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Adrian Ward introduces this lecture as follows;

In the middle of the summer of 2011, an extraordinary whirlwind of public disorder swept briefly through London and a number of other English towns and cities. These ‘riots’ were apparently triggered by conflict in Tottenham between police and the friends and relatives of a young man who had been shot dead by police, although many questions were left unanswered as to what else may have contributed to the rapid rise and fall of this disorder, either in terms of broader social and political discontent, or in terms of the psychology of crowd and individual behaviour.
In this paper I want to promote debate about the extent to which these ‘English riots’ may have been an expression of the antisocial tendency, and the extent to which they may have expressed other aspects of societal anxiety about order and disorder.

This paper, written by Peter Wilson, Consultant Psychotherapist and Clinical Advisor to The Place2Be, is included on the site as a PDF document.

This paper was given to a conference organised by the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care. Richard Rollinson qualified in Social Work at Oxford in 1983 and, in July 2011, became Executive Director of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust.

This paper was written for the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the Mulberry Bush School, and presented at the Community Housing and Therapy Conference ‘therapeutic environments’ held in London, December 2008. The paper explores some historical influences on the development of the school and how these have shaped the evolution of the relationship between the theory and practice of the therapeutic task.

This paper explores the opportunities for therapeutic communication with children and young people in daily living settings such as residential homes and schools and family centres.