Inside I'm Hurting by Louise Michelle Bombèr ISBN 9781903269114, 1903269113 instant download

Inside I'm Hurting by Louise Michelle Bombèr ISBN 9781903269114, 1903269113 instant download

Provides educational professionals with a much-needed classroom handbook of new strategies, practical tools and the confidence for supporting these children from an attachment perspective, thus promoting inclusion in the school system. Contents include: how attachment difficulties can affect a child's ability to learn; providing an 'additional attachment figure' in schools; the benefits and challenges of getting alongside children who have experienced trauma and loss; transitions during the school day; permanency and constancy; being explicit; regulating arousal levels; handling conflict; wondering aloud; lowering the effects of shame; working with transition from primary to secondary phase; developing effective home/school partnership (includes a photocopiable initial meeting prompt card); providing staff support; recommendations for future action.

Pupils who survive multiple traumatic experiences of loss, trauma, abuse and neglect can easily be misunderstood in our schools, despite our good intentions. Children from such a background often underachieve, at worst becoming excluded from the very place that could offer them an opportunity for ‘second chance learning’, and for reaching their potential. These children do not respond well or consistently to behavioural modification techniques, nor are they able to thrive in a system largely created for those from a ‘good enough’ background.

Inside I’m Hurting provides educational professionals with a much-needed classroom handbook of new strategies, practical tools and the confidence for supporting these children from an attachment perspective, thus promoting genuine inclusion in the school system.

Louise Bomber’s innovative and easy-to-use strategies are based on the latest research from child development and Attachment Theory (Bowlby). She also draws on her many years of solid practical experience as a teacher-therapist working with children in education, and in social services with children, families and schools.