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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‘Contact with Nature can be immensely healing.’
Caroline Jay founded and runs the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden, a national charity which aims to promote the use of nature in helping children manage…
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…
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…
Drawing your family as animals – activity from How to Get Kids Offline, Outdoors and Connecting with Nature
In this extract, you can try several different activities based on drawing family members metaphorically. For the younger children, this may be a case of…
Attachment, schools and vulnerable children: An interview with Nicola Marshall.
Nicola Marshall is a certified coach, adoptive parent of three, and author of the newly published The Teacher’s Introduction to Attachment. We spoke to her about why…
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…
Starving our Anxiety Gremlins
Kate Collins-Donnelly; therapist, consultant, and author of Starving the Anxiety Gremlin, talks about the rise of anxiety in children. In this article, Kate discusses what can be done…
Julian Cohen on ‘All About Drugs and Young People.’ (Part 2)
In the first part of this interview, All About Drugs and Young People (Part 1), JKP author, educator and counsellor Julian Cohen shared some of the insight…
Coaching Kids to Success
Nikki Giant, founder of Full Circle Education Solutions and JKP author, explains how life coaching can be used to help support children’s well-being and aid in…