This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook and accompanying professional guide have been created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. Floss is a happy little puppy who loves going to Doggy Daycare and playing with her best friend, Houdini. The story explores how things change when her Mum’s new friend, Boss, comes into their lives. Floss’s story supports children who have experienced domestic abuse and trauma as they make sense of their feelings, teaching them to seek help and stay safe. 
The supporting guidebook helps adults to work through the story effectively, putting the professional in a position to have important conversations with children about what to do if something at home does not feel right. 
This set: 
Can be used to address the topic of domestic abuse and coercive control with individuals, small groups and whole classes, enabling dialogue around a sensitive issue 
Offers activities for supporting children, safety planning strategies and guidance for taking on a key adult role 
Can be used to support the PSHE curriculum, particularly around the topic of healthy relationships 
This set is a vital tool for teachers, social care staff, therapists and other professionals working to teach young children about domestic abuse and coercive control. It provides an important vehicle for talking to children about staying safe and their emotional wellbeing.

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A 'Floss and the Boss' Storybook and Professional Guide

Parenting & Relationships

Sterne, Abigail

Armstrong, Nicky

Lawler, Catherine

Family Relationships

Routledge

For effective and safe use, this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A 'Floss and the Boss' Storybook and Professional Guide [9780367344511] This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. Floss is a happy little puppy who loves going to Doggy Daycare and playing with her best friend, Houdini. The story explores how things change when her Mum's new friend, Boss, comes into their lives. It helps children who have experienced domestic abuse and trauma to make sense of their feelings, teaching them to seek help and stay safe. This book: <ul> <li>Can be used to support the 'Healthy Relationships' topic in the PSHE curriculum</li> <li>Can be used to address the topic of domestic abuse and coercive control with individuals, small groups and whole classes, enabling dialogue around a sensitive issue</li> <li>Encourages children to seek support</li> </ul> Designed to be used with primary-aged children, this book provides a vehicle for talking to children about staying safe and their emotional wellbeing. It is also available to purchase as part of a set with a professional guide to support the sensitive and effective use of the storybook.

Floss and the Boss: Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

This guide is designed to support professionals in the sensitive and effective use of the storybook, Floss and the Boss, which was created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. By defining domestic abuse and coercive control and exploring the effects upon children and their education, this guidebook puts the professional in a position to have important conversations with children about what to do if something at home does not feel right. When used with the storybook, it provides a vehicle for talking to children about staying safe and their emotional wellbeing. Key features of this book include: <ul> <li>Page-by-page notes, with discussion topics and points for conversation around the Floss and the Boss story</li> <li>Activities for supporting children, safety planning strategies and guidance for taking on a key adult role</li> <li>A comprehensive list of helplines and organisations in place to support adult victims of domestic abuse</li> </ul> This is a vital tool for teachers, social care staff, therapists and other professionals working with the Floss and the Bossstory to teach young children about domestic abuse and coercive control.

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A Professional Guide (Floss and the Boss)

Combined set of Draw on Your Emotions and The Emotions Cards. 
Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions and suggestions for development. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices, by trying out alternatives safely on paper. This will help to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action. The second edition of Draw on Your Emotions contains a new section that explains how to get the most out of combining the activities in the book with these cards to encourage meaningful conversations and take steps towards positive action.
The Emotion Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review their emotions and their relationships in a meaningful and often transformative way. The cards are designed to capture the deeper truth of how people experience their life, offering poignant descriptions for what someone may be feeling.

Draw On Your Emotions book and The Emotion Cards

Medical Books

Sunderland, Margot

Allied Health Professions

Part of a set, this children's book is written especially for youngsters who bottle up their feelings. The story reveals to the child that he or she can safely express his or her feelings and not be pushed around by all and sundry.

A Nifflenoo Called Nevermind: Storybook (Storybooks for Troubled Children)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Speechmark Publishing Limited

Part of a set, this children's book is written especially for youngsters who love someone who doesn't seem to love them back. The story reveals to the child that he or she need not waste his or her time and that life has so much to offer.

The Frog Who Longed for the Moon to Smile: Storybook (Storybooks for Troubled Children)

The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back is a story for children who have lost someone they love. Eric is a sand dragon who loves the sea very much. Each day, he watches it going out and coming back. His sea is beautiful indeed to him. But one day, the sea goes out and does not come back. Eric waits and waits, but it does not come back. So he falls on the sand in terrible pain. It feels to him as if he has lost everything. After many bleak days, Eric sees a little wild flower. It is dying. Eric knows he must save it. He finds water. More and more flowers appear and so Eric starts to make a beautiful rock pool garden. And as he does, he finds the courage to feel the full pain of his loss, instead of closing his heart. He realises that his memories of his precious sea are like a special kind of treasure in his mind, a treasure he will never lose.

The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back: A Story for Children Who Have Lost Someone They Love (Helping Children with Feelings)

Children's Books

Written by the award-winning author of Draw on Your Emotions, this book is designed for professionals to help people explore, communicate and learn more about themselves in light of their relationships. Many children, teenagers and adults never sit down to reflect on their relationships. As a result, they can endlessly repeat destructive relationship patterns, pick people who are bad for them, stay in deadening relationships, or destroy the lovely relationships they do have. Consequently, this book is designed to empower people to improve their quality of life by improving their relationship life.

Draw on Your Relationships: Creative Ways to Explore, Understand and Work Through Important Relationship Issues

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A Professional Guide (Luna Little Legs: Helping young children to understand domestic abuse and coercive control)

Howes, Norma

This guidebook is designed to support professionals with the effective use of the storybook, Luna Little Legs, which has been created help preschool aged children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. 
Sensitively and accessibly written, the guidebook presents the adult with comprehensive information regarding domestic abuse and coercive control, and its impact on young children, putting them in a position to have important and informed interactions with the young children in their care. These conversations help children to make sense of their experiences of domestic abuse, giving them the opportunity to vocalise their feelings and to understand what to do when something is not right. 
Key features of this book include: Page-by-page notes to support the sensitive reading of the Luna Little Legs story Accessible information about domestic abuse and coercive control based on the latest research A comprehensive list of helplines and organisations in place to support adult victims of domestic abuse. 
This is an essential companion to the Luna Little Legs story, and is crucial reading for anybody working with young children and their families who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse and coercive control.

Self-Help

Abuse

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Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A 'Floss and the Boss' Storybook and Professional Guide

Floss and the Boss: Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A Professional Guide (Floss and the Boss)

Draw On Your Emotions book and The Emotion Cards

A Nifflenoo Called Nevermind: Storybook (Storybooks for Troubled Children)

The Frog Who Longed for the Moon to Smile: Storybook (Storybooks for Troubled Children)

The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back: A Story for Children Who Have Lost Someone They Love (Helping Children with Feelings)

Draw on Your Relationships: Creative Ways to Explore, Understand and Work Through Important Relationship Issues

Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A Professional Guide (Luna Little Legs: Helping young children to understand domestic abuse and coercive control)

Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A Professional Guide (Luna Little Legs: Helping young children to understand domestic abuse and coercive control)