Inspiring Transformations: Five Steps to Healing Children’s Troubled Emotions

by C.J. Allen

For parents and professionals facing the daily struggle of dealing with a child’s difficult behaviour, this book provides a simple, yet profound, method of helping children work with their challenging emotions. Combining her understanding of both modern child psychology and traditional Buddhist teachings on compassion and mindfulness, CJ Allen has developed a way of working with children that goes beyond merely managing poor behaviour and, instead, transforms it. This straightforward five-step method introduces a compassionate, mindful approach to interactions with children. Whether you are a parent or a child professional, your input as a trusted adult in a child’s life can have a deep and lasting impact on their social and emotional development. By adopting this approach in your communications with a child, you can make sure that impact is a positive one. This book shows parents and practitioners how to make changes in the way they communicate with children that will inspire the child to transform their negative behaviours and become the best version of themselves that they can be. When you have read this book, you will understand • Compassion can dissolve barriers between you and the child and open up the space for healing to take place; • Mindfulness can empower your professional practice, infusing it with clarity and intuition; • Compassion can enrich your communication with a child and help you create a warmer, more open connection with them; • Mindfulness can help calm the child’s emotions and behaviour; • Combining compassion and mindfulness can encourage the child to understand their emotions much more deeply and empower them to take responsibility for their behaviour and, in doing this, they can go beyond simply managing their behaviour to actually transforming it. After training as a counsellor in the 1990's, author, CJ Allen entered the hard end of children's services, specialising in therapeutic interventions for young people with challenging behaviour and affective mental disorders. Her work has involved developing and implementing services and programmes to support the most vulnerable children living in some of the toughest neighbourhoods in London. She has led teams of social care key workers and psychologists/counsellors, both within local authority services and in the charity sector, supervising case-loads, as well as working directly with individuals and groups.

165 pages, Paperback

Published September 23, 2017