"The British Labour Party"

[From the Introduction]. British Labour Party policy on the European Community has swung between outright opposition and wholehearted approval. This chapter will chart the course of the party's often tortuous attitude towards the European issue and try to find explanations for the often swift changes of policy

Benefits of dramatherapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder: a qualitative analysis of feedback from parents and teachers of clients attending Roundabout dramatherapy sessions in schools

Objective. To investigate parent/carer and teacher feedback on dramatherapy provided by Roundabout dramatherapists for children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in schools. Design. A qualitative study of written feedback from parents/carers collected after treatment had finished. Methods. Forty-two comments on dramatherapy were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results. Five themes emerged from the data and were reported using verbatim quotes under the following headings: Feelings: a safe place to explore; Peers: being included and making friends; Social skills: role play provides a short cut to learning about and practising social skills; Structure: predictability lessens anxiety; and Families: supporting the whole system. There were no negative comments about the dramatherapy treatment recorded on the feedback forms. Conclusion. The findings revealed overwhelming support from parents/carers and teachers for the use of dramatherapy for children and young people with ASD. These results are encouraging and indicate that further study of dramatherapy treatment is warranted in order to build the evidence base for such interventions in this client group. </jats:p

Child Agency of Working in the Arts Therapies: New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies

Child Agency and Voice in Therapy offers innovatory ways of thinking about, and working with, children in therapy. The book: *considers different practices such as respecting the rights of the child in therapy and recognising and listening to children as ‘active agents’ and ‘experts’; *features approaches that: access children’s views of their therapy; engage with them as researchers or co-researchers; and that use play and arts-based methods; *draws on arts therapies research in ways that enable insight and learning for all those engaged with children’s therapy and wellbeing; *considers how the contexts of the therapy, such as a school or counselling centre, relate to the ways children experience themselves and their therapy in relation to rights, agency and voice. Child Agency and Voice in Therapy will be beneficial for all child therapists and is a good resource for courses concerning childhood welfare, therapy, education, wellbeing and mental health