This book is rich with case material and artwork samples and demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book is especially practical and user-friendly. Specific topics include: stressful experiences, parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family violence, school violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Broader approaches to promoting resilience and preventing posttraumatic problems in children at risk are also presented. Malchiodi is well known and is the bestselling author of Understanding Children's Drawings.
This book would be suitable for clinical and school psychologists, art and play therapists, child psychiatrists, social workers, and counsellors.
To initiate thoughtful conversations between boys, their peers and their teachers the Boys in Schools Program has produced the Being A Man photopak. The 52 black-and-white photos show boys, young men and older men in diverse roles and settings provoking immediate and powerful responses to what it means to ‘be a man’ in the world today. More info
The 32 Reflexions cards are also available in sticker format. 5 complete sets of the Reflexions stickers on A4 backing sheets. A total of 160 stickers each sticker 65 x 45mm. More info
This resource kit takes a strengths perspective by focusing on what is going right or what's working in a young person's life, and is adaptable to a wide range of community and education settings. The resources can be used by a wide range of workers (school counsellors, youth workers, social workers and community development workers) involved with young people ages 9-16 years. The kit contains tear-off blocks (50 copies) of the Resilience Identification Checklist and the Resilience Circle, and a user-friendly manual. More info
