Time to listen to children : personal and professional communication / edited by Pat Milner and Birgit Carolin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

This practical guide to communicating with children stresses the importance of learning to listen. Contributors give accounts of their work in education, social services, health, law and voluntary organizations.

English.

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