Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional

Margot Sunderland is Founding Director of the Centre for Child Mental Health, London. She is also Head of the Children and Young People Section of The United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling. In addition, she formed the research project, ‘Helping Where it Hurts’ which offers free therapy and counselling to troubled children in several primary schools in North London. She is a registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and registered Child Therapeutic Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer. Margot is also Principal of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education – a fully accredited Higher Education College running a Diploma course in Child Therapy and Masters Degree courses in Arts Psychotherapy and Arts in Education and Therapy. Margot is a published poet and author of two non-fiction books – one on Dance (Routledge Theatre Arts, New York and J Garnet Miller, England) and the other called Draw on Your Emotions (Speechmark Publishing, Milton Keynes and Erickson, Italy).

"Sunderland's whole series is excellent. I find I recommend each one... Good writing, wonderful artwork, a real impetus to use the material." — Adoption Today"A vital resource for all parents and child professionals." — Families Magazine"Margot's books are digestible teaching aids for anyone working with children - a resource that would be beneficial in every school both for qualified and non-qualified staff." — Special Children

• The titles in this extraordinary series are a vital resource. Nine practical guidebooks, each with an accompanying beautifully illustrated storybook, have been written to help children (aged 4-12) think about and connect with their feelings.These guides and stories enable teachers, parents and professionals to recognise the unresolved feelings behind a child's behaviour and to respond correctly to help.Each guidebook focuses on a key feeling and is written in very user-friendly language. The exercises, tasks and ideas for things to say and do are specifically designed to help children think about, express and process the feeling to the point of resolution. Helping Children who are Anxious or Obsessional is a guidebook to help children who: Are insecure or worry too much Suffer from phobias or nightmares Find it difficult to concentrate to let go and have fun Have suffered a trauma Are worryingly good or seem like little adults Use order and routine as a way of coping with 'messy' feelings Retreat into dullness as a way of managing their being in the world Develop obsessive-compulsive behaviour in order to ward off their too-powerful feelings.