ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies some of the occasions when there seem to be advantages in working with teachers outside the school in connection with the children and families they are concerned about. Schools are busy, active communities, and their primary tasks are educational and social, and only incidentally therapeutic. Most teachers would probably agree with E. Hoyle, who sees the teacher’s role as one of instructing, socializing and evaluating children. There are other occasions when the clinic has been seen as offering an appropriate setting for one or more teachers to discuss a child. In the clinic’s atmosphere of confidentiality it was possible to put the facts of Bernard’s family situation, the breakup of his parental home and his uncertainty about his future, into a coherent whole. The teacher subsequently found that Bernard participated well in drama sessions in the classroom and in turn invited the psychologist to join her class one day.
