.b Mindfulness

.b is a mindfulness curriculum for 11-18 year olds in schools. Each .b lesson (between 40 minutes and 1 hour) is designed for use in the classroom to teach a distinct mindfulness skill.

‘.b’ stands for ‘stop’ and ‘be’, capturing an important life-skill: being able to step back from the busy-ness of habitual activity and the relentless chatter of the mind. This offers greater space and clarity to make choices that support well-being in many ways. Mindfulness trains us to direct our attention to whatever is happening in the present moment: our breathing, other physical sensations, thoughts, emotions, or even everyday activities like walking and eating. This awareness means we can respond more skilfully to whatever the present moment throws at us.

On request from .b Mindfulness website.

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 young people which blob they relate to, especially since there is no right or wrong interpretation of the blobs. The tools give young people 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 young people.

The Blob Tree can be easily used in the classroom by both teachers and young people 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.

Bounce Forward

Formerly known as How to Thrive, bounce forward is the UK implementation of the Penn Resiliency Programme. They are a UK-based organisation who specialise in training schools to help young people become more resilient individuals using The Penn Resiliency Programme which is an intervention involving 18 hours of sessions based on the idea that beliefs about events activate and mediate our emotions and behaviours in situations. The programme teaches cognitive behaviours and social problem-solving skills. It encourages young people to challenge negative beliefs and use evidence to more accurately appraise situations and the behaviour of others. It also supports the development of effective coping mechanisms for individuals to use. This intervention is based at young people aged 5 to 16 years.

Costs vary depending on length and content of training and details can be found on the website.

Boxall Profile

The Boxall Profile is an online resource for the assessment of young peoples' 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 young people through their education. The two-part checklist, which is completed by staff, is quick and identifies the levels of skills the young people 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 young people in their setting. 20 tokens for £30.00+ VAT.

Maximum: Yearly subscription for organisations.

Up to 300 young people £325.00+ VAT.

301-600 young people £500.00+VAT.

601-2000 young people £900.00+VAT.

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any young person 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 young person’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at young people aged 5 to 18 years.

Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99.

Cool Connections with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Encouraging Self-esteem, Resilience and Well-being in Children and Young People Using CBT Approaches

Cool Connections is a workbook that provides a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to positively modifying the everyday thoughts and behaviours of young people aged 9 to 14. Combining a summary of CBT principles and step-by-step guidelines on how to use the materials appropriately with a mixture of games, handouts, home activities and therapeutic exercises, "Cool Connections" is designed to encourage resilience and self-esteem and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. This workbook is fully photocopiable.

£17

DEAL: Developing Emotional Awareness and Listening

DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people. DEAL includes lesson plans, activities, hand-outs, DEAL digital resources, teachers’ notes and staff training materials can all be accessed and downloaded at any time from Samaritans website.

Free

Elklan

Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). Their courses will enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL young people but especially those with speech and language difficulties. Delivered by local tutors throughout the UK they give practical advice and strategies that are also suitable for young people with English as an additional language and other special educational needs.

Elklan courses are run locally by the Salford Speech and Language Therapy Service. Courses run regularly throughout the year and can also delivered for individual schools. Please discuss training with your Link SLT.

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 young person is upset, angry or distressed. Through empathetic engagement the young person's emotional state is verbally acknowledged and validated, promoting a sense of security and feeling 'felt'.  This activates changes in the young person's neurological system and allows the young person to calm down, physiologically and psychologically.

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.

Emotionally Friendly Schools

Emotionally Friendly Settings  is a flexible whole-setting approach to improving young peoples’ emotional health and well-being. The programme will support you to effectively identify and respond to a broad range of emotional needs of young people, 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.

Emotional Literacy Assessment

A standardised assessment measuring young peoples' (aged 7 to 16 years) emotional literacy and providing ideas for intervention. The assessment is designed to discover where young peoples’ 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: Young people, 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 young people, with specific activities to support each of the five subscales.

£157.45

FRIENDS Programme

FRIENDS is a cognitive behavioural intervention that develops young peoples’ 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 young people and adolescents worldwide and has been noted as one of the most robustly supported programmes for internalising disorders. The intervention is aimed at young people aged 4 - 16 years.

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

HeartMath

HeartMath, which can be implemented by educators, clinicians or parents, usually consists of six to 12 sessions, although more sessions can be conducted as needed. Participants learn coherence-building techniques for emotional self-regulation, which teach them to focus on the physical area of the heart through deep, rhythmic breathing while thinking of positive feelings. This process is supported by emWave technology and using an ear or finger sensor connected to a computer running the emWave software, participants can view the different coherence levels produced by their heart rhythms (an indicator of physiological activity) in response to stressful and non-stressful thoughts. This visualisation allows them to monitor their pulse rates during different activities and learn how to self-regulate their emotions and maintain the breathing and heart rhythm pattern that is associated with non-stressful thoughts. The software also includes three age-appropriate games of varying length, which help participants to practise coherence-building techniques.

