Work Discussion : Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families

ISBN-13: 9781855756441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 309 str.

Margaret Rustin

Opis

Work Discussionbrings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such a model depends on the development of hard-won capacities, and the descriptions offered here, both by students and by experienced staff, fully demonstrate the immense relevance of the approach, both to training and to a wide variety of work situations.

The book outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of settings, both in Britain and abroad, in which that method has been successfully applied. The contributors draw on experiences across age, culture, and race in, for example, schools, hospitals, residential homes, in a prison, and in a refugee community. The final chapter explores the implications of work discussion for research and policy-making more generally. Many of the situations narrated here are extreme, whether in terms of disturbance or of vulnerability, but they offer moving insights into how effective the method can be and how truly impressive a developmental model it provides.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Work Discussion: An Overview -- Work discussion: some historical and theoretical observations -- The work discussion seminar: a learning environment -- What’s happening? Some thoughts on the experience of being in a work discussion group -- Work discussion groups at work: applying the method -- Case Studies -- Work in educational settings -- “Struggling with manifold disillusionment”: a non-directive drama therapy group for adolescents who have learning disabilities -- Becoming a learning mentor in an infant school -- A therapeutic approach to working with primary-school children -- A creative arts project in a primary school: the impact of “bizarre artefacts” in the classroom -- Work in health and residential settings -- Working with sick children in a hospital setting -- Trauma and containment in children’s cancer treatment -- Developing a containing relationship with a child living in a residential setting -- Work with vulnerable families -- Working within a refugee community -- Providing a play setting for children visiting parents in prison -- Emotional numbing and mindlessness as a phenomenon in residential assessment work -- International Contributions -- “Sibonye is stuck …”: the work discussion model adapted to South African conditions -- Parenting a new institution -- Work discussion seminars with the staff of a children’s home for street children in Puebla, Mexico -- Epilogue -- Work discussion: implications for research and policy

O autorze

Jonathan Bradley, Margaret Rustin