The Caspari Journal
Contents
The contents of the Caspari Foundation journals are listed below.
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The Journal of Educational Psychotherapy Issue 17, 2010 - Issue 28, 2022
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Educational Therapy and Therapeutic Teaching Issue 9, 2000 - Issue 16, 2008
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Jenny Dover and Lee Marsden - Gillian Salmon
An appreciation
Gillian Salmon - The Primary Years
A tribute to its author
Mary Sue Moore - Traumatic (D) Attachment Relationships
Not disorganised but amygdala-organised
Ingrid Cleaver - Learning Begins Long Before Children Arrive at School
A brief exploration of certain developmental theories and links to learning in Educational Psychotherapy
Katy Singer Once Upon a Time...
The use of free storytelling in Educational Psychotherapy
Ángela Palacios - Overcoming Cultural, Linguistic and Emotional Barriers within the Therapeutic Space
A research proposal
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Book Reviews
Affect and Emotion: A brief psychoanalytic tour
by Graham Music
reviewed by Lynsey Daniels
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How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy
by Tamsin Cottis
reviewed by Rosie Chester
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Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools:
Tavistock Approaches
ed. Katie Argent
reviewed by Rosie Davies
Graham Music - Observation, Attention and Awareness: Emotional States and Bodily Clues
Where does the observer begin and the observed end?
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Astrid Berg - "See me so that I may understand you"
The inhibition of reflective functioning in a traumatized society: A view from South Africa
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Beverley Miles - Double Jeopardy
When the mother you so desperately need pushes you into danger
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Ron Best - Caspari and Progressive Education
The Froebel connection
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Lesley Maroni - Between Language and Silence
Factors that inhibit language production
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Book Reviews
Trauma and Memory: the Science and the Silenced
ed. Valerie Sinason and Ashley Conway
reviewed by Elyse Morgan
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Know Me To Teach Me: Differentiated discipline for those recovering from Adverse Childhood Experiences
by Louise Bomber
reviewed by Lizzie Lewis
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Finding Your Way with Your Baby:
the emotional life of parents and babies
by Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria
reviewed by Helen Dalton
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Louise Mullier - The Right-Brain in Educational Psychotherapy
A critical evaluation of Allan Schore's 2014 article 'The Right Brain is Dominant in Psychotherapy'
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Sable Leicher - Never Judge a Snail
A journey enabling growth in both therapist and client
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Elizabeth Denton - Disconnected
What can a pandemic teach us about inclusive education?
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Luke Palmer - Zoom with a(n Obscured) View
Online therapy with secondary school students
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Lizzie Lewis - With Time in Mind
The function and meaning of time in educational psychotherapy
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Book Reviews
The Brain has a Mind of Its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
by Jeremy Holmes
reviewed by Ron Best
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Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health
by Sarah Sutton
reviewed by Rosie Chester
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"Why Can't You Hear Me?"
Understanding, Nurturing and Working Effectively with Vulnerable Children in Schools
by Angela Greenwood
reviewed by Sarah Cockerill
Issue 25, 2019
Debbie Brace - Are You Receiving Me?
A discussion about the complexities of responding to young children's distress in day care
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Luke Palmer - Getting It
Working with facilitators in story groups
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Jenny Dover - Observing and Interpreting
Being in the room with the child
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Louise Mullier - Early Experience in the Family
A template for learning
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Julia Haslam - The Use of Containment to Facilitate the Early Stages of Learning and Development
A case study illustrating the learning experience of both child and trainee
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Book Reviews
Playing With Ideas: An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
by Deirdre Dowling
reviewed by Lucy Alexander
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Psychoanalysis and Other Matters:
Where Are We Now?
edited by Judith Edwards
reviewed by Mia Beaumont
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Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
by Graham Music
reviewed by Jim Rose
Issue 24, 2018
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Elizabeth Denton - Thoughts on Thinking
A consideration of Bion's theories at work in the therapy room
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Elizabeth Cohen - Making Up For Lost Time
Using the calendar in Educational Psychotherapy
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Esther Chunga - My Sister's Keeper
Reflections on work with siblings plagued by violence and trauma
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Lizzie Lewis - Little Fairy Flying High
An adopted child's shift from omnipotence to integration
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Anthi Sidiropoulou & Bettina Davou -"It Rings Therefore I Exist"
Issues of emotional development in the digital world
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Book Reviews
Attachment and Emotional Development in the Classroom: Theory and Practice
edited by David Colley and Paul Cooper
reviewed by Luke Palmer
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Attachment for Teachers: The Essential Handbook for Trainee Teachers and NQTs
by Marie Delaney
reviewed by Heather Geddes
Issue 23, 2017
Graham Music - Sensible Adaptations With Unfortunate Costs
Some thoughts about attachment styles
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Lynsey Daniels - Who Was Irene Caspari?
