Educational Therapy in Action: Behind and Beyond the Office Door

Excellent read for Ed Therapist

Inspirational with great advice! I had gotten so many great ideas that have transformed the way I teach and inspire students who are not motivated.

Excellent and easy read. I highly recommend.

Excellent read...

This book, written by Dorothy Ungerleider, MA, BCET, founder of the Association of Educational Therapists, is a must-read for educational therapists and indeed any clinician who works with children, teens, and young adults who struggle with learning and behavioral differences. In her book, Dorothy equips the reader with important insights and information regarding the clinical aspects of educational therapy and provides the reader with opportunities to understand the complex challenges the individuals in her practice have faced. This book is a valuable resource for anyone trying to help children, teens, and young adults learn and manage life with learning disabilities.

Dorothy Ungerleider's book "Educational Therapy in Action: Behind and Beyond the Office Door", in which the reader gets an insight into the fascinating and complex world of "Educational Therapy", is truly an inspiration. For students with learning differences and their families who are struggling to cope with everyday demands of school and life, Ungerleider offers hope. This true story about Nora is very compelling and heart-warming as it takes the reader through the struggles of this young woman's life and how her educational therapist helps her overcome them to become a self-reliant and independent young woman. The book also serves as a practical guide for educational therapists and mental health professionals with plenty of explanatory notes and suggestions on the side. To an aspiring therapist, it re-affirms the faith that one person can make a difference in the life of someone with learning disabilities. This book is a must-read for all educational and therapeutic professionals interacting with persons with learning disabilities, and is a source of inspiration to people from all walks of life.

It's no secret that American schools are struggling. One possible solution lies in Educational Therapy where magic happens. If "learning" is a change in behavior, read Dorothy Fink Ungerleider's Educational Therapy in Action: it is as intimate as a diary, as practical as a cook book, as insightful as a poem, as compelling as a who-done-it. Here is explained the nuts-and-bolts of the therapeutic process from the point of view of the therapist and student.Like her previously acclaimed Reading Writing and Rage, Ungerleider's work is directed to mental health professionals, educators, and students, and is a brilliant How-To for readers wanting to understand the magical synergy that is the heart and soul of Educational Therapy.

This true story reads like a fiction thriller as you discover the relationship and trust that develops between the educational therapist and her 17 year old student, Nora. How the therapist works with Nora's disabilites and defenses is both heart warming and remarkable. The compelling vignettes of them working together thru the years is certainly "educational therapy in action." You don't have to be an educator to benefit from this wonderful journey "behind and beyond the office door."

I found the book easy to read, interesting in relation to the type of educational needs of her particular student... This is helpful to those who want to understand the complexity of educational therapy...There is, in the end, no amount of money that would suffice for a person to enter this field. The requirements are that the therapist become a duplicate of the student and live through that person for years...Having found that few are willing to pay real value of the service, this book confirms this to me...This woman was a life-saver for the girl in the therapy...and likely found her benefit mostly in emotional value, rather than financial compensation...

For those of us who do educational therapy, this book gives a refreshing picture of the possibilities in our field. It is an easy read, as it is a story about a young woman going through therapy.