If your child feels high levels of anxiety about fire, in a way that isn’t proportionate to their exposure or level of risk, it’s important to encourage them to work through their fear. Here are some effective tips for helping equip children with the skills to navigate anxious thoughts and adopt positive coping strategies.
Joanna Foster is a leading specialist in the field of child-set fires, working with hundreds of London’s most vulnerable children and families. In this webinar, she talks us through how to manage children’s anxiety around fire and how to create a healthy relationship with it. She outlines useful anxiety-reducing strategies and provides some simple and effective ways of building children’s confidence and self-efficacy around fire safety. We’ve included her top tips as written notes for you to read if you are short of time.
Sadly, up to 70% of schools have a bereaved pupil on their roll at any given time. It can feel challenging to know how best to support children going through grief, but as Justin Bowen, author of ‘Be The Rainbow: A Practical Guide for Supporting Bereaved Children in Primary Schools’, says, ‘Great bereavement support doesn’t need to be complicated, but it does need to be thoughtful.’ We’ve spoken to Justin to get some simple and effective tips, designed to help give confidence to staff supporting children at a difficult time.
In this webinar, we talk to educational psychologist and PhD researcher, Miranda Eodanable, about the importance of self-advocacy when it comes to empowering children and young people living with a disability, from childhood into adulthood. Miranda will share research about how children and young people form their identity in relation to their disability, and will also propose how to develop their knowledge and self-advocacy skills. This webinar will inform and inspire parents, carers and educators who support young people.
In this interview, clinical psychologist and eating disorder expert, Dr Amy Harrison, talks to us about optimal ways to support a friend who has an eating disorder. She discusses her innovative research into the impact of eating disorders on social functioning and gives us some actionable tips that might be helpful in maintaining and strengthening friendships. She also guides us through some topics of conversation to avoid or reframe.
Our top five tips on helping children to develop a sense of independence and self-efficacy as they grow.
Dyslexia experts, Kate King and Sarah Cox, list a whole host of resources that anyone caring for a child with dyslexia will find useful.
Connections with others – friends, family, teachers and even people we chat to in passing, such as neighbours or the person working in the local shop, are vital for our wellbeing. Without these connections, we can feel lonely or isolated, which can make us feel down. Thinking about how we connect with others and other ways to improve our wellbeing are important. Here are a few things that are worth considering.
Managing pupils’ allergies can be a challenging business. In this webinar, one of the leading paediatric allergy experts in the country, Professor Adam Fox, is joined by allergy parent, Sarah Knight of The Allergy Team – an organisation offering support and training to schools and families. Together, they discuss what ‘optimal’ looks like, outlining what every school needs to know about allergy care and the steps required to reduce the risk of severe allergic reaction. Schools are advised to ensure that as many staff as possible watch this webinar, particularly those from medical teams, senior leadership, pastoral care and catering departments.
Stage fright… everyone gets it. Whether it’s worrying about going on stage, feeling anxious about giving a presentation, nerves before a test or talking to someone in a shop or restaurant. In this webinar, clinical psychologist, Dr Anna Colton, talks us through performance anxiety, exploring how universal this experience is, before going on to provide numerous, practical strategies that can help children, young people and adults. This webinar is great for parents, educators and can also be watched with young people themselves.
