Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
John Diamond Most of the subject matter for the columns I have written in the TCJ is fresh, in the sense that it relates to what has been going on in the days or weeks immediately prior to writing it, but the content of this piece is so fresh that it is raw. In fact I am using … Read more
This is a final assignment paper written for the Mulberry Bush Foundation Degree in ‘Therapeutic work with children and young people’ accredited by UWE. Rita Baptista is a Therapeutic Care Practitioner at the School. References to individual children have been anonymised. Introduction The present assignment consists of the final project of the Foundation Degree in … Read more
Note: this paper was written by David lane for the launch of the Child Care History Network as a sub group of the International Centre. The event was held at MB3 on June 4th 2019. John Diamond asked me to speak about “an aspect of child care history you are especially interested in”. This invitation … Read more
A few days ago I was facilitating a day course on the book, The Growth of Love (Abingdon: BRF 2008) with a team from a Pre-School. In the process we began to focus on one of the most common practical challenges of daily interaction in this environment. In my experience it is a conundrum not … Read more
It’s always revealing when roles are suddenly reversed. For example, when a doctor becomes a patient; when a judge is in the dock; when the strong becomes weak; when the giver needs help, or when the proverbial poacher turns gamekeeper. In writing this piece I am reflecting in situ on just such a reversal. As … Read more
This is the second part of an adaptation 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 at … 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
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
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