Facilitating children's and adolescents' growth has been a challenge and major concern for person-centred work since the beginning of the approach in the 1940's. During the past decade, a shift in this domain has generated numerous new concepts, research and practice, making a considerable impact on both the professional tasks and training of educators, counsellors, and psychotherapists. Fifteen original chapters and a foreword from Brian Thorne describe this development. The chapters began as presentations from a symposium at the Potsdam PCE 2006 World Association conference, thus reflecting international perspectives emerging around the world today. Framed by two chapters from the editors, the book provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art person-centred work with children, adolescents and parents, and identifies emerging themes in the field.
Foreword by Brian Thorne. Introduction by Michael Behr and Jeff Cornelius -White: Relationship and development: Concepts, practice and research in person-centred work with children, adolescents and parents Section 1: Rationales for Person-Centred Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: 1. Klaus Frohlich-Gildhoff: Effective factors in child and adolescent therapy - Considerations for a meta-concept 2. Else Doring: What happens in child-centered play therapy Section 2: New Therapeutic Methods with Specific Groups: 1.Vlerick Erwin: Focusing Training for adolescents (15-18 years) with little self-confidence and a negative self-image 2. Dorothea Husson: Special methods in play therapy with sexually abused children and adolescents 3. Frances Bernard Kominkiewicz: Freeing children to tell their stories: the utilization of person-centred and experiential psychotherapy in child welfare investigations 4. Klaus Frohlich-Gildhoff: Person-centred interventions with violent acting children and adolescents Section 3: Counselling, Education and Learning in Schools: 1. Mick Cooper: Literature Review: The Effectiveness of Counselling in Secondary Schools 2. Satoko Wakisaka Akira Kanazawa: Japanese Person-Centred school counselling: case studies with school non-attendees and Japanese-Koreans 3. Bernie Neville: Reflections of Person-Centred classroom discipline 4. Dagmar Holldampf, Gernot Aich , Theresa Jakob and Michael Behr: Needs and problems in conversation with parents at school 5. Susanne Muhlhauser-Link, Gernot Aich, Simone Wetzel, Georg Kormann and Michael Behr: Improving the parent-teacher conference 6. Renate Motschnig: Can Person-Cenetred encounter groups contribute to improving learning and teamwork in academic environments? Conclusion: Jef Cornelius-White and Michael Behr: Concluding synthesis and future challenges
