Therapy with Children and Young People: Integrative Counselling in Schools and other Settings

Colleen McLaughlin is a Professor of Education at the University of Sussex School of Education and Social Work. For over twenty-five years she worked at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where she directed a child and adolescent psychotherapeutic programme. She has written, researched and spoken on child and adolescent care and wellbeing, which is her passion. She is also concerned to promote the wider role of schools and teachers. She taught in schools and worked as a counsellor. She is a Fellow of BACP.

Carol Holliday is an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, where she now leads the programme for child and adolescent psychotherapy. She is an United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy registered Arts Psychotherapist who works therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults. She has twenty years experience of clinical practice and also works as a clinical supervisor. Carol has particular interests in relationships between children and adults, and in working with images: in therapy, education and research. Her doctoral research explored the contributions of psychotherapy to the teacher/child relationship and she is an award-winning author of publications helping teachers to understand and work with children’s feelings.