Tracing her steps
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Gillian Morton - A Spark That Can Light Beacons
The legacy of Irene Caspari
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Helen Gidley - Putting It All Back Together Again
Building a secure base with Lego in Educational Psychotherapy
Book Reviews
Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development
by Graham Music
reviewed by Heather Geddes
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Love the Wild Swan: The selected works of Judith Edwards
by Judith Edwards
reviewed by Lee Marsden
Issue 22, 2016
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Juliet Hopkins - Holding and Attachment
Implications of the work of Winnicott and Bowlby for Nursery Care
Sarah Cockerill - Earliest Learning
Observation of a Mother and Baby
Mark Griffiths - Getting to the Roots
Family Group: Why It Works
Elizabeth Cohen - Shifting the Mind's Furniture
A Case Study
Jim Rose - Why Endings Matter
Managing Transitions for Looked-After Children
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Book Reviews
Working with Young People in Secure Accommodation: From Chaos to Culture
(2nd Edition)
by Jim Rose
reviewed by Ron Best
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An Independent Mind: The Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins
edited by Ann Horne & Monica Lanyado
reviewed by Anne Casimir
Issue 21, 2015
Alison Waterhouse - Circles for Learning
Mother and baby observations within the classroom
Sophie Jubb - Creating a Space to Think
A case study
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Mia Beaumont - Obesity - a Barrier to Learning?
Keeping uncomfortable feelings at bay
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Gill Morton - Therapeutic Story Groups
Educational psychotherapy in a school setting
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Joanna Gaskell - Death, Loss and Learning
How bereavement can affect a child or young person's capacity
to love, learn and trust
Book Reviews
Finding Your Way with Your Baby - the Emotional Life of Babies and Parents
by Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria reviewed by Anne Casimir
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Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume two: The contemporary adolescent
edited by Lyn French & Reva Klein
reviewed by Liz Arnesen
Issue 20, 2014
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Brikkels, Lee, Jackson and Warren-Adamson - The Art and Graft of Multidisciplinary Work
An account on one primary school's collaborative approaches to children's learning needs
Lucy Alexander and Miriam Grossfeld - Joining Up, Joining In
Helping children become part of a group in the classroom
Michaela Luckett - Children in the Classroom
Attachment theory as a framework for teachers' thinking
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A Caspari Foundation Graduate - Working with Silence
A case study
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Paul Cutler - The Sparkle of Us
Therapeutic storywriting and social inclusion
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Book Reviews
Experiencing Endings and Beginnings
by Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg
reviewed by Gillian Salmon
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Settling to Learn
by Louise Bomber & Daniel Hughes
reviewed by Heather Geddes
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Winnicott's Children
edited by Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado
reviewed by Lee Marsden
Issue 19, 2013
Lyn French - Engaging Adolescents in the School Setting
Psychotherapeutic work in secondary schools
Rebecca Booth - Understanding a Child's Inner World
Ideas fron Bion and Klein
Mia Beaumont - Cumulative Trauma and the Capacity for Resilience
A case study
Jenny Dover & Ruth Seglow - Lowering the Drawbridge
One mother's use of a parents' group
Stuart Lane - What Lies Behind the Behaviour?
