This humorous, punchy book meets the needs of those working with young people in schools, youth clubs, social service provision - in fact anywhere adults and young people interact. This is serious and important work made accessible.

Within the structure of the programme there are five habits that are continually practised:

" Being calm

" Having energy

" Having courage

" Giving care

" Making plans.

The second part of the book considers:

" Anger

" Worry

" Helplessness

" Grief

" Alcohol and tobacco.

There are full facilitator's notes and the worksheets, activities and quizzes are presented in an enjoyable and lively style.

Bob Bellhouse began his career as a teacher in mainstream schools before finding his niche working in alternative settings with marginalised young people. For the past 15 years, he has worked as a researcher and writer, specialising in education. He has an underlying interest in finding ways that help children and youth become deeply interested (engaged) in school and learning.



Includes CD-Rom

By combining the traditional classroom activity of reading stories with Circle Time, these activities provide students with opportunities to practise listening, expressing ideas, asking questions, using imagination, making predictions, experimenting with thinking and learning strategies and collaborating with other students.

Each of the six stories in this book is linked to a series of key questions, games and activities. These help the students to explore the stories' contexts (time and place) and patterns (plot and choice) and to analyze the characters and their own emotional responses. All the stories and activities are easily printable from the accompanying CD-rom.

Written for teachers in primary settings, this book is linked to the National Literary Strategy and the PSHE curriculum.




Empathy

by Bob Bellhouse, Glenda Johnston, and Andrew Fuller

Published 8 June 2005
Includes CD-Rom

Empathy is a fundamental building block for the positive development and mental health of children. It is central to the development of conscience, love, friendship and kindness. This programme supports the encouragement and teaching of empathy and resilience and schools will reap the benefits in their students′ achievements.

Identifying key elements that help young people to develop empathic feelings and behaviour, it helps schools to:

o create structures that promote connectedness and belonging

o provide learning experiences that build excitement about learning and hopefulness and possibility for their futures

Activities include ′The Circle of Friendship′, which builds empathy into the day-to-day operation of the classroom in a highly motivating and visual way. All 10 sessions include teacher notes, experiential activities, worksheets, games and reflective questions that will encourage young people to explore the different elements of empathic behaviour. Many more ideas for developmental work are also included.

Bob Bellhouse is a teacher, researcher, writer and publisher, Andrew Fuller is a Clinical Psychologist, and Glenda Johnston is an Educational Psychologist. All three are based in Australia.


Heart Masters Pack

by Bob Bellhouse

Published 30 March 2005
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The Heart Masters series - A programme for the promotion of Resilience and Emotional Intelligence.

Bob Bellhouse Teacher, researcher, writer and publisher, Andrew Fuller Clinical Psychologist, Victoria, Australia and Glenda Johnston Educational Psychologist, Victoria, Australia

The Heart Masters series provides schools with an exciting way to build resilience and emotional intelligence in their students.

Each volume provides the teacher or facilitator with lesson plans designed to develop the following key aspects of emotional intelligence: the ability to read and take into consideration the feelings of others; an awareness of our own feelings; the ability to regulate or calm our feelings; a sense of contentedness and belonging.

The programme has a strong language focus with emphasis on writing, reading, speaking and listening. Every session has a core activity, discussion questions, photocopiable worksheets and habit builders.

Packed with stories and activities aimed at creating a sense of belonging for young children in the classroom.

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Blue Book

A Programme for the Promotion of Emotional Intelligence and Resilience for School Children Aged 5 to 8

Book and CD

Packed with stories and activities aimed at creating a sense of belonging for young children in the classroom. The eight themes encourage: friendly behaviour; positive relationships; emotional literacy.

Each lesson has comprehensive teacher notes, activities, drama and role-play extension ideas and photocopiable resources.

2003 · 100 pages Paper (1-904315-08-9) · £18.99

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Red Book

A Programme for the Promotion of Emotional Intelligence and Resilience for School Children Aged 9 to 11

In the red book the key aspects of emotional intelligence covered include: team work; friendship; knowing your feelings and reading the feelings of others; positive self talk; the ability to regulate or calm our feelings.

The key concept of Habit Building activities are designed to teach students how to generalize the learned skills beyond the classroom into their lives.

Each lesson has comprehensive teacher notes, activities, drama and role-play extension ideas and photocopiable resources.

2002 · 158 pages Paper (1-904315-02-X) · £20.99

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Green Book

A Programme for the Promotion of Emotional Intelligence and Resilience for School Children Aged 12 to 14

In the green book the skills taught include: importance of peer acceptance; team working skills; increasing behavioural independence; increasing emotional independence; questioning parents ethical systems; coping with stress.

Each lesson has comprehensive teacher notes, activities, drama and role-play extension ideas and photocopiable resources.

A simple reporting /evaluation tool is included.

2002 · 192 pages Paper (1-904315-01-1) · £20.99


Snappy Ideas

by Bob Bellhouse, Andrew Fuller, and Glenda Johnston

Published 1 September 2004