Principles of Psychodynamic theory
- Educational process should be less repressive, more facilitative of emotional expression, and moe sensitive to crises experienced by children.
- The adult as a key component must be able to do things with competence and assurance and must bea person who is able to give and receive affection, to live relaxed and to be firm.
The Life Space Interview is one of the seven specific educational applications of psychodynamic theory.
It is a direct intervention technique that focuses on the student. It is a part of a therapeutic milleu for students with emotional- behavioral disorder (EBD).
Components of Life Space Interview
- Emotional first aid on the spot: Drain-off of frustration acidity support for management of panic umpire services.
- Clinical-exploitation of life events: Reality rub-in, massaging numb areas
Practices: The interview is conducted by an adult who is perceived by the child to be part of his "natural habitat" or life space, with some pretty clear role and power-influence in his daily living (Redl, 1959).
The adult role is not to exercise authority but to gain an idea of the child's perception of a given event.
WHY IT IS HELPFUL AND USEFUL?
Life Space Interview is student-centered and practices both the student's listening and social-speaking skills.
Both teachers from public and private schools must incorporate LSI in between class sessions with their students. Especially in the public school setting where most teachers are less mindful of the students' emotional crises.. Teachers themselves must take initiative to monitor the classroom behavior of a child, before consulting it to a professional psychiatrist or a specialist. Since specialists need both anecdotal and systematic observations from the classroom in order to modify the intervention effectively.
Also the teacher must maintain contact with the specialist for there is no substitute for the information a teacher can glean from observing the child on a daily basis in the classroom.
