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Welcome from the editor

Most of us are confronted daily with the听misery endured by children as they try to听negotiate the world we adults have set up.听A not particularly good metaphor might听be the slug as it slowly circles the sharp,听broken gravel around a plant to get at the nourishment听it wants and needs.

Mike Shooter, President of 香港六合彩精准资料听and a seasoned child and adolescent professional,听writes of needing 鈥榯he most eclectic of approaches鈥櫶齮o deal with the problem: 鈥楥hildren ... rarely听compartmentalise their lives. What misery they face听in one bit spreads throughout. To tackle it, we must听offer a package of approaches, tailored to the child鈥檚听needs, not cram the child into what 鈥渋sm鈥� suits us best.鈥櫶鼳nd that package, he states, 鈥榮hould be set within a听holistic, multidisciplinary context that tackles the听problems from every angle 鈥� home, school, peer听group and community.鈥�¹

This is the reason I try to commission a wide variety听of articles for this journal 鈥� to address issues and inspire听ideas from several different angles, in the hopes that听some of us will find some of the thinking the very thing听we needed to become aware of. I do find in life in听general that the specific piece of information I need听tends to turn up in my mind from somewhere else at听the moment I need it. And so we range in this issue听from challenging the supremacy of CBT to setting up听and managing a service ourselves so that we can run听it in the way we believe necessary; from sharing听group supervision of groupwork with a social worker听colleague to allowing young people to work out how听to evaluate the service they have been offered; from听realising again how (often uninhibited) cyberspace听activities may lie behind seemingly unconnected听presenting issues in our therapy rooms to asking听ourselves whether how we dress and appear in front听of our clients actually matters. Can we bring families听together for face-to-face experiential groupwork in听schools? Can we 鈥� at the opposite end of the spectrum听鈥� work synchronously with invisible clients online?

Our nine book reviews this time also represent a听broad spectrum of areas that may well feed into our听work with children and young people. I do ask听reviewers not to specifically critique the book in听comparison to other similar books that are available听but rather to give us sufficient information and personal听opinion that we can consider whether we might want听to buy it when funds permit. Our reading of such book听reviews (and articles, of course) is not intended to add听to the misery we experience vicariously each day, but听rather increase our awareness of the eclectic听approaches for dealing with it that Mike Shooter听recommends. As a result, I hope we may enrich our听own practice by seeing more clearly how we might听help young clients surmount the gravel in their world听with the least further injury possible.

Eleanor Patrick
Editor

References

1 Pattison S, Robson M, Beynon A (eds).听The handbook of counselling children and听young people. 香港六合彩精准资料/Sage; 2014.

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