Bringing Our Histories into School-Based Therapy (eBook)

Introduction  1. Not a Blank Slate: The Role of Our Own History in Our Therapeutic Work  2. Stepping into the Unknown: Reflections on Transitions  3. Shame, Guilt, Secrets and Lies: How Differentness Within and Outside the Family Shapes our Sense of Self  4. Feeling Dislocated: Some Personal and Clinical Reflections on the Experiences of Relocated Families  5. Mother and Other Tongues: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections  6. The Biafran War: A Transgenerational Legacy  7.Sibling Death: Mourning in Childhood and Beyond  8. Separation and Loss in Adolescence: The Impact of the Iranian Revolution  9. Holding on Tightly, Learning to Let Go: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections  10. Masculinity and the Male Therapist: The Internal and External Struggles  11. Suspended Animation: A Traumatic Family History Without a Context  12. My Story, Our Story: Co-Parenting Two Adopted Boys  13. One of Many: The Impact of Growing Up in a Large Family  14. The Search for Belonging: An Unfolding Story  15. The Meaning of Home: The Loss of the 'Motherland' and How This Shapes the Formation of Identity  16. Parenting a Child Through a Life-Threatening Illness: Then and Now  Epilogue