The Feelings Tree – helping children talk about emotions
The holidays are often filled with an assortment of powerful emotions, for both children and adults. This can be related to loss or upheaval in…
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Catching up with Ann Andrews – inspirational author of Positively Parkinson’s
Ann Andrews worked as a television and theatre producer, researcher, teacher and crisis counsellor. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in her fifties, and went on…
Helping a Child with Autism Handle Halloween
Walking around the shops in October it is impossible to escape the ghoulish Halloween theme. The supermarkets are full of masks, deathly hands and creepy…
Browse our latest collection of books for adoptive and foster parents.
Here are our new and bestselling titles for adoptive and foster parents, or those thinking of adopting or fostering. For more information on any of…
On the value of writing with traumatised young people – with Marion Baraitser
Marion Baraitser demonstrates the power of writing with traumatised children and young people. Marion’s book ‘Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and…
Changing Offending Behaviour
Changing Offending Behaviour is a one-stop resource of practical exercises for professionals to use in direct work with offenders aged 16+, written by Clark Baim and Lydia…
Listening skills for busy school staff – An interview with Nick Luxmoore
Nick Luxmoore is a school counsellor, trainer, teacher, youth worker and UKCP registered Psychodrama psychotherapist. He has over 35 years’ experience of work with young people…
Special Educational Needs and Pastoral Education Autumn 2014
Browse our latest collection of titles in special educational needs and pastoral education. For more information on any of the books inside, simply click the title…
Reconnecting, establishing safety, empowerment with humour – extract from ‘Unpack my Heart with Words’ By Marion Baraitser
In this extract, Marion Baraitser provides activities for both younger and older children in order to explore their feelings of safety and the importance of…
Read an extract of Talk to Me, Conversation Strategies for Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum or with Speech and Language Impairments
In this extract from Talk to Me author Heather Jones discusses how she first got her son Jamie to begin engaging in conversation at the…