Helping young people to build a positive body image
Check out this free activity from bestselling author Kate Collins-Donnelly’s upcoming book Banish Your Body Image Thief. This activity will help young people to be…
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.
Encourage young people to build healthy self-esteem
Check out this free activity, taken from bestselling author Kate Collins-Donnelly’s forthcoming book Banish Your Self-Esteem Thief. The activity will help young people understand more…
Why helping traumatised children find the right words is so important.
Jane Evans, trauma parenting specialist and author of How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear? writes about the importance of helping children who have experienced domestic abuse…
Breaking the final taboo – a talk with Dying Matters.
Final Chapters: Writings About the End of Life is a moving collection of short stories and poetry pieces originally written for a competition run by the…
Adopting a balanced view
Child and family psychologist and JKP author of the bestselling A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder, Colby Pearce, on maintaining a balanced view…
The Inspiration behind ‘How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear?’
Trauma Parenting Specialist and author of How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear? Jane Evans explains the inspiration behind the book. Why I wrote How Are You…
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…
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…