Indranee Bringing Family Therapy To Schools

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BRINGING FAMILY THERAPY

TO SCHOOLS
WORKING WITH FAMILIES
IN A SCHOOL SETTING

Datin Indranee Liew


Penang Mental Health Association
FOUNDATIONS
1
of Behaviour 2 3
Environment
All behavior Behavior
serves a impacts
is learned behavior
function

4 5 6
Skill Team Relationship
deficits approach is matters!
impact critical
behavior

3
12 Boys
in
Oxford
Adult
movies 8 year old girl
& divorce
school lives with each parent for a week
supplies
Mum with
Depression
 2 brothers
 parents separated
Mum’s
 mum needed dialysis so elder boy stays with
Dialysis mum
 misses school to accompany mother for dialysis
The girl who
didn’t go
to school
 extremely intelligent girl
 2 years ahead of age group
 transferred from another school due to bullying
Health  consistently top in F4 class
affected by
 behaviour changed; attitude to food & exercise
over
 teacher noticed
exercising;
isolation  girl cried
 mum & dad staying in separate rooms
 psychiatric treatment
 13 year old boy
 Difficulty settling in school routine after Covid
 Walks around the class
Teen boy’s
 Incomplete work
class
behaviour  Clamour for more computer/cellphone time
 Extremely negative comments by teachers &
parents
 Diagnosed as ADHD; ASD?
The
growler
 Form 1 girl
 Did not want to attend school after the
first month
Refusal to  Academic assessment results were very
attend poor
school  Many excuses
after Covid  No friends in school
 Prefer friends online
The ‘lazy’
boy who
didn’t do
homework
Late to school
Sleepy
Sleeps instead of interacting with
Mobile classmates during recess
Phones
Informed parents & advised them to
enforce bedtime
Principal’s action
 girl aged 14
Online  hospitalised
Predator  missed school for one year
 met foreign young man online
 sent him half nude photo at his request
 blackmailed her for more revealing photos
Teachers are
gardeners
nurturing &
shaping bonsai
children
Datin Indranee Liew
012 534 2022
indraneeliew@gmail.com

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