Supporting Young People through Everyday Chaos: Counselling When Things Fall Apart

Supporting Young People through Everyday Chaos provides ways to support and counsel young people struggling to adapt and live with the constant possibility of things breaking down, of normal life being overtaken by chaos.

Covering many different types of 'everyday chaos' including anxiety, bullying, mental health, trauma, anger and loss, this book is an incredibly useful guide for anyone working with young people at a time when these issues are more prevalent than ever. It was inspired by the author's daughter's accidental death aged 27. Written in a warm and down-to-earth tone, the chapters use a variety of case studies to lead through examples on a range of problems young people are facing.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Kathy Peto

Preface - Jane Campbell and Chris Mowles

1. Introduction
2. Anxiety and chaos
3. Bullying and chaos
4. Mental health and chaos
5. Loss and chaos
6. Language and chaos
7. Schools and chaos
8. Anger, shame and chaos
9. Joylessness and chaos

10. Containment and chaos

11. Creativity and chaos

12. Endpiece

13. References