An important component of positive psychology is recognising how our thoughts affect how we feel and in turn what we believe about ourselves and the world that we live in. The diagram below helps us understand how process feeds into the other. It is important for...
With non-typically developing children we can never presume that they know what they could do, how they could act and what the outcome for their behaviour choices will be. Emotional literacy provides this information in a nurturing way so that the child does not feel...
Most of us, regardless of age, light up when we are told something that makes us feel that we are getting it right or doing something well. However, for a minority of non-typically developing children, praise can actually make them feel more uncomfortable and worse...
Typically developing children naturally progress through the different stages of emotional development and become confident, trusting, accepting young people who embrace diversity and become independent learners. However, emotional development involves many complex stages which can be hindered with inconsistent parenting, lack of sensitivity or nurture,...
Neuroscience is revealing more and more about the ways in which teenagers’ brains are different to adults’ brains. Understanding how this impacts on their thinking, mood and behaviour can be very helpful and sometimes quite reassuring for those of us that work with them. With...
Communication is the basis of human and non-human interaction. We can all communicate with a touch or a sound, a look or a symbol, a word or a sentence and also by doing or saying nothing at all. Communication can be verbal and non-verbal and...