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Assessment for Children

I like to carry out a full assessment before working with a child, covering such issues as social circumstances, developmental history, progress at school, family background and so on, to get as full a picture of the child and their family as possible, and to rule out the possibility that the current difficulty is as a result of something that counselling may not be able to help with, e.g. learning difficulties or a specific medical condition. Should this be the case, I will refer a child to someone more appropriately qualified to meet their needs.

Sometimes the assessment will indicate that a child’s difficulties may be part of wider issues that affect the whole family. In such circumstances I may see the child for individual work initially and then see parents/carers separately, where appropriate, to enable them to work on their own issues which may be affecting their child’s situation e.g. unresolved grief/anger following a divorce or bereavement or a need to develop new parenting strategies. Alternatively, I can see children with their parents/carers and/or other family members for family sessions.