Useful links for professionals

 

Please check all categories of links to ensure you find the links that may be most useful to you!

Adventures in Teaching and Counseling
Focusing on group dynamics in the classroom , emotional education, staff reflection and restoration, violence prevention, trauma interventions in schools.
www.adventuresinteaching.org

Advisory Centre for Education
ACE is an independent advice centre for parents, offering information about state education in England and Wales for 5-16 year olds.
www.ace-ed.org.uk

Anti-Bullying Network
The Scottish Executive has established the Network so that teachers, parents and young people can share ideas about how bullying should be tackled. It is freely open to all.
www.antibullying.net

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
BACP promotes the understanding and awareness of counselling throughout society and provides information on counselling and has a therapist search facility.
www.counselling.co.uk

Center for Applied Emotional Intelligence
The Centre for Applied Emotional Intelligence (CAEI) is the representative body for professionally qualified Emotional Intelligence practitioners in the UK and Europe.
www.emotionalintelligence.co.uk

Department for Children, Schools and Families
A comprehensive portal covering every aspect of education including adult learners, children's services, employers, local authorities, parents, carers, young people and families.
www.dcsf.gov.uk

Depression Alliance
Depression Alliance is the leading UK charity for people affected by depression. This web site contains information about the symptoms of depression, treatments for depression, as well as Depression Alliance campaigns and local groups.
www.depressionalliance.org

Eating Disorder Association
On this website you will find information and help on all aspects of eating disorders including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and related eating disorders.
www.edauk.com

Incentive Plus
Here teachers and educational professionals will be able to find hundreds of world-class resources to motivate and reward pupils, to promote citizenship values and to help in overcoming everyday behavioural issues in the classroom, the school and the broader community.
www.incentiveplus.co.uk

Indigo Children
The Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has singularly unique factors that call for parents and teachers to change their treatment and upbringing of these kids to assist them in achieving balance and harmony in their lives, and to help them avoid frustration.
www.indigochild.com

International Stress Management Association
The International Stress Management Association UK is a registered charity with a multi-disciplinary professional membership. It exists to promote sound knowledge and best practice in the prevention and reduction of human stress.
www.isma.org.uk

Lapidus
Lapidus is a membership organisation, established in 1996 to promote the use of the literary arts - that is: reading, writing and performing of poetry, prose, fiction or drama; storytelling; journal writing - for personal development.
www.lapidus.org.uk

Lucky Duck Publishing Ltd
Is the UK's most extensive producer of books, videos, resources and teacher training materials on Positive Behaviour Management.
www.luckyduck.co.uk

Mental Health Foundation
The biggest, most comprehensive website on mental health in the UK. The site is run by the Mental Health Foundation, the leading UK charity working in mental health and learning disabilities.
www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Mind
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
www.mind.org.uk

Motivation123
Get your free Motivation123 Idea-Kit, free motivation newsletter, and hundreds of quick and easy tips to help you reach your goals and improve your attitude.
www.Motivation123.com

National Academy for Parenting Practitioners
The Academy works to transform the quality and size of the parenting workforce across England, so that parents can access the help they need to raise their children well. www.parentingacademy.org

National Association for Special Educational Needs
The National Association for Special Educational Needs with over sixty branches and 11,500 members we are the leading organisation in the UK working in special needs.
www.nasen.org.uk

National Emotional Literacy Interest Group
The website is dedicated to the promotion of emotional literacy for everyone… adults and children alike. Our aim is to promote and resource emotional literacy defined as, "the ability to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express emotions".
www.nelig.com

National Foundation for Educational Research
The overall mission of NFER is to contribute to improving education and training nationally and internationally by undertaking research, development and dissemination activities and by providing information services.
www.nfer.ac.uk

National Pyramid Trust
The National Pyramid Trust (NPT) for children helps primary school children to fulfil their potential by building their self-esteem and resilience.
www.nptrust.org.uk

Peer Support Forum
The Mental Health Foundation and ChildLine founded the Peer Support Forum in 1998. It is a unique national body whose purpose is to coordinate the widely developing work of peer support. It has 27 national and local statutory and voluntary organisations.
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/peer/forum.htm

Quality Circle Time
Quality Circle Time has been developed by Jenny Mosley over the past 15 years as a whole-school approach to enhancing self-esteem and positive behaviour and relationships within the school community.
Quality Circle Time

Special Educational Needs Information
There are a number of audiences who would benefit from the information here, these include: special needs coordinators working within British primary and secondary schools, parents, governors, other teachers and health care specialists
www.homepages.which.net/~darrel.ince/pages/index.htm

Team-Teach
The training emphasises positive handling as but one part of a whole setting approach to behaviour management. Physical techniques should not be taught in isolation.
www.team-teach.co.uk

Who Cares Trust
A national charity working to improve public care for around 60,000 children and young people who are separated from their families and living in residential or foster care.
www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk

Young Minds
YoungMinds is the national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
www.youngminds.org.uk

Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 November 2007 )