The neuroscience and physiology of the impact of trauma - considerations for schools
Book Reviews
Why Can't Help This Child To Learn?
by Helen High
reviewed by Lee Marsden
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Working With The Child Within
by Lyn French & Reva Klein
reviewed by Angela Greenwood
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Empathic Care for Children with Disorganized Attachments
by Chris Taylor
reviewed by Jim Rose
Issue 18, 2011
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James Wetz - Attachment, Emotional Wellbeing and Attainment
Essential understandings for our teachers and schools
Laura House - Emotions in the Classroom
How attachment theory informs the developing practice of a
recently qualified teacher
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Ben Hoskins - Looked-After Children and Learning
Some contributions to the thinking that informs professional practice
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Jenny Dover - Educational Psychotherapy
A clinical process with beneficial outcomes and applications in the classroom
Dr Heather Geddes - Emotional Well-Being in Schools
The contribution that attachment theory can make to enhancing educational engagement and achievement
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Marian Evans - Nurture Groups
Theory, practice and new developments
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James Park - Shaping Schools Where Children Feel Heard
How Antidote's PROGRESS Programme shapes culture and ethos
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Dr Hazel Douglas - The Solihull Approach
A whole school approach
Dr Trisha Waters - Story Links
Engaging parents of pupils with behaviour difficulties and poor literacy through therapeutic storywriting
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Mark Griffiths - Families Helping Families
A school-based intervention
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Dr Ted Cole - The Work of SEBDA - The Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association
Book Review
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How Nurture Protects Children
by Jim Rose
reviewed by Lee Marsden
Special edition in association with the Consortium for Emotional Wellbeing in Schools (CEWBS)
Issue 17, 2010
Anne Casimir - Only Connect
Children affected by inter-generational unresolved loss
Jim Rose - The Nature of Nurture
or: You can't grow a pig by weighing it
Marcus Johns - Education, Mental Health and Social Integration
Thoughts arising on Tavistock Day Unit's 40th anniversary
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David Divine - Belonging and Being Acknowledged
A personal journey through the Child Care System
Obituary - Liz Saunders
An appreciation
Book Review
Teaching the Unteachable
by Marie Delaney
reviewed by Beverley Mason
Issue 16, 2008
Gloria Condon - Loss, Attunement And Second Chance Learning
A Case Study
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Lee Marsden - Family Matters For Every Child
Education For Children In The Cassel Therapeutic Community
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Jenny Dover - The Vulnerable Child In The Classroom
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Ruth Seglow - Beginning To Sort It Out
A Child Psychotherapist In A Secondary School
Clare Williams - Creating A Secure Base
Therapeutic Thinking Within A Whole School Setting
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Book Review
Reaching And Teaching Through Educational Psychotherapy: A Case Study Approach
by Gillian Salmon & Jenny Dover
reviewed by Mia Beaumont
Issue 15, 2007
Mary Sue Moore - Building The Brain With 'Procedural' Knowledge
Clinical implications of neuroscientific knowledge
Heather Geddes - Conflict And Learning
Mark Griffiths - Reaction To Reflection: BEST Practice In Schools
Marie Delaney - Feeling Useless
The struggle to contain in therapy and classroom
Sue Robinson, Gillian Gordon & Graeme Galton - Currents In The Consulting Room
How can popular culture be used to amplify or influence therapeutic narrative in the consulting room?
Christiane Nevermann - The Berlin Initiative of the Caspari Foundation London
Edited version of an address given at the Caspari International Conference The Child In Conflict, University of London, Royal Holloway College, 6 July 2006
Helen High - Rosalie Kerbekian
An appreciation
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Book Review
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Eduaction
by Biddy Youell
reviewed by Liz Kennedy
Issue 14, 2006
Michael Brearley - Teaching And Learning: Bad Seed Or Stony Ground?
