The Theory and Practice of Academic Therapy: The Role of Teachers in Promoting Mental Health - Paperback

by D. Samuel Bunn (Author)

The book is geared towards the academic audience. The purpose of this book is to raise teacher's awareness of the role they can play in terms of promoting the mental health and emotional well-being of students in their classrooms. The relationship-building techniques put forth in this book in the form of academic therapy are easy to implement and generate amazing results. The techniques can be used with students of any age group. And best of all, the techniques are relationship-driven and can be seamlessly implemented during the process of teaching the required academic material for any class. It's all about the therapeutic value of the supportive relationship that can be established between teachers and students. No extra work is required, just patience, kindness, compassion, and a genuine concern for the human condition. Students are the future. Let's not just prepare them intellectually, let's prepare them emotionally, too.

Author Biography

D. Samuel Bunn has been teaching psychology at the college level for the past twenty-three years, the last fifteen of which have been at Marist College in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. This book is an excellent follow up or supplement to his first book on teaching, They Aren't Just Students: Making the Connection.