Creative Therapy for Children in New Families

This book contains a range of activities designed to help children who have moved to new families, for example through fostering or adoption, to overcome emotional difficulties.

• Encourages creativity in therapy with children who have moved to new families through fostering, adoption, or other means.
  
  
• Contains a broad range of activities designed to help these children overcome emotional difficulties in a gentle and positive atmosphere, as well as guidelines about how, when, where, and at what age to use them.
  
  
• Includes activities such as 'Family Web', 'Pick up a Privilege', 'The Anger Debugging Kit' and 'I Can Do It (Now)' that can be used by therapists or caregivers as part of, or to supplement, many different therapeutic approaches.
  
  
• Most are appropriate for use where the child is in long-term care, or when the plan is that they should not return to their birth family.
  
  
• All are suitable for both boys and girls.