Helping Children Who Yearn for Someone They Love & The Frog Who Longed for the Moon to Smile

MARGOT SUNDERLAND is Founding Director of the Centre for Child Mental Health, London. She is also Head of the Children and Young People Section of The United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling. In addition, she formed the research project, ‘Helping Where it Hurts’ which offers free therapy and counselling to troubled children in several primary schools in North London. She is a registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and registered Child Therapeutic Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer. Margot is also Principal of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education – a fully accredited Higher Education College running a Diploma course in Child Therapy and Masters Degree courses in Arts Psychotherapy and Arts in Education and Therapy. Margot is a published poet and author of two non-fiction books – one on Dance (Routledge Theatre Arts, New York and J Garnet Miller, England) and the other called Draw on Your Emotions (Speechmark Publishing, Bicester and Erickson, Italy).Illustrated by Nicky Armstrong who holds an MA from The Slade School of Fine Art and a BA Hons in Theatre Design from the University of Central England. She is currently teacher of trompe l’œil at The Hampstead School of Decorative Arts, London. She has achieved major commissions nationally and internationally in mural work and fine art.

• The Frog who Longed for the  Moon to Smile. Helping Children who Yearn for Someone they Love, A Guidebook: ABOUT THIS GUIDEBOOK; INTRODUCTION; What the story is about; The main psychological messages in this story; Who the story is for; WHAT LIFE IS LIKE FOR CHILDREN WHO YEARN; Understanding why children yearn; The absence in the presence: children who yearn for a parent who seems unreachable, although she is right there; ‘She loves me, she loves me not’: children who yearn because they have a parent who is loving one minute and rejecting the next; Children who yearn because they suffer from separation anxiety; ‘The Mummy in my mind’: children who yearn because they did not make a strong enough connection with Mummy before she left for the day; Children who yearn because the time they do have with Mummy is too Snatched; Children who yearn because they have experienced too many severings and ruptures; Children who cling because they were stopped from clinging when they needed to; Children who yearn because they have been put into care, fostered or Adopted; Children who yearn for a parent who has died; WHAT YOU CAN DO AFTER YOU HAVE READ THE FROG WHO LONGED FOR THE MOON TO SMILE TO THE CHILD; CONSIDERING COUNSELLING OR THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WHO YEARN; BIBLIOGRAPHY.