Young People In Focus

EMOTIONAL HEALTH:
A DVD and CD Training Pack by Dorothy Eddi Piper, Young People in Focus 2005

This flexible resource is for use in a wide range of courses for professionals. Developed by trainers to meet the need to bring young people more directly into the training environment, it focuses on life experiences that contribute to positive and negative emotional health.

The CD includes training exercises, student handouts and a transcript of the Youth Voices film to print out and to photocopy. The DVD contains short film clips of sensitively conducted interviews with young people. The young people talk honestly and openly about their experiences to engage and stimulate learners. Topics include:

• anger and lashing out
• self-harm
• isolation
• relationships with teachers, counsellors, psychiatrists and parents.

Suitable for Training

cutting-edge material...accessible, thought-provoking, and inspiring, can be read and understood on many levels for a variety of students.

Suzie Schofield, Midlands Secondary School

ISBN 978 1871504 637

EMOTION WORKS
Eddi Piper and Sue Shaw, Young People in Focus

This resource is based on the work of the Youth Voice Peer Power programme at Young People in Focus. The worksheets have been developed with young people who have shared their ideas, thoughts and feelings about emotional health and wish to pass on their experience to help others. This pack includes a CD rom containing a collection of easy to use ‘worksheets’ to print out, together with tips and suggestions on how to use them.

LETS TALK: FEELINGS - Games for Talking

By Sue Nicholls. Speechmark Publishing, 2009

Cards to enable people to become more aware of their feelings The cards are divided into 6 sections:

• Give an example of when you felt . (Try to be specific)
• Situation cards. How would you feel? (Emphasise that different people respond in different ways to the same event; some might be excited, others nervous. There is no 'right' feeling, but being aware of our feelings can be helpful).
• You are feeling How would you show it? (Talk about and demonstrate body language, facial expressions and discuss the actions which might result from emotions. Discuss how people show their emotions in different ways).
• You are feeling What would help you to deal with it? (People deal with their feelings in different ways. For some, it helps to talk; others need time by themselves; others find it useful to write down their feelings.)
• A friend is feeling How could you respond to be helpful? (Talk about how we can help each other to deal with our feelings, by talking and listening).
• Situation cards. How might the other person feel? (We are not responsible for each others feelings, but we can take responsibility for our actions and the consequences. Discuss what it means to be considerate).

Contents: 78 cards plus instructions and ideas, boxed.

POSITIVE IMAGES - POSITIVE EFFECT
Paul Lee and Louise Bishop, Russell House Publishing

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

Positive Images - Positive Effect contains over 100 activities; each designed to increase young peoples' positive views of themselves.

They are fun, easy to use and will make a positive difference to your work and in their lives.
It explains how to facilitate these activities and how to improve your own skills in practive. The book encourages you throughout to focus on the positive aspects of young people and to seek to appreciate the good and the worth in them.

167pp

EUPHORIC FLASH PICTURE EMOTIONS - POSTCARD IMAGES

Images produced by Euphoric Flash led by Helen Commack. Jo Brown and Janine Boyer. Worksheets devised by Sharon Landau and Dorothy Eddi Piper. Young People in Focus, 2008

Picture Emotions is a powerful series of images which have been produced by young people. The images focus on emotional health and cover; 'dealing with your emotions' and 'being alone'. This resource also contains worksheets which have been devised by experienced practitioners in youth work and education.

Picture Emotions is an excellent resource for training anyone working with young people. It brings to the training room images created by the young people. The well produced visual material stimulates ideas and discussion on a wide range of topics

Contents: A4 wallet containing a set of 17 well presented postcard sized photographs. Accompany booklet which provides facilitators suggestions on how to use the resource and photocopiable worksheets.

BULLYING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE SUPPORT GROUP METHOD
George Robinson, Barbara Maines, Sage Publishers

Previously referred to as the No Blame Approach, the pioneering work of George and Barbara has been popular among practitioners seeking an alternative method to punishment for dealing with bullying in their setting. This book: explains how the Support Group Method began, charts the recent controversy over the approach, gives step by step guidance on using the SGM and includes real life accounts from a practitioner using the method.

