Child Agency and Voice in Therapy

<p><em>Child Agency and Voice in Therapy</em> offers innovatory ways of thinking about and working with children in therapy. </p><p>The book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>considers different practices such as respecting the rights of the child in therapy and recognising and listening to children as<em> </em>‘active agents’ and<em> </em>‘experts’; </li> <p> </p> <li>features approaches that: access children’s views of their therapy; engage with them as researchers or co-researchers; and that use play and arts-based methods; </li> <p> </p> <li>draws on arts therapies research in ways that enable insight and learning for all those engaged with children’s therapy and wellbeing; </li> <p> </p> <li>considers how the contexts of the therapy such as a school or counselling centre relate to the ways children experience themselves and their therapy in relation to rights agency and voice.</li> </ul><p><em>Child Agency and Voice in Therapy</em> will be beneficial for all child therapists and is a good resource for courses concerning childhood welfare therapy education wellbeing and mental health.</p>