The editors have gathered together a wide-ranging collection of papers by leading child psychotherapists, mainly in the UK, surveying recent developments in technique and theory, the application of child psychotherapy to special areas of work, and its integration with other systems such as family and group psychotherapy. Contributions cover work in special areas such as child abuse and disability, mental and physical. There are sections on clinical work with suicidal adolescents, parent-infant psychotherapy, ill children, the impact of bereavement and