ng with Trauma, Mental Health, Illness and Other Complex Challenges
The diverse challenges that clinicians and children's workers tasked with safeguarding babies and young children face are complex, and this unique book looks at effective, practice-based and evidence-informed approaches to working across a wide range of issues.
It outlines relevant theory and good practice, ......
Bringing together the stories and experiences of LGBT+ parents as well as professionals in the field, this guide explains what healthcare and birth workers can do to improve care for their clients. It broadens the ability to understand those who birth and parent beyond the heteronormative and cisgender binary. Covering topics such as LGBT+ and ......
This evidence-based guide for professionals covers essential information to help support parents breastfeeding past the first six months, including starting solids alongside breastfeeding, nursing manners, and common problems and challenges. The recommendation of breastfeeding beyond six months is well-established, but many birth professionals ......
"I yelled at the kids again--and feel so ashamed." "I barely have time to shower, let alone exercise; no wonder I'm so out of shape." "I'm just not the dad I hoped I would be." Parenting is hard. That's why self-compassion is so important. In this empathic resource, mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps parents let go of ......
How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
Todays parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security.
Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment
This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child--parent psychotherapy promotes the child's emotional health and builds the parent's capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when stress and trauma have disrupted the quality of ......
A Therapeutic Story With Creative Activities to Help Children Aged 5-10 to Regulate Their Emotions and to Find Calm
Like all dogs, Presley the Pug loves to play, run, and snuggle up under his warm blanket. But sometimes, Presley gets gets so excited that his feelings take over. Sometimes it's anger, sometimes stress, sometimes worry. He doesn't know how to calm down! What can Presley do when he feels like this? Luckily Presley's canine friends are nearby ......
The story of Presley the Pug has been written to support children aged 5-10 and the adults around them, in learning about emotional regulation and finding their inner safe space and sense of calm and relaxation.
A Therapeutic Story with Activities for Children Aged 5-10
This activity book features a colourful illustrated therapeutic story about Ollie the Octopus, with a focus on Ollie coming to terms with the loss of his mum. This is followed by creative activities and photocopiable worksheets for children to explore issues relating to loss, grief, and bereavement, and how to find ways to cope with them.
