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Asylum seekers from Sudan
This from five years ago: it came back into my mind as I read today that in Sudan , children are being injured and sometimes slaughtered despite the agreement that the south can secede. Three asylum seeking African boys have been referred. They have been sent here by...
Transference
‘Today I was speaking to a colleague who works with young adults. She was talking of a particular client who had very much liked her and had, eventually, copied everything my colleague did. She did as suggested, dressed similarly and wanted to call her boy baby after...
Their dad has died
‘Two children whose father has died have just been in. It was a sudden and quite unexpected death, the sort called tragic. And they seemed to cope quite well in the immediate aftermath. It helped that their mum was brilliant and sensible and able to support them even...
ASD
I do love children with Asperger Syndrome – the name may change in a couple of years when ‘they’ might decide that everyone is on the ASD spectrum, rather than using the suggestion that people with Asperger Syndrome go to mainstream school, but have especial problems....
Loss of a Dream Child
Last Saturday as I left the house, I met my neighbour. He is a tall attractive man and he was inclining his head in order to hear what his daughter was saying. She is just 4, and was obviously on her way to ballet class. She had her special skirt on and that ballet...
Too many children….
As you know, I do quite a lot of EMDR. Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming is an effective way of dealing trauma, so effective that all psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists are trained in it before being deployed in war zones. It involves using bi-lateral...
Talking to the Media
My mobile rang today just after lunch. It was a journalist – they always start by giving their name and then explaining that they got my name from the British Psychological Society media list. I used to assume that they phoned me because I was near the top of the...
Child Protection
One of the girls I see is awfully pretty and having a lot of trouble at school. She has a successful younger sister and a mum and dad who love her very much. And to say she has trouble at school is misleading – her big problem is with home. At home she has been rather...
how private is my diary?
I did an interview on a radio station last week about diaries. It seems that a mum had deliberately but with some misgivings, read her six year old daughter’s diary. And had read the child describing herself as fat and ugly and stupit and no wonder no-one likes her....
happy, happy, happy
I had a phone call out of the blue today from a boy I saw when he was in Year 11. It was just before Christmas and he was very worried that he was increasingly struggling with crowds or groups of people. He found it very hard to go into Assembly, had had to walk miles...