Developing Skills in Therapeutic Communication in Daily Living with Emotionally Disturbed Children and Young People
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This article shows how to develop skills in therapeutic communication with people who work with emotionally disturbed children and young people. This is the framework of the Therapeutic Communication with Children and Young people Course of the Postgraduate in Therapeutic Child Care at the University of Reading. It is demonstrated that intuitive skills are not enough because these children are in need of a greater therapeutic support than those who are not emotionally disturbed; hence, they need to be provided of good primary experiences, followed by the child’s realization, symbolization and conceptualization of the experiences. Therefore, the workers need to develop skills far beyond those of providing good basic childcare.
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