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The titles in this extraordinary series by Margot Each guidebook includes what children themselves
Sunderland and Nicky Armstrong are a vital resource for anyone have said about what it is like for them; how they have coped
working in child mental health. Nine practical guidebooks, each with the feeling in ways which cause harm to self or others, and
with an accompanying beautifully illustrated storybook, have the consequences of that, and how they could have coped well.
been written to help children (aged 4-12 years) think about and The guides are specifically designed to help a child think about,
connect with their feelings. The guides and stories enable child express and process the feeling to the point of resolution.
professionals and teachers to work with a child to resolve a Exercises help children find creative, imaginative and playful
particular issue that may be worrying them, whether it's being a ways to communicate their feelings and enable child
bully, rage, the loss of a loved one or anxiety. The books are also professionals to recognize the unresolved feeling behind the
an extremely effective communication tool for parents to use behaviour and to respond correctly to help the child work
with their children. Each guidebook focuses on a key feeling through that feeling. This mental health series focuses on key
and is written in very user-friendly language, covering the most feelings and relevant psychotherapeutic and neurobiological
relevant psychotherapeutic and neurobiological theories for that responses. Exercises, tasks, and ideas are designed to help
feeling. children think about, express, and process feelings to resolution.
Helping Children With Fear Guidebook $49.95 Helping Children Who Yearn for Someone They Love $39.95
This is for children who worry a lot, are anxious, experience the world This guidebook is for working with children who are missing someone
as unsafe, suffer from nightmares, phobias, or obsessions, are scared to too much or suffer from separation anxiety, are obsessed with their
tell anyone they’re scared, feel loneliness, feel insignificant in a world of absent parent, yearn for a parent who has died, seems unreachable even
adult giants, feel defeated by life or need help in being assertive, or feel if they are right there (is loving one minute and cold, abusive, or
so impotent that their only way to feel any potency is to be mute. indifferent the next), or yearn because they have been placed in care,
Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World Storybook $19.95 fostered, or adopted.
One day Teenie Weenie finds himself in a screechy scary place. The The Frog Who Longed For the Moon To Smile $19.95
worse it gets, the smaller Teenie Weenie feels. Teenie Weenie feels Frog is in love with the moon because she once smiled at him. So now
terrified and desperately alone. But after a while a Wip-Wop bird and he spends all his time dreaming about her. He waits and waits for her to
his friend Hoggie help Teenie Weenie find to learn about the power of smile at him again. One day a wise and friendly crow helps frog to see
together. And so after that, whenever Teenie Weenie finds himself how he is wasting his life away. All the time he has been facing the
struggling alone with something too difficult or too frightening, he goes place of very little, he’s had his back to the place of plenty.
off and finds some together.
Helping Children Locked in Rage or Hate $49.95
Helping Children With Low Self Esteem $49.95 A guidebook to help children who hurt, hit, bite, smash, kick, shout,
This is to help children who don't like themselves or feel there is scream, are out of control, hyper-aroused or hyperactive, can only
something wrong with them, have been deeply shamed, have received discharge their angry feelings in verbal or physical attacks, are angry
too much criticism or haven't been encouraged enough, let people treat because it is easier than feeling hurt or sad, are enraged because of
them badly because they feel they don't deserve better, do not accept sibling rivalry, are controlling and punitive, defy authority, are conduct
praise or appreciation because they feel they don't deserve it, feel disordered, are cruel, hurt animals or do not cry any more, spoil, damage
defeated by life, fundamentally unimportant, unwanted or unlovable, or destroy what others do or make, make others fearful, cannot trust,
bully because they think they are worthless or think they are worthless have stopped looking for love or approval, do not know how to ‘like’ or
because they are bullied, or feel they don't belong or do not seek friends love someone, or are affectionate only if they want something.
because they think no-one would want to be their friend How Hattie Hated Kindness Storybook $19.95
Ruby and the Rubbish Bin Storybook $19.95 Hattie lives by herself on an island. She likes anything hard and spiky.
