the Illustrated Social Worker

23/06/2025

Why ive been quiet….

05/06/2025

one of my favourite sets to illustrate….

the su***de conversation cards ….
putting dark, lonely feelings into emotive shared experience…

03/06/2025

Knowing red flags can help you recognise the signs to an unhealthy relationship dynamic to catch it before it gets out of hand. Red flags are not always a sign of the end.. People may have poor behaviour and be unintentionally causing harm. The key difference between a red flag to get away from and a red flag that may change is just that, change.

If someone is unintentionally having you feel say controlled - when you approach them about it, they will apologise, acknowelge the problem and change their behaviour. Red flags to walk away from will have you double guessing yourself, have you feeling uncertain, anxious, maybe even blamed.

If things dont feel right, chances are, something might be up. Talk to someone trusted about it and make a plan of how you want to approach…

now must make…
Green flags…

see also : toxic communication
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30/05/2025

Sometimes i like different requests cause it sends my brain down a different direction…

feel free to use….

up next.. (hopefully) is R.a.d. and E.b.s.a and i need to finish the asd series.
Unless i get distracted…! 😳 😮 😜

28/05/2025

P.L.A.C.E. -Dan Hughes
A trauma informed approach to children and young people. Goals are to build trusting relationships, emotional connections, containment and a sense of security.

26/05/2025

ANGER…. is a normal human emotion…. that sometimes gets out of hand.

not sure how i feel,about this one..!

25/05/2025

one of the propelling infographics that started me on my ‘professional’ resources journey.

Realising i do things differently…. and that different kinda works..!

Sexual health is a favourite topic- gathing and grouping old resources, and making some new and interesting work… keep your eyes peeled…!

25/05/2025

Apologies for the overload of posts...! But I'm going through my old computer files, digging up old resources and updating all my stuff to the Hairy Phish teachers pay teachers.

Im putting up as much free and lower price stuff.

This one is based on Marte Mao principals of baby and child engagement.

24/05/2025

For people working in youth facing su***de and self harm.
This kit is free to use and share.

This kit was originally created as a box kit for young people to use to help them process hard feelings. Box included craft items, drawing items, play dough, fidgets... whatever supported them to choose safety over self harm.The kit cards are based off the app calm harm -5 minute and 15 minute distr...

24/05/2025

Ways to help be calm, come back to calm and de-stress….!

24/05/2025

Contemplating doing some emotions infographics…. Like mental health but maybe just for some of the harder emotions/concepts like shame, anger, guilt, grief, self- isolation, hurt, lonely…. Etc..

Thoughts??

A decent amount of the destructive sense of self ive seem stems from anger.. so to normalise the hard stuff..?!?

Maybe to pair with a what it looks like, what i can do.. hmmmm

24/05/2025

All ideas gotta start somewhere…….

Seeing how many calm down strategies i can visualise in one image!

Fyi thats a lollypop