The Planned Environment Therapy Trust
  Barns Centre, Church Lane, Toddington, Cheltenham, GL54 5DQ

A WEEKEND WITH MAURICE BRIDGELAND

Friday, 2nd Saturday, 3rd June 2006 at Barns Centre



This weekend will be of value and interest to all
those in many settings working or otherwise
concerned with the special emotional and
psychological needs of adolescents. Many people
may know Maurice Bridgeland only for his book,
“Pioneer Work with Maladjusted Children”, which,
though published in 1971, remains an unsuperceded
standard text. However, he was a teacher and
practitioner before writing that book, and went
on to an intricate and rich career
afterwards. During this weekend Maurice
Bridgeland will share his unique insights and
understanding of these adolescents.


Fees: Residential £95 Non-residential £65


Please bring this event to the attention of
appropriate friends, colleagues and students.

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Friday, 7.30 p.m.

“I Find It Hard to Talk”

A presentation of about seventy pictures and
fifty poems chosen from many hundreds produced by
adolescents (often described as “maladjusted” or
“emotionally disturbed), either through Maurice’s
work as a teacher in “ordinary” or “special”
schools or in his twenty years as a
psychologist/therapist working with individual
adolescents. The poems and pictures are the
means through which these adolescents chose to
explore their difficulties with such basic
problems as existential questions, personal and
sexual relationships, religion, anger, loneliness
and despair. It ends with poems and pictures
describing their relationship to the therapeutic process itself.

A buffet supper will be served during the evening

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Saturday, 11 a.m.

Maurice will look at case studies in which this
process has been crucial in therapeutic work with
adolescents who “find it hard to talk”.

1 p.m. Lunch

Saturday, 2.30 p.m.

Afternoon activities to be announced

5 p.m. Tea

Saturday, 6 p.m.

Informal evening with the opportunity for more
general discussion with Maurice Bridgeland.

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Maurice Bridgeland’s career began in a sense when
he was sent to a special school in Ramsgate at
the age of eleven. Why was never explained to
him, but he escaped when having previously sat a
scholarship exam he was awarded a place as a day
boy at Sevenoaks Public School. He went on to
Cambridge, where he took a degree in History and
a Diploma in Education, and his first post was as
a housemaster and English teacher at Midhurst
Grammar School in Hampshire, where the headmaster
had a special concern for “disturbed boys” and a
deep interest in art. He then joined the staff of
a new grammar school, Ifield at Crawley, “another
good experience in working with ‘disturbed
children’, because the (other) grammar schools
that had the bright Crawley children chucked out the ones they didn’t want.”

He later moved on to become the head at Frensham
Heights, an established independent
co-educational progressive school (“being a
headmaster is the worst job in the world. And
being a headmaster of a co-educational
independent boarding school is the worst of all…”)

Later he became lecturer in Psychology at the
Special Education course at Liverpool University,
and having along the way trained as a child
psychologist and psychotherapist, ended his
professional career working mainly with
emotionally disturbed adolescents in Portsmouth and Hampshire.



Planned Environment Therapy Trust
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APPLICATION FORM FOR

A WEEKEND WITH MAURICE BRIDGELAND

Friday, 2nd Saturday, 3rd June, 2006 at Barns Centre
at Barns Centre, Church Lane, Toddington, Cheltenham, Glos. GL54 5DQ
Tel: 01242 621200 Fax: 01242 620077 Email: [log in to unmask]


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Dr. Craig Fees
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
Church Lane
Toddington
near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom

Phone/fax 01242 620125
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