Title: Time to listen to children : personal and professional communication /
Authors: Milner, Pat, 1936-; Carolin, Birgit, 1933-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Children Services for Great Britain; Interpersonal communication in children Great Britain.; Children and adults Great Britain.; Listening; Adolescent
Abstract: "The views of young people and respected professionals who work with them in social services and child protection, the law, research and education, hospitals and voluntary organisations, are represented in Time to Listen to Children. They share their interactions through the medium of counselling, art, music and play therapy and emphasise the importance of our multicultural, religious and spiritual backgrounds. It is possible to put aside authority without abdicating responsibility, claim the authors, in order to recognise and hear children as people with rights, opinions and ideas equal, but different, from those of adults."--BOOK JACKET. "Focusing on what is special about listening to children as the core of a skilled, reflective yet active relationship, this collection should prove a valuable resource for social workers, teachers, counsellors, mediators, advocates and parents."--Jacket.
Contents: A medley of children's voices / Birgit Carolin and Pat Milner -- Pleasures, pitfalls and perplexities: the content of counselling and supervision / Dorothy Eddi Piper -- Learning to listen, learning to hear: a training approach / Penny Toller -- Communicating with a black child: overcoming obstacles of difference / Lennox K. Thomas -- Children, spirituality and religion / Margaret Crompton -- Children as teachers: listening to children in education / Colleen McLaughlin, Mary Carnell and Lynne Blount -- Child protection: facing up to fear / Barbara Smedley -- 'Will it hurt?' children and medical settings / Penny Cook -- 'Working with hope' in voluntary organisations / Birgit Carolin -- 'I'm going to do magic ... ' said Tracey: working with children using person-centred art therapy / Heather Giles and Micky Mendelson -- Listening to children through play / Carol Dasgupta -- Listening: the first step toward communicating through music / Amelia Oldfield -- 'It's cool ... 'cos you can't give us detentions and things, can you?!': reflections on research with children / Virginia Morrow -- Children and the law / Pat Monro.