Understanding, nurturing and working effectively with vulnerable children in schools : "why can't you hear me?" / Angela Greenwood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Useful neuroscience -- The effects of trauma -- Understanding unconscious processes -- Emotional containment -- Insecure attachment categories -- Children stuck in early developmental stages -- The importance of a secure base -- Behaviour as unconscious communication -- Learning inhibitions as possible unconscious communications -- Relating and relationships -- Coping with change -- Working through the metaphor play, drama, creative work and stories -- Enhancing our own, and the children's, personal capacities -- Working with vulnerable parents some thoughts -- A nurturing school some thoughts from an assistant head.