Children's Mental Health Week 2024
8th February 2024
The theme for this year's Children's Mental Health Week is 'My Voice Matters'. Children's Mental Health Week (5th-11th February, 2024) is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK. To discover more, click here.
In support of this, we've selected some key books for educators on the mental health and well-being of young learners. Check out the below titles from some of our education publishers...
Asserting a Culture of Child Safety
Child protection training, undertaken by educators, maintains a general knowledge of what to do if concerns arise. This book aims to help the sector take a great leap forward, to be working from a position of earlier identification and prevention.
Published by Amba Press
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Grief and Loss in Schools
Supports teachers and schools by providing discussion topics, play scripts and engaging activities to allow students to work through thoughts and feelings they may be having. With this book, Hazel Edwards hopes to dispel the taboo and uncomfortable feelings associated with this subject, and encourage schools and teachers to open up conversations.
Published by Amba Press
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Issues
Contains a collection of scripts, discussion prompts and activities for use in the classroom, as a way of opening up students to understand and process topical and sensitive issues in their world, from a range of perspectives.
Published by Amba Press
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Powerful Student Care
If we want to really understand our students so that we can optimize instruction for them, we must think of each individual student as distinctive and irreplaceable. From this core principle springs the radically humane framework for meaningful teaching that is the subject of this book: Powerful Student Care.
Published by ASCD
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Addressing Anxiety in Young Learners
Addresses the types, causes and triggers of childhood anxiety and outlines strategies and treatments to assist with these behaviors at home and in the classroom to create an understanding and cohesive environment where the child can feel safe, happy and ready to learn.
Published by Brookes Publishing Co.
Observing and Recording the Behavior of Young Children
This classic text has been helping teachers better understand young children’s behaviour for over 6 decades. Now available in an updated seventh edition, this popular resource is designed to deepen pre- and inservice teachers’ understanding of children (birth-age 8) as unique individuals within a developmental context.
Published by Teachers College Press
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