| Therapeutic Education: Working alongside troubled and troublesome children Contributor(s): Cornwall, John (Author), Walter, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415366623 ISBN-13: 9780415366625 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: Despite much research into this topic, most professionals agree that many troubled pupils, students and young people are failing to have their needs adequately met by their educational institution. This book traces a substantial four year research and school development project that applied the principals of 'therapeutic education' in one school setting and exposes how current educational contexts actually contribute to disaffection and disruption of young people's learning. The authors propose a well-tested practical model of school and curricular experience, based on therapeutic relationships, that has led to outstanding positive results in school development. With suggestions throughout for tried and tested strategies that really work, this book can help professionals turn troubled young people's experience of education from the nightmare it often is, into an adventure with positive results for lifelong learning. Teachers, educational psychologists, counselors and anyone working with children and young people will find this an enlightening and invaluable read. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Special Education - Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities - Education | Educational Psychology - Education | Non-formal Education |
| Dewey: 371.930 |
| LCCN: 2005023936 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.24" W x 9.14" (0.84 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The role of therapy in schools is a topic that has been significantly under-researched and often overlooked. Considering the number of students in full-time education with serious emotional and behavioural difficulties, the skills and tricks used by therapists can be usefully passed on to teachers in the classroom. This book traces a substantial four-year project that applied the principles of therapeutic education in one school setting and exposed how current educational contexts actually contribute to disaffection and disruption of young people's learning. The authors propose a practical model of school and curricular experience, based on therapeutic relationships, that has led to outstanding positive results in school development. With suugestions throughout for tried-and-tested strategies that really work, this book will help professionals turn troubled young people's experience of education from the nightmare it often is, into an adventure with positive results for lifelong learning. |