The Learning Alliance
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    "This book, The Learning Alliance, is the first of its kind to give serious recognition to the role and contributions of the school psychologist working in a team effort to provide therapeutic care of our nation's school children. They provide a three-step model (AIM) that maximizes the psychologist's clinical interventions in an often "hectic and hurried" academic environment. The authors have provided a clear and consistent model for a "learning based psychotherapy that is applicable to a broad range of emotional, learning and behavioral based problems found so readily in our urban schools".

    This is a must read for all those responsible for caring to the mental health needs of school children and child therapists."

      Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D.
    Editor
    Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
       

    "Children and adolescents with behavior problems need comprehensive coordinated services from skilled, trained professionals in a variety of fields from education to mental health. There remained of late, a void in the professional literature regarding the role and qualities of an effective psychotherapist in schools. Fortunately, The Learning Alliance, fills that void with a must read for educators and mental health professionals alike. Meeks and Dupont have produced a resourceful guide for anyone in the helping professions. Teachers, therapists, administrators will find the book strength-based, hopeful, and affirming. The authors have got the central elements of school-based psychotherapy correct-build a therapeutic alliance that is focused on learning, fuel it with the process of identification, and sustain it over time with relationships based on caring, trust, and respect."

      Howard S. Muscott, Ed.D., Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Special Education and the Graduate Programs in Educating Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
    Rivier College, Nashua, NH
       

    "Therapists and teachers have a great deal to share. The Learning Alliance helps them to do it in a way that combines current theories, summary charts and case histories. The Learning Alliance brings to the table everyone involved in the lives of children and adolescents in distress and helps psychiatrists understand more fully life in the classroom. Teachers will appreciate the respect given to their daily important work.

    Teacher educators and psychiatric medical educators assign this book to your students! It bridges the longstanding professional gap among those who work with students in distress. Students will read and then refer to The Learning Alliance regularly."

      Nancy Belknap, Ed.D.
    Professor Emeritus
    The George Washington University
    Washington, DC



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