Help! My Feelings Are Too Big!
Making Sense of Yourself and the World After a Difficult Start in Life - for Children with Attachment Issues
Published on 21. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-78592-556-6 (ISBN)
Description
Emotions can be complicated at the best of times. If something goes wrong right at the beginning of someone's life things can often feel painful and confusing.
This book will help explain that there are always good reasons why a person feels the way they do. It will help you learn about emotions like anxiety, how you can live with these emotions, and how safe adults can help you build a calm, strong place inside yourself!
Designed to help build emotional awareness, this book offers friendly support for children aged 9-12 who have attachment disorders, anxiety or are overcoming early trauma and is an invaluable tool for anyone supporting children with extreme emotions or attachment issues, including parents and carers, support workers, teachers, and therapists.
This book will help explain that there are always good reasons why a person feels the way they do. It will help you learn about emotions like anxiety, how you can live with these emotions, and how safe adults can help you build a calm, strong place inside yourself!
Designed to help build emotional awareness, this book offers friendly support for children aged 9-12 who have attachment disorders, anxiety or are overcoming early trauma and is an invaluable tool for anyone supporting children with extreme emotions or attachment issues, including parents and carers, support workers, teachers, and therapists.
Reviews / Votes
This is a very important and much-needed book that is sure to help many children (as well as grown-ups) understand themselves and others better. It makes complex matters wonderfully simple, and readers will gain insights and resources to last them a lifetime. -- Kathrin Stauffer PhD, Body Psychotherapist and Author of Anatomy and Physiology for Psychotherapists. Straightforward, well explained and friendly, this book will be a huge help to children in understanding and sharing their feelings. -- Alan Durant is a prolific writer of children's books including Always and Forever, and Billy Monster's Daymare The book is an invaluable tool for anyone supporting children with extreme emotions or attachment issues, helping them to understand and support children in their care. -- Parents In TouchMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
40 b&w line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78592-556-6 (9781785925566)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
K.L. Aspden
Help! My Feelings Are Too Big!
Making Sense of Yourself and the World After a Difficult Start in Life - for Children with Attachment Issues
E-Book
03/2019
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
€13.99
Available for download
Persons
K. L. Aspden currently works in her private practice, Creative Counselling. She is also a tutor and teaches the creativity module to counselling students. K. L. Aspden lives by the sea in East Sussex.
Content
Foreword by Louise Michelle Bomber. Introduction. PART ONE 1. How It Started - A Story of Two Babies 2. Two Toddlers. 3. Young Children At Home. 4. At School. 5. Feelings...Oh No! 6. Looking for Evidence 7. Footprints in Our Brain. PART TWO. 8. Getting Help . 9. Finding Your Team.