In residence includes regular columns from John Diamond of The Mulberry Bush School, as well as articles submitted as part of the bi-monthly Therapeutic Care Journal
On the 15th March 2019, at a ‘Best Practice Forum’ in the House of Lords, I presented our work, ‘The Emotional Warmth Model of Professional Childcare’ drawing on two evidenced-based research papers by my colleagues Dr Seán Cameron (2017) and Cameron and Dr Ravi Das (2019). This article takes the main points of the presentations … Read more
The author Sean Williams is Headteacher at The Forge; a Pupil Referral Unit in Redditch. We open his article with a few paragraphs written by him about the work of the Forge: At the Forge we work with adolescents who have been permanently excluded or who are at risk of permanent exclusion from their mainstream … Read more
The TCJ continues to share members ‘lived experiences’ of the achievements, dilemmas and struggles to meet the needs of emotionally troubled and traumatised children, families and communities. Many of the papers in this edition explore perspectives on the concept of community. Thadei Kamisa writes from Pangani Town, Tanzania, on how the rape and murder of … Read more
This is such a thoughtful, insightful, balanced, well-informed and seminal book that this review will be in the form of a conversational response. My review copy is so heavily annotated that it is obvious that Chris Hanvey has challenged and stimulated my thinking and imagination considerably. In 128 pages, which include an appendix and index, … Read more
Since writing the piece on A General Theory of Love (New York: Random House, 2001) by the three psychiatrists, T. Lewis, F. Amini, R. Lannon, and then re-reading the book, my mind has been teeming with a mass of thoughts, questions, and ideas. And gradually these have been getting sorted out into what a chess … Read more
In this column I would like to share with you in some detail what happened at Mill Grove during a recent evening. Before doing that, let me pass on some insights of Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche communities that I happened to discover after the evening in question. These helped me to understand … Read more
The First of a Regular Feature From The Planned Environment Therapy Archive at MB3 We hope you enjoy our first contribution to the Journal. The Library and archive from which this article is taken is situated in the Mulberry Bush Third Space (MB3). MB3 is located in the village of Toddington, Gloucestershire, (formerly the Barns Archive … Read more
As we today launch the Child Care History Network as a sub- group of the International Centre for Therapeutic Care, David Lane gives an overview of its activities since it was founded in 2008. We will be holding a CCHN development day at The Mulberry Bush Third Space on June 4th. If you are interested … Read more
The site at Toddington, Gloucestershire, which is now part of the Mulberry Bush Organisation was bought by the Homer Lane Trust in 1965 in order to set up a therapeutic community for what were then called maladjusted children. The Homer Lane Trust was founded by some members of a pacifist community (Roy Frye, Cynthia Cross … Read more
This is an adaptation of the first part of an M.A. dissertation by Angus Burnett. It is about leadership, task and organisation in a therapeutic community for children. The M.A. in Therapeutic Child Care at The University of Reading was run by Adrian Ward, Dr. Linnet Mc Mahon, Paul Cain, Deborah Best and Theresa Howard … Read more
On the night of 5th December 2018, citizens of Pangani Town were saddened by the news of the rape and murder of a local village nurse. People grieved for the sudden death of the 23 year old who disappeared immediately after the last ferry crossing from Pangani town to Bweni village where she had been … Read more
The TCJ continues to share members ‘lived experiences’ of the achievements, dilemmas and struggles to meet the needs of emotionally troubled and traumatised children and young people. Many of the papers in this edition reflect on what it means to be genuinely ‘alongside and attuned’ to those in our care. This edition opens with an … Read more