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Educational and Child Psychology: 25 (2) Psychological Wellbeing. Click on the link to download the articles you are interested in.
Editorial: Sue Roffey, Toni Noble, Phil Stringer
Pro-social behaviour in pre-school: Amanda Bateman and Amelia Church
The promotion of emotional wellbeing for children, parents and families. What gets in the way: Ruth Schmidt Neven
Emotional literacy and the ecology of school wellbeing: Sue Roffey
Empowering learning support assistants to enhance the emotional wellbeing of children in school: Sheila Burton
Wellbeing in deaf children: Maria Gascon-Ramos
A positive psychology approach to tackling bullying in secondary schools. Andrew Richards, Ian RIvers and Jacqui Akhurst
Developing student wellbeing and resilience using a group process: Danuta Chessor
Promoting the emotional wellbeing and resilience of refugee parents: Mala German
Self-concept for psychological wellbeing and unlocking human potential: Rhonda Craven and Herbert Marsh
Positive educational practices framework: Toni Noble and Helen McGrath
Programs & other resources
The Gatehouse project has some excellent resources for both planning and implementing social and emotional learning in your school. Click on the link to download.
Click on the link to the resources provided for SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) Primary Strategy/
Learner Wellbeing Framework from South Australia - click on the link.
'Robyn Hromek's Game Time: Games to Promote Social and Emotional Resilience for Children aged 4 to 14' is available from Footprint Books www.footprint.com.au Promoting emotional resilience. Thirteen therapeutic boardgames for children aged 4-14 covering issues like relationships, teasing, anger management, encouraging others, being strong and smart, anxiety, success at school, depression and happiness - Australian versions. More information on www.theragames.com.au
Whole Child is now available from Rigby. This is a resource for lower, middle and upper primary students covering the topics of emotions, getting along, family and community, citizenship and human rights and health and wellbeing. The aim is to "achieve social and emotional wellbeing in your school." It comprises a poster pack, literature by authors such as Libby Gleeson, guided discussions and circle time activities.
These are some suppliers of very useful materials:
- St Lukes Resources (www.innovativeresources.org) publish a variety of card packs, sticker sets and other materials
- Inyahead press (www.inyahead.com.au) distribute and publish many Circle Time and other relevant books, including some Lucky Duck publications in Australia
- Footprint Books distribute Sage publications who have recently bought Lucky Duck so further titles are also available from them.
You can download some excellent free resources for exploring emotions visually from the Kids EQ site in the US. Click here
Helen McGrath and Toni Noble (2003): The Bounce Back! series: a classroom resiliency program. Pearson Education Australia. Designed for students from kindergarten to year 8, it aims to develop a more positive supportive and pro-social school culture, and improved mental health for all students. The four volumes include a teacher's handbook, and three which each concentrate on an age group: Lower Primary, Middle Primary, Upper Primary/Junior Secondary.
Leanne Harsh has written some excellent children's books dealing with issues of loss and family breakdown. You can buy three separately or all together for $36.75. You can contact Leanne here
Circles of Friends is a peer support group intervention to promote the inclusion of children experiencing difficulties.
Peer mediation: Student training modules. (1998), Sydney: NSW Department of Education and Training
Strategies for Safer Schools. (1995), Sydney: NSW Department of Education and Training
The National Coalition Against Bullying has a resource site at "Buddy Bear and the Better Buddies program", which teaches children to care about the other children around them.
WISE Research (wellbeing In Schools Evaluation Research) is a mental health evaluation service that has been developed for use in both primary and secondary schools. It is a whole-school program to assess the social and emotional wellbeing of ALL children and adolescents. The program has been designed with an understanding of the limited resources and time pressures on schools to-day. In addition to a full statistical analysis, staff and parents are provided with a clear, easy-to-read report exploring wellbeing and mental health within their school. Separate evaluations of teaching staff are also available.
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