Kathryn Geldard - Counselling Adolescents: The Proactive Approach for Young People

Dr Kathryn Geldardis adjunct senior lecturer in counselling in the faculty of Arts and Business at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia. Her academic career includes program leadership of the Counselling program at USC as well as development of the postgraduate Master of Counselling degrees. Her research interests include adolescent peer counselling, and counsellor training, assessment and effectiveness. Additionally, Kathryn conducted research with Australian Aboriginal adolescents with regard to developing a culturally sensitive peer support programme in a regional community. She is the author of a number of textbooks founded on her extensive clinical counselling background with children, young people and their families and has several years experience in supervising and training counsellors.David Geldardhas extensive experience in working as a counselling psychologist with troubled children and their families. He has worked in mental health and community health settings, and also in private practice. Together with his wife Kathryn he has been heavily involved in training counsellors, social workers and psychologists, in ways to use media and activity when counselling children. Additionally he has shown a keen interest in training workers in the use of experiential counselling methods and in family therapy. He and his wife Kathryn are the authors of several counselling texts published internationally and translated into several languages.Rebecca Yin Foois an Educational and Developmental Psychologist who is experienced in providing psychological support for children with developmental disabilities and their families at the Cerebral Palsy League. Her work has led her to take a high level of practical and academic interest in ways of working with children to promote optimal positive outcomes. She currently works in private practice in Brisbane, Australia. Prior to obtaining her honours degree in Psychology and Masters degree in Educational and Developmental Psychology she completed a Bachelor of Medical Engineering. She has published a number of journal articles and presented conference papers nationally and internationally in relation to her studies in both Engineering and Psychology. She is the third author of the book, Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction.