Our most popular resources on social skills, behaviour and mental health
Contact us to find out more about our full range of resources in this area and to book these resources for your event or training session. Images reproduced with the permission of HealthEdco and Gasp.
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Bullying
That's so gay!
A practical guide to making your school a safer place and creating an inclusive bully- free culture. It shows what homophobic bullying looks like, who experiences it, and explores the reasons why young people bully others homophobically. It also reveals why young people are often reluctant to report homophobic bullying, the increasing role played by the internet and the profound effects bullying can have well into adulthood. |
Social skills
A therapeutic treasure deck of grounding, soothing, coping and regulating cards
A treasure trove of coping, regulating, grounding and soothing activities and techniques for working with children (aged 6+), teens and adults This pack of 70 cards and explanatory guide offers a playful, non- threatening way to develop, practice and master effective coping and regulating strategies. The range of games, skills and activities are designed to work with both the brain and body, including all our senses. The cards address a wide range of common issues including anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep difficulties and emotional dysregulation. |
Peaches, Quackeline, Raja & Streaky 4-pack
Four delightful and inspiring illustrated books for primary age children, with animals as central characters - Little Raja, Peaches, Quackeline and Streaky. Effective ways to develop children's strengths and confidence. Each book is 20 pages x A5, and each pack contains all 4 books, plus a colourful A2 poster. |
PSHE & Citizenship wellbeing workbook for schools
The wellbeing workbook for schools series covers personal, social and health education and citizenship at key stage 1 level. The series has been designed to encourage pupils to lead happy, confident and independent lifestyles, whilst promoting awareness of various health and safety issues. |
Well being toolkit for teens
Free online interactive toolkit that includes a collection of positive activities that will help remind young people how amazingly, brilliant they are. |
A teacher's handbook for PSHE and citizenship
OSHEC Curriculum descriptors and teacher page titles. This book offers a comprehensive and flexible resource for teaching key stage 1 and 2 PSHE and citizenship curriculum. It contains lesson plans to cover nearly all the key areas of the curriculum, as well as a wealth of photocopiable children's material. |
Conflict Resolution DVD
Audience: 11-16 years Resolve conflict with this incredibly exciting interactive DVD which puts learners in complete control of the outcome of the story. An incredibly innovative DVD resource to aid discussion around issues of conflict, which plays out tense scenarios where viewers can choose the outcome. |
Title: Cards for life
Description: Cards for Life is a unique resource designed to help adults and young people discuss the dilemmas and moral issues they face as they mature. It comprises 40 scenarios based on real-life situations that young people say are relevant to their lives, together with questions to prompt and guide discussion. Examples include: being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and acheiving, making a positive contribution and economic well-being. Also included are eight blank cards to create your own scenarios. |
Let's talk: Feelings
Cards to enable people to become more aware of their feelings. The cards are divided into six sections: • Give an example of when you felt… • Situation cards. How would you feel? • You are feeling… How would you show it? • You are feeling… What would help you to deal with it? • A friend is feeling… How could you respond to be helpful? • Situation cards. How might the other person feel? These cards are ideal as discussion starters and encourage children to discuss a range of feelings in different situations. The cards look at children’s own feelings and those of others, hence teaching them what it means to be considerate. Age: 5+ Contents: 78 boxed cards, instructions and ideas |
Anger management
Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel sad or angry
Format: Book Audience: Children aged 7+ Description: A mindful kids activity book for young people to colour and doodle their way to being happy, calm and confident. Use creativity to combat negative feelings, work out worries and put anger back in its place with the writing and doodling activities. |
The Angry Monster machine [board game]
Audience: Children aged 5-10 For 2-4 players. This game helps kids transform their anger. This ingenious game was designed to have a high play value for children who have problems with anger control. Teaches children to channel their anger into a more appropriate form of expression. |
Adolescent Volcanoes: helping adolescents and their parents to deal with anger
Format: Book Description: Adolescent Volcanoes is a practical resource for adults working with adolescents and their parents to help them understand, express and manage their anger. Featuring interactive worksheets and handouts throughout, it explores the causes of anger, focusing not only on the adolescent, but also on styles of parenting and situations at home that can exacerbate these feelings, and suggests ways to tone down confrontations and improve relationships |
Bereavement
Suicide bereavement toolkit Format: Online Description: Children, young people and families who have been bereaved by suicide have developed a new toolkit to help families like themselves and the people who support them in the aftermath of their bereavement. The toolkit has information that's helpful for children, young people, and parents/carers themselves as well as practitioners and people working with the family. You can access the toolkit here. Local South Yorkshire resource produced by: ChilyPep, Children and Young People’s, Empowerment Project, 11 Southey Hill, Sheffield, S5 8BB |
The Good mourning game [Board game]
