Help Children and Adolescents Heal with These Resources from Dawn D’Amico
In this blog, Dawn D’Amico speaks about her inspiration for writing Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma and about her work helping…
Category: Counselling
Assessing children in the therapy room through play
Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Anxiety by Fiona Zandt and Suzanne Barrett is packed with therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and…
University Mental Health Day: Creating and supporting change in the student community
On this University Mental Health Day, we speak to Jo Smith and Sharon Mallon, authors of the new book Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide,…
Greater Self-Advocacy is Key: Unlocking Young People’s Potential for Greatness
Greater Self-Advocacy is Key: Unlocking Young People’s Potential for Greatness Educational and Child Psychologists, Dr. Leanna Lopez and Dr. Samuel Kelly, reflect on the steps…
Why do we need to look beyond ‘mental disorders’ when handling intense emotions?
Here Bridie Gallagher writes about why we need to explore beyond the ‘illness narrative’ to understand why people might feel the way they do.
Using a Framework of Hope during the Covid-19 Crisis
Hope During Covid-19; a post from JKP Religion author, Laura Shay During this Covid-19 pandemic, how do we help ourselves and the patients and the…
FREE RESOURCE: Creative Activities to Cope with Depression!
Jennifer Guest’s new activity book uses the principles of CBT as well as illustrated worksheets to help people understand and manage their symptoms of depression.…
Interview with Author Patricia Zurita Ona, Psy.D.
Can you briefly outline your history working with children and teens? My undergrad was in school psychology; I graduated in 1995 from the Catholic University…
Writing About Anxiety and how it makes you REALLY anxious.
Sue Knowles and Bridie Gallagher are both Clinical Psychologists and alongside Phoebe McEwen, a college student who has experienced anxiety herself, wrote ‘The Anxiety Survival…
Counselling Gentleman Jack – therapist Sam Hope considers Anne Lister
The author of Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide imagines what it would be like to counsel Anne Lister, the…