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Society recognises a more diverse range of sexual identities than ever before, but people often still think we have to choose one and stick to it forever. If the idea of a single, unchanging sexual identity just doesn''t fit right - this is the book for you.Challenging binary notions of sexuality and gender, this is a deep exploration of fluid sexuality, exploring its relationship to bisexuality, multisexuality, asexuality and gender fluidity. Chapters cover everything from understanding diverse attractions, coming out, navigating love, sex and relationships - and looking after your mental health as a fluid person. Combining real life accounts and practical guidance, this wide-ranging guide has all the tips you''ll need to explore the joys and challenges of sexual fluidity.

Unlock the secrets to creating a trauma-informed yoga program for supporting asylum seekers, refugees and new immigrants in this accessible, practical guide.Asylum seekers, refugees and new immigrants often suffer with mental health concerns such as posttraumatic stress disorder, due to trauma experienced before, during, and after fleeing their country of origin. Yoga therapy is a holistic and compassionate tool that can help these populations regulate these trauma symptoms. This book is a brilliant, accessible introduction to applying trauma-informed yoga therapy in this setting, with useful insights and shared experience from a yoga therapist who has worked in the frontline for over 5 years.

Elevate your support for children's well-being in schools with our user-friendly resource, offering practical strategies and guidance for busy educators to navigate and nurture mental health. You'll deepen your understanding of the key emotional and social challenges children face today through evidence-based techniques for engaging with children and young people at both a preventative level and to recognise and respond to mental health needs as they arise. Covering topics including developmental trauma, anxiety, eating disorders, school-avoidance, self-harm and more, this handbook is designed for the busy individual seeking to support the well-being of children and young people to dip in and out of as needed. Perfect for use in school and educational settings, the bounty of information sheets, top tips and key strategies provided can be used to effectively provide the trauma-informed nurture that so many children need.

What is executive functioning? How does it affect learning?Executive functions (EFs) are a group of complex mental processes and cognitive abilities required to organize thoughts and activities, prioritize tasks, manage time efficiently, make decisions and regulate our behaviour and emotions. They do not reach maturity until an individual is well into their 20s, and so teachers and educators have enormous potential to help pupils hone those skills so that they are better equipped for the process of learning.But what do you do if it''s impaired?This guide includes a step-by-step approach to improving executive functioning within the classroom and beyond. It will provide effective strategies to use in daily life, and show teachers how to enhance awareness in the classroom, as well as giving students activities to do, to develop their own skills.

How do I set appropriate technology boundaries with my neurodivergent chil? hat is the relationship between screen time and meltdown? ow can I best help my child transition in and out of screen use without dysregulatin? ppropriate technology use is a huge issue for many parents, especially those with neurodivergent children. Beatrice Moise, neurodivergent author, mother to neurodivergent children and parent-expert for NBC, is here to provide practical, non-judgemental advice on engaging with technology in a positive way. Drawing on her own lived experience, this parental survival guide helps you unpick the relationship between screen time and behaviour, reinforce positive behaviours, and draw boundaries when needed.

How do you make sense of worry?On the surface, anxiety and panic seem to make no sense at all. But if you dig a little deeper, you can understand why we need some anxiety to survive and how it can escalate to become a problem. And once you learn that it really does make sense, you can learn how to overcome it!Written by GP Dr Martin Brunet, who has over 30 years of professional experience and is well known online for his popular mental health videos, Your Worry Makes Sense explores the logical basis for the common experiences of both anxiety and burnout. Accompanied by Hannah Robinson''s witty illustrations, Dr Brunet uses powerful visual metaphors that help you unpack your anxiety, you''ll discover... - Why anxiety can spiral out of control - Practical strategies to help you manage it - How to navigate and understand your triggers - How to identify and manage burnout, a common cause of both anxiety and depression - How you can begin to break harmful cycles and implement effective techniques to regain control of your mental health- How your breathing pattern can become disordered when you are anxious, and what to do about it- How to fix common sleep problems- The role of both talking therapy and medication in managing anxiety

