Helping Children to Build Self-Confidence

Photocopiable Activity Booklet to Support Wellbeing and Resilience

Deborah Plummer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2022
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78775-872-8 (ISBN)

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Using varies activities and worksheets, and based on the author's 30 years of experience, this book uses imagination, mindful play, and creative thinking to help children build their self-confidence. It encourages them to identify their strengths and explores how children can use the power of imagination to influence how they feel, think, and act.

Building self-confidence in children is crucial for healthy psychological, social, and emotional development and wellbeing. This resourceful and fun activity booklet is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, and therapists in helping to build children's self-confidence. It explores ideas around self-confidence and what that might mean as well as the essentials required to build it. This activity booklet also encourages self-knowledge and self-acceptance through the identification of each child's unique strengths and skills.

This book is one of a series based on the use of imagination (I), mindful play (MP) and creative thinking (CT) to enhance social, psychological and emotional wellbeing and resilience in children. The accompanying ebook Using Imagination, Mindful Play and Creative Thinking to Support Wellbeing and Resilience in Children describes the theory and approach behind how these activities can significantly influence children's perceptions of themselves and the world.

Deborah M. Plummer has over 30 years' experience of facilitating groups and working individually with both children and adults. Formerly a clinical lead therapist working within the NHS, she also has extensive experience as a senior lecturer in aspects of health psychology and counselling. She ran workshops and short courses on the uses of imagery, games and story-telling in the promotion of well-being. Deborah is now retired.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Exploring Self-Confidence: a mindful play perspective; II. Phase One: IMPACT essentials for building self-confidence; III. Phase Two: Self-knowledge and self-acceptance; IV. Phase Three: What is confidence?; V. Phase Four: Making changes, facing challenges; VI. Activity sheets

Erscheinungsdatum	19.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Helping Children to Build Wellbeing and Resilience
Illustrationen	Alice Harper
Zusatzinfo	6 B&W line drawings
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	208 x 296 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-78775-872-9 / 1787758729
ISBN-13	978-1-78775-872-8 / 9781787758728
Zustand	Neuware