Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege - A Guide to Therapeutic Work With Boarding School Survivors

Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the needs of this client group.

List of contents

Foreword Part 1 Recognition Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 What Therapists Can Do: an overview Chapter 3 Managing Separation and Loss Chapter 4 Survival Chapter 5 Signs, Symptoms and Relationship Issues Part 2 Acceptance Chapter 6 Remembering Chapter 7 Adapting Chapter 8 Trauma Chapter 9 Sex: Puberty, Gender, and Abuse Part 3 Change Chapter 10 The Healing Process Chapter 11 Unmasking Survival Patterns Chapter 12 Homecoming Postscript Boarding in the 21st Century Appendix Useful Organisations

About the author

Nick Duffell is a psychotherapist and trainer in private practice who pioneered therapeutic work with ex-boarders and specialist training for psychotherapists. He is the author of The Making of Them: The British attitude to children and the boarding school system and Wounded Leaders: British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion - a psychohistory.
Thurstine Basset worked as a social worker, mostly in the mental health field, before entering the world of training and education in the 1980s. He has subsequently written and produced a variety of training packages, articles, book chapters and books in the mental health field. Early in the 21st Century, he attended a Boarding School Survivors Workshop and was a director of Boarding Concern, an organisation that supports boarding school survivors.

Summary

Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the needs of this client group.

Product details

• Authors: Thurstine Basset, Basset Thurstine, Nick Duffell, Nick Basset Duffell, Duffell Nick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2016
• EAN: 9781138788701
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78870-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Educational strategies & policy, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Trauma and shock, Educational strategies and policy