Counselling in Schools: New Perspectives »

Every day, teachers face the challenge of teaching the bereaved child, the pregnant teenager, the substance abuser, the physically and sexually abused: all children who face the demands of growing up in a fast-changing world. This practical and helpful book examines the needs of both specialist counsellors and the classroom teacher, whose impact on children inevitably has implications beyond the academic.

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Aids teachers without specialist training how to teach and educate bereaved children, pregnant teenagers, substance abusers, the physically and sexually abused, and other distraught students. The framework is not the financial incentive that has brought professional counsellors into the private workplace, but an ethic of teaching that all children deserve an adequate education. Describes how to recognize when counselling is needed, approaches and techniques for providing it, and how to tell if it is working. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.