In talking to a client's teachers, I was wondering if Bromfield ask the child's permission/consent to call them. Does the child consent to the therapist sitting in on these all-school meetings? (I understand that if the therapist directly works for the school, this may have a different look to it). The Boyd-Webb talks about the need to have parental written permission, and I am wondering if asking the child for consent as well is age specific, and if so, at what age it would be appropriate to begin asking. Is middle school the right time?
Beyond these questions, I thought his advice about how to engage teachers and to take more of a listening and understanding role made sense. A school is a very complex environment with a lot of competing demands and dynamics going on at once, so seeing the child both for themselves and as a function of being a person-in-the-environment of the school eco-system is common sense (though much, much harder to tease out in practice).