“That’s So Nice of You to Say”: Teaching Kids How to Receive Compliments
By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. As a therapist, I have talked…
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“May I Please” and “No Can Do”: Guidelines for Kids on Making and Refusing Requests
By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. Do you know a child who…
Anger Between Friends: A Seven Year-Old’s Journey toward Assertive Emotional Expression
By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. It’s one thing to write about…
Decisions, Decisions: Helping Kids Make Constructive Choices for Expressing Anger
By Signe Whitson, author of How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens. Pack lunch or buy it? Headband…
JKP author Mary Mountstephen meets with educators and students in Kuala Lumpur
This Spring, JKP author Mary Mountstephen was invited to Singapore and Malaysia to give a presentation based on her book, How to Detect Developmental Delay…
What Teachers Need to Know about Asperger Syndrome – An Interview with Matt Winter and Clare Lawrence
“…I just could not believe how much information I had to read through to gain useful approaches for working with children in the education setting. I just knew that during my time as a classroom teacher I would never have had the luxury of completing this much reading for just one of my students and I became determined to distil down what I had learnt into a quick access guide for teachers.”
JKP Wins Gold at the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards
We are thrilled to announce that JKP has won several medals in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, including two Gold medals! Darold A. Treffert’s Islands…
Social Skills, Emotional Growth and Drama Therapy – An Interview with Dr Lee Chasen
“Drama and theatre has historically been portrayed as a mirror to the human condition, raising questions and reflecting aspects of how we understand and relate to ourselves and each other. By holding the mirror of drama up to the mirror of social skills building neuron activity, we illuminate previously obscured angles, empowering a practical as well as metaphorical peripheral vision of sorts.”
Geoff Platt, PhD on Beating Dyspraxia with a Hop, Skip and a Jump
Geoff Platt, PhD, has worked as a lecturer in Sport Science for ten years, most recently working as a senior lecturer and course director in…
VIDEO: Red Balloon authors share passages from their new book, ‘Rising Above Bullying’
In these videos, authors Dr Carrie Herbert and Rosemary Hayes read from their new book, Rising Above Bullying: From Despair to Recovery, which tells the stories…