Main description:

Offers a combination of a critical approach to education and psychology alongside a focus on professional dialogue, aimed at psychologists, educational professionals and those who work with them.

Provides an alternative approach to the current focus in education establishments (which include instrumentalism and performativity) to support and improve relationships and mental health (particularly relating to teachers, parents and young people).

This book addresses a fundamental issue for psychologists in the Western world in that it challenges the profession to uphold a moral and ethical practices.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: The state we're in: how we are not alone and some consequences of relationships

Chapter 2: On being and becoming human: relationships in professional settings

Chapter 3: Building educational alternatives

Chapter 4: Morals and ethics in educational practice

Chapter 5: Dialogue and awareness of the space between

Chapter 6: Consultation and intervention for and with others

Chapter 7: Synthesis

References

Index