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This book produces evidence for the research effectiveness of therapies and makes the moral case for bringing together human psychological welfare needs and the expanding number of skilled, ethically sensitive people ready to listen and respond in the most deeply human and needed way.
The Couch and the Ballot Box: The Contribution and Potential of Psychotherapy in Enhancing Citizenship
The Couch and the Ballot Box: The Contribution and Potential of Psychotherapy in Enhancing Citizenship
As we began writing this chapter, the British government's proposals, originlly laid out in its White Paper Excellence in Schools, pledging education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools, became statutory for all schools (in September 2000). On 21 January 2001, in his presidential inauguration address, George W. Bush called his fellow Americans to citizenship: ‘I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.’ A couple of weeks earlier, on the BBC radio programme Start the Week (8 ...
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