Professional Documents
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Systemic
The systemic approach looks at targeting the individual‘s behaviour
within the system. These systems can include:
their family
their friends
their school
their classmates
their community
their outside school clubs, e.g. Scouts.
The quality of these systems is a great influence on the child‘s
behaviour. For example, a child living in a family where domestic
violence takes place will naturally struggle within another system, i.e.
school. The behaviour the child experiences at home, for example
shouting, violence and/or aggressiveness, will not work in a school
context which can cause problems for the child. In situations such as
this, working with the family to understand the environment in which
the child lives is paramount in finding solutions to help their behaviour.
Psychodynamic
The psychodynamic approach is one used in a clinical setting as
it focuses on understanding and intervening by unravelling past
conscious and unconscious experiences in order to help the child deal
with them.