by Kaleisha | Dec 14, 2022 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others, Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
Therapy homework (or home practice) has long been a part of mental health treatment for children and families. It has been understood a variety of ways but can be defined as ‘tasks assigned to clients to promote skill acquisition between treatment sessions’ (Dozois,...
by Kaleisha | May 31, 2022 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others, Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
One of the joys and privileges for mental health professionals working with children is meeting a new person/family for the first time and having them share their “story” with us. However, there are also significant challenges for us in this first meeting (or...
by Kaleisha | Sep 21, 2021 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Professional
The importance of parents and caregivers acting in warm, loving, caring and interested ways towards their children might seem obvious towards us as health/education professionals today, but it has only been in the last 50 or 60 years that these concepts have been...
by Kaleisha | Aug 17, 2021 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Professional
How long are you able to read something or think carefully about a topic without being distracted by something else? Do you feel satisfied with the length of time you can do this? Does it depend on the time of day or what you are doing? Has it changed over the years...
by Kaleisha | Feb 2, 2021 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Professional
Imagine you have been unwell for several months – intermittent, low level but unpleasant symptoms – stomach pain, headaches and dizziness. A GP can’t find anything wrong with you and so you try diet changes, vitamins and getting more sleep – none of which...
by Monique | Feb 17, 2020 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
In the last few weeks I’ve presented at a number of school “acquaintance” and “orientation” nights to parents of primary and secondary students – and one of the topics I cover in these seminars is sleep: how much children and teens need and how we support them to get...