At the heart of any client care in aromatherapy is the therapeutic relationship. Nurturing a healthy and meaningful connection between a therapist and their client allows for a much more profound contribution to the success of any aromatherapy treatment. This evidence-based guide provides an in-depth explanation of the therapeutic alliance, and why connection in a technology dominated world is so important. It also offers practical guidance on how to foster a healthy relationship through active listening and somatosensory awareness. Emphasis is placed on making the client feel safe and at ease, and creating a bespoke practice based on flexibility, awareness, and understanding. Supplemented with case studies and clinical evidence, aromatherapists can benefit from real-life examples of unique client profiles that often involve important experiences and specific needs, such as menopause, pregnancy, trauma, and anxiety.

Grief is so often a strange, wordless thing that refuses to be categorised or explained. Through art therapy, people struggling with loss can find ways to explore their feelings freely, and express the parts of their grief that are hard to put into words.Based on empirically supported, award-winning research, a renowned grief model and proven clinical experiences, Artful Grieving provides a collection of 50 grief-specific art therapy directives to address the wide range of potential emotional responses and life adjustments for the grieving client. The topics draw from a range of theoretical and philosophical perspectives to facilitate the grieving processes necessary to prevent complicated grief. This is not a how-to manual. Designed to facilitate Worden''s four tasks of mourning, it is an adaptable and accessible framework to inspire and encourage clinical intuition through art-based prompts that guide conversation and goal setting. An essential, critical, and effective guide for the well-being of those experiencing profound loss and grief.

There is no handbook to being a parent. Much less being a parent of a child with special educational needs.How do you support your child in school? Where do you even begin to try and access local services? What can you expect from your local authority? Co-written by a parent who has been there and a SEND professional who understands the other side of the SEND system, this must-have book answers all of your questions and more. Focusing on the needs of your child rather than diagnostic labels, this easy-to-use guide includes suggestions that you can dip in and out of and includes explanations of language used in this book around SEND. It guides parents through situations at home, from settling at bedtime and understanding instructions, to navigating the school and the SEND system. Perhaps most importantly, it helps you understand your legal rights with practical advice for EHC Needs Assessment, accessing support and much more. When you don''t know where else to turn, this dip-in handbook is packed full of useful suggestions, tips and experience. It''s like the conversation with a friend you need whenever you need that extra bit of support as a parent of a child with SEND.

Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families is the practical go-to resource for practitioners looking to build effective relationships and engage meaningfully with vulnerable children and their families.Compiled by Jan Horwath, lead editor of the bestselling child protection handbook The Child''s World, the text features a wealth of clear, user-friendly, creative materials. The tools draw on evidence-based research and have been developed and tested by frontline practitioners from a range of disciplines working in Rochdale. Each tool includes a practice example as well as detail about aims, method, things to think about and possible adaptations. The tools can be used in a variety of work settings and the downloadable, versatile resources are all designed to support a relational approach to practice.These tools will help you establish relationships with both children and their primary carers, understand their lived experience and the impact of this on the health and well-being of the child or adolescent. Additional tools are included for use with parents and primary carers to explore parenting capacity and the socio-economic factors that influence family life.

Navigating school can be tough, especially if you''re neurodivergent. Sensory overload, confusing social situations, misdiagnoses, and the stress of masking it all can leave you feeling lost and misunderstood. But it doesn''t have to be this way - this guide is here to help!Written by an autistic person who''s been there, Gracie Barlow has lots of super helpful advice for you on learning, communicating, and making friends. You''ll also get real-life tips on how you can stay safe and understand yourself better.It''s not just a guide for you - there are lots of practical tips on how your school and your family can make small changes to help you thrive. This guide also helps people who have ADHD and are struggling with the mental health challenges that sometimes come with being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world.And when it''s time to move on from school this guide will be with you every step of the way, with tips and advice on work or further study so you don''t have to face those next steps alone.

