Therapeutic Groupwork

The Action GroupSkills intervention is the response made by the TLC team to the situation in tough Meadow Well schools. As the data followed and supported the AGI, the demand from schools throughout the North East followed. Most schools have challenging children who do not respond to the usual range of school-based programmes. Some of these children end up with statements, most are on the school action or school action plus registers. More still are in classrooms, switched off from learning, causing problems for their teachers and peers, waiting for some kind of provision.

For children like this, engaging them in a small group with tightly defined boundaries and a structured developmental programme of activity is the place where they learn to take notice of others. Challenging children can become invested in a group, and they can learn to moderate their own behavior for the sake of the group. The AGI is a working example of this. They find a place to express themselves and to be listened to, and they return to class with a felt difference in their attitude. The Learning Challenge would love to introduce you to the AGI. Please drop us a line.