Practical Supervision for Counsellors Who Work with Young People

1. Introduction. 2. First ever clients. 3. Learning to be supervised. 4. Parallel processes. 5. Internal worlds. 6. Counselling in schools. 7. Institutional anxieties. 8. Projective identification. 9. Asking difficult questions. 10. Dependence and independence. 11. Developing autobiographies. 12. The myth of anger management. 13. Working with anger. 14. The waiting list. 15. Boundaries. 16 Self-disclosure. 17. Making Judgements. 18. Playfulness. 19. Sexuality in the room. 20. The durability test. 21. Self-harming. 22. Making sense of fathers. 23. Failure. 24. Existential answers. 25. Endings. 26. References.

Nick Luxmoore is very good at telling stories. You can imagine yourself sitting in the room, feeling, agonising, laughing or crying - touched by the lives of so many young people and their counsellors. Nick makes supervision come alive for the benefit of all who will read this engaging book.