Audience: Ages 6 to 18. The board game illustrates nature's basic cycle, which, like the grief cycle, moves from stormy intensity to relative calm. Game cards introduce techniques that can help children work through the grieving process. Players learn to share memories, explore feelings, enjoy laughter and play, relax, and identify their own coping strategies. When they complete the Star Path, they each receive a Shining Star-which serves as a reminder of new coping skills learned. Whether loss has occurred through illness, death, or a change in lifestyle-such as a move, a divorce, or new custody arrangements-this game lets children resolve their grief in an open, supportive, and caring environment. |
The Grief Game [Board game]
Audience: Aimed at ages 6 -16 years old This game is for children and adolescents who have experienced bereavement and is particularly useful for those struggling to come to terms with their loss. Intended for group work, it may also be played with individuals and can be used to facilitate intra-familial communication when played with families. Includes: Game board, 4 x cards; 2 x dice; 6 x counters; 1 x instruction booklet |
Title: Living with loss- a book for the widowed
Format: Book Description: Liz McNeill Taylor's husband died suddenly at just forty-three. Drawing mainly on her own experience of loss, she deals with the subject of bereavement with a unique honesty and clarity. She talks about money, sex and raising a family alone. She discusses her own progression from grief and despair to anger, and then to adjustment, and describes how, eventually, she learned to enjoy life again. This is an invaluable handbook. |
Title: On grief and grieving
Format: Book Description: With this book, Kübler-Ross and LIFE LESSONS co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic and accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights and advice designed to help readers normalise their lives and find the courage to continue. |
Childhood abuse
Title: Not my shame
Format: Book Description: This powerful graphic novel draws the reader into the experience of trauma and dissociation caused by sexual violence. It reveals the intrusive traumatic memories and distress experienced by a victim of childhood sexual exploitation in her adulthood and follows the process of coming to terms with her past through therapy and art. |
Helping vulnerable children and adolescents to stay safe: creative ideas and activities for building protective behaviours.
Format: Book Description: Full of creative ideas and activities, this guide provides the tools to help children develop key skills. Topics include work around: building resilience and problem solving skills; identifying a 'safety network'; developing emotional literacy; awareness of grooming strategies and safe/unsafe touch; and cyber safety. |
Title: Breaking free
Format: Book Description: This manual is designed to help survivors of child sexual abuse. It updates the first edition, and investigates all the effects of child sexual abuse, which often persist into adult life - guilt and shame, depression and anxiety, eating disorders, fear of relationships and sexual problems. It includes discussion of false memory syndrome and female abusers, and draws on accounts of survivors who want their voices to be heard, offering a positive and optimistic approach to help survivors break free from the past. |
Title: The courage to heal: a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse
Format: Book Description: Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors, The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges and triumphs of their personal healing processes. Inspiring and comprehensive, it offers mental, emotional and physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives. |
Depression and suicide
Suicide bereavement toolkit Format: Online Description: Children, young people and families who have been bereaved by suicide have developed a new toolkit to help families like themselves and the people who support them in the aftermath of their bereavement. The toolkit has information that's helpful for children, young people, and parents/carers themselves as well as practitioners and people working with the family. You can access the toolkit here. Local South Yorkshire resource produced by: ChilyPep, Children and Young People’s, Empowerment Project, 11 Southey Hill, Sheffield, S5 8BB |
Perry Panda: A Story about Parental Depression
Format: Book Audience: Young children Description: Perry is worried about his mum. He speaks to his grandma, who explains how his mum is feeling and offers reassurance. She makes it clear that Perry is not to blame and talks about some of the things that might help his mum feel better. |
Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel sad or angry
Format: Book Audience: Children aged 7+ Description: A mindful kids activity book for young people to colour and doodle their way to being happy, calm and confident. Use creativity to combat negative feelings, work out worries and put anger back in its place with the writing and doodling activities. |
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Title: Mind over mood
Format: Book Description: Developed by two master clinicians with extensive experience in cognitive therapy treatment and training, this popular workbook shows readers how to improve their lives using cognitive therapy. The book is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with professional treatment. |
Title: Understanding depression
Format: Book Description: We all have low moods from time to time. Usually, the mood passes after a few days and we get back to our normal way of living. We may say that we have been 'depressed', 'down in the dumps', 'fed up' or have had the 'blues'. But low moods like this are not what doctors call depression. Instead, they use the term to describe a more severe illness which a person has had for at least a few weeks, affecting the body as well as the mind. There has been an increase in the rates of depression over the last 40 years which may be the result of the way we live our lives now. The good news is that no matter what the cause of depression it can be treated and treated effectively. Most people who are depressed and have treatment get better. |
