ABSTRACT

Are you a professional who encounters children with a wide range of difficulties? Do you also work with their parents? Would you like a flexible source of information to support you in your work? This downloadable resources pack has been designed for you, and will be an invaluable asset to your health centre, children's centre, playgroup, nursery or school. Each of the handouts deals with one issue in detail. Topics include sleep, eating, behaviour, language and communication delays, attention deficits, sibling relationships, anxiety, jealousy, depression, bullying, death, divorce and trauma. Designed as a high-quality leaflet, the handouts can be printed from the downloadable resources or photocopied from the book and either made available to individuals, or used to develop an accessible information rack for parents. Covering the full range of issues encountered by parents of children up to the age of sixteen, the leaflets provide clearly written guidance on how to help children with some of the common problems encountered in family life. Suitable for families attending your surgery, family centre, community mental health team, school, nursery, social work, psychology or psychiatry department.

chapter

Introduction

chapter 1|3 pages

Welcome to our Child Development Service

chapter 5|3 pages

Looking at your family history

chapter 6|3 pages

Parenting children from birth to 16 years

chapter 8|3 pages

Helpful patterns in healthy families

chapter 11|3 pages

Thinking about thoughts

chapter 12|3 pages

Finding calm in a challenging world

chapter 16|3 pages

Helping a child learn the art of happiness

chapter 21|3 pages

Helping children eat well

chapter 23|3 pages

Helping young children learn to talk

chapter 24|3 pages

Encouraging good behaviour

chapter 26|3 pages

Using praise effectively

chapter 31|3 pages

Helping siblings get on with each other

chapter 33|3 pages

Helping children with fears and anxiety

chapter 34|3 pages

Helping children with jealousy

chapter 37|3 pages

Understanding guilt and shame

chapter 45|3 pages

Helping children cope with death and loss

chapter 46|3 pages

Helping children cope with trauma

chapter 47|3 pages

Helping children with bullying and teasing

chapter 49|3 pages

Supporting children with writing

chapter 50|3 pages

Supporting children with mathematics