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This resource explains the difference between counseling and counseling skills, and reviews how mental health issues affect children’s behavior, self-esteem, motivation, and achievement.
The Listening School
The Listening School
This chapter will show:
Really listening to young people is the most important way in which we can help pupils with mental health problems and also promote emotional health and well-being in schools. It is, of course, important to distinguish between the use of listening skills and counselling, which is a more specialised activity. All young people should be able to access counselling in schools as an entitlement, but the introduction of such a service needs to be thought through and many issues and practicalities explored.
Listening Skills and Counselling
Experience has taught me that, regardless of the child and despite the young person's present predicament, real listening is the most profound way in which to help a young person. As professionals we ...
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