Title: Overcoming depression and low mood
Format: Book Description: Fully updated and based on extensive feedback, Overcoming Depression and Low Mood is a series of short self-help workbooks for use by people experiencing low mood and depression. Developed in liaison with a wide range of experts, the course provides access to the proven Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach. |
Title: Overcoming mood swings
Format: Book Description: This book is a self-help manual for those who have experienced mood swings and gives background information on depression and mania. The author uses tried and tested practical techniques that will help people identify and manage their mood more effectively, and achieve a more stable emotional state. Contains a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets. |
Title: Surviving post-natal depression- at home no one hears you scream
Format: Book Description: Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. Cara Aiken's book will help them, and the professionals who work with them, to understand this illness. The book tells the stories of ten women from very different backgrounds - including the author - who have suffered post-natal depression. |
Self harm
Obsessions and compulsions
Title: Understanding obsessions and compulsions
Format: Book Description: This book attempts to provide a comprehensive guide to self-help, explaining the principles of anxiety reduction, giving treatment instructions in easy-to-understand language. It covers compulsive checking, washing, hoarding, obsessional thoughts and worry, obsessional personality and depression. |
Title: Can I tell you about OCD? A guide for friends, family and professionals
Format: Book Description: Katie invites readers to learn about OCD from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is, how her obsessions and compulsions affect her daily life, and how people around her can help. |
Self esteem & resilience
Title: Banish your self- esteem thief- a cognitive behavioural therapy workbook on building positive self- esteem for young children.
Format: Book Description: Packed with activities and real- life stories, this fun and imaginative workbook uses cognitive behvioural and mindfulness principles and techniques to help you understand your self- esteem, change how you think and act in order to build positive self-esteem |
Title: Banish your body image thief- a cognitive behavioural therapy workbook on building positive body image for young people
Format: Book Description: Using a host of activities and real- life stories, this imaginative workbook will look at what body image means, how it develops, the impact it can have and how all this applies to your own body image. |
Developing emotional literacy with teenage girls
Format: Book Publisher: Lucky Duck Books Description: This resource creates an opportunity for teenage girls to be clearer and more positive about their developing identities as young women. The 10-session programme improves confidence, self-esteem and self-awareness, with the talk element encouraging students to develop their own problem-solving strategies. |
Mental health [DVD]
Audience: Ages 14-19 Includes 3 programmes each running approx 25 mins. ‘Losing it’: designed to help young people understand what mental health is and distinguish it from mental illness; ‘Winning the Mind Game’ profiles 3 successful young people who have suffered and conquered mental illness. ‘Without You’ explores the experiences of young people whose lives have been affected by bereavement |

Little Steps
Audience: 3-5 years
An early years resource that provides a range of ideas to enable practitioners to meet the needs of the 3-5 year olds in both statutory and non-statutory early years settings and promotes Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
Audience: 3-5 years
An early years resource that provides a range of ideas to enable practitioners to meet the needs of the 3-5 year olds in both statutory and non-statutory early years settings and promotes Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
Eating disorders
Stress & worry
First lessons in coping with stress
Audience: 13-18 years A Stress Reducing Programme for Older Secondary Pupils with Teacher Notes and CD Recording Booklet and CD. Recommended for use by teachers who are looking for plans for "first lessons in coping with stress." It provides a useful starting-off-point and photocopiable materials that are clear. |
Title: What's all this about stress?
Format: Book Description: This book analyses the cause and symptoms of stress, its effects on the mind and body and outlines a range of strategies for stress management. These practical techniques will be of interest to anybody who wishes to gain control of their life, improve its quality, and enhance their performance in the workplace. |
Title: Managing stress
Format: Book Description: Ursula Markham's positive and practical book will teach you how to control the stress in your life, and gain self-confidence. Filled with useful charts, exercises and examples, it will help you to: recognize the symptoms of stress overload; assess your stress factor; relieve tension through lifestyle changes, diet, physical and mental relaxation techniques; and utilize the positive power of stress. |
Title: Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: epidemiology, risk factors and treatment
Format: Book Description: The aim of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents is to present a comprehensive summary of the most recent empirical findings in this area. Written by eminent researchers and clinicians from Europe and America, the book is divided into three broad sections. |
Title: Overcoming panic
Format: Book Description: An indispensable guide for those affected by panic and/or associated agoraphobia, their friends and families, psychologists and those working in the medical profession. It explains the many forms and causes of panic and contains a complete self-help program and monitoring sheets, based on clinically proven techniques of cognitive behavior therapy. |