Time to Listen to Children: Personal and

Time to Listen to Children is a practical guide to effective communication with children. Professionals working with children in a variety of settings examine the skills required to help children articulate their problems and feelings. They discuss issues such as training, cultural background and religion and give accounts of their work in the following settings:* education* social services* voluntary organizations* medical settings* lawContributors practice a variety of therapeutic techniques, including play, music and art therapy.Time to Listen to Children will be a valuable resource for social workers, teachers and counsellors in training and for all professionals who wish to adopt a skilled, reflective and active approach to their work with children.

List of contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Setting the scene
A medley of children's voices	p. 17
Pleasures, pitfalls and perplexities: the content of counselling and supervision	p. 29
Learning to listen, learning to hear: a training approach	p. 48
Multicultures, multifaiths
Communicating with a black child: overcoming obstacles of difference	p. 65
Children, spirituality and religion	p. 79
At work with children
Children as teachers: listening to children in education	p. 97
Child protection: facing up to fear	p. 112
'Will it hurt?' Children and medical settings	p. 126
'Working with hope' in voluntary organizations	p. 139
Listening creatively
'I'm going to do magic ...' said Tracey: working with children using person-centred art therapy	p. 161
Listening to children through play	p. 175
Listening: the first step toward communicating through music	p. 188
Children, research and the law
'It's cool ... 'cos you can't give us detentions and things, can you?!': reflections on research with children	p. 203
Children and the law	p. 216
Afterword	p. 229
Useful addresses	p. 230
Index	p. 232
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Time to Listen to Children: Personal and Professional Communication

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