Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos.
Title:
Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos.
Author:
House, Richard.
ISBN:
9781849408455
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (346 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copy Right -- THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: Editorial introduction: 'Therapeutic ethos' in therapeutic, educational and cultural perspectives -- PART I: CHILDHOOD IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER TWO: Childhood, well-being and a therapeutic ethos: A case for therapeutic education -- CHAPTER THREE: What is toxic childhood? -- CHAPTER FOUR: The challenge of modern childhood -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Good Childhood: An inquiry by the Children's Society -- PART II: CHILDHOOD AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS -- CHAPTER SIX: Childhood 'toxicity' and 'trauma': Asking the right questions -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The changing space of childhood and its relationship to narcissism -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Why love matters in early childhood -- PART III: TOWARDS A THERAPEUTIC ETHOS FOR CHILDHOOD -- CHAPTER NINE: Resisting images of the 'diminished self' in education policy and practice for emotional well-being -- CHAPTER TEN: The 'mind object' and 'dream consciousness': A Winnicottian and a Steinerean rationale for avoiding the premature 'adultifying' of children -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: First catch your child -- PART IV: PLAY, PLAYFULNESS, AND CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING -- CHAPTER TWELVE: The importance of play and playfulness -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Everyday play activities as therapeutic and pedagogical encounters -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: From playing to thinking: How the Kindergarten provides a foundation for scientific understanding -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Play-excerpts from They F*** You Up and Affluenza -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Editorial conclusion: Therapeia today (re-instating the soul in human experience).
Abstract:
A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers.A unique book in the field, Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos will be core cross-disciplinary reading in a range of academic and training contexts, including within Education, Psychology and Sociology departments, on early childhood studies and policy studies modules and degrees, and on child and other psychotherapy and counselling trainings.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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