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Website: TherapeuticStorywriting.com
TherapeuticStorywriting.com is the website of the Centre for Therapeutic Storywriting. Therapeutic Storywriting is an innovative and creative way for SEN teachers to support children whose emotional difficulties are getting in the way of their academic learning. By working with the metaphor in stories – written both by the child and the teacher – emotional issues are […]
Book: Attachment in the Classroom
Geddes, H 2005 Worth, London
Report: The Impact of Parental Involvement: Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievement and Adjustment: A Literature Review
Desforges & Abouchaar 2003 DfES publications, Nottingham
Book: Playing and Reality
Winnicott, D 1999 Routledge, London Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual’s capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living. ‘He was a man who could be ‘popular’ and completely accessible without ever ceasing to be profound, a man who ranged audaciously far and […]
Book: Therapeutic Storywriting (A Practical Guide to Developing Emotional Literacy in Primary Schools)
Waters, T 2004 David Fulton, London Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting. By the author of the Story Links Project. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/1843121166/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
Book: A Secure Base
Bowlby, J 1997 Routledge, London Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of Bowlby’s lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secure-Base-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415355273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259065806&sr=1-1
Book: Inside I’m Hurting
Bomber, L 2007 Worth, London Inside I’m Hurting provides educational professionals with a much-needed classroom handbook of new strategies, practical tools and the confidence for supporting these children from an attachment perspective, thus promoting inclusion in the school system. Contents include: how attachment difficulties can affect a child’s ability to learn; providing an ‘additional attachment figure’ in schools; […]
Video: Research and Development in SEN – Working with Families
Part of the series Research and Development in SEN Three research projects focusing on the relationship between schools and families, with an emphasis on SEN, are used to improve teacher training. At the University of Chichester, Trisha Waters is working on Story Links, a literacy project that uses a partnership with parents to target behavioural problems. At […]
Book: The Uses of Enchantment
Dr Bruno Bettelheim 1991 Penguin Books, London Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses, magic forests and enchanted towers, little pigs and big bad wolves: Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean? In this award-winning work of criticism, renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bruno Bettelheim presents a thought provoking […]
Book: Attachment Behaviour and the Schoolchild
Barrett and Trevitt 1991 Routledge, London All teachers will recognize those children who, in spite of normal intelligence, ‘just can’t get started’ on learning basic skills; those who later lose their capacity for learning; and those who are resistant to learning, seeming deliberately to “get it wrong” and to rubbish their work. These children are apparently unable […]