What A Muddle - Hoech, Jess van der

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Résumé :
Boss is sleeping, Norma is busy, Spike is stressed and Sam is getting the wrong messages. If only Sam knew how to wake Boss up.... What A Muddle is an interactive, practical workbook designed to help children who have difficulties with emotional regulation to begin to understand what is happening in their bodies. A variety of activities throughout the book enable the child to start to explore these ideas through the story of Sam, while gently encouraging them to begin to verbalise their own experiences. Carrying out the physical exercises in the book can promote changes in emotional regulation. The workbook also provides plenty of opportunity to introduce and promote the child's feelings of confidence and self-worth. The content of What A Muddle was inspired by children in therapy...

Biographie:
Jess qualified as a Therapeutic Counsellor in 2014. She has experience working with high-risk adults and children who have witnessed or been subjected to extremely violent and complex situations and has focussed her continuing professional development around the effects of trauma, with the impact of abuse becoming her specialist area. Jess has been trained to facilitate the Just What We Need therapeutic programme which was developed locally to support the emotional needs of parents and is now a national project. Most recently, Jess has founded The Gap (Bedfordshire) CIC...

Sommaire:
the methods promoted in the book are tried and tested and easy to work into a child's everyday life, with support from their caregivers. The text is written in a child-friendly, gender-neutral style, and is easy to understand and user-friendly for parents, carers and practitioners alike. ?For children aged 4-12....