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)

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)

Education & Teaching

Howes, Norma

Schools & Teaching

This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook and professional guide set has been created to help preschool children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. Luna Little Legs: Luna loves playing with her friends at kitten club, but at home things are different. One terrible night, Luna overhears a domestic abuse incident and, when her own name is mentioned, she wonders if it might be her fault. With a comforting rhyming structure and age-appropriate tone, three alternative endings allow the story to be personalised to the experiences of the individual child. Helping Young Children Understand About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: This supporting guidebook presents professionals with comprehensive information regarding domestic abuse and coercive control and its impact on young children. With page-by-page notes to support the reading of the story and practical activities to help broach the topic in a non-threatening way, it puts the adult in a position to have important and informed interactions with young children. Broaching a challenging topic in a sensitive way, this is an essential tool for early years practitioners, as well as professionals working with children and families who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse and coercive control.

Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: A ‘Luna Little Legs’ Storybook and Professional Guide (Luna Little Legs: ... domestic abuse and coercive control)

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

This sensitively written storybook has been created to help very young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. Luna loves playing with her friends at kitten club, but at home things are different. One terrible night, Luna overhears a domestic abuse incident and, when her own name is mentioned, she wonders if it might be her fault. Accompanied by beautiful and engaging illustrations, the story provides a vehicle for talking with children about their experiences, safety and emotional wellbeing. Three potential endings allow the story to be personalised to the individual child: - In ending 1, Luna is comforted by her mummy and remains at home- In ending 2, Luna and her mummy move to a refuge, and eventually into their own home- In ending 3, Luna's daddy apologises for his behaviour promising to change, and she and her mummy move back into the family homeThrough age-appropriate rhyming language, this story explores children's common reactions to domestic abuse, shows them that they are not alone, and helps them talk about their feelings. It is an essential tool for all early years practitioners, as well as professionals working with children and families who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse and coercive control.

Luna Little Legs: Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A ‘Pilgrim’s Bumpy Flight’ Storybook and Professional Guide

This guidebook is an essential companion to the Pilgrim's Bumpy Flight story and is designed to be read by professionals to ensure the effective and safe use of the storybook. Pilgrims Bumpy Flight has been created to help young children aged 5-7 experiencing domestic abuse, to explore the concepts of physical and emotional safety. Safety planning with a child offers a way to help them vocalise their feelings and understand what to do when something does not feel right. The professional guide will help supporting adults facilitate safety planning that is experienced as emphatically curious, safe and where the child's opinion matters. It provides up-to-date information on domestic abuse, childhood trauma, practice tips and how to complete a safety plan with a young child using the storybook as the key vessel of communication and exploration. Key features include: - Accessible information about domestic abuse and coercive control based on the latest research. - Guidance around direct work and safety planning with young children. - Practical activities building off Pilgrim's story, including printable material. - Things to consider and ways to use the storybook to facilitate a conversation with a child, as well as page-by-page helpers notes on the narrative. - A comprehensive list of helplines and organisations in place to support adult victims/survivors of domestic abuse. Used alongside the storybook, this professional guide is a crucial tool for the early years sector, education staff and those working in children's services, including safeguarding officers, family support workers, social workers and children's IDVAs. Both books should be used in tandem with agency policy, procedure and guidance.

Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide

For effective and safe use, this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A 'Pilgrim's Bumpy Flight' Storybook and Professional Guide [9781032357997] Pilgrim is a little plane who loves flying through the sky and zooming through big hoops with their friends. At home, however, Pilgrim experiences frightening behaviour from Jumbo, who represents the perpetrating parent, that makes them feel scared and sad. Pilgrim is comforted and guided by Jet, who represents the victim/survivor parent, to think about safety and what to do when frightening things are happening. The trauma a young child may experience from domestic abuse can impact their entire developing system, making them feel worried, frightened, and unsafe. Safety planning is an essential component of direct work with children, offering a way to help them vocalise their feelings and understand what to do when something does not feel right, and this storybook is a key vessel for communication and exploration. The story, which is rhyming and engaging, enables young children to engage in the narrative in a non-threatening way. This book aims to be accessible to all children from all families where safety planning is needed as such the characters in it are non-gendered. This beautifully illustrated storybook is a crucial tool for the early years sector, education staff and those working in children's services, including safeguarding officers, family support workers, social workers and children's IDVAs. This book is designed to be used alongside the companion guidebook, <a>Domestic Abuse</a> Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide. Both books should be used in tandem with agency policy, procedure and guidance.

Pilgrim's Bumpy Flight: Helping Young Children Learn About Domestic Abuse Safety Planning (Safety Planning with Young Children)

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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)

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 ‘Luna Little Legs’ Storybook and Professional Guide (Luna Little Legs: ... 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)

Luna Little Legs: Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control: Helping Young Children to Understand Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A ‘Pilgrim’s Bumpy Flight’ Storybook and Professional Guide

Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide

Pilgrim's Bumpy Flight: Helping Young Children Learn About Domestic Abuse Safety Planning (Safety Planning with Young Children)