What can you really do in 10 minutes? You could call a friend, read the news, eat a bowl of cereal, or doomscroll on social media - and now, with this book, you can improve your mental health.No matter how busy or stressful your day, with 10-minute steps and quick exercises, you can better understand and manage your experiences with depression and low mood. This book includes sections to read, questions to reflect on and things to try out in your everyday life. It covers everything from recognising low mood, dealing with risky thoughts of harm or suicide, working on healthy lifestyle factors like sleep and physical activity, and how to get yourself into the ''zone'' where you feel focused and engaged with important and fun activities. Using evidence-based therapies such as CBT and ACT, this book will help you take a problem-solving approach to negative thoughts and feelings, identify activities that bring you joy, treat yourself kindly, and get the best out of life (and not get stuck in the Doom Swamp).

Tanja Sharpe's Creative Counselling model shows how to incorporate creativity at every stage of the therapeutic process, from contracting through to the final session. In this book, she provides practical ideas and interventions to work creatively with adults. Separated into three parts, the book provides creative interventions relevant for a wide range of presenting issues, journaling prompts for clients and ideas to incorporate creativity into the supervision process. Bonus content! This book grants access to ten videos that demonstrate creative counselling interventions in practice and will further inspire your creativity in the therapy room.

You might just have been told that someone needs you to care for a child or have been caring for a child for quite some time. Maybe you know the child, perhaps you are their grandparent? Or maybe the child is connected to someone in your family, but you hardly know them.You may have a lot of conflicting feelings. Maybe you are relieved that the child is with you, or perhaps you feel resentment at the interference of others? It might all be rather overwhelming, even if you have been a kinship carer for quite some time. Whatever the situation, when Kinship Care is sought, it can often come out of the blue. Sarah Naish and Enza Smith provides the answers to all of your burning questions. Dip-in dip-out sections help you with the immediate hurdles you might face, such as bereavement, issues with drugs or alcohol, child abuse, and more as well as challenges which may arise later in your kinship care journey. This book fills the information vacuum of support and ensures you always have an easy-to-access comforting friend within its pages.

Misunderstood your whole life, ashamed, lost, lonely and struggling to cope? Exhausted from trying, but never quite managing, to fit in? Welcome to the Late Discovered Club, home to thousands of late discovered autistic women. Late discovery can be life-changing - a lifetime of mysteries finally making sense. But there can also be a deep accompanying sense of grief. This is a book about coming home to yourself.Part memoir, part guide, part narrative non-fiction - this book weaves Catherine Asta''s deeply personal late discovery story with the lived experiences of over 100 autistic women spanning seven decades, while offering therapeutic insight, practical tools, and a powerful cultural critique of the systems that continue to overlook autistic women. Catherine''s empathetic guidance supports you advocate for yourself with a greater degree of self-awareness. With chapters on everything from masking, mental health, meltdowns, and menopause, to burnout, sensory processing, emotions, relationships, and work - it helps you to nurture your strengths as an autistic woman. Most importantly, it shows you that you are not alone.

What if I don''t know how to "do stuff" all the other gays can do? What if I don''t know the name of that gay Netflix movie? What if I''m not obsessed with Jennifer Coolidge like everyone else? Am I really bad at being gay?While being gay has become more socially and legally acceptable, there''s a specific kind of gay that''s most accepted. He''s hot, jacked, white, loves iced coffee, watches Drag Race, and has a service job but somehow travels to Palm Springs every summer, In this book, Kyle and Mike aim to break down the most prolific gay stereotypes in popular discourse - drawing on personal experience, up-to-date research, social history and maybe even Wikipedia to demonstrate first-hand how we''re all a mixture of gay and straight stereotypes. So - whether you''re gay or not - you''re probably gayish...