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…
Brothers, Sisters, and Autism: A Parent’s Guide
Brothers, Sisters, and Autism: A Parent’s Guide addresses topics that range from dealing with perceived discrepancies in fairness to facilitating a positive relationship between siblings. The topics addressed in this resource include: • Strategies and resources to help teach your children about their sibling with autism…
Life as an Autism Sibling: A Guide for Teens
Life as an Autism Sibling: A Guide for Teens is written in a Q&A format. It addresses the challenges that teenage siblings might face as a result of having a brother or sister with autism, while also providing tips and advice on how to deal with…
Autism, My Sibling, and Me – colorful workbook (for young sibling)
Autism, My Sibling, and Me is a colorful workbook specifically designed to engage young children. A host of cartoon characters accompany children as they learn about what autism means for their brother or sister. The resource also aims to guide young siblings through any autism-related questions…
‘Say it your own way’: 40+ worksheets facilitating children’s participation in assessment
A great compilation of 40+ engaging worksheets facilitating children’s participation in an assessment of them. The worksheets help workers to ascertain children’s daily routine, likes, dislikes, feelings, wishes as well as their views on their family, friends, helpers, home, neighbourhood, school etc. The booklet also…
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…
Pre-Birth Assessment Tool
This Pre-Birth Assessment Tool is designed to help professionals to carefully consider a range of issues in relation to the mother’s pregnancy and the family’s circumstances and to tease out issues that have potential for having a significant negative impact on the child. The tool draws…
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
Helping teenagers to cope with bullying: Booklet for parents/carers
This booklet is for parents of teenagers who may be experiencing or be involved in bullying. It will help them to: • Know the tell-tale signs of bullying. • Understand the effects of bullying – short term and long term. • Find ways to support…
Coping with Bullying: Booklet for PARENTS of children between 6 and 12
This booklet is for parents of children aged 6 to 12 years who are being bullied and for parents of children who are bullying others. It gives information on the reasons behind bullying and how they can help their child if they are being bullied…
Coping with Bullying: Booklet for CHILDREN aged 6 to 12
A colourful booklet to be read by children to help them understand, cope with and prevent being bullied. It covers the following topics: What is bullying? How might bullying make me feel? Why do some children bully? I am being bullied. What can I do?…
Children and Domestic Violence Fact Sheet Series
A set of 10 fact sheets created for parents whose children have been affected by domestic violence. The sheets cover the following topics: How Does Domestic Violence Affect Children? Celebrating Your Child’s Strengths Before You Talk to Your Children: How Your Feelings Matter Listening and…
‘Animal talk’ activity: Using animal pictures to get to know children and discuss their views and feelings
The tool contains 24 pictures of various animals and suggestions how they can be used to get to know children and discuss their views and feelings in an interactive and fun way. Click here to view/download the tool as a pdf file Click here to view/download…
Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure: Storybook for pre-schoolers about online safety
Little Bird’s Internet Security Adventure is a beautifully illustrated storybook for pre-school children designed to help parents initiate conversations about Internet safety in an age-appropriate manner. Click here to view/download
Neglect Matters: What you need to know about neglect; a guide for parents, carers and professionals (booklet)
This guide informs parents and carers about: 1) What neglect is 2) What children and young people need 3) How to recognise neglect (signs and symptoms) 4) The consequences of neglect 5) Where to go for help. Click here to view/download
Neglect matters: A guide for young people about neglect
Guide for 11–17 year-olds which tells young people what neglect is, how to recognise it, who they can turn to for help. Click here to view/download
Advice to Parents and Carers Keeping Children and Young People Safe from Radicalisation and Extremism (booklet)
This 10-page booklet provides advice to parents and carers on how to recognise signs of radicalisation and what steps they can take to protect their child. Content: Why are young people drawn toward extremist ideologies? What is Prevent? What vulnerabilities are radicalisers looking to exploit?…
Keeping Children and Young People Safe from Radicalisation and Extremism: Advice for Parents and Carers (booklet)
This 8-page leaflet aims to help parents and carers recognise when their child may be at risk from radicalisation and where to get help if they are worried. Content: What is radicalisation and extremism? Why do young people become radicalised? How are young people radicalised?…
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…
Child Protection: Consultation with children toolkit
This beautifully illustrated guide describes various interactive techniques which social workers can use to engage children in a child protection process. The booklet not only provides various tips on activities which can be used but also contains a range of tools which professionals can print out. Contents: 1….
Getting to know a child’s routine activity tool
This tool supports social workers to gain an understanding of a child’s or young person’s daily routine in an engaging way. The document contains 40+ individual slips with various activities/feelings which a child is asked to sort out into three piles – every day, sometimes…
Living with a drug user: a booklet for the parents of drug users
A comprehensive 53 page booklet tackling in depth the many questions parents have when they find out a child is using drugs. This is an excellent resource for all parents of drug users and provides the tools needed to cope with most situations. It also…
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…
Learning how to parent by videos
Hundreds of very well done and easy to follow video guides on how to parent and carry out various daily tasks in relation to children of all ages. They cover topics ranging from how to care for newborns to how to deal with teenage unwanted…
Parenting in Pictures guides – babies, children & teens, pregnancy, food & nutrition
Free beautifully illustrated, step-by-step guides for parents which teach them how to carry out daily care tasks for their children of all ages. Topics include hygiene, feeding, bonding, toilet training, dietary guidelines, first aid and other. Link to Raising Children website to view/download Links to…
Duluth Using Children Post Separation Power and Control Wheel
The wheel depicts the commonplace tactics which perpetrators of domestic abuse use to continue their abuse during the post-separation period. The wheel especially focuses on how children are involved in the post-separation abuse and how they are affected by it. A description of the wheel can…