In this issue
听鈥榃here lunatics prosper鈥�听(free article)
Jeanine Connor reveals some hard facts听about mental health labels and latency-age听boys playing console games
鈥楳onstrous鈥� teens
Beasts, supervillains and freeing the Wounded听Self, by David Taransaud
Anger management: the myth
We need to hear why young people are angry,听says Nick Luxmoore
Anger: a way through
Mike Trier on groupwork with Year 9 boys
Building blocks for boys
Guidelines from Andrew Malekoff for effective听groupwork with boys
Coaching and ADHD
A child with ADHD symptoms may still benefit听from coaching, says Naomi Richards
Destination PhD
Val Taylor continues her series
Assessing creatively
Liana Lowenstein offers guidelines and听techniques in advance of her visit to the UK
Indigenous and invisible
What do counsellors need to understand? Narelle Smith reports from Australia
Getting CBT into schools
Colleen Cummings and colleagues ponder听the issue
From the chair
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Welcome from the editor
Anger is bad. An anger-sized epidemic is torching society. We must听douse it before it destroys us. No one in history has ever been so听angry as Generation Z. We must anger-manage, anger-manage,听anger-man鈥�
And so it goes on, sparking from teacher to town counsellor, from Member听of Parliament to media spokesman 鈥� even igniting flames among therapists听and social workers. Truly, I have begun to believe that publishers finance听their Sunday brunch on the back of 鈥榓nger鈥� book sales. Else, why the听burgeoning industry?
My groupwork kids have anger aplenty. But do I eradicate it? No. Because听they鈥檝e got lots to be angry about. And because they manage their anger听perfectly well when it suits them 鈥� management isn鈥檛 the real issue. As Nick听Luxmoore says in his article: 鈥楢nger itself isn鈥檛 the problem. The problem is听when no one鈥檚 prepared to listen to it.鈥�
Anger is healthy (if expressed in an acceptable way). Anger needs听hearing (if we can tolerate the disclosures). And anger needs using to good听effect (if we鈥檙e brave enough to help our clients see how). So, instead, I use听a two-layered anger wheel I threw together one evening (you can see it at听http://bit.ly/mT1zUT) so that we can discuss what lies beneath their anger.听It was this wheel that started my discussions with Nick Luxmoore about听writing us a piece around anger. As well as Nick鈥檚 myth-debunking article,听we have a report from Mike Trier about groupwork with angry young听people, and one from David Taransaud, who seeks a way through young听people鈥檚 angry, 鈥榝eral鈥� behaviour to their tied-up Wounded Self 鈥� by playing听the part of a hostage negotiator. I commend these articles to you. But angry听violence, and other behaviours variously labelled as 鈥榗onduct disorder鈥�,听鈥楢DHD鈥� or 鈥楢SD鈥�, are not always so: Jeanine Connor makes a link to the听abuse and chaos that our clients witness in their homes or express on their听games consoles. She charges us not to classify these symptoms as anything听other than what they are, but to deal with the underlying societal blindness听that allows them to grow. If you leave everything else to read later, please听turn the page and read this.
And now to something more welcome. There have rarely been up-to-date听counselling books available in electronic format, so I鈥檓 delighted to听find that three of our review books and several other recent and relevant听publications are available as downloads. If you鈥檙e someone who prefers听reading on an e-device, it鈥檚 worth going online to check whether your听chosen book is available in electronic format. It will be cheaper. This is because,听despite attracting a VAT component, printed versions of counselling books听are short-run and therefore relatively expensive. If the prospect of buying听textbooks has ever made you choke on your Sunday brunch, perhaps the听industry has heard our anger and responded appropriately. It鈥檚 a thought.
Eleanor Patrick
Editor