Intuition is not Enough: Matching Learning with Practice in Therapeutic Child Care

by Linnet McMahon (Editor), Linnet Mcmahon (Editor), Adrian Ward (Editor)

Overview

How do Professionals really learn to imporve their practice?
Intuition is not Enough is a guide fr trainers and practitioners working with disturbed children and young people, which explores the connections between the challenges of practice and of learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415156622
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/19/1998
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adrian Ward is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Studies at the University of Reading., Linnet McMahon lectures in Therapeutic Child Care at the University of Reading and is also a play therapist, supervisor and trainer.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 A basis for thinking about therapeutic practice; Chapter 1 The inner world and its implications, Adrian Ward; Chapter 2 Helping and the personal response, Linnet McMahon, Adrian Ward; Chapter 3 Helping together, Adrian Ward; Chapter 4 The difficulty of helping, Adrian Ward; Chapter 5 A model for practice: the therapeutic community, Adrian Ward; Part 2 Creating a model; Chapter 6 The matching principle, Adrian Ward; Chapter 7 Meeting to learn and learning to meet, Adrian Ward; Chapter 8 Working at understanding and helping troubled children 1 Practice examples supplied by: John Tuberville and Simon Peacock., Linnet McMahon; Chapter 9 Learning through philosophy, Paul Cain; Chapter 10 Learning in the Experiential Group, Teresa Howard; Chapter 11 The function of the staff meeting, Adrian Ward, Linnet McMahon, Paul Cain, Teresa Howard; Chapter 12 On the experience of keeping a reflective journal while training, Deborah Best; Part 3 Returning to practice; Chapter 13 Alice and her blanket: a case study, Ros Wheeler; Chapter 14 Therapeutic work in an educational setting, Deborah Best; Chapter 15 Therapeutic work in daily living settings, Linnet McMahon; Chapter 16 Using the situation, John Diamond; Part 4 Conclusions; Chapter 17 On ‘reflection’, Adrian Ward; Chapter 18 Applying the matching principle, Adrian Ward;