This book is an indispensable guide to providing therapy services for children and adolescents in primary and secondary school settings. The contributors have extensive experience in the field and carefully examine every aspect of the work, ranging from developing an understanding of the school context in all its complexity to what to say and do in challenging therapy sessions and in meetings with school staff or parents and carers.
Key Features
- Overview of key psychoanalytic concepts informing therapy practice.
- Exploration of hopes and anxieties raised by providing therapy in schools.
- Practical aspects of delivering therapy sessions, from the initial assessment phase to managing transference.
- Consideration of social identity, gender, race, and culture impacts on both therapist and client.
- Comprehensive yet highly readable guide for school-based therapy.
Additional Information
Therapeutic Practice in Schools opens with an overview of key psychoanalytic concepts informing therapy practice. This is followed by a detailed exploration of the factors that either enable or impede the therapist's work and how to manage expectations as well as measure outcomes. The manual offers practical examples of how therapists translate theory into everyday language that can be understood by their young clients, ensuring that trainees starting a placement in schools, as well as therapists beginning work in the educational setting for the first time, are able to take up their role with confidence.