BY THEIR OWN YOUNG HANDS
Deliberate Self-harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents
Keith Hawton and Karen Rodham with Emma Evans, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This practical book offers advice on how to identify young people at risk of self-harming, cope with the aftermath of self-harm or attempted suicide and develop training programmes in this area for teachers and other professionals. It also examines the roles of self-help, telephone help lines, email counselling and walk-in crisis centres in providing support for young people at risk of - or actively engaging in - self-harm and associated behaviours.

COOL CONNECTIONS WITH COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY
Laurie Seiler, Jessica Kingsley

Cool Connections is an engaging programme that provides a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to positively modifying the everyday thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of children and young people aged 9 to 14. Intended as an early intervention for use with children before they develop social, emotional or mental health difficulties, this programme combines a summary of CBT principles and step-by-step instructions with 10 sessions of games, handouts, home activities and therapeutic exercises.

Fully photocopiable, fully illustrated, flexible and easy to use..

201pp

TEENAGERS AND ATTACHMENT
Helping Adolescents Engage with Life and Learning. Edited by Andrea Perry, Worth Publishing

This highly original work on teenagers and attachment will be essential reading for any professional working with this age group. There has been so much written on the attachment needs of children, but this is the first book of its kind to address the attachment needs of adolescents.

The book will be a vital support, so that instead of fighting with adolescents or withdrawing from them, giving up on them or shutting down their own capacity to feel and think, professionals who work with troubled teenagers will feel empowered to engage and connect. The contributors to this book firmly believe that we can meet and work with them where they are, enable them to slowly build trust in us and themselves and help them to develop hope and optimism for their future. These leading practitioners have a profound belief in the power of authentic relationship to steer adolescents' onto a new, more secure track. Their existing and innovative ideas will offer hope to those on the 'front line' in schools and beyond, who want practical strategies that really work in this most challenging field.

DRAW ON YOUR EMOTIONS
Creative Ways to Explore, Express & Understand Important Feelings by Margot Sunderland & Philip Engleheart, Speechmark

This best selling training manual includes a series of illustrations which are intended to be used as photocopy originals, providing a source of effective, ready-made material. It contains exercises and pictures specifically designed to ease the process of talking about feelings. Contents include:

• your life
• who are you?
• your feelings
• things which make life difficult
• the good things in life
• feelings about places and other people.

Wiro 132pp

I always recommend this on my training courses - it's a fantastic resource to get young people talking about their feelings.

Jayne Hellett, TSA Trainer

DRAW ON YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Margot Sunderland, Speechmark

This manual is designed for professionals to help people explore, communicate and learn more about themselves in light of their relationships. So many children, teenagers and adults never sit down to reflect on their relationships in this way. As a result they endlessly repeat destructive relationship patterns. This book contains exercises and step by step guidance on using the exercises.

EATING DISORDER
The Path to Recovery
Dr Kate Middleton, Lion Hudson plc

This accessible and practical book helps readers to come to a full understanding of eating disorders and the various stages involved in recovery. It is essential reading for sufferers, their family and friends and also the interested reader. Writing from her experience of working with sufferers and drawing extensively on case histories, Dr Middleton explains what eating disorders are and why we develop them. Crucially, she offers guidance for setting out on the road to recovery.

144pp

FEELING FABULOUS! BOYS
K.Watson, Snivel and Shriek

This workbook aims to enable young people to take ownership of their emotional, social and behavioural development, providing a variety of activities to stimulate thinking, raise self-awareness, improve skills, and promote personal development. Approximate age suitability: 8-14

Displaying either a girl or boy on the cover with identical interior content. Please see the below product if you wish to order the girl version.

FEELING FABULOUS! GIRLS
K.Watson, Snivel and Shriek

This workbook aims to enable young people to take ownership of their emotional, social and behavioural development, providing a variety of activities to stimulate thinking, raise self-awareness, improve skills, and promote personal development. Approximate age suitability: 8-14

Displaying either a girl or boy on the cover with identical interior content. Please see the above product if you wish to order the boy version.

GRIEF ENCOUNTER
Grief Encounter Project, by Shelley Gilbert

Grief encounter is a workbook designed to encourage conversations about death between children and adults.

Extremely well written, accessible in its language and approach, with strong appeal to ordinary parents and children faced with bereavement. There is nothing scary about this book; it is hands-on, user-friendly and full of useful ideas to help a child understand his or her feelings. It will also help the parent/guardian to understand the child and find a way to bring comfort together. I wish I had been given the guidance of a book like this, to show me a way to open up and share my feelings of bereavement as a child.

