How do Professionals really learn to imporve their practice?
Intuition is not Enough is a guide fr trainers and practitioners working with disturbed children and young people, which explores the connections between the challenges of practice and of learning.
Introduction; Part 1 A basis for thinking about therapeutic practice;
Chapter 1 The inner world and its implications, Adrian Ward;
Chapter 2
Helping and the personal response, Linnet McMahon, Adrian Ward;
Chapter 3
Helping together, Adrian Ward;
Chapter 4 The difficulty of helping, Adrian
Ward;
Chapter 5 A model for practice: the therapeutic community, Adrian Ward;
Part 2 Creating a model;
Chapter 6 The matching principle, Adrian Ward;
Chapter 7 Meeting to learn and learning to meet, Adrian Ward;
Chapter 8
Working at understanding and helping troubled children 1 Practice examples
supplied by: John Tuberville and Simon Peacock., Linnet McMahon;
Chapter 9
Learning through philosophy, Paul Cain;
Chapter 10 Learning in the
Experiential Group, Teresa Howard;
Chapter 11 The function of the staff
meeting, Adrian Ward, Linnet McMahon, Paul Cain, Teresa Howard;
Chapter 12 On
the experience of keeping a reflective journal while training, Deborah Best;
Part 3 Returning to practice;
Chapter 13 Alice and her blanket: a case study,
Ros Wheeler;
Chapter 14 Therapeutic work in an educational setting, Deborah
Best;
Chapter 15 Therapeutic work in daily living settings, Linnet McMahon;
Chapter 16 Using the situation, John Diamond; Part 4 Conclusions;
Chapter 17
On reflection, Adrian Ward;
Chapter 18 Applying the matching principle,
Adrian Ward;
Adrian Ward is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Studies at the University of Reading., Linnet McMahon lectures in Therapeutic Child Care at the University of Reading and is also a play therapist, supervisor and trainer.