“The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Build Confidence & Achieve Your Goals” is a practical guidebook designed to help teenagers build their self-esteem and develop a positive self-image. The book includes a variety of activities that help teens recognise their worth and…
Category: Individual work
Family Mobile Phone Agreement
This document is designed to help parents and carers establish guidelines for their children on how to use their mobile phones responsibly and safely. As a child takes on the exciting new responsibility of owning a mobile phone, it is crucial that they understand the…
Parent’s Guide to Talking to Children About Alcohol and Drugs
This guide is aimed at parents, guardians and others who care for children. It can help them to understand the risks related to alcohol and drug use in teenagers. It offers you practical advice on how to tackle issues that may arise. It also gives…
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger presents a clear and effective approach to helping children and adults alike understand and deal constructively with children’s anger. Using easy to understand yet rarely taught skills for anger management, including how to teach communication of…
Safety Planning with Children & Youth: Domestic Abuse
CONTENTS: • ‘My safety plan’ template (for older children) • ‘My safety plan’ template for younger children • Guidance: developing a safety plan with children • Other free ‘domestic abuse resources’ for children and young people • Appendix: Print out – sample scripts for safety…
Three Islands Activity guidance, template & record sheets
‘Three islands’ is a fun direct work activity which enabels social workers and other practitioners to establish what and who children they work with like and what or who they don’t like or are worried about. The child is asked to draw a picture of…
“My child is…” parent questionnaire
A one-page sheet for parents to fill in to reflect on their experience as a parent. Click here to view/download
Dealing with Trauma: A TF-CBT Workbook for Teens
This workbook has been developed for use with teenagers who experienced one or more traumatic events. The activities in the workbook correspond to the treatment components of the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) model, which was developed by Judith Cohen, Anthony Mannarino, and Esther Deblinger…
Promoting Emotional Resilience in Children: A Resource Pack
This pack is designed to provide useful information and materials on the subject of promoting resilience with the aim of promoting activity in this important area. It is not intended as a course on resilience, but a range of activities which can address various issues,…
Child and Youth Participation Toolkit (wishes/feelings direct work worksheets/activities)
This is a great resource (developed by Tusla Child and Family Agency) containing many ready-to-print out worksheets for children and young people as well as suggestions for various activities – all to enable workers to really get to know the children/young people’s wishes, feelings, needs…
My feelings workbook: naming & exploring emotions
The workbook enables workers to explain the meaning of various emotions/feelings and promotes a conversation with children about in which situations they experience the discussed emotion. Click here to view/download
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…
Feelings cards; naming feelings
Workers can use this poster to 1. Help children to more accurately express their feelings by developing their emotional vocabulary. 2. Help children learn to recognize the feelings of others by facial expressions. Click here to view/download
Helping children to cope with change, stress and anxiety: A photocopiable activities book
Helping Children to Cope with Change, Stress and Anxiety provides practical activities and strategies for children who are experiencing mild to moderate levels of stress, have difficulty coping with changes in their life or are prone to mild to moderate anxiety. Contents: Part One Being…
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…
Domestic abuse: educational toolkit – activities & resources for children/young people
‘Spiralling’ is an education toolkit and film for use as a resource to help prevent domestic abuse in the next generation, by carrying out activities with and for children and young people of all ages. It includes a short film about a young couple’s abusive…
The parents protect! Video for parents/carers about child sexual abuse
This video is just over 29 minutes long and will give parents/carers a good understanding of some of the key issues around child sexual abuse: what it is, why it happens and how it can be prevented. This child sexual abuse awareness video enables them…