Hello Suzie
After reading your post, I was reminded that you are in a boarding school,
which led me to think that a book about emotionally disturbed children
living in a Community = Boarding School may interest you.
Although the children/adolescents in the Community I am thinking of are
severally emotionally disturbed, I felt that you might find some parallels.
The parallels are you and your colleagues becoming mother figures. Anyway
I'm rabbitting :-) The book is called 'Therapy and Consultation in Child
Care' author Barbara Dockar Drysdale.
Thought you might find it of interest. Should, if you are interested, be
able to get it from a good library. If not it's about seventeen quid!
Kindest
Gerald
ps Sorry about the rambling, I'm trying to type in a hurry and seem to be
making things more complex.
-----Original Message-----
From: s.macer <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 08 April 2003 19:34
Subject: Re: counselling young people
>Hi Beverly,
>
>Well it is just possible of course that they do have just grounds for
>disliking the particular counsellor who does come into the school. The
>comments made to me about her hardly came into the flattering category,
>but like I say if a pupil is under duress to attend counselling sessions
>then perhaps that is only to be expected. Since I've never met her
>myself I've no idea what she is like.
>
>Here, the pupils seem to prefer to either talk to one of the volunteer
>Sixth Formers who are given some basic pastoral type training, or to one
>of the members of the teaching staff. But I do suspect that things are
>different here with most of the pupils being boarders such that the
>teaching staff do in effect become their parents.
>
>Kindest,
>Suzie.
>
>> I take great pleasure in the way that counselling has been cultivated
>within
>those schools - perhaps they should be used as a model :-)
>Unfortunately, I
>can't take any credit as both systems were set up long before my time.
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