The Child in Context: Family-Systems Theory in Educational Psychology

First published in 1985, The Child in Context is the first to bring together the practice of educational psychology and the ‘family-systems’ theories regularly practised by psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers in their attempt to understand the relationship between individuals and the social systems of which they are a part. The author, an educational psychologist herself, demonstrates how the educational psychologist can, in her efforts to help children who are failing in mains...