A Playworker's Guide to Understanding Children's Behaviour

Dedication -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Playworkers, Children and Behaviour -- Acting the Part: How Club is Like, and Unlike, the Family -- Growing Up: The Primary School Years -- Toys or Boys: Betweenagers -- Screaming Point: Stress in Childcare -- You Really Got Me! the Child Who Gets Under Your Skin -- Stress and Worry -- Out of Place: The Child Who Doesn't Settle -- A Good Worry? Not All Bad: Understanding Worried Children -- Under Pressure: Stress in Children -- Bursting Into Tears: Understanding the Crying Child -- Healthy Appetites: Eating Disorders -- It Hurts: Self-Harm -- Just Attention Seeking? -- Hello, I'm Here! the Boisterous and Showing-Off Child -- Winning and Losing: Coping with Competition -- "I'm Bored": Understanding the Lazy Child -- Seriously Funny? Understanding the Club Clown -- Worrying Behaviour -- Won't Play, Can't Play: Understanding Antisocial Children -- Hidden Messages—Behind the Façade: Understanding Disruptive Children -- Secrets and Lies: Why Children Lie -- Sticky Fingers: Why Children Steal -- Rough and Tough: Bullying and How to Prevent it -- Hit and Run: Happy Slapping -- Special Needs? -- Best Mates -- You've Got Males: Understanding Boys -- All Inclusive: The Child with Special Needs -- Brainpower: Understanding Gifted Children -- The Family and the Outside World -- Body Talk: Children and Sex -- Separate Ways: Helping Children with Divorce -- United and Divided: Reconstituted Families -- Headline News: Managing National and World Trauma -- Meet the Parents: Working with Families -- Moving on: Helping Children with the Transfer to secondary school -- Conclusion: can Psychoanalytic Insight Reality Help A Club Worker?