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…
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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…
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…
The realities of adoption – an extract from ‘No Matter What.’
In this extract from the inspirational adoption memoir, No Matter What, author Sally Donovan shares the reality of parenting children who have experienced abuse and…