The extraordinary projects making mental health a key player in the school day
Jenny Hulme, author of The School of Wellbeing, discusses her new book and the projects she’s explored that support students’ emotional wellbeing. At a time…
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Anti Bullying Week: Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing – Pooky Knightsmith
Poetry can prove a great way into difficult conversations in therapeutic, classroom or family settings. In this chapter from Using Poetry to Promote Talking and…
Anti Bullying Week: What role can teachers play in building a better school community? – Pete Wallis
When writing the text for What are you staring at?, a graphic novel about restorative justice in a school setting, I couldn’t resist taking a…
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…
Why does someone with Asperger’s syndrome become depressed? Read the first chapter from Tony Attwood & Michelle Garnett’s new book
People with Asperger’s syndrome are at greater risk of becoming depressed for a number of reasons that leave them with a tendency to isolate themselves.…
Restorative schools are kinder schools – Bill Hansberry
In this article, Bill Hansberry reflects upon his new book to discuss the importance of restorative justice as a constructive approach to conflict resolution in schools…
FIXING A MAJOR GAP IN CLINICAL AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
Clinical and counseling psychology have, in many ways, become rather superficial over the past several decades. With their emphases on manualized treatment, homework assignments and…
Explaining depression to children with Celeste
Liza Stevens, author and illustrator of Not Today, Celeste, shares her experience putting together this heartwarming story of a dog and her depressed human, which reflects…
Pooky Knightsmith: Three good reasons to write bad poetry
You don’t need to be a poet to write poetry, and you don’t need to write ‘good’ poetry to get a lot out of it. …
Download a therapeutic resource from Pooky Knightsmith’s new book ‘Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing’
There are five poems in this extract from Pooky Knightsmith’s new book Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing. Each poem, written by Pooky, is…