Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
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
Necessity, as we all know, is said to be the mother of invention. And this has been confirmed by the technological and social innovations spawned during wars. This line of thoughts leads on logically to the question of whether this is true in, say, times of plague. I am not sure what creative ideas came … Read more
RESTORE – a lens through which to look at what children in care, and those supporting them, may need in this time of crisis How has the experience of lockdown affected children and young people in care, unable to make or receive visits from family or friends? How have those adults who support them been? … Read more
Over many years I have tuned in regularly to certain BBC radio programmes such as Desert Island Discs, The Life Scientific, and Private Passions, each of which uses a framework in which an invited guest is encouraged to share something of their life story. Among other ways in which I engage with them is to … Read more
About the author: Dr Jane Herd is a clinical social worker with over 30 years’ experience. Jane has a Doctorate from the Tavistock and Portman in respect of the mental health and inner working models of hard to reach populations. She runs a social enterprise called Orb8 that provides training and service development in respect of … Read more
A warm welcome to our June newsletter. Living through the unprecedented experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on all aspects of our society. Like NHS staff, residential care workers and foster carers as ‘essential workers’, have had to maintain a duty of care for some of our societies most vulnerable and emotionally damaged children … Read more
The following paper has been chosen by our Senior Archivist Nicky Hilton. The author gives a lively account of group work in an experimental psychiatric ward of a US Naval hospital in the early 1950s. Interactions between patients are used to explore how group therapy can be used to improve the health of the individual. … Read more
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what has been termed “lock-down” in the UK, concepts such as “social distancing” and “self-isolation” have become common parlance. Over time this has led professionals, academics and clerics to reflect on related words such as alone, loneliness, solitude, solitary, and confinement. We know that different languages have … Read more
The team at the MB3 Planned Environment Therapy Archives and Special Collections are delighted to announce the launch of the Service’s new online catalogue. For the first time you can independently search our collections from anywhere in the world using your computer, laptop or mobile device. The launch of the catalogue is part of a … Read more
The London Borough of Redbridge has joined a select group of local authorities in the UK that is working in partnership with UNICEF with a shared commitment to make their communities “Child-Friendly”. This is something for which voluntary children’s organisations in this borough have been campaigning for fifteen years or more. Whatever the outcomes it … Read more
Jade MacRury is a content writer and correspondent for the Immigration Advice Service, an organisation of immigration lawyers. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented levels of disruption and suffering across the board. The death toll continues to rise, businesses are closing and our public services are struggling due to the twin pressures of increased demand … Read more
When you are working at a deep and intense level with a child who has experienced unreliable and disrupted early care, or with a child who has at a later stage experienced devastating loss, rejection, emotional injury and hurt, you are likely to be attacked by that child. This attack, which is likely to be … Read more
A warm welcome to our 1st April edition. To keep you buoyant through these challenging times we bring you a feed of stimulating and informed papers. The mission of the International Centre is: ‘To share models of therapeutic care, and to extend the influence and insights gained from our member networks, in order to improve … Read more