Mental Health Services & Policy
The Power of Family-School Partnering (FSP)
A Practical Guide for School Mental Health Professionals and Educators
- By Cathy Lines, Gloria Miller and Amanda Arthur Stanley.
Published October 2010
Ongoing, strategic family-school partnering (FSP) is an essential component of every educational community. FSP is a multi-dimensional process in which schools, families, and communities engage in shared actions to ensure a child’s academic, social, and emotional success. With this text, the…
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To Hold and Be Held
The Therapeutic School as a Holding Environment
- By Daniel K. Reinstein.
Published May 2006
Drawing on the teachings of D.W. Winnicott and John Bowlby, who helped revolutionize thinking about relational psychology, To Hold and Be Held integrates the concepts of the ‘holding environment’ and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. It also uses metaphor…
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