Helen High - The Development Of Educational Therapy and Some Other Applications Of Psychoanalytic Thinking To Education In Great Britain
Rebecca Woodhams - From Push-Pull To Brave Connection
Educational Therapy With A Maternally Deprived Child
David Morgan - Children As Receptacles Of Parental Violence
Ricky Emanuel - Thalamic Fear
Helen High - Jean Estelle Cowen
An appreciation
Book Reviews
tweens: What to expect from - and how to survive - your child's pre-teen years
by Andrea Clifford-Poston
reviewed by Sarah Adams
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Therapeutic Storywriting: A Practical Guide To Developing Emotional Literacy In Primary Schools
by Tricia Waters
reviewed by Patricia Reid
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Attachment In The Classroom: The Links Between Children’s Early Experience, Emotional Well-Being And Performance In School
by Heather Geddes
reviewed by Gerda Hanko
Issue 13, 2004
Jenny Dover - Work With A Hard-To-Reach Child
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Vicky Rowland - A Boy Lost In Time And Space
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Irene Oromi - Psychoanalytic Contributions To The Understanding Of Psychosis And Its Mechanisms In Children
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Barbara Lyndon - What Is Important When You Are Four Years Old And Starting At School Or Nursery
A Commentary On Two Nursery Observation Essays
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Trisha Waters - Therapeutic Storytelling In The Junior School
Book Reviews
Young Minds In Our Schools
by Peter Wilson
reviewed by Liz Arnesen
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The Presence Of The Therapist Treating Childhood Trauma
by Monica Lanyado
reviewed by Astrid Axson
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The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care
edited by Lesley Day and Denis Flynn
reviewed by Sue Richards-Gray
Issue 12, 2003
Ricky Emanuel - A-Void
An Exploration Of Defences Against Sensing Nothingness
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Jenny Dover - The Child Who Cannot Bear Being Taught
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Barbara Lyndon - That's A Good Thought
Educational Therapy With Children In A School Setting
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Judith Edwards - Minding The Gap
Transitions Across The Life Cycle Particular Reference To Working With Children
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Margot Waddell - The Assessment Of Adolescents Preconceptions And Realisations
Book Reviews
Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, Groups and Organisations
Volume 8 No 3 August 2002
Guest editors Ron Best & Heather Geddes
reviewed by Liz Arnesen
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Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road To Emotional Recovery And Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children
by Daniel A. Hughes
reviewed by Heather Geddes
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Working With Emotions: Responding To The Challenge Of Difficult Pupil Behaviour In Schools
edited by Peter Gray
reviewed by Ruth Robertson
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The Suitcase Kid/The Illustrated Mum
by Jacqueline Wilson
reviewed by Ruth Robertson
Issue 11, 2002
Anne Casimir - A Healing Narrative
Working through trauma in an educational context
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Margaret Sumner - Becoming A Therapeutic School
The management perspective
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Louise Emanuel - Becoming A Therapeutic School
The consultant's perspective
Marilyn Selby - Becoming A Therapeutic School
The educational therapist's perspective
Gerda Hanko - Therapeutic Joint Problem-Solving
to enrich the learning environment for pupils and teachers
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Book Review
Attachment Trauma and Resilience - therapeutic caring for children
by Kate Cairns
reviewed by Heather Geddes
Issue 10, 2001
Mia Beaumont - Making Good The Deficit
A therapeutic approach to ADHD
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Elaine Arnold - The Hidden Price Of Immigration
Separation and reunion of Afro-Caribbean children
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Jennifer Thomas - The Role Of The Fairy Tale
Developing the sense of self in children aged 4-7
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Cherry Dunne - The Use Of Fantasy In Educational Therapy
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Eve Greenwood - Counselling Skills
An integral part of good teaching
Anniken Marstrander - An Appreciation Of
Anne Marit Duve
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Helen High - A First Meeting With
Anne Marit Duve
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Book Reviews
Clinical Counselling In Schools
edited by Nick Barwick
reviewed by Heather Geddes
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Supporting Literacy: A guide For Primary Classroom Assistants
edited by Kate Grant
reviewed by Sue Davies
Issue 9, 2000
Juliet Hopkins - The Dangers and Deprivations of Too-Good Mothering: A Type of Spoiling Observed by Winnicott
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Mary Sue Moore - The Impact of Trauma on Child Development
Implications for Learning
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Hamish Canham
'Where do babies come from?"
What makes children want to learn
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Gill Morton - Educational Therapy: Challenges and Possibilities of Work in Different Settings
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Eva Holmes - Nurture Groups
A Therapeutic Intervention
Book Reviews
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Counselling in Schools: New Perspectives
by John McGuinness
reviewed by Polly Burridge
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Circle of Friends
by Colin Newton & Derek Wilson
reviewed by Sue Davies
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Taking Children Seriously: Applications of Counselling and Therapy in Education
by Steve Decker, Sandy Kirby, Angela Greenwood and Dudley Moore
reviewed by Lee Marsden