It takes up five days a week and there are all the pressures of schoolwork, homework, making friends and taking exams. It can seem scary. But we all have bad days (even if we don’t show it!) and on the whole, school is great with…
Category: Mental Health
Heads Up! A toolkit of sessions to run with young people to promote mental health & emotional well-being
Promoting emotional well-being should be at the heart of all work with young people. The sessions in this toolkit aim to: • Build resilience in young people so that they are better equipped to deal with the challenges that come their way • Raise awareness…
Post-natal Depression Self Help Workbook: Gaining control of your life after having a baby
This book is for women who have mild to moderate depression before or after having their baby, or if they are recovering from an episode of severe depression associated with pregnancy. It could also be useful if you are supporting someone with depression. This workbook…
When can we go home? An activity book for kids who’ve had to leave their homes
Children have to leave their homes for many reasons. Natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, can uproot hundreds of thousands of children in just a few days. Many other children become homeless in less dramatic ways. For financial or other family reasons, children may find themselves…
Big Feelings Come and Go Storybook
This storybook teaches kids about freeze, flight and fight and helps them learn some basic self-regulation skills. Understanding freeze, flight and fight can allow for new conversations about how your child feels and what to do to help them manage their big feelings. Click here…
Meet Mr Ant: Anger Management Programme for Children
The Program is organised as a Teaching and Learning Kit, comprised of: Picture Video Book: Meet Mr Angry Ant! Teacher Program & Guide: with full teaching/learning program notes, background information, suggested activity sequence, Activity Cards and handouts, and other Print Masters The “Meet Mr Angry…
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Young Person’s Self Help Guide
This booklet will help young people to think about some of their worries, and explain how you they begin to stop feeling like they have to do something or act in a certain way to make the worry go away (stop the bad ‘thing’ from happening)….
Anger Management For Dummies (book)
The book guides readers through ways to recognise and deal with the underlying causes of anger at work, in relationships and in their personal life – and teaches them how to stay positive in spite of all the stresses and strains life throws their way….
Someone in my family has mental illness (workbook for children/teens)
This workbook is for children where a family member has a mental illness. Click here to view/download THE WORKBOOK IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS: SECTION ONE contains a general discussion about the concept of mental illness for children who may never have discussed this topic. SECTION TWO…
What Is Complex Trauma: A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them
The booklet offers information about complex trauma, how it can impact youth, both good and harmful coping strategies, and ways to improve. This guide is for youth who have experienced complex trauma or who know someone who has. Clinicians, caregivers, and other adults can also…
Rosie Remembers Mommy: Forever in Her Heart (Storybook about death)
Rosie Remembers Mommy: Forever in Her Heart is a beautiflly illustrated book which tells a story of a young girl who is struggling after the death of her mother. We follow Rosie as she expresses wishes to see her mom, feels reluctant about school, finds no…
Ready to Remember: Jeremy’s Journey of Hope and Healing (Storybook about death)
Ready to Remember is a beautifully illustrated book which tells a story of a 10-year-old boy following the tragic death of his father. Jeremy has reactions to traumatic reminders, and he struggles at school and at home. Developed for the school-age reader, with a caregiver…
The Anxiety Workbook For Teens: Activities to Help You Deal With Anxiety & Worry
This 186-page workbook is a fantastic resource containing many exercises and activities designed to help teens think about the patterns of their anxiety and the circumstances around it. This is followed by a lot of practical advice on how to change their habits and boost…
Relax like a cat: Relaxation Exercise for Children
Relax like a cat is a colourful booklet for younger children to practice controlled breathing and muscle relaxation. Long, deep controlled breaths slow down the breathing rate and help children to relax. Muscle relaxation involves practicing tensing and relaxing different muscles in the body. This…
Self Harm – Distraction Techniques & Alternative Coping Strategies
Below are several booklets which outline distraction techniques and alternative coping strategies to self-harm. View/download View/download View/download View/download View/download
Parenting Positively – Helping Teenagers To Cope With Death booklet
This booklet provides guidance to parents in helping their teenage children cope with the death of a loved one. Contents: Teenage reactions to death Parenting a bereaved teenager My teenager has been bereaved: What can I do to help? Frequently Asked Questions Finding Help Useful…
