Social, Emotional & Mental Health

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 2 caters for ages 7-8. Books 1 and 3 are also available.

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 3 caters for ages 9-11. Books 1 and 2 are also available.

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 1 caters for ages 5-6. Book 2 caters for ages 7-8.Book 3 caters for ages...

Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME is designed for people who live with or teach children or adults who struggle to consider the point of view or motives of others. This is a crucial skill and is needed to develop effective interpersonal relations but it is a hugely complex task to achieve for anyone with a social cognition disability. Following up on her first book, Inside Out: What Makes a Person with Social Cognitive Disorders Tick? Social Thinking expert Michelle Garcia Winner illuminates...

Proactive Support for Students with Behavioural ChallengesAuthors: Myka Breymann & Darci FultonInclusive education requires educators to have the proficiency and knowledge to provide equal and intentional teaching to all students. This resource will provide educators with the skill set and training required to begin working successfully with students displaying behavioural challenges.To Behave or Not To Behave was written from a presentation created by Myka Breymann and Darci Fulton to...

Ages: 5-18Format: Cards 4x6Published: 2021Authors: Leah Kuypers Elizabeth SautterWhether you’ve been teaching The Zones of Regulation curriculum for years or just hearing about it for the first time, these regulation strategy card decks for two different developmental age groups — children ages 5-10 and tweens and teens ages 11-18 — are a powerful addition to your social emotional learning and teaching toolkit. These decks are meant to be used in tandem with The Zones curriculum and pair well...

Ages: 10+Format: Bundle with GamesPublished: 2016Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke, Dominique Baudry, Linda K. MurphyThe social mind is dynamic. It changes and evolves continuously throughout the tween and teen years as kids begin to forge a stronger sense of self. But as they age, the social world also expands in its complexity. Expectations for how a child makes sense of the social world, socially responds, and behaves seem to suddenly shift and transform as more sophisticated...

Effective Strategies for Identifying Risk & Providing SupportBy Tina Rae & Jody WalsheKey strategies for identifying & supporting vulnerable young people.This practical, user-friendly resource is full of evidence-based strategies to support staff in identifying, preventing and supporting those at risk from self-harm and suicide in schools. The toolkit can be used on a whole school, small group or individual basis to develop preventative and supportive approaches and raise awareness...

Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)By Tina RaeA practical user-friendly toolkit of resources providing an overview of EBSA and strategies to support return to school, with a focus on transition from primary to secondary school and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.Shortlisted for the nasen Awards 2022 Award for PublicationChildren and young people miss school for a variety of reasons – as a response to personal, family,...

60 user-friendly cards with practical ideas and strategies to promote and develop children’s attendanceBy Tina RaeA companion to Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally based School Avoidance (EBSA).Children and young people miss school for a variety of reasons – as a response to personal, family, school or wider environmental issues. Emotionally Based School Avoidance or Refusal (EBSA) is a pattern of absence where reluctance, or refusal, to attend or stay in...

Understanding & Supporting Emotionally Based School Avoidance Workbook, Discussion Cards and My Attendance Journal Set of 33 user-friendly resources to support Emotionally Based School Avoidance including Nasen Awards 2022 Shortlisted workbook Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally based School AvoidanceBy Tina RaeNow includes a FREE training webinar from Tina designed to provide an overview of the problems associated with school avoidance/phobia and also...

Understanding & Supporting Emotionally Based School Avoidance Workbook and Discussion Cards Set of 22 user-friendly resources to support Emotionally Based School Avoidance including Nasen Awards 2022 Shortlisted workbook Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People with Emotionally based School AvoidanceAuthor: Tina RaeChildren and young people miss school for a variety of reasons – as a response to personal, family, school or wider environmental issues. Emotionally Based...

Supporting the mental health of adolescentsby Michael Pohl Adolescence can be a time of great vulnerability as many teenagers grapple with changed expectations and demands, peer pressure, a desire to fit in, and the need to be valued and accepted as an individual. It is also a pivotal time of transition, as how a young person feels about themselves and their place in the world can profoundly shape the emerging adult. Understanding Feelings is all about equipping young people with the...

These visual supports encourage the active use of 10 Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social learning, which are fundamental to the social experience and are relevant across languages, cultures, and ages (starting at age 4). While they are a small set of our broader teaching platform, they are an important place to begin an individual’s discovery into their own social-emotional learning as well as discovering the social world that surrounds them, regardless of...

Ages: 4-7Format: PaperbackPublished: 2016Authors: Ryan Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia WinnerNow for the first time in one great-value bundle! We Thinkers! is the premier social emotional learning series from Social Thinking® for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies. These practice-proven, evidence-based materials are designed for both typically developing children and those with social learning challenges to strengthen social...

By Ryan Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia Winner The We Thinkers! series helps children build foundational social competencies and essential life skills through stories, lessons, and play activities. The teachings help kids better understand themselves and others, develop self-awareness, perspective taking, social problem solving, and supports students’ social-emotional learning, relationship building, classroom learning, and academic performance. The material is...

By Ryan E. Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia WinnerThe We Thinkers! series helps children build fundamental social competencies and improve their social and academic performance. Teachers, clinicians, and parents give it rave reviews!We Thinkers! Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off. The concepts across the series are sequential. It's important to use Volume 1 before moving on to Volume 2.In Volume 2 Social Problem Solvers we explore how to figure out the social...

A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with AnxietyWritten and Illustrated by Kari Dunn Buron Worry and anxiety are on an upswing. In fact, anxiety is the most frequent of all mental disorders in children. High levels of stress and big emotions related to social situations, sensory issues, or general frustration are common in children who live with anxiety. Such stress can lead to a loss of control, resulting in aggressive behaviour, such as screaming, throwing things or even hurting someone....

Over 50 individual blobs on one giant poster!Set of 5 postersBy Pip Wilson and Ian LongThis extraordinary resource is designed to stimulate discussion and sharing of HOW one feels and WHY.Put it up in the staffroom and watch your colleagues gravitate towards it, which Blob do they feel like today? A great way to promote team communication, understanding and empathy.Put one up in the classroom and see how children and young people gather round, work out which Blob they feel like and really get...

50 flash cards and 5 A3 posters to stimulate discussion and sharing of how one feels and whyBy Pip Wilson and Ian LongThis value set contains both Which Blob do you Feel Like Today? resources:Includes: Which Blob Do You Feel Like Today? PostersOver 50 individual blobs on one giant poster! Which Blob Do You Feel Like Today? CardsCovering a huge range of emotions, each image can be interpreted differently by each individual leading to endless possibilities for discussing feelings and emotions. A...