Trisha Waters

Contact details

Telephone: - 01243 812056

Location:- Room S1, St Michael's, Bognor Regis Campus

Role

Trisha is a Senior lecturer in Special Educational Needs

Experience

Trisha worked for 18 years in mainstream and special education as a classteacher, SENCO and senior manager.  She is also a trained counsellor and educational therapist.  Before joining Chichester in 2004, Trisha worked as an independent educational consultant, leading SEN projects for the South-East Region SEN (SERSEN) partnership and providing SEN consultancy to SENCOs and senior managers in mainstream and special schools.  She developed the innovative Therapeutic Storywriting Groups model now used in many schools around the country and recently directed the 20-month Story Links parent partnership project, funded by the TDA and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.  Trisha has written widely on therapeutic education and recently submitted a PhD by publication on the use of Therapeutic Storywriting to support pupils with BESDs.

Interests

Trisha’s area of interest is inclusion and the support for pupils with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.  She is particularly interested in developing therapeutic teaching programmes that support pupils’ emotional well-being while also developing their literacy skills.

Recent Publications

2010 Chapter: Story Links: Therapeutic Storywriting with Parents and Pupils at Risk of Exclusion. in Adelizzi, J. & Ficksman, M. (eds) The Dynamics of Educational Therapy.  New York: Routledge

2009 (report) An evaluation of the impact of the Story Links parent-partnership intervention in supporting pupils at risk of exclusion. University of Chichester

2008 The Use of Therapeutic Storywriting Groups to Support Pupils with Emotional Difficulties.  British Journal of Learning Support Vol 23, No 4 pp 187-182

2004a (sole-author book) Therapeutic Storywriting: A Practical Guide to Developing Emotional Literacy in Primary Schools. London: David Fulton

2004b  (report) Writing Stories with Feeling: An Evaluation of the Impact of Therapeutic Storywriting Groups on Pupils’ Learning, Kingston-upon-Thames:  SERSEN

2004c Therapeutic Storywriting in the Junior School. Educational Therapy and Therapeutic Teaching Issue 13, pp 62-66