamsin Cottis has 10 years post-qualification experience as a child therapist and over 25 years of working therapeutically with people with learning disabilities at an organisation she co-founded called Respond.
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