Understanding and Managing Children’s Behaviour through Group Work Ages 5-7: A child-centred programme, Routledge 2014
Understanding and Managing Children’s Behaviour through Group Work Ages 7 – 11: A child-centred programme, Routledge 2013
Understanding and Managing Children’s Behaviour through Group Work Ages 7 – 11 A child-centred programme published by Routledge April 2016.
100 Strategies to Support Children’s Behaviour and Emotional Wellbeing – A Practical Toolkit for the School Year published by Routledge September 2023.
Helping Children to Manage their Feelings and Behaviour in Pre School Learning Alliance (2013) Supporting Children’s Experience of Loss and Separation
Nursery Business Magazine:
Leading a team that gets along
7th April 2017
Nursery World Magazine:
Positive Relationships: Behaviour : In the acts
An extract from my book discussing some of the underlying reasons behind difficult behaviour and how it can best be managed by adults 11th July 2016
Positive Relationships: Behaviour : Mummy do it!
Do young children consciously reject one parent and cling to the other?, 1st November 2011
Positive Relationships : Behaviour: I’m Off
Even young children may threaten to pack their bags and run away, 4th October 2011
Positive Relationships : Behaviour: No! No! No!
How do you deal constructively with a young child’s refusal to do what they’re asked? 9th August 2011
Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Home time!
Why does a child throw a tantrum at collection time? 18th May 2011
Positive Relationships: Behaviour : Coats on?
Why do children resist wearing coats and if it’s necessary how should adults persuade them to? 16th March 2011
Positive Relationships: Behaviour: At the end of the day
Separating from a parent can be difficult for a child, but what does it mean when they are upset at being reunited? 19th January 2011
Positive Relationships: Play Therapy : Exploring feelings
Families can find ways to resolve problems in their relationships with the help of a professional play therapist 8th December 2010
Teach Nursery Magazine:
Using reflective language as a behaviour management tool, Issue 6.6 Published 2nd September 2016
Creating an emotionally aware staff team, Issue 3.4 Published 13th May 2013
Promoting emotional wellbeing in the staff team, Issue 3.5 Published 24th June 2013
Creating an emotionally focused environment, Issue 3.6 Published 2nd September 2013
Three part series on the impact of trauma on young children:
- Gone but not forgotten: Supporting children affected by bereavement, Issue 2.4 June 2012
- Supporting children affected by parents separating or divorcing, Issue 2.5 September 2012
- Trouble at home: Supporting children affected by domestic violence, Issue 2.6 November 2012
Managing changes in the nursery day: Strategies to support children’s emotional wellbeing, Issue 1.7 November 2011
Managing the nursery day: Strategies to support children’s emotional wellbeing, Issue 1.6 September 2011
Teach primary magazine
From exclusion to inclusion, Issue 7.3, Published 8th April 2013
What is this child trying to tell me? Issue 7.4, Published13th May 2013
Using reflective language with children, Issue 7.5, Published 24th June 2013
My needs don’t matter- the danger of young children being people pleasers, Issue 7.6, Published 2nd September 2013
Play Therapy Magazine
From post it notes to publication, Issue 74, April 2013
The joys of primary schools, Issue 81, April 2015
From snatching to sharing …. the benefits of emotionally focused group work, Issue 86, June 2016