Margaret Robson is a senior teaching fellow at Keele University where she supervises PhD students and the dissertations of Masters students. Before taking partial retirement, she was responsible for the professional counsellor training programme. She is also a qualified play therapist and has a special interest in working with, and researching, children's bereavement. She has taught play therapy training programmes in the UK, Kenya and the US and trained the first play therapy supervisors in Kenya. She is currently joint Chair of the BACP Children, Young People and Families Division. In her free time she is a bit of a water baby and enjoys sailing, canoeing and swimming. She also loves walking with her beautiful dog, bike riding and the occasional glass of wine!

Dr Sue Pattison is a counsellor, supervisor and trainer with Sue Pattison Consulting, Sue was Director of a PhD programme at Newcastle University for many years and is now lecturer in psychology at Arden University. She teaches and researches counselling internationally, and has a busy counselling and supervision practice. She is a founder member of the BACP Counselling in Schools Research Consortium and joint Chair of the BACP Children, Young People and Families Division.

Part I: Theory and Practice Approaches
Chapter 1: Child Development and Attachment - Divine Charura
Chapter 2: Child and Young Person Centred Approach - Graham Bright
Chapter 3: Psychodynamic Approaches - Sue Kegerreis, Nick Midgley
Chapter 4: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy - Paul Stallard
Chapter 5: Gestalt - Belinda Harris
Chapter 6: Becoming an Integrative Practitioner - Niki Cooper and Kelli Swain-Cowper
Chapter 7: Play Therapy - Lisa Gordon-Clark
Chapter 8: Other Creative Approaches - Barbara Smith, Kaye Richards, Karen Lowe and Peter Lowe
Part II Counselling Practices and Processes
Chapter 9: Referrals and Indications for Therapy - Ani de la Prida, Wendy Hay
Chapter 10: Preparations for Therapy: Beginnings - Edith Bell, David Stewart
Chapter 11: Therapeutic alliance and Counselling Process - Sue Pattison and Sandra Bell, with acknowledgment to Mark Prever
Chapter 12: Therapeutic Skills - Claire Harrison-Breed with acknowledgements to Sally Ingram& Maggie Robson
Chapter 13: Supervision - Penny Leake, Ann Beynon and Jenny Biancardi
Chapter 14: Groupwork - Ros Sewell, Peter Pearce, Gwen Proud
Chapter 15: Ending - Dee C. Ray
Chapter 16: Evaluating counselling - Katie McArthur, Mick Cooper
Part III: Practice Issues
Chapter 17: Law and Policy - Peter Jenkins
Chapter 18: Ethics - Peter Jenkins
Chapter 19: Diversity - Divine Charura, Tom McAndrew and Sue Pattison
Chapter 20: Bereavement - Maggie Robson
Chapter 21: Depression and Anxiety: Common Challenges for Children and Young People - Jennifer Baggerly
Chapter 22: Self-Harm and Suicide - Sum Yu Pansy Yue and Dennis Ougrin
Chapter 23: Sexual, Physical and Emotional Abuse - Beverley Turner-Daly
Chapter 24: Eating Disorders - Rebecca Kirkbride
Chapter 25: Mental Illness in Children and Young People - Paul Nicholson, Divine Charura and Brian Charlesworth
Part IV: Practice Settings
Chapter 26: Health and Social Care Services - Barbara Smith, Sue Pattison and Cathy Bell
Chapter 27: School and Education Settings - Peter Pearce, Ros Sewell and Karen Cromarty