Psychology for Teaching Assistants – This third edtion covers:
- attachment theory
- language development
- working with disaffected teenagers
- the emotional impact of loss, including discovering disablity in a child
- the psychological effects of abuse
- cognitve curricula learning empowerment through idependence
- processes in groups
- working in breakfast and after school clubs
- working in learning support units
- leadership models
- interpersonal communication
- violence, aggression and bullying
- emancipatory psychology
- Emotional Literacy Assistant Programme (ELSA)
- Neurodiverse young people
- Children’s internal world
Excluded from School – Complex discourses and psychological perspectives
This book is unique in bringing together different perspectives, including historical, psychodynamic and unstable systems theory. It concludes with reflections on the harm that exclusion can do and puts forward new approaches to managing difficult behaviour in schools.
The chapters in this second edition deal with:
- Exclusion – a historial perspective
- Exclusion – a psychodynamic perspective
- Exclusion – a perspective from chaos theory
- Exclusion – a perspective from critical race theory
- Exclusion – successful alternative provision practice
- Five case studies each told from the view of the family, the school, the unit and the child
- Exclusions – the damage done by school exclusion and recommendations for preventing it.
