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Ingrid Cleaver is a vastly experienced Educational Psychotherapist, SENDCO and teacher - now in semi-retirement but continuing to contribute to the EPT community through her writing and teaching work.


Her article in the 2022 Caspari Journal is entitled -

Learning Begins Long Before Children Arrive at School: A brief exploration of certain developmental theories and links to

learning in Educational Psychotherapy (Contact the Caspari Foundation for copies of the journal).


It is this paper that got me thinking about how we use our knowledge of developmental stages to figure out where to start with the young people we work with.

Ingrid explains, with lively examples, how some of this work looks in action, and also how we can help teachers to deal with and contain the difficult feelings that arise in the classroom.


Here are some of the people and theories we mention, plus any specific books we reference:


Muriel Barratt - 'second-chance learning'; see also Jenny Dover and Jill Salmon's writing in Reaching and Teaching Through Educational Psychotherapy (2007)

Dr Gabor Maté

We also mention the 'big names' for us: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein.


For feedback or to get in touch with me: @miniEDresearch on Twitter or email ed@edtherapy.co.uk

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