Blob Tree

Blob Trees are a visual stimulus, which consists of many blob figures on or around a tree. The tree represents a setting, such as a school or group, and the blobs represent different emotions and feelings.  The tools can be used in a variety of settings and is especially useful in the classroom. Teachers can easily start a discussion by asking children’s which blob they relate to, especially since there is no right or wrong interpretation of the blobs. The tools give children’s an opportunity to share their issues and what they’re feeling. It has been scientifically shown to be effective as a means of expressing feelings and emotions with children, and adults.

The Blob Tree can be easily used in the classroom by both teachers and children as no professional training is necessary. However, Blob Tree does offer blob training sessions either online or in person so that teachers can become experts on the communication tools and use them to their highest potential.

Minimum: £3 for a single stimulus.

Maximum: £30 for a pack of stimuli.

Boxall Profile

The Boxall Profile is an online resource for the assessment of a child’s social, emotional and behavioural development in all educational settings. The Boxall Profile is a two-part assessment tool designed to track the progress of cognitive development and behavioural traits of children through their education. The two-part checklist, which is completed by staff, is quick and identifies the levels of skills the children possess to access learning.

Minimum: Tokens for individual users (1 token = 1 assessment and 1 learning plan) aimed at users looking to assess a small number of children in their setting. 20 tokens for £30.00+ VAT.

Maximum: Yearly subscription for organisations;

Up to 300 children £325.00+ VAT.

301-600 children £500.00+VAT.

601-2000 children £900.00+VAT.

Child and Youth Resiliency Measure

The Child & Youth Resilience Measure is a questionnaire that measures overall resilience, as well as three subcategories that influence resilience processes; individual traits, relationship to caregiver(s), and contextual factors that facilitate a sense of belonging. It is available for children aged five years and above.

Free, but prospective users should seek permission. This is obtained by registering to use the copyrighted scale by completing the online registration form on the Resilience Research Centre Web page

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any child who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Circle of Friends works by mobilising the children’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at child’s aged 5 to 18 years.

Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99.

Edstart

Edstart Sports Coaching -provider of sport and physical activity to primary schools and inclusive holiday, breakfast & after school camp.

ELSA Support Intervention Package

ELSA offer a range of downloadable and printable resources to support social and emotional learning, through both 1:1 and group work.

£1 - £30, depending on the resource.

Emotion Coaching

Emotion Coaching is a whole school approach, which focuses on using emotional validation strategies when a child is upset, angry or distressed. Through empathetic engagement the child's emotional state is verbally acknowledged and validated, promoting a sense of security and feeling 'felt'.  This activates changes in the child's neurological system and allows the child to calm down, physiologically and psychologically.

Emotional Literacy Assessment

A standardised assessment measuring child’s (aged 7 to 16 years) emotional literacy and providing ideas for intervention. The assessment is designed to discover where child’s strengths and weaknesses are in the area of emotional literacy, in order to provide a better understanding of these competences and, where necessary, to highlight areas for intervention. The assessments take the form of three checklists: Child, teacher and parent. The checklists can be carried out either on photocopiable paper forms, or onscreen using the supplied CD. The assessment also provides information about techniques to develop and support child’s, with specific activities to support each of the five subscales.

£157.45

Emotionally Friendly Schools

Emotionally Friendly Settings is a flexible whole-setting approach to improving children’s emotional health and well-being. The programme will support you to effectively identify and respond to a broad range of emotional needs of children, raising their well-being to enable them to succeed and thrive.

£500 - £995.

Contact: emotionallyfriendlysettings@salford.gov.uk for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.

FRIENDS Programme

FRIENDS is a cognitive behavioural intervention that develops child’s emotional resilience and prevents or intervenes early in the course of anxiety and depression. It does so by developing social and emotional skills to effectively cope with challenging situations. FRIENDS has been delivered to an estimated 800,000 child’s and adolescents worldwide and has been noted as one of the most robustly supported programmes for internalising disorders. The intervention is aimed at child’s aged 4 - 16 years.

Online training: £150 per participant or £1,500 group training (up to 50 individuals).

Incredible 5-point scale and the Anxiety Curve

www.5pointscale.com was developed to share information about the use of the 5-point scale and other systems to teach social and emotional concepts to children and adults.  Both strategies are really helpful in understanding the child’s presenting behaviour and planning strategies and actions for de-escalation. Although the emphasis of the website is on autistic children, both strategies are also applicable for children with SEMH needs.

