Nurturing the wellbeing of students in difficulty

Carmel Cefai PhD, FBPS, is Director of the Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health and Professor of Psychology, at the University of Malta. He has published extensively on the mental health, wellbeing and resilience of children and young people, with numerous books, research reports and journal papers.

• Contents: Introducing Paul Cooper – Carmel Cefai: Introduction – Paul Cooper: A Brief and Incomplete Account of Some Early Adventures in Education – Diversity and Inclusion – michalis Kakos and Paul Cooper: Identity as Difference: On Distinctiveness, Cool and Inclusion – Brahm Norwich: The Biopsychosocial Model and What It Means for Understanding Inclusion in Education – Paul Downes: Reframing Cooper’s Emotional-Relational, Commodification and Biopsychosocial Concerns as a Spatial Turn towards Concentric Systems of Inclusion – Valeria Cavioni and Giusi Antonia Toto: Exploring Pre-service Special Education Teachers’ Self-Perceptions in Addressing Students’ Academic, Social, and Emotional Needs – Su Qiong XU: The Curriculum Reforms of Special Education in the Context of Inclusive Education in China – Nurture Groups – David Colley: From Nurture Groups to Nurturing Cities: The Impact of Evidence-Based Research – Carmel Borg: Returning from Educational Exile: The School of Barbiana and Emancipatory Nurture Groups as Projects of Hope and Possibility – Corinna Barker and Helen Cowie: Developmental Effects on the Daughters of Absent Fathers: The Need for Nurture – Engaging Students with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties – Kate Winchester and Chris Forlin: Overcoming Disengagement of Students through an Arts-Based Programme – Colleen McLaughlin: Looking the Wrong Way – Maria Poulou: From Students «without voices» to Students with … «low voices» – Coleen Gilkes-Collymore and Garry Hornby: Exploring the Experiences of Mothers of Children with ADHD in the Caribbean.