Ruby hates herself so much that she often feels more like a piece of Many people try to bring kindness to Hattie on her island, but each time
rubbish than a little girl. Children at school bully her. Sometimes Ruby she is very horrid to them, smashing and spoiling everything they try to
feels so miserable she wants to sleep and never wake up again. Then do for her. After awhile they all stop coming. Hattie is very alone, and
Ruby meets Dot the lunchtime lady who helps Ruby move from self- tries to figure out why she hates love and loves hate. She thinks it must
hate to self-respect. After a very important dream, and help from Dot, be because she is a very bad girl. The water lapping over her feet helps
Ruby finds her voice and her anger, and stands up to bullies. She makes her understand her sadness in a too-hard world; she has become hard
new friends and knows what it’s like to feel happy. too, so that the awful fear and pain could go away. In the end, Hattie
builds a bridge to the warm and cozy world across the water.
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Helping Children With Feelings Series from ODIN BOOKS
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Helping Children Who Have Hardened Their
Helping Children Pursue their Hopes $39.95
This guidebook is for working with children who have been given too Hearts or Become Bullies $39.95
little encouragement to follow their hopes and dreams, are too A guidebook to help children who bully or take revenge on others for
despondent or defeated to go after their hopes or dreams, are too busy the pain they have felt themselves; have become very defensive because
surviving so hopes and dreams are a luxury they cannot afford, think something too painful has happened to them; have hardened their hearts
that hopes and dreams are just for other people, don’t follow their because they have been too hurt in love, met with too much harshness,
dreams because they are too afraid of failing, follow someone else’s star, witnessed parental violence, been repeatedly hit, been shamed or
or only dream small for themselves for fear of being too big. humiliated, or had too many experiences of not being responded to;
think they have lost their parent’s love to someone else and have
A Pea Called Mildred Storybook $19.95 hardened their heart.
Mildred us a pea with dreams. She has great plans for her pea life.
However, people are always telling her that dreams are pointless as she Wibble Called Bipley (and a Few Honks) Story $19.95
is just another ordinary pea. Eventually, with the help of a kind person Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but the trouble is someone has broken
along the way, Mildred ends up doing exactly what she has always his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides it is just too painful to ever
dreamed of doing. love again. When he meets some big tough Honks (Bullies) in the
woods, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn’t have to
feel hurt anymore. Luckily Bipley meets some creatures who teach him
how he can protect himself without hardening his heart.
Helping Children Who Bottle Up Their Feelings $39.95 Helping Children With Loss $49.95
This guidebook is for working with children who are trying to manage This guidebook is to help children who are suffering from the pain of
their too painful feelings by themselves, do not let themselves cry, loss or separation from someone or something they love deeply, have
protest or say that they are scared, are living with too many unresolved had a parent, relative or important friend leave or die, are obsessed with
painful emotions from the past, have had disturbing, overwhelming or their absent parent, have lost someone, but have never mourned, are
confusing experiences, which they have been unable to think through or trying to manage painful feelings, feel that they have lost the love of
feel through properly, are full of unexpressed feelings because someone they love deeply, are suffering from separation anxiety, or are
expressing them feels far too dangerous are full of unresolved grief adopted or fostered children who miss their birth parent terribly
A Nifflenoo Called Nevermind Storybook $19.95 Day The Sea Went Out & Never Came Back $19.95
Each time something horrible happens to him he is very brave and Eric is a sand dragon who loves the sea very much. Each day, he
simply says “never mind.” He meets with all kinds of setbacks, bullying watches it going out and coming back. One day, the sea goes out and
and disappointments but each time he just tucks his feelings away and does not come back. In terrible pain, he feels as if he has lost everything.
carries on with life. Find out what happens to Nifflenoo and how he After many bleak days, Eric sees a dying wildflower. Eric finds water
begins to understand that his feelings do matter and learns how to both and saves it. More and more flowers appear and he starts to make a
express his feelings and stand up for himself. beautiful rock pool garden. As he does, he feels the full pain of his loss
instead of closing his heart. He realizes that his memories of his precious
sea are a special kind of treasure he will never lose.
Helping Children Who Are Anxious Or Obsessional $39.95
This guidebook is for working with children who are insecure or worry
too much, suffer from phobias or nightmares, find it difficult to
concentrate to let go and have fun, have suffered a trauma, are too good
or seem like small adults, use order and routine as a way of coping with
messy feelings, retreat into dullness as a way of managing their being in
the world, or develop obsessive-compulsive behaviour in order to ward
off their too-powerful feelings.
Willy & The Wobbly House Storybook $19.95
Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe,
wobbly place where anything awful might happen at any time. How, the
boy next door, is too ordered and tidy to be able to ever really enjoy life.
Follow their adventures with the Puddle People who help them break out
of their fixed patterns and find far richer way to living.
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