Margit Brennan Counselling + Psychotherapy

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Control is the natural response to lack of safety .

What Masking Looks Like

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AFTER SCHOOL RESTRAINT COLLAPSE PACK

Resource to support children and their families with after school restraint collapse. This pack includes explainers on An Introduction to Emotional Regulation, Co-Regulation, The Brain and Emotional Regulation, How Your Brain Keeps You Safe, Managing Meltdowns, The Survival Instinct, Creating a Calm Space, Reflection Upon an Incident, Using a Social Script and The Science of 3 Good Things. A 9 page social script can be personalised to the individual child and reinforces healthy habits after school to diffuse restraint collapse. Reflection tool to brainstorm events and adopt coping skills moving forward. Visual resources to capture emotions, stop and think as a prompt as well as calming skills visual prompt.
Useful tool for professionals working with parents also.

Electronic download available at https://thecontentedchild.co.uk/product/after-school-restraint-collapse-pack/

Develop a learning profile that you can share with everyone who works with your child. This profile should be continually updated with collaboration from all those close to the child. This becomes the protocol for helping everyone support your child to feel “safe, accepted, and competent.” If I had my way, it would be a major addition to the IEP.

Parenting Self-Talk When Your Child Has Had an Angry Outburst

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When Children Say “Leave Me Alone” Say…

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What to Say to Your Child Instead of “How Was School?”

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We can't stop laughing at this post from ! So true and hilarious. Thanks for the humor and wisdom.
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The Importance of Positive Discipline

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POSITIVE APPROACHES TO MANAGING YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIOUR AT HOME with Niki Green.

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND - 14 DAYS UNLIMITED VIEWING and DOWNLOAD RESOURCE PACK

‘What we sometimes see as a failure to behave properly, is actually a failure to communicate properly’

This webinar can help parents and carers in understanding and encouraging positive behaviour in their children whilst being able to maintain a strong relationship with the child. The webinar will

Educate around what is and what drives behaviour
To understand the child’s needs and how to better manage emotions, both theirs and yours
Effective discipline strategies
Managing behaviour in collaborative and positive ways
Explore natural and logical consequences and the reasoning behind them
Setting limits and which behaviours to prioritise
Maintaining a strong relationship with your child whilst still enforcing boundaries
Looking after yourself as a parent
There is an electronic resource pack download in order to support moving forward from the webinar.

https://thecontentedchild.co.uk/product/positive-approaches-to-managing-behaviour/

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It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist. ~Alexander Lowen

(Book: The Voice of the Body https://amzn.to/40S5X4R)

(Art: Photograph of Jennie Magill comforting her crying daughter by Grey Villet)