The Wellbeing Zone

Children especially may be feeling a lot of worry during this time, uncertain of when they will return to school or see their friends and family again. With that in mind, we spoke to Clinical Psychologist Dr Helen Care, who has put this document together as the first in a series on helping you to explain the concepts of worry and anxiety to young children.

We spoke to Clinical Psychologist Dr Helen Care to find out some of her top tips and tricks for helping an anxious child to manage their worries.

We spoke with Clinical Psychologist Dr Helen Care for some helpful tips and advice for teenage students and parents about being okay whilst the schools are closed. 

We spoke with Dr Helen Care for some advice on how parents can help their children to cope during the Coronavirus pandemic (and other unsettling times). 

We spoke with Dr Helen Care (Clinical Psychologist) and she shares some advice for students and teens as schools are closed and upcoming exams have been cancelled.

We spoke with Clinical Psychologist Dr Helen Care who shares some advice for GCSE and A Level Students.

All of us, parents, teachers, carers and professionals, are working out how to think about and cope with the current situation. Working out how to explain it and talk about it to our children is always more difficult when our own emotions are involved too. We spoke with clinical psychologist Dr Helen Care and she shares some advice for parents on talking to children about the COVID-19 pandemic.

We spoke to Clinical Psychologist Dr Helen Care to find out some of her top tips and tricks for parents on helping prepare children for a return to school. 

Children, especially young children, can find talking about their feelings extremely difficult. They may be aware of a ‘bad’ or ‘good’ feeling but be unable to put words to it to specify what that feeling is or explain why they feel that way. It may also be quite overwhelming for them to talk about their difficult feelings or experiences in the first person. However, children are wonderful at playing and given the right circumstances, will use play to effectively communicate and process how they are feeling and what they have experienced.

Play Therapist Emma Brummell shares her advice on how parents and carers can  use play to help their children to process their feelings. 

Mindfulness can be a powerful tool in helping us move from a place of worry and anxiety to a more positive mindset, allowing us to experience the joy available in the here and now.

Play Therapist Emma Brummell who shares suggestions and activities that you can use to begin to help children to develop the skill of mindfulness.