Therapy with Children

Peter Jenkins is a counsellor, trainer, supervisor and researcher. He has worked as a student and staff counsellor in college and university settings for the past thirty years. During this time, he has developed a particular interest in exploring ethical, professional and legal issues in counselling practice. He has run over two hundred workshops on these topics, aimed at addressing the current concerns of practitioners. He has been a member of both the BACP Professional Conduct Committee and the UKCP Ethics Committee and has published around one hundred articles on law and ethics in the professional counselling press. His publications include Therapy with Children, as co-author with Dr Debbie Daniels (Second edition, Sage, 2010), Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law (Second edition, Sage 2007), online modules for Counselling Mind-Ed and other training material, such as Counselling Confidentiality and the Law (2013, Counselling DVDs). Peter has produced a wide range of free resources, which can be downloaded to supplement the material outlined in his recent book, Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics and the Law. These resources include a video presentation on key issues in recording therapeutic work with clients and online self-study programmes on legal issues in working with children and young people for MindEd. While his book closely follows the BACP Ethical Framework in terms of discussing the competencies required of counsellors and psychotherapists, he has also developed a critical analysis of the Ethical Framework, and of some of the legal resources designed to underpin it. In addition, the key area of data protection is undergoing change, with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018. The impact of the GDPR is explored in a further piece, looking at its background and some of the main implications for counsellors.Video of PPS presentation on ′Records as Evidence′MindEd Counselling: Legal and Professional Issues, i.e. self-study online programmes on working with young people, in relation to record keeping, safeguarding, ethics and the lawWebinars (access is free for counselling students via https://www.onlinevents.co.uk/library):Working with Children and Young People: An Ethical and Legal Minefield?Making Sense of the New Ethical FrameworkSupervisors – A New Duty of Care?Peter can be contacted at peter.jenkins@alumni.manchester.ac.uk

Therapy with Children provides a detailed and accessible insight into the issues regarding the integrity of therapeutic privacy. Through reference to case studies, law and recent government policy, it unpicks the dilemmas facing the therapist and gives a sound basis for prioritising the child′s choice. This book is important for those working therapeutically with children (particularly those working in schools) and to the therapist′s supervisor.Janette Newton, Head of the Dudley Counselling Service for Children and Young People.The second edition will be a must for my reference book library, with its seamless integration of important updates in the law as it applies to our field. I found the first edition helpful - and influential - in the way I went about setting up my school counselling service ten years ago. I was able to quote the law and reasoning from the book to reassure senior management that the child-centred way was also law-abiding, and thus establish a service where the young person′s interests were genuinely paramount. I recommend anyone working in this field, whether student or with years of experience, to have a copy on their bookshelf. Dianne Barton, MBACP(Accred),Manager, Bishopshalt School Counselling Service, Supervisor for Hounslow Youth Counselling Service.

• PART ONE: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKSChildren′s Rights: From Dependence to AutonomyTherapy with Children: The Psychoanalytic TraditionTherapy and the Rights of the ChildThe Law Relating to Therapy with Children: Contrasting ApproachesPART TWO: CASE EXAMPLESParental Oversight of Therapy: The Therapist as MediatorReporting Child Abuse: The Therapist as Law EnforcerProvisional Confidentiality in Practice: The Therapist as ProtectorWorking with Risk: The Therapist as EnablerPART THREE: THERAPY WITH CHILDREN: SOME CONCLUSIONSEmpowering Children: The Case for Therapy as a ′Confidential Space′Appendix 1: Summary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1989Appendix 2: Resources