One Tree, Many Branches

The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Bozena Merrick, Di Gammage (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2023
Phoenix Publishing House (Verlag)
978-1-80013-220-7 (ISBN)

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One Tree, Many Branches contains twelve inspirational chapters on the practice of integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy in four parts: therapeutic holding, race and cultural identity, neurodivergence and differently wired brains, and systemic issues and working within the system. It is a must-read for all who work with children.

The book includes contributions from Audrey Adeyemi, Tasha Bailey, Kelly Brackett, Jamie Butterworth, Alix Hearn, Evania Inward, Irene Mburu, Sasha Morphitis, Magda Raczynska, Nadja Rolli, Zisi Schleider, and Anna Tuttle.

One Tree, Many Branches: The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the pioneering child and adolescent psychotherapy and counselling training organisation Terapia and the achievements of its trainees , tutors, and staff, who provide highly specialised counselling, psychotherapy, and bespoke mental health services for young people, children, parents, and families. Terapia works with individuals, organisations, schools, and the statutory and non-statutory sector and is a strong voice for child psychotherapy as a distinct and specialist profession. Therapeutic work with children requires a different set of skills and knowledge to that of adult psychotherapists. For example, much of the work is non-verbal and uses play and metaphor alongside talking. It also requires involvement with the system around the child, such as parents, families, and professionals, and the management of conflicting agendas and politics to act on behalf of the child.

Subjects discussed within its pages include ecopsychotherapy, autism, the lack of male psychotherapists, working with refugees, racial trauma, female genital mutilation, working in closed communities, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The book is essential reading for all who work with children and opens up exciting and pioneering new approaches for meeting the multifarious needs of our children and adolescents today.

Di Gammage, MA, UKCP, trained as a Dramatherapist and Play Therapist in the 1980s and early 1990s respectively. In 2010, she completed her training in Buddhist Psychotherapy from the Karuna Institute, Devon, and was accepted onto the UKCP Child Psychotherapy register in 2013. Di has worked in charities including the NSPCC Child Sexual Abuse Consultancy in Manchester with Anne Bannister, the NHS and the private sector as a psychotherapist and supervisor. She has taught at Terapia since 2006 on the Play Therapy Residential, Dramatherapy, and Working with Children and Young People who have experienced sexual abuse modules. Di is the author of ‘Playful Awakening - Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life’ (JKP, 2017). She currently practises in an independent fostercare agency in the South West together with her private practice as a therapist, supervisor and trainer. She completed a Masters in Creative Writing with Teeside University achieving a Distinction. Di continues to explore the integration of creative writing and well-being both for children and adults. Di lives in Devon.

Acknowledgements

About the editors and contributors

Foreword

Introduction: Seeds sown

Bozena Merrick and Di Gammage

Part I: Therapeutic holding

1. Ecopsychotherapy with children and young people in mind: attachment to place, nature, and landscape

Alix Hearn

2. Airy creatures: using somatic countertransference to ground autistic states in child psychotherapy

Magda Raczynska

3. The absent other: reflections on the absence of male, integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists

Jamie Butterworth

Part II: Race and cultural identity

4. Meet them where they are: integrative psychotherapy with refugee children and young people

Evania Inward

5. Unveiling racial trauma in the practice of the integrative child and adolescent psychotherapist

Audrey Adeyemi

6. Understanding the trauma and implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through child psychotherapy

Irene Mburu

7. Working with children and young people in the Orthodox Jewish Community

Zisi Schleider

8. Go well: Exploring themes of grief and loss in therapy with children and young people

Tasha Bailey

Part III: Neurodivergence and differently wired brains

9. Working therapeutically with uniquely wired children

Sasha Morphitis

10. Is it too late? The contribution of the integrative child psychotherapist to those affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Anna Tuttle

Part IV: Systemic issues and working within systems

11. An ongoing conversation…What (really) works in therapeutic residential care

Kelly Brackett

12. Working through play on the mentalizing capacity of controlling-caregiving children who suffered early relational trauma

Nadja Rolli

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.09.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	568 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-80013-220-4 / 1800132204
ISBN-13	978-1-80013-220-7 / 9781800132207
Zustand	Neuware