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Helping children who yearn for someone they love / Margot Sunderland ; illustrations Nicky Armstrong.

By: Sunderland, Margot [author].
Contributor(s): Armstrong, Nicky [illustrator].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Helping children with feelings.Publisher: Milton Keynes : Speechmark Publishing, 2010Copyright date: ©2000Description: 40 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780863884566 (paperback).Subject(s): Narrative therapy | Love -- Juvenile literature | Romance fictionDDC classification: 615.8516
Contents:
Introduction -- What life is like for children who yearn -- 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 615.8516 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00170004
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a guidebook to help children who:

are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety are obsessed with their absent parent yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although is right there is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next

They yearn because they have been taken into care, fostered or adopted.

This book is accompanied by the children's story book, The frog who longed for the moon to smile by Margot Sunderland.

Bibliography: p. 39-40.

Introduction -- What life is like for children who yearn -- 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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University and Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer with over two decades of experience in working with adults, teenagers and children.  She is a First Prize award winning author, with 20 books in child mental health, published in nineteen countries.