Drama therapy and family therapy in education : essential pieces of the multi-agency jigsaw / Penny McFarlane and Jenny Harvey ; foreword by Sue Jennings
Published
London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012
Dramatherapy and Family Therapy in Education: Essential Pieces of the Multi-Agency Jigsaw; Foreword by Sue Jennings; Acknowledgements; First Piece: Introduction; Who is this book for?; How might it be useful?; The contents: contributing pieces of the jigsaw; Why this book now?; What this book aims to do; What this book does not do; Who we are, and why we wrote this book; Second Piece: A Dramatherapy Approach; What is dramatherapy?; How does it work?; How does it work within education?; Third Piece: A Family Therapy Approach; What is family therapy?; How does it work?
Summary
A collaborative therapeutic approach often proves the best way to assess and meet the needs of children experiencing barriers to learning. This book gives a concise overview of drama and family therapy and describes how both therapies can work together to provide essential pieces of the jigsaw of emotional support for troubled children within an educational setting. Drawing on their own extensive experience, the authors give explanations of the models and techniques of their own specialist therapy, before exploring their joint work and innovative inclusion in a cooperative team of multi-discip
