ATA Specialist Council of School Counsellors

Children are our future, they are the people who will continue to shape and form humanity, and yet we often fail to show them how to survive and thrive in an increasingly manic and chaotic world – perhaps because we ourselves are struggling to understand and cope with our rapidly changing reality.

While failure to help our children develop healthily can manifest through the obvious routes of instability, insecurity, neglect, abuse and abandonment, it can also be caused by quite the opposite. Hypervigilant, over-protective parents render a child helpless, unconfident, unable to get their own needs for volition, competence, achievement and status met, and therefore vulnerable to anxiety and depression.

How best to help?
Human Givens College offers several excellent courses where you can learn much more about how to help children and youngsters:
https://www.humangivens.com/college/all-courses/?category=children-teens

One of them being - How to create healing stories for children - tutored by Pamela Woodford, who has decades of experience working therapeutically with children and adolescents. This is a live online course - find out more: https://www.humangivens.com/college/how-to-create-healing-stories-for-children-live-online-training/

Help children get their essential emotional needs met, as explained here...

“If society is to successfully reduce the levels of anti-social behaviour, family breakdowns, mental illness and addictions, all our children need to be raised in environments where their innate psychological needs are met."

“For children to be able to flourish and behave well, they need to feel secure, be given and receive appropriate attention, be able to delay gratification, take increasing levels of responsibility for their own behaviour, be stretched, develop a sense of autonomy and, of course, have fun!"

“For all this to happen they also need to be emotionally well connected to their family, peers, school and the wider community; and be given a sense of status that reflects their effort and achievements.”

Our 9 essential emotional needs are: https://www.humangivens.com/human-givens/about/what-are-the-human-givens/

Check Out Dr. Greg Wells one of our Keynotes at Breathe!

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