Calm Harm – Mobile App to manage self-harming
Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm and it’s completely private and password protected. What does it do? The four categories of tasks target the main reasons for why people self harm: Distract helps to combat the urge by…
Abuse: Self-help guide for adults physically, emotionally or sexually abuse as children
This booklet is written by people who have experienced abuse, and by psychologists and others who work with them to try and help them overcome the effects of what has happened. It aims to help readers to begin to: Understand the effects of childhood abuse,…
A Self Help Guide to Controlling Anger booklet for adults
This 24-page booklet contains information and worksheets helping readers: Recognise whether they may be experiencing anger problems. Understand what anger is, what causes it and what keeps it going. Find ways to understand, manage or overcome their anger. Click here to view/download
Coping with self-harm: A Guide for Parents and Carers
The guide provides information for parents and families about self-harm and its causes and effects. It is based on current research on self-harm and on the interviews with parents whose children self-harmed. It contains quotes from them with advice for other parents as well as…
After a Loved One Dies – How children grieve & how they can be supported (booklet)
Because children and teens understand death differently from adults, their reactions may be different. Some of the things they say or do may seem puzzling. This guide reviews how children grieve and how parents and other caring adults can help them understand death better. It…
Getting along: How anger works & Keeping cool – A group program for aggression control (young people)
You may find this resource helpful if you are setting up a group to teach young people skills needed for aggression control. The resource outlines 8 group sessions which cover the following topics: Introduction to program Overview how anger works Identifying anger trigger & behavioural…
Keeping your cool: Advice for parents on managing stress and anger booklet
This booklet helps parents identify the stress and anger points in their life that may get in the way of good parenting, and encourage them to find ways of coping with these. It will also help them to think more carefully about your child’s feelings….
Think Good – Feel Good A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for Children and Young People
A workbook which covers the core elements used in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy programmes but conveys these ideas to children and young people in an understandable way and uses real life examples familiar to them. The practical series of exercises and worksheets introduce concepts that can…
The Flying Dream: Storybook about parental dual diagnosis
This beautifully illustrated book assists children aged 8 – 12 with parental dual diagnosis (mental illness/substance abuse) and transition towards understanding and acceptance. Click here to view/download
The Blue Polar Bear: Storybook about parental dual diagnosis
This beautifully illustrated book is for children 5-7 years. Its aim is to help workers, carers and parents to introduce the issues of parental dual diagnosis (mental illness and substance misuse), explore concerns and encourage positive coping and help-seeking behaviours. Click here to view/download
TF-CBT Triangle of Life – Mobile game app
This free app, which is based on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, has been designed to support traumatised children (aged 8-12) to heal by helping them better understand their thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and move toward a better quality of life. During this novel game, the…
Managing Depression – A Facilitator’s Guide for Women Living with Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond – Facilitator’s Guide
This guide is a companion document to Managing Depression: A Self-help Skills Resource for women Living with Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond. The facilitator’s guide provides a weekly agenda and activities to facilitate 5 group sessions for women living with depression based on…
Managing Depression – A Self-help Skills Resource for Women Living With Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond – Workbook
This workbook is for women living with depression during pregnancy, after delivery and beyond, and their clinicians or service providers. It provides information about depression and healthy lifestyle behaviours, and skills for managing depression. Concerned partners, family members or friends may also find this resource…
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Training Workbook: Learning more about low mood, stress, anxiety and how CBT can help you
This workbook has been designed to be used either as self-help, or in conjunction with attending a CBT Skills Training Workshop. The aim of this workbook is to introduce service users to a number of tools that will help them build up their own “tool…