Helen Levene, Editor Puffin Books.

The Grief Encounter Project supply bereaved families with a free copy of this workbook please contact them if this applies to you wwww.griefencounter.com

HELPING ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS TO BUILD SELF-ESTEEM
By Deborah Plummer, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2005 [Best Seller]

This workbook is filled with simple, practical and innovative ideas for work with either individuals or with groups. It contains easy-to-use activity sheets which can be photocopied and encourages participants to draw on existing skills and to develop new approaches to building confidence and feelings of self-worth. These exercises are suitable for work with individuals and with groups, and will prove an indispensable aid to building self-esteem in adolescents and adults.

272pp

Living It! A powerful teaching resource on homophobic bullying
Andrew Mulholland & Marie Bisset

Homophobic bullying in schools is a nationally-recognised problem, and this resource pack has been produced to help teachers tackle it. The pack encourages schools to build on existing expertise in PSHCE and related areas of the national curriculum. Pack includes a 20 min DVD and resource guide.

LISTENING TO YOUNG PEOPLE in school, youth work and counselling
by Nick Luxmoore, Jessica Kingsley 2000

This sensitive and practical book enables professionals to listen to young people, to understand their needs and to support them effectively. It captures the reality of young people's experiences, their relationships and the things that are important to them.

144pp

MANAGING THE DIFFICULT EMOTIONS
A programme for the promotion of emotional intelligence and resilience for young people aged 12 to 16
By Bob Bellhouse, Andrew Fuller, Glenda Johnson and Neil Taylor, Sage Publications

This humorous, punchy book meets the needs of those working with young people in schools, youth clubs and children and young people's services. There are five habits that are continually practiced: being calm; having energy; having courage; giving care; making plans.

The second part of the book considers: anger; worry; helplessness; grief; alcohol and tobacco. Includes; Facilitator's notes and worksheets on the accompanying CD-Rom.

87pp

I'M OKAY BEING ME
Activities to Promote Self-acceptance and Self-esteem in Young People aged 12 to 18
Anne Betts, Sage Publications 2005

This practical programme supports professionals working with young people who have demonstrated difficulties in achievement and behaviour by providing innovate and creative activities and exercises, which help to reduce behaviours common in those with low self-esteem. Activity sheets and assessment forms are supplied on the accompanying CD-Rom.

75pp

THERAPY TO GO
Gourmet Fast Food Handouts for Working with Child, Adolescent and Family Clients

This collection of handouts provides a wide range of ready-made activities for all kinds of therapists working on a professional level with adolescent clients and their families. The handouts provide creative approaches to a variety of presenting problems, including anxiety, anger, depression and family issues.

WORKING THINGS OUT
A Therapeutic resource for adolescents dealing with depression and other mental health problems.
Eileen Brosnan, Pros. Carol Fitzpatrick and Dr. John Sharry, Parent Plus 2005

The working Things Out project is an interactive CD ROM/DVD that contains the personal stories of eleven adolescents who have managed difficult problems in their lives such as depression, bullying, eating problems and self-harm. The stories are illustrated by animation and graphics, narrated by the young people and backed up by professional information and handouts.

It is recommended that the CD ROM/DVD resource be used in a facilitative way by professionals working with young people. The focus is on raising awareness of Mental Health issues and helping young people to identify and develop their own coping skills.

TRAINER'S MANUAL- UNDERSTANDING YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS
Andrew Cummings, UK Youth

This training manual has been designed to provide trainers with the material they will need to deliver a two-day training course for those who work with young people, on the theme of understanding young people’s challenging behaviours.

The manual provides the trainer with a detailed training programme, including numerous activities such as role plays, discussion starters and theoretical input.

TRAINER'S MANUAL- WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE ON ANGER AND AGGRESSION
Andrew Cummings, UK Youth

This training manual has been designed to provide trainers with the materials they will need to deliver a one day training course for those who work with young people, on the theme of anger and aggression.

The manual aims to introduce those who work with young people to skills, knowledge and ideas useful for providing support and activities for young people who are struggling with issues relating to anger and aggression.

Includes numerous activities such as discussion starters and games.