Caroline James Therapies

25/02/2022

If you are upset by the news, here is some advice to help you.

20/03/2021

A year and a bit ago before our first lockdown I was given the opportunity to participate on a Seasons for growth programme. Finally I’m now an accredited and authorised Seasons For Growth companion.
Season s for growth has been developed to assist young people, adults and their families to understand and manage the issues they experience because of significant change or loss in their lives.

13/01/2021

Very insightful and informative, but thankfully recognising a lot of practices I execute and implement already in my school setting.

10/12/2020

Looked what arrived today!!

Thank you COSCA & Edinburgh Napier University.

What will I do next?

08/11/2020

Very proud of myself, through determination and hard work I’ve completed and passed my HNC in Counselling Skills. Many years of self doubt but I’ve learnt a lot about my self on this course. If you want something in life grab it with both hands and you’ll be surprised what you can achieve.

13/09/2020

🎉🎉 Module 3 and presentation complete and passed🎉🎉 Now for a well earned 2 weekends off until my final module.

25/08/2020

Yeah I’m now a qualified Mental Heath First Aider, fantastic, well informed course.

23/07/2020

Please take a look, and pass this on incase a family are experiencing a child through trauma.

If you feel that your child or young person has been effected by the events of the last six months and want to make an impact over the summer you can find your own private Drawing and Talking practitioner though our directory.

https://drawingandtalking.com/find-a-practitioner/

10/07/2020

Whoop Whoop 🙌
Another module passed!
Next week presentation, then off for a well deserved few weeks break before starting module 3.
Half way there!
I’m loving it!!

21/05/2020

I’m so excited to announce that I can now run Group Lego Therapy Sessions. This will benefit many children with communication and social developmental difficulties.

17/05/2020

Mental Health Awareness Week 18 - 24th May.

16/05/2020

It’s a slight read but it’s so important, please read and if you could share I would really appreciate it!

❤️Thinking ahead and returning to schools!!!❤️

When people return to school there will be an urgent and important need to share personal experiences of lockdown - to talk and feel heard.
Experiences will have been very different;

For some people it will have been a very special time of deep connection with their family and may have involved shared activities that deserve to be cherished and maintained. Recording these special times may help people to recognise for themselves what they want to keep hold of and build on. They may feel sad that this special time could be over and that the moments they cherished will be forgotten, the activities they enjoyed will become memories.

For some people the lockdown will have been a challenging, even traumatic. Tempers may have been frayed; conflicts with family members may have been a regular occurrence. They may have struggled to meet school expectations of on-line work through lack of adequate equipment (even basics like pens, pencils and paper, let alone access to a computer and to wi-go).

And for some people lockdown will have been a terrible and frightening experience, with some or all of the following - food shortages, hostility, violence or threats of violence, fear and pain. There may have been sickness, hospitalisation of family members and even death in the close or extended family. Some people may have attended their first funeral. Any of these events could be traumatising.

Experience of trauma will impact on people’s capacity to respond to the usual expectations of behaviour and output. Recognition of this will be important for managing these expectations on self and others, and may involve adapting systems, policy and practice.

One final point about recognition- and this is the recognition that whatever we see and hear people do in school there is much more going on beneath the surface. The restorative way of thinking about behavioural challenges will become very important as children and young people return to school.

There is no doubt that behaviour will not be ‘normal’. The old normal is gone and the new normal has yet to be established. Behaviour may well be abnormal, as people respond to an abnormal situation. Patience, tolerance and empathy are going to be required in large measure and the recognition that all behaviour is coming from a place of unmet need.