A Commentary for the Holistic Politico - Psychological Model(2011) - for the Solution Focussed Discussion of a Child’s Mental Health Needs and their Wellbeing within the Context of a Multi-professional Planning or Child in Need Meeting.

Dave Traxson, who is a senior educational psychologist for Worcestershire County Council has provided us this text of a seminar which he presented on January 12th, 2012 to the British Psychological Society (Division of Educational and Child Psychology) conference "Change in Mind : Changing Times" at Stratford upon Avon.

Dave believes the paper represents a radical attempt to promote solution focussed discussion at case conferences about a child's mental health needs. It is rooted in humanistic psychological principles and it is compatible with the ethos of Social Pedagogy.

Dave and his colleagues would like this model to be it widely circulated for caring professionals to use. They make notes to help formulate their hypothesis on the blank proforma and use the full version as an aide memoire for prompting areas of discussion. Initial reactions have been very positive and they are looking for further support with this shared endeavour in order to challenge the influence of the imminently arriving DSM5 from the United States of America in 2013 which will widen prescribing and would in his view result in many false positives in the mental illness for children and young people.

The text can be found by clicking on therapeutic care and social pedagogy on our title strip at the top of the page.

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