BOOKS - THE INCREDIBLE 5-POINT SCALE (5pointscale.com)

Available on Amazon £14:50

Incredible Years

Incredible Years parent training intervention is an evidence-based series of programmes focused on strengthening parenting competencies (monitoring, positive discipline, confidence) and fostering parents’ involvement in children’s school experiences in order to promote children’s academic, social and emotional competencies and reduce conduct problems. The Parent programmes are grouped according to age: BASIC Early Childhood (3-8 years) and BASIC School-Age (6-12 years).

Many downloads are available for free.

Lego Therapy

Lego-based therapy (LeGoff et al 2014) is an evidence-based approach that aims to develop social communication skills in autistic child’s, such as sharing, turn-taking, following rules, using names and problem-solving. In practice, child’s work in groups of three with each participant having a distinct role to build a Lego model collaboratively.

A comprehensive guide to setting up LEGO Therapy groups is available to promote social skills in autistic children and related conditions through group LEGO building.

Whilst Lego-based therapy is aimed at autistic children, the Primary SEMH Team have modified the intervention to meet SEMH needs.

£10 - £30 for each Lego set.

Workbook: £14.99

Contact the Primary SEMH Team via the Inclusion Allocation Panel for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.

No Worries

No Worries is a practical resource to reduce anxiety in children. There are two resources: one for KS1-2 and one for KS3-4.

The programme uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and consists of 1½ days training delivered by the Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire Council Educational Psychology Service, together with an accompanying manual.

Please contact Shropshire Educational Psychology Service for training:eps@shropshire.gov.uk / 01743 258414

Please contact Shropshire Educational Psychology Service for training: eps@shropshire.gov.uk / 01743 258414

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Early Identification & Early Intervention

A Bury intervention. Contact Cath Atherden or Lesley Harris for more information. This also fits well with the Primary SEMH Team Observation for wellbeing and involvement and safe base plan.

Free. A Bury authority initiative.

Nurture Groups

Nurture groups are an in-school, teacher-led psychosocial intervention of groups of less than 12 children that aim to replace missing or distorted early nurturing experiences for children. They achieve this by immersing children in an accepting and warm environment which helps develop positive relationships with both teachers and peers.

A part-time nurture group (from 3-15 hours a week) costs an average of £48.58 an hour to run.  A full-time nurture group (16+ hours) costs an average of £54.89 an hour to run.

Observation for wellbeing and Involvement

An observation tool that can be used to identify the areas of SEMH difficulty a child experiences. Contact the Primary SEMH Team for further details. The observations can then be used to create a safe base plan.

Free. The Primary SEMH Team can provide training on how to implement this.

Philosophy for Children (Topsy Page)

A range of resources to support the development of effective child talk. Topsy also offers a Talk Audit where she will visit your school and analyse child and teacher talk, then provide recommendations.

£300 for a two-day training course.

Contact for school package prices.

Pupil Attitudes to Self and School (PASS)

PASS is an all-age attitudinal survey that provides a measurement of a child’s attitudes towards themselves as learners and their attitudes towards school. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete as child’s read and comment on 50 statements. The PASS can be used with child’s aged 4 - 18 years.

Primary setup £150.00 per school.

Secondary setup £250.00 per school.

Individual child survey £1.00 per child.

Contact details: To buy PASS and discuss requirements, call 0330 123 5375.

Reducing Anxiety Management Plan (RAMP) 

Information about developing a RAMP.  

There is also a resource manual to support with this. 

Free online resources 

Textbook is £41.99 

Relax Kids

Home - Relax Kids - Official Website

Online resources are available, some free but mostly costed from £9.99.

Schools and Childrens Health Education Unit (SHEU) surveys

SHEU provides a range of questionnaires that are suitable for children and adolescents. The administrator has the option to choose from a range of topics about lifestyle and wellbeing. There are surveys for different groups such as children, parents/carers and staff and governors. The questionnaires can be adapted for special educational needs or English as an additional language status. SHEU is suitable for primary and secondary school children.

Prices can range from less than £100 to carry out a primary school parent perception survey online, to some hundreds of pounds to do a full lifestyle survey on paper with secondary school children in two-year groups.

Sitting still like a frog.

Mindfulness and meditation exercises by Eline Snel. The book and CD can be used to teach meditation techniques such as breathing and calming, and also have very helpful scripts to talk about worries and feelings.

Sitting still like a frog: Mindfulness exercises for children (and their parents). Eline Snel.

Available on Amazon for £8:75.

