No-Talk Therapy For Children And Adolescents; Author: Straus, Martha B.; Hardback; Book

Author: Straus, Martha B.
Hardback; Book
256 pages
Published: April 1999
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
ISBN: 0393702863

For kids whose only communication is not talking, therapists need a language that doesn't depend on words. This book explores a special collaboration between no-talk kids and their therapists. Through empathy and respect, games, activities, community involvement, and little pleasures, no-talk therapy begins to provide these sullen, anxious, enraged, and confused kids with the self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-awareness to develop a voice of their own.For children whose only communication is not talking, therapists need a language that doesn't depend on words. This book offers an approach to treatment of clients who won't, or can't respond to conversation based therapy.