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Helping Your Child with Friendship Problems and Bullying: A self-help guide for parents

Helping Your Child with Friendship Problems and Bullying: A self-help guide for parents

by Prof Peter Cooper (Editor), Polly Waite (Editor), Susan Birch (Author), Sandra Dunsmuir (Author), Jessica Dewey (Author)

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Synopsis

Is your child struggling with friendships at school? Have they been the victim of bullying?

If so, this can be a stressful time, as you struggle to support your child when they encounter difficulties during their school education. This essential guide provides informed advice for parents and carers about how to support your child when they encounter difficulties with friendships and bullying.

Accessibly presenting research and proven techniques that work in a primary school context, this book introduces you to the range of challenges encountered by children in school, and will help you work alongside the education system to give the best possible support to your child.

This book can help you with:
- Focusing on your child's social development
- Understanding children's behaviour and social responses
- Planning strategies appropriate to a range of difficulties and situations

Written by experts in educational and child psychology, this step-by-step guide is for any parent who is seeking suggestions and guidance on how best to support their child.

Helping Your Child is a series for parents and caregivers to support children through developmental difficulties, both psychological and physical. Each guide uses clinically proven techniques.

Series editors: Professor Peter Cooper and Dr Polly Waite

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Robinson
Published: 26 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 1472138937
ISBN 13: 9781472138934

Author Bio
Sandra Dunsmuir (Author)
Dr Sandra Dunsmuir is an educational psychologist and is Director of the Educational Psychology Group at University College London (UCL). She is also a Joint Course Director on the UCL postgraduate courses in CBT for Children and Young People, teaching and supervising practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds on a regular basis. Sandra has had extensive experience working as an educational psychologist in four different local authorities and continues to practice on a regular basis with children, their families and teachers in school and community settings. Her research integrates empirical research and psychological theory with a particular focus on relationships and communication, parent-teacher trust, interventions to support children's learning and cognitive behavioural interventions.

Jessica Dewey (Author)
Dr Jessica Dewey is a Senior Educational Psychologist and Deputy Programme Director on the Doctorate for Educational and Child Psychology at UCL. Jessica has worked in both large rural county authorities and city contexts working with children and young people alongside their families and educational environment. Her current research interests include the teaching of children's thinking skills, the effectiveness of metacognitive interventions on children's learning and the use of Video Interactive Guidance to enhance relationships and communication between adults and children across a range of needs and settings.

Susan Birch (Author)
Dr Susan Birch is the Deputy Programme Director on the Doctorate for Educational and Child Psychology and the Course Co-Director for the CPD Doctorate in Educational Psychology at UCL. Susan is also a practicing Senior Educational Psychologist having worked in a large shire authority for many years. Her current interests include working with schools to support the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people and resilience.