Site licences starts at £1500 per organisation.

Lego Therapy

Lego-based therapy (LeGoff et al 2014) is an evidence-based approach that aims to develop social communication skills in autistic young people, such as sharing, turn-taking, following rules, using names and problem-solving. In practice, young people 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 young people and related conditions through group LEGO building.

£10 - £30 for each Lego set.

Workbook: £14.99

Lions Quest Skills

Lions Quest programs use a social and emotional learning curriculum to teach character education, drug and bullying prevention, and service-learning through downloadable lesson plans.

£199 + postage for Teachers Curriculum Kit.

Mental Health First Aid Training

Mental Health First Aid training for staff will support their understanding of fostering positive peer relationships.

£125 per person for half day online training.

Reduced rates available for group training.

Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS)

The MSLSS was designed to provide a multidimensional profile of young people’s life satisfaction judgments. It is suitable for young people aged between 8-18 years.

Free for research use.

No Worries

No Worries is a practical resource to reduce anxiety in young people. 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 Educational Psychology Service for training: eps@shropshire.gov.uk / 01743 258414

Contact the Shropshire Educational Psychology Service for a quote:

eps@shropshire.gov.uk / 01743 258414

Nurture Groups

Nurture groups are an in-school, teacher-led psychosocial intervention of groups of less than 12 young people that aim to replace missing or distorted early nurturing experiences for both young people and young adults. They achieve this by immersing young people 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.

Philosophy for Children (Topsy Page)

A range of resources to support the development of effective young person talk. Topsy also offers a Talk Audit where she will visit your school and analyse young people 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 pupil’s attitudes towards themselves as learners and their attitudes towards school. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete as young people read and comment on 50 statements. The PASS can be used with young people aged 4 - 18 years.

Primary setup £150.00 per school.

Secondary setup £250.00 per school.

Individual young people survey £1.00 per young people.

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

Pyramid Club

Pyramid is a targeted club that supports young people who are shy, anxious and withdrawn and who therefore find it difficult to make friends and often underperform in school. Each club accommodates eight to 12 young people and runs as ten weekly sessions of one-and-a-half hours, delivered by trained club leaders who could be school staff (teaching assistants, learning mentors, etc.) or internal or external volunteers. The Pyramid model has been successfully used for over 20 years and operates in schools across the UK. It is owned and overseen by the University of West London. The pyramid club is aimed at young people aged 7 to 14 years old.

Training: £200 per school (up to three staff) for two half-day training sessions and materials.

Contact name: Bronach Hughes or the Salford Educational Psychology Service.

Contact details: bronach.hughes@uwl.ac.uk / 07810 853561.

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.

R Time

R Time is a structured programme that builds and enhances relationships for young people. Each R time session lasts 10 - 15 minutes and takes place once a week.

£3 - £70 per resource.

Schools and Students Health Education Unit (SHEU) surveys

SHEU provides a range of questionnaires that are suitable for young people. The administrator has the option to choose from a range of topics about lifestyle and wellbeing. There are surveys for different groups such as young people, 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 young people.

Contact details: sheu@sheu.org.uk

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 young people in two-year groups.

Second Step

Second Step is a whole-school approach to social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to help young people thrive.

See website for up to date pricing.

Smart Moves®

Smart Moves® is a programme of evidence-based short sessions to give young people small learn-able skills (Smart Moves) that increase resilience.

Free

Socially Speaking

Socially Speaking will help you to introduce and practise skills your young people 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 young people 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 young person. 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 young peoples 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 young person on their own or with a practitioner or parent, and is suitable for young people aged 10+.

£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 young people 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 young people 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 young people aged 10+ on their own or with a parent or practitioner.

£12.00.

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

This workbook helps young people aged 10+ to understand their feelings by explaining what depression is, how it develops and the impact it can have on the lives of young people. Based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy, this workbook aims to empower the reader to change how they think and act in order to manage their depression. Starving the Depression Gremlin can help support and inform wider therapeutic work with young people with depression, and it can be used independently or with a parent or practitioner.

£14.00.

Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale

A positively worded, holistic measure of young people's psychological and emotional wellbeing. SCWBS is developed by the Stirling Council Educational Psychology Service (UK). It is a positively worded measure of emotional and psychological wellbeing in young people. For young people and young people aged between 8-15 years.

Free

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

A brief behavioural screening measure for early detection of strengths and emotional problems in young people. 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 young people or young person.

Free

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 young people. 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.

Why Try?

The WhyTry program was created to provide simple, hands-on solutions for dropout prevention, violence prevention, truancy reduction, and increased academic success. The WhyTry curriculum utilizes a series of ten visual analogies that teach important life skills (e.g., decisions have consequences; dealing with peer pressure; obeying laws and rules; plugging in to support systems).

On request.

Zones of Regulation

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

Free resources on website.

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.