The definitive guide to the skills and techniques used when working with children experiencing emotional problems, this book covers all you need to know about: 

• The goals for counselling children and the child-counsellor relationship
   
• Practice frameworks for working effectively with children
   
• Play therapy and the use of different media and activities
   
• Building self-esteem and social skills through the use of worksheets

This fifth edition has been updated to include:

• A new chapter on technology; its influence on children and ways that technology can be used during counselling
   
• New content on issues of diversity and difference in counselling children 
   
• The different contexts in which counselling children occur
   
• Discussion of concepts of wellbeing and resilience
   
• Updated references and research
   
• This highly practical guide is vital reading for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses and teachers working or training to work with children.