Book description
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.
