Therapeutic Education: Working alongside troubled and troublesome children - Softcover

Cornwall, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415366623 ISBN 13: 9780415366625

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

John Cornwall is Senior Lecturer in Special Educational Needs, Education Consultant and a Research Psychologist.

Review:

'This is a worthwhile book developing alternative ideas for working with troubled adolescents. Such ideas also have a place in our thinking about mainstream education'
- Escalate

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415366623
• ISBN 13: 9780415366625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248