Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools: Tavistock Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781032023182 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 09/03/2021 Series: Tavistock Clinic Series Pages: 286 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers, and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools. The book begins by looking at children’s emotional life during the primary school years and what can disrupt ordinary, helpful social development and learning. It examines what child psychoanalytic psychotherapy is, how it works, and why it is offered in primary schools. The following chapters intersperse accounts of creative child psychoanalytic approaches with interviews with parents, carers, teachers, and clinicians. A section focusing on mainstream primary schools presents parent–child interventions for a nursery class; child group psychotherapy with children from traumatized families; and consultation to school staff, with personal accou