Recognizing and Helping the Neglected Child – An Interview with Brigid Daniel, Julie Taylor and Jane Scott

“Social workers tended to focus on responses to referrals and may need help to look beyond that to an overall picture of the child’s development. Other professional groups (such as dentists or nursery nurses or teachers) are well-placed to pick up on signals that a child might be being neglected, but may need more help to recognise this, and to know how to respond. Further, mothers in particular can recognise when they are struggling. Practitioners should not be afraid to ask them how they feel their parenting is going.”

August 12, 2011Social work

Social Work Under Pressure – Fighting Monsters Blogger interviews JKP author Kate van Heugten

“It is possible that social workers may be somewhat more prone to stress and burnout because their relationship with clients is so central to their work. Their work efforts revolve around empathy and understanding of service users’ situations and this can be draining. They may not have been assisted to know how to handle this inherent stress in their training, and they may not be aware that setting boundaries is critical to self-care.”

July 28, 2011Arts therapies

“I so want to see people flourish at work through supervision” – An Interview with Robin Shohet

“I believe that something can only be changed when it has been fully embraced first and then it seems to drop away. Trying to change by will does not work and is a kind of violence because it is imposed, even if it is ourselves that is imposing it. So in order to facilitate change, we need to listen and accept first.”

July 7, 2011Autism

JKP attends the NAS ‘Understanding and Managing Challenging Behaviour’ Conference in London

JKP attended The National Autistic Society’s conference on Understanding and Managing Challenging Behaviour held at Kensington Town Hall in London on the 6th July. The…

June 28, 2011Counselling

“That’s So Nice of You to Say”: Teaching Kids How to Receive Compliments

By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. As a therapist, I have talked…

June 21, 2011Counselling

“May I Please” and “No Can Do”: Guidelines for Kids on Making and Refusing Requests

By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. Do you know a child who…

June 16, 2011Counselling

Understanding Crisis Therapies – An Interview with Dr Hilda Loughran

“I’d like to think that balancing the individual and social approaches to crisis does offer something special at a time when people may be so burdened by stressful/crisis situations that they may take too much on themselves. This book really emphasises the idea that crises happen in a social context, that social supports can mitigate the devastating effects of a traumatic event and that a lack of social support can make even a simple problem seem insurmountable.”

June 14, 2011Counselling

Anger Between Friends: A Seven Year-Old’s Journey toward Assertive Emotional Expression

By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. It’s one thing to write about…

June 7, 2011Counselling

Decisions, Decisions: Helping Kids Make Constructive Choices for Expressing Anger

By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. Pack lunch or buy it? Headband…

May 18, 2011Counselling

Parallel Process Revealed Through Creative Supervision

“The act of creation can be experienced in different ways – it might be meditative or energetic. It enables the supervisee to review their issues from a different perspective. The advantage of using stimulating external resources means that the supervisee can step back and become the observer of their own creation. Effectively they become their own supervisor to your meta supervisor.”