Contemporary Child Psychotherapy : Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice (eBook)

Roz Read is the Programme Director of the Integrative Child Psychotherapy MA training at The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education (IATE) validated by UEL where she teaches and designs the curriculum. With a background working in the arts, for over 30 years Roz has worked extensively with children and teenagers in multi-cultural inner-city community projects, schools and multi-disciplinary teams. Roz trained at IATE, and is a UKCP-registered integrative child psychotherapist, a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Certified Practitioner and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She has a PG Diploma in psychoanalytic observational studies from the Tavistock Centre. Roz has worked extensively with adopted children and their families, initially with Family Futures and then for the past ten years she has been part of the Child & Family team at PAC-UK. Alongside Graham Music, she has also been co-convenor of the Tavistock Centre neuroscience and attachment workshop. Dr Jeanne Magagna aims to help people observe the deeper aspects of infants' personalities in order that infants can be better understood and have more rights to good parenting. She has edited or co-edited: Intimate Transformations, The Silent Child, Creativity and Psychotic State, Psychotherapy with Families, Universals of Psychoanalysis, and Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child, all of which show how careful observation and empathic understanding of infants and children, and collaboration with and support for parents, can ensure babies' rights to good parental care. Previously a Head Start teacher, university teacher, and special educator, she was then head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and was a consultant psychotherapist in Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders in London. Jeanne is a child and adolescent psychotherapist (PhD level), family psychotherapist, and adult psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Previously coordinator of training, she currently teaches at the Centro Studi Martha Harris Tavistock model trainings in Florence and Venice, Italy. She is in private practice in London as a child, adult and family therapist, as well as consulting, publishing, and teaching worldwide.