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Guidance on how to deal with school problems: considering the social dimension

This project refers to a type of brief and focused clinical counseling on how to deal with school problems. It arose from the need to develop a procedure to overcome the difficulties faced by traditional practices. These practices are based on a concept of an abstract individual, which disregards social connections beyond the family group, thereby excluding school both from investigation and intervention. Our aim is to create a movement in the network of relationships whereby school problems will come up, so as to be dealt with and overcome. Generally speaking, this network's main characters are: the child/adolescent, his/her school and his/her family. Thus the focus of our investigation/intervention is this network and how the relationships among its participants developed and continue to develop. Some basic techniques are: gather each participant's version to reach the problem area, begin circulating the relevant information and identify, move and strengthen the potentialities within this network.

School problems; School failure; Mental health; Psychological guidance


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