Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools - Tavistock Approaches

This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools.

List of contents

1. Ordinary emotional development in the primary school years
Dexter Benjamin and Francesca Benjamin
2. Using child psychoanalytic psychotherapy in primary schools
Katie Argent
3. Tavistock child psychotherapy in schools: a brief history of a long relationship
Milly Jenkins
4. Early transitions: child psychotherapy in a school nursery
Kathryn Fenton and Anya Suschitzky
5. Children’s group psychotherapy in a mainstream primary school
Marta Cioeta
6. Parents’ experience of a child psychotherapy outreach service: Isha and Sheikh
Interview by Milly Jenkins
7. "I just thought I’m doing something wrong if she needs therapy": a grandmother's experience
Mel Serlin
8. Conversations across education and mental health in a mainstream primary school
Interview by Milly Jenkins
9. Slow movements that create hope: psychotherapy with a boy diagnosed with ASD
Carlos Vasquez
10. From exclusion to inclusion: developmental group work in a primary pupil referral unit
Fiona Henderson
11. A parent’s experience of child psychotherapy approaches in a primary pupil referral unit: Lena
Interview by Milly Jenkins
12. Working outside the therapy room in a therapeutic school
Ruth Glover
13. Personal perspectives across education and mental health in a therapeutic school
Interviews by Milly Jenkins
14. Evidencing child psychoanalytic psychotherapy in primary schools: a case example
Marta Cioeta and Jocelyn Catty

About the author

Katie Argent is Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has a special interest in the usefulness of psychoanalytic thinking outside the clinic.

Summary

This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Argent, Milly Jenkins
• Assisted by: Katie Argent (Editor), Argent Katie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781032029429
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3202942-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Tavistock Clinic Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, EDUCATION / Counseling / Crisis Management, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: child and adolescent, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Education: care & counselling of students, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Counselling and care of students, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis