Children’s Grief Awareness Week: Grief Pulls People Together
The arrival of Children’s Grief Awareness Week sees author Emmi Smid reflect on some memorable feedback to her ambitious book – Luna’s Red Hat. The beautiful…
Category: Mental health
Blog posts, articles, think-pieces and Q&A’s presented by Jessica Kingsley Publishers and associated authors on and around the subject of mental health.
How Sensitive Am I? Sensitivity Testing Can Tell You
This Sensitivity Test has been provided by Ilse Sand, author of Highly Sensitive People and The Emotional Compass. Test yourself to see how sensitive you…
Why we need to talk about pornography, now – Vanessa Rogers
Vanessa Rogers, author of We Need to Talk about Pornography discusses the impact of pornography on young people’s wellbeing and relationships at a time when…
Give children their childhood back… or we’ll be paying for years to come
Betsy de Thierry, author of The Simple Guide to Child Trauma, discusses the pressures on children and young people and how societal influences are causing…
World Mental Health Day 2016
It’s World Mental Health Day, and to celebrate the occasion we’re putting the spotlight on our new and bestselling mental health books, covering important topics…
How can parents support their child with dyslexia? – Neil Alexander-Passe
Neil Alexander- Passe, author of Dyslexia and Mental Health, talks about the different ways that parents can support their child with dyslexia who may be…
An interview with Marian Partington – author of If You Sit Very Still
Marian Partington’s sister Lucy was kidnapped by Fred and Rose West in 1973. In 1994, 21 years later, her remains were found in their basement.…
How to cope with anger in a productive way
In her book The Emotional Compass: How to Think Better about Your Feelings, Ilse Sand provides several different suggestions for how you can handle your…
A Q&A with Rosalind Bradley – author of A Matter of Life and Death
We talked to Rosalind Bradley about her new book, her motivations for writing it and her relationship with the concept of death. What motivated you to write…
What is death? And how can we help children understand it? – Marian Carter
In this extract from Helping Children and Adolescents Think about Death, Dying and Bereavement, Marian Carter draws upon her experience as a chaplain who has worked…