Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A guide to therapeutic work with boarding school survivors

Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the needs of this client group.

Author: Nick Duffell,Thurstine Basset
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/26/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781138788701

About the Author

Nick Duffell is a psychotherapist and trainer in private practice who pioneered therapeutic work with ex-boarders and specialist training for psychotherapists. He is the author of The Making of Them: The British attitude to children and the boarding school system and Wounded Leaders: British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion - a psychohistory.

Thurstine Basset worked as a social worker, mostly in the mental health field, before entering the world of training and education in the 1980s. He has subsequently written and produced a variety of training packages, articles, book chapters and books in the mental health field. Early in the 21st Century, he attended a Boarding School Survivors Workshop and was a director of Boarding Concern, an organisation that supports boarding school survivors.