The Essentials of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools

Shelley G. MacDonald, MA, PhD, is a BACP accredited counseling psychotherapist with twenty-five years of experience working in front line services with children and young people, in residential social services and schools. She has also conducted Warner interviews for 'Voice of the Child'. She teaches on the MA Counseling Children and Young People course at the University of Nottingham, and has supervised MA student dissertations. Shelley currently manages a primary school counselling service, offering practice placements for trainees. She has published papers in various journals including the 'British Journal of Psychotherapy'', Perspectives in Psychiatric Care' and her monograph on observation was published by UEL. Dr Gary Winship is a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Associate Professor at the School of Education in Nottingham, and MA course leader in Trauma Studies. He is Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University, and visiting lecturer at UCL, University of Greenwich, UEL, and Goldsmiths. He is also senior adult psychotherapist at the Berkshire NHS Trust, Broadmoor & Maudsley Hospitals, and has published over ninety clinical papers and six books.

1. On schooling - a therapeutic community approach 2. On noticing - observation as practice 3. On relating - attachment and belonging 4. On knowing - containment and thinking 5. On curiosity - transference and interpretation 6. On protecting - therapy as safeguarding