Young People In Focus

LISTENING IN COLOUR
Creating a meeting place with young people by Roberts Downes, Sue Lee, Foluke Taylor-Muhammad, Youth Access, & Young People in Focus 2002

These materials represent a model of their kind and will undoubtedly serve as a landmark resource in the counselling field.

Young People Now

Presented in an A4-size ring binder, this is an interactive resource for counsellors and trainers working with young people. It is easy to use and contains a wide range of material to help readers broaden their knowledge and reflect on their practice.

The commitment to understanding and working with diversity has been central to the development of Listening in Colour, alongside the belief that people learn through engaging with their own experience. The pack is based on a Youth Access course of the same name.

To view sample pages of this toolkit go to 'about our publications' and follow the links

180pp ISBN 978 1871504 446

EUPHORIC FLASH PICTURE EMOTIONS - POSTCARD IMAGES

Images produced by Euphoric Flash led by Helen Commack. Jo Brown and Janine Boyer. Worksheets devised by Sharon Landau and Dorothy Eddi Piper. Young People in Focus, 2008

Picture Emotions is a powerful series of images which have been produced by young people. The images focus on emotional health and cover; 'dealing with your emotions' and 'being alone'. This resource also contains worksheets which have been devised by experienced practitioners in youth work and education.

Picture Emotions is an excellent resource for training anyone working with young people. It brings to the training room images created by the young people. The well produced visual material stimulates ideas and discussion on a wide range of topics

Contents: A4 wallet containing a set of 17 well presented postcard sized photographs. Accompany booklet which provides facilitators suggestions on how to use the resource and photocopiable worksheets.

POSITIVE IMAGES - POSITIVE EFFECT
Paul Lee and Louise Bishop, Russell House Publishing

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

Positive Images - Positive Effect contains over 100 activities; each designed to increase young peoples' positive views of themselves.

They are fun, easy to use and will make a positive difference to your work and in their lives.
It explains how to facilitate these activities and how to improve your own skills in practive. The book encourages you throughout to focus on the positive aspects of young people and to seek to appreciate the good and the worth in them.

167pp

6S CLIMBERS
Snivel and Shriek
Aimed at Key Stage 2 and 3
Set of 5

A card based system to help young people to perceive, understand, use and manage feelings such as anger, jealousy, loneliness, boredom and bossiness. Each pack includes guidance notes which contain suggestions for usage.

THERAPY TO GO
Gourmet Fast Food Handouts for Working with Child, Adolescent and Family Clients

This collection of handouts provides a wide range of ready-made activities for all kinds of therapists working on a professional level with adolescent clients and their families. The handouts provide creative approaches to a variety of presenting problems, including anxiety, anger, depression and family issues.

COUNSELLING ADOLESCENTS 2nd edition by Kathryn Geldard & David Geldard, Sage 2004

The book is a delight and should be on the book shelf of every counsellor working with adolescents.

Mary Hodgson, Counselling Co-ordinator, Leeds Youth Enquiry Service

This book provides a practical and informative introduction to the specific issues associated with counselling adolescents. It describes how traditional counselling skills can be enhanced by the use of pro-active processes for more effective use with this client group. The second edition has been fully revised and updated and includes two new chapters on making use of adolescent communication processes and promoting change in adolescents.

250pp

CONTENTIOUS ISSUES
Discussion Stories for Young People by Marianna Csoti, Jessica Kingsley 2002

Designed to promote discussion and awareness among young people aged eleven to eighteen, this book is designed for use by professionals, parents or guardians. The collection of forty stories can be photocopied. The stories are designed with group work in mind and can be used on a one-to-one basis.

Issues include: abortion, bullying, bereavement, teenage pregnancy, marriage, relationships and decision-making, race and gender issues. The book is fully indexed with a list of useful contacts at the back.

365pp

COUNSELLING IN SCHOOLS
By Robert Bor, Jo Ebner-Landy, Sheila Gill, Chris Brace, Sage Publications 2002

A practical guide which provides effective counselling support within school settings. It recognises the very specific nature of this area of counselling practice and the uniqueness of every school. This book provides advice on setting upon a new counselling service, a framework for evaluating the service and accepted guidelines on key issues such as confidentiality and providing access to records.

Written from a systemic and solution-focused perspective and illustrated throughout with vivid case studies, the book examines:

the need for school-based counselling services
the range of problems with which pupils are presented
legal issues involved in counselling children
the role and skills of the school counsellor
specific challenges faced in school settings

An invaluable source of practical information and creative ideas for anyone wishing to provide counselling support for pupils in secondary education.

160pp

LISTENING TO YOUNG PEOPLE in school, youth work and counselling
by Nick Luxmoore, Jessica Kingsley 2000

This sensitive and practical book enables professionals to listen to young people, to understand their needs and to support them effectively. It captures the reality of young people's experiences, their relationships and the things that are important to them.

144pp