Klein evoked strong polarised emotions, due I think to the disturbing
subject matter. Perhaps this is why the list is becoming heated in its
discourse at this point.
Adam Sandelson
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From: G.F. Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02 May 2000 21:35
Subject: Re: ADD & ADHD
>Dear Stephen
>I have replied in the main to your message separately. (Feminists)
>You may be interested to read Barbara Dockar Drysdale; 'Therapy and
>Consultation in Child Care
>Gerald
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rennie, Steve [HES] <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 02 May 2000 11:43
>Subject: RE: ADD & ADHD
>
>
>>Helen (and others in the ADHD thread), I have been a playworker since the
>late 1960s, mostly on adventure playgrounds in the UK. In the last fifteen
>years my direct work with children has tended to be more specialist. Over
>the years many children have come to me with labels, increasingly of late
>ADHD. I have never yet found a child labelled in that way who was unable to
>relate to me constructively and attentively through their play. In a short
>series of experiments, I asked principal carers, who had expressed major
>concerns about their relationships with their children, to engage with them
>in imaginal play. Every one reported considerable and sustained
improvements
>both in their relationships with the child and in the child's relationships
>with others.
>>
>>My observations of children with their principal carers (overwhelmingly
>their mothers) appear to indicate that most apparently anti-social
>behaviours exhibited by the children are best explained as "dysplay",
>distorted play cues arising from increasingly desperate attempts on the
part
>of the child to get playful interaction with the carer. A short period of
>accurate response to play cues appears to diminish this "dysplay"
>dramatically and in a sustained fashion.
>>
>>The major problem I have had in gaining acceptance of this technique,
would
>appear to be its lack of seriousness. Engaging with a child in imaginal
play
>looks silly and adult participants often say that it feels silly at first.
>One mother of a four year old who had set fire to his nursery school and
his
>house said that it felt she was ignoring the problem when she just played
>cars (with noises) while lying on the carpet with him. However, she also
>said that the end of that session, when he spontaneously cuddled her, was
>the first time that had happened since he had been a baby.
>>
>>If I had made the option of medication for the child available to that
>mother at the outset, I am sure that she would have taken it. She would
have
>felt she was addressing a serious problem seriously.
>>
>>Stephen Rennie, Leeds Metropolitan University
>>[log in to unmask]
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