Emotional Literacy for Adolescent Mental Health: Experiential counselling : 9781742861036

Adolescent mental health is a perennial concern. In Emotional literacy for adolescent mental health, Dr Patricia Sherwood recognises that traditional talk therapy may not always be the best approach. Adolescence is a time when personal privacy is important and verbal communication is often confined to peers in whom young people feel they can trust. This groundbreaking book therefore offers a diversity of non-verbal experiential exercises, skills and interventions for working with adolescents who may be facing particular challenges at a complex time in their lives. The activities include drama and movement, clay therapy, and sand play as well as meditation, nature-based and animal-assisted therapies.