Deborah Plummer

Focusing and Calming Games for Children (eBook, ePUB)

Mindfulness Strategies and Activities to Help Children to Relax, Concentrate and Take Control

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Having the ability to focus, relax and concentrate is key to enabling children and young people to achieve emotional well-being, and is also important for a child's development of skills and abilities.

This book uses a model of 'mindfulness play' to help children to achieve well-being, an approach designed by the author which encourages children to build awareness of their inner and outer worlds. Part One covers the theoretical and practical background, setting out how to facilitate play using the mindfulness play model, including consideration of the emotional environment. Part Two includes a wealth of games and activities, from 'Body focus' and 'Fidget flop' to 'Musical drawings' and 'Pass a smile'. The activities are suitable for use with groups and individual children aged 5-12, and can be adapted for children with specific attention and concentration difficulties, such as ADHD, and for older children.

This is an ideal resource for teachers, counsellors, social workers, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, youth workers, parents, and carers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857003447
• Artikelnr.: 38240846

Autorenporträt

Deborah M. Plummer has over 30 years' experience of facilitating groups and working individually with both children and adults. Formerly a clinical lead therapist working within the NHS, she also has extensive experience as a senior lecturer in aspects of health psychology and counselling. She ran workshops and short courses on the uses of imagery, games and story-telling in the promotion of well-being. Deborah is now retired.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Part 1. Theoretical and Practical Background. 1.
Introduction: Meeting children with mindfulness. 2. Understanding attention
and concentration. 3. Mindfulness Play. 4. Structuring the emotional
environment for Mindfulness Play. 5. Mindfulness play and well-being. 6.
Control, adaptability and effectiveness. Bibliography. References. Part 2.
Games and Activities. 7. Choosing groups, leaders, pairs and order of play.
8. Warm-ups and ice-breakers. 9. Focusing attention. 10. Concentrating for
longer periods. 11. Self-calming. 12. Celebrating.