Free activities from the book are also available via Shambhala Publications Free Activities Download from Sitting Still Like a Frog Activity Book - Shambhala Pubs

Socially Speaking

Socially Speaking will help you to introduce and practise skills your child’s need to develop and maintain relationships and to lead independent lives outside the school context. It is a social skills programme that lasts a whole school year and is divided into three units: let’s communicate, let’s be friends, and let’s practise. It is suitable for 7–11 years and older children with SEN.

£20.

Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS)

The Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales enable targeted assessment of individuals and small groups to help evaluate social skills, problem behaviours, and academic competence.  Three different forms are available to be completed by a teacher, parent, and child. The scales are suitable for ages 3 to 18 years.

SSIS Rating Scales Manual £136.49.

SSIS forms available in bundles of 25 hard copies or computer entry forms.

Price of bundles varies from £65.99 - £78.59 depending upon type of form and age-range e.g. 25 hard copies teacher forms for ages 3 – 18 costs £65.99.

S.S. Grin

S.S. GRIN (Social Skills Group Intervention) is a targeted intervention. Designed in a small group format, it addresses bullying, victimisation, and social-emotional competence. Specific social-emotional skills are taught through dynamic instruction and practice. With fully scripted lesson plans, group leaders are guided in how to use modelling, positive reinforcement, and cognitive re-framing to support the specific skills of each session. The S.S. GRIN programmes are appropriate for school, after-school, community, and clinic settings. The techniques used during the programme include lectures, role plays, brainstorming, games, and many other hands-on activities like collaborative drawing. The programmes have been tested and proven effective as a weekly intervention, but they can be adapted to meet the specific needs of a setting. This intervention is aimed at 5- to 16-year-olds.

£85 per site per version (any staff member can access the materials).

Starving the Anger Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People (Gremlin and Thief CBT Workbooks)

This workbook supports children to control their anger effectively. Made up of engaging and fun activities, it helps them to understand why they get angry and how their anger affects themselves and others and teaches them how to manage angry thoughts and behaviours. The programme is based on effective cognitive behavioural therapy principles, can be worked through by a child on their own or with a practitioner or parent, and is suitable for children aged 5-9.

£13.00.

Starving the Anxiety Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management for Young People (Gremlin and Thief CBT Workbooks)

Starving the Anxiety Gremlin is a resource to help children’s understand different types of anxiety and how to manage them, including panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, generalised anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Based on cognitive behavioural principles that link thoughts, feelings and behaviours, the techniques described help children to understand why they get anxious and how they can 'starve' their anxiety gremlin in order to manage their anxiety. This workbook uses fun activities and real-life stories and can be used by children aged 5-9 on their own or with a parent or practitioner.

£12.00.

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

A brief behavioural screening measure for early detection of strengths and emotional problems in child’s and adolescents. It covers five key areas of emotional development: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, pro-social behaviour. A full can profile to be gathered as it includes views from parents and staff as well as the child.

Free

Superflex® A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum

A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents, and therapists ways to teach children with social and communication difficulties (undiagnosed or diagnosed, such as Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD, high-functioning autism or similar). The three-part cognitive behavioural curriculum helps children develop further awareness of their own thinking and social behaviours and learn strategies to help them develop better self-regulation across a range of behaviours. The curriculum works best with primary school children as well as with less developmentally mature older children’s who respond to visual books.

£47.60.

Think Good, Feel Good (2nd Edition)

This is a workbook that provides a range of flexible and highly appealing materials that can be used to structure and facilitate work with children. In addition to covering the core elements used in CBT programmes, it incorporates ideas from the third wave CBT therapies of mindfulness, compassion focused therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. It also includes a practical series of exercises and worksheets that introduce specific concepts and techniques. This is a workbook written by an experienced professional with all clinically tested material. It includes a wide range of downloadable materials. A companion guide is also available.

Workbook £32.99. The book contains many practical materials which can be photocopied or freely downloaded from the online website www.wiley.com/thinkgoodfeelgood.

Companion Guide £27.99.

Time to Talk

Time to Talk has been specifically created to teach and develop social interaction skills and improve oral language skills for children aged 4 - 6 years old. Time to talk contains over 40 sessions which are designed for children who will be seen two to three times each week. The book will also help teachers to develop the basis of interaction with the help of a friendly and approachable character, Ginger the Bear who is a core feature in all the activities.

£17 - £25.

Workbook available to buy in a variety of places.

Trauma Informed Schools Approach

Trauma Informed Schools UK

Zones of Regulation

Zones of Regulation is an intervention that supports the development of self-regulation and emotional control.

Free resources on website.