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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

  • Educational Therapy and Therapeutic Teaching Issue 9, 2000 - Issue 16, 2008

Issue 28, 2022

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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

Issue 27, 2021

 

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

Issue 26, 2020

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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

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