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We Need to Talk about Parents Cathie Freeman

We Need to Talk about Parents By Cathie Freeman

We Need to Talk about Parents by Cathie Freeman


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A guide for primary and secondary school teachers on interacting and working with parents with a strong focus on developing empathetic professional skills.

We Need to Talk about Parents Summary

We Need to Talk about Parents: A Teachers Guide to Working With Families by Cathie Freeman

Working and communicating with parents is a fundamental part of being a teacher, and there are many interpersonal situations that you will be required to respond to in the classroom including difficulties at home, loss, abuse and special educational needs. In this smart and practical book, you will be provided with a framework for successful personal development to aid you in managing difficult communications with parents and the personal and professional challenges that come with modern teaching.

Key topics include:

How to understand and develop compassion

How to manage different types of emotional challenges

Exploring different contexts where you will be communicating with families

Your role in developing communities

Working with families who have special needs and disability

Cathie Freeman is a senior psychological wellbeing practitioner.

Jenni Gates is an integrative counselling therapist.

We Need to Talk about Parents Reviews

A practical, passionate, provocative look at the relationship between home and school with a clear framework and a ton of actionable ideas for getting it right. A small but mighty book that will make you think and act a little differently; the children in your care will benefit hugely. -- Dr Pooky Knightsmith

About Cathie Freeman

Cathie Freeman currently works within a talking therapy service for the NHS as a senior psychological wellbeing practitioner, and has worked within mental health since graduating as an Occupational Therapist. As a spouse of a serving Royal Marine, Cathie spent a lot of her adult life moving within the UK, as well as the USA where she worked as a substitute teacher within the local school. Cathie cares passionatately about psychological wellbeing and believes it to be fundamentalaspect to realise and live our full potential. Jenni Gates is currently working in private practice as an integrative counselling therapist in Devon, UK, as well as offering online counselling internationally. Jenni has many years of experience working with young people and families in schools and education settings, across the UK, with a focus on mental health and wellbeing; she believes education is key to a happier and healthier world.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Values Chapter 2: Communication Chapter 3: Compassion Chapter 4: Community Chapter 5: Working with emotional challenges Chapter 6: Supporting families with SEND Chapter 7: Agency Chapter 8: Values based connection model

Additional information

NGR9781529751666
9781529751666
1529751667
We Need to Talk about Parents: A Teachers Guide to Working With Families by Cathie Freeman
New
Paperback
Sage Publications Ltd
2022-04-20
120
N/A
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