The The Stolen Child: WB Yeats and Carl Jung - Relationship, Belonging and Compassion in Caring for Children in Care - Softcover

Fenton, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995550905 ISBN 13: 9780995550902

Publisher: Empower Ireland Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book, which is both deeply personal and also academically informed, considers the place of poetry and science in the caring professions together with the importance of feelings, emotions, the unconscious, resilience, compassion, hope and a sense of belonging in authentically caring for children in care. The poetry of WB Yeats, and that of Dylan Thomas, coupled with Gaelic folklore, academic theory and the lived experience of the author, frames the call for relational approaches to caring for children and the righteous place of passion within the social professions. Residential child care and its place in the current care system is also examined. The five chapters are:

1) Belonging

2) Emotions and Objectivity

3) Pain, Resilience, Recovery and Adolescence

4) Poetry, Science and Social Care

5) Relationship and Residential Care

About this title

About the Author

Maurice Fenton has worked at all levels in residential care, trainee to director, within the statutory, voluntary and private sectors. He founded Empower Ireland in 2009 to support care leavers in Ireland, and is an independent advisor, researcher and author with a particular interest in mentoring and social justice. He is scheduled to complete his doctorate at Queens University Belfast in 2017.

Edition details

• Publisher: Empower Ireland Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995550905
• ISBN 13: 9780995550902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110