Nursery World - My best course - Understanding behaviour

A five-day intensive course on psychotherapy gave practitioner
Rachel Cowie the tools to understand children's motives.

Many nursery practitioners, and their bosses, would baulk at the thought of spending five days out of the office on a training course. But understanding transference - when people unconsciously transfer feelings from the past to the present - is essential for every practitioner, according to Dr Louise Emanuel, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.

She says, 'When you work with families and young children you have to have an understanding of relationships. Otherwise we find ourselves taking things very personally. Many early years professionals are incredibly relieved when they find out why a child might come into nursery and kick them in the shins before they even start.'

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