Messy Art: The Brain Building Power of Sensory Play
This blog post was written by Anna Reyner, MA, ATR, LMFT, author of Trauma Informed Art Activities for Early Childhood. Messy Art activities are one…
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10 Resources for National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month in the US/CAN. During National Adoption Month, organizations, social workers, adoption specialists, and more work to raise awareness and achieve…
Help Children and Adolescents Heal with These Resources from Dawn D’Amico
In this blog, Dawn D’Amico speaks about her inspiration for writing Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma and about her work helping…
Creating hope through action: a suicide researcher’s perspective
Creating hope through action: a suicide researcher’s perspective CONTENT WARNING – suicide is a main focus of this blogpost. In honour of World Suicide Prevention…
The Stigma Surrounding BPD – An Extract from ‘Talking About BPD’ by Rosie Cappuccino
The Stigma Surrounding BPD – An Extract from ‘Talking About BPD’ by Rosie Cappuccino Rosie Cappuccino was diagnosed with BPD in her early 20s and…
“Share it with someone”– Q&A with Confronting Shame author Ilse Sand
“Share it with someone”– Q&A with Confronting Shame author Ilse Sand Ilse Sand, the author of Confronting Shame, talks us through exactly what shame is,…
There’s No Shame in Failure: Ilse Sand’s 7 Tips for Living a Life with Less Shame
There’s No Shame in Failure: Ilse Sand’s 7 Tips For Living a Life with Less Shame In this blog post, Ilse Sand, author of Confronting…
From Hurt to Hope
From Hurt to Hope Mair Elliott reflects on the path to hopefulness, her role as a mental health advocate, and her inspiring new book ‘From…
Why do we need to look beyond ‘mental disorders’ when handling intense emotions?
Here Bridie Gallagher writes about why we need to explore beyond the ‘illness narrative’ to understand why people might feel the way they do.
What is Better Together?
Introducing our new mental health video and Q&A series… A video series from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Sheldon Press and John Murray Learning What is it?…