Assessing emotional awareness after trauma
This extract taken from Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents by Damion J. Grasso gives practical guidance to assessing and enhancing…
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.
Tips and tricks to help avoid anxiety and manage meltdowns this Christmas
Mother and son Jane and Paddy-Joe share their top tips and tricks for a stress-free holiday season. Jane and Paddy-Joe are contributors to JKP titles …
How to manage adolescent anger
Help adolescents identify the early warning signs of anger and how to express it with these practical worksheets taken from Adolescent Volcanoes by Warwick Pudney…
Helping people through the holidays.
In this blog post, John Wilson, bereavement counsellor and author of Supporting People through Loss and Grief, shares some thoughts on how grieving people can cope…
Incorporating creativity in supervision
Anna Chesner, co-author of Creative Supervision Across Modalities, explains why using creativity in supervision sessions can benefit both the supervisor and supervisee, and gives her…
How well do you know yourself?
We make assumptions about ourselves all the time, but how much do we really know? As Gillie Bolton says in the opening chapter of her…
Celebrating the launch of School Counsellors Working with Young People and Staff
Nick Luxmoore shares some pictures and stories from the launch event for his new book ‘School Counsellors Working with Young People and Staff’, and gives…
Enhancing working relationships – an extract from ‘Mindful Co-working’
In this extract from Mindful Co-working, author and training consultant Clark Baim explains how leadership teams can introduce mindful co-working practices to their organisations through leading…
‘Why Can’t My Child Behave?’ author Dr Amber Elliott on how she came to write a parenting manual for adoptive and foster parents.
Dr. Amber Elliott, author of Why Can’t My Child Behave? talks about how she became motivated to start her own company to support looked-after…
Teaser Tuesday – Developing super human positive thinking skills.
Healthy Mindsets for Super Kids, A Resilience Programme for Children Aged 7-14 by Stephanie Azri is designed to help children deal with issues such as…