As you've probably gathered from the rather blunt title, Nick Luxmoore is not one to cloak his message in layers of psychotherapeutic theory. His work is frank, direct and experiential. As a result, Feeling Like Crap is accessible from the start.
Luxmoore assesses the damage to the self-esteem of six troubled and troublesome adolescents in the school where he works as a counsellor. The young people are variously withdrawn, violent, sexualised, abused and alienated. His starting point is that each has a self-perception that is the product of their relationships, and that broken aspects of that self can be repaired by other relationships later in life - starting with him and, crucially, with each